Catalogue description DUNSTHORPE (LINCS.)

Dunsthorpe is now a deserted village on the south-eastern outskirts of Grantham. William Earl Warenne granted to Stephen (I) de Segrave land in Dunsthorpe and Harrowby (Herierdeby) and in Long Bennington (Benaton) and rents of 24s. 2d. in Harrowby, Old Somerby and Gonerby, which Stephen later leased at farm for a rent of £10: below, BCM/D/5/58/1 [SC 266]. By 1260, when he was granted a tallage here, Peter de Segrave, probably a younger son of Gilbert (d. 1254), held the manor. None of the Lincolnshire holdings are mentioned in the muniments after the 13th century, although Simon, younger son of Nicholas Lord Segrave (d. 1295), held Dunstall by 1303. [Feud Aids, iii. 157] Dunsthorpe was later held by Henry de Coleville for a pair of gold spurs or 6d. a year. [The same rent as that for which Gilbert de Segrave granted Barton-on-Humber to another tenant: BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 2.] The other major holding in the county was a £10 rent from South Thoresby, near the coast: BCM/D/5/59