Catalogue description ACTON BURNELL (SALOP.)

The Shropshire manors mentioned in the charter below, along with Wolverhampton (Staffs.), were delivered to Burnell's granddaughter Katherine and John Talbot, described as her husband, in 1421.[CCR 1419-22, 154-5.] Most reverted to William Lord Lovel on Katherine's death in 1452.[VCH Salop. viii. 7, 9, 19, 38, 82, 151, 172, 201.] The Essex manors of Latchingdon, Stansted Mountfichet, Walkefare and Waltham alias Pouwers, passed to Katherine's sister Margery and her husband Edmund Hungerford (and his father Walter) in 1421[CCR 1419-22, 156.] Two other Essex manors, Boreham and Great Holland, along with East Ham and West Ham, were settled on Elizabeth, widow of Burnell's son Edward, and both were forfeited by James Butler in 1461.[CCR 1419-22 155; CPR 1461-7, 139; above, BCM/H/1/5/1 [SC 633]. In 1453 William Lovel and Butler reached an agreement to divide the manors of Bidford and Broom (Warws.), Upton Snodsbury and Russell's Hall, in Dudley (Worcs.) and Norton by Condover and a rent in Wolverley (Salop.). Snodsbury was forfeited by Butler in 1461.[CPR 1461-7, 297-8.] Norton was sold by John Lord Lovel in 1461.[VCH Salop. viii. 41.] Bidford and Broom, along with Wolverhampton, Wellington (Salop.), Wickhambreaux (Kent), Rotherhithe (Surrey) and Crawley (Bucks.) were settled in tail male on Lovel's second son, William, who married Eleanor daughter and heir of Robert Lord Morley (d. 1442) and died in 1476; their son and heir Henry died without issue in 1489 when the lands reverted to the Crown, William's heir being his cousin Francis Lord Lovel, attainted in 1485, and Francis's heir being a sister.[GEC ix. 219-20; CIPM Hen. VII, i. 499-504.] Pitchford (Salop.) was not included in Burnell's settlement and passed to Joan Beauchamp and then to James Butler, who forfeited it in 1461; it was granted to John Lord Lovel who sold it in 1463.[VCH Salop. viii. 119.]