Catalogue description OTHER STANHOPE LANDS

Sir Michael Stanhope acquired much other land in the south-east corner of Suffolk, between Culpho and the coast. A survey of his lands in the area was made by John Norden in 1609: it included lands in the parishes of Staverton, Eyke, Bromeswell, Wantisden, Chillesford, Sudbourne, Orford and Dunningworth; he also had the manor of Blythford[Suffolk Record Office HD88/4/1; V5/22/1; EE5/11/1; Copinger, Suffolk, ii. 19; v. 147-50.] Orford was bought after 1601 from Robert Bertie.[Copinger, Suffolk, v. 147-50. The Berties had inherited it from the Willoughbys in 1525 and they from the Ufford earls of Suffolk in 1382.] He had bought the manors of Dunningworth and Staverton (in Eyke) by 1597 from the Howards, who had inherited them from the Mowbrays as part of the patrimony of the earls and dukes of Norfolk.[Copinger, Suffolk, iv. 260-1; v. 124; cf. BCM/D/7/7] and he had acquired Eyke by 1609 and Chillesford in 1593.[Copinger, Suffolk, iv. 259; v. 119.] He was granted Sudbourne by Queen Elizabeth.[Copinger, Suffolk, v. 178.] Sudbourne, Orford and Chillesford passed to his daughter Jane, and Blythford, Dunningworth, Staverton and Eyke to his daughter Elizabeth; Elizabeth's husband George Lord Berkeley sold Blythford, and her son George sold Dunningworth, Staverton and Eyke to Sir Henry Wood in 1669. In Middlesex, the manor of Heston had come to Sir Michael with his wife Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Read, and was divided between their three daughters, while the manor of East Bedfont was granted to Sir Michael by Queen Elizabeth and passed to Elizabeth Berkeley.[VCH Middx. iii. 109. All three portions of Heston were sold to Sir William Waller in 1655. Sir Michael's wife is also described as Anne daughter and heir of Sir William Reade of Osterley, Middx.: GEC ii. 139.] The family's new interest in Middlesex may have prompted Elizabeth Berkeley's purchase of the nearby manor of Cranford, with lands in Heston and East Bedfont, in 1618, but the Berkeley portion of Heston was sold in 1655 and Elizabeth's son George sold East Bedfont in 1656.[VCH Middx. ii. 311. Cranford had been divided, but both parts passed to the Berkeleys.]