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'Cannington: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes) (1992), pp. 76-85. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18556&strquery=whitney. Date accessed: 06 May 2007.
In 1285 the terre tenant was Eustace of Whitney, and he or a namesake in 1346. (fn. 22) Sir Robert Whitney held the manor in 1370 (fn. 23) and another of the same name held it in 1431. (fn. 24) Robert died in 1441 and was followed in the direct male line by Eustace (d. c. 1481), (fn. 25) Robert (d. c. 1494), James (d. 1500), and Robert. (fn. 26) Sir Robert Whitney was dead by 1568 (fn. 27) and Sir James Whitney died in 1588 leaving his brother Eustace as his heir. (fn. 28) Eustace (d. 1608) left a son Sir Robert (fn. 29) who in 1617 sold the manor to Constance Lucy. (fn. 30) Her son Sir Richard Lucy, Bt., died in 1667 and was succeeded by his son Sir Kingsmill (d. 1678) and by the latter's son Sir Berkeley, who sold Combwich to William Harrison in 1702. (fn. 31) William was succeeded by Ames Harrison (d. 1731) and Ames's son Alexander (d. 1740), who left the lordship to his brother-in-law Richard Cridland in trust for his nieces. Both William and Alexander dismembered the manor. (fn. 32) The lordship was last recorded in 1778 when Richard Cridland and his daughters Sarah and Elizabeth sold lands at Combwich, probably all that remained of the former manor, to John Evered. (fn. 33)
- 22 S.R.S. iii. 15; Feud. Aids, iv. 352.
- 23 Cal. Inq. p.m. xiii, p. 43.
- 24 Feud. Aids, iv. 435.
- 25 J. C. Wedgwood, Hist. Parl. Biogs. 1439-1509, 943.
- 26 Cal. Fine R. 1485-1509, 199; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, pp. 174-5.
- 27 P.R.O., C 3/109, no. 7.
- 28 Ibid. C 142/219, no. 76.
- 29 Ibid. C 142/305, no. 109.
- 30 Ibid. CP 25(2)/346/15 Jas. I Trin.
- 31 G.E.C. Baronetage, i. 113-14; S.R.O., DD/ARN 4.
- 32 S.R.O., DD/ARN 4, 7; DD/SAS RF 3/1/1; D/P/n. pet 2/1/3; V.C.H. Som. v. 133.
- 33 S.R.O., DD/ARN 7.
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