228 NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS, 
To the Prior of Ulverscroft 2 other beds. 
To Elizabeth, 2 young oxen, 2 young kine, a two-year-old 
bullock, 2 more aged, 2 two-year-old heifers, and 60 young ewes 
or theaves. 
Twenty shillings to redeem poor debtors of Nottinghamshire 
and Staffordshire. 
Bardon Park, taken for 12 years from Marquis of Dorset (one 
year gone), to be held by executors for his stock; these to be 
sold at end of lease, and disposed as most profitable for the three 
souls of his executors. 
All servants to be kept on at Norbury for 40 days at usual 
wage. 
All manors, tenements, reversions, and services in the counties 
of Derby, Leicester, and Stafford, as follows :— 
Manors of Norbury, Roffington, Seddesalle, Foston and Snel- 
ston, with the advowson of Norbury, to be recovered by John 
Fitzherbert, clerk,* Humphrey Fitzherbert, Thomas Combreford, 
and Thomas Purefoy, and also parcels of the above to be re- 
covered against Henry, William, and Anthony Fitzherbert, his 
brothers. Recovery to be made of manors, etc., in Upton and 
Stoke, in county of Leicester, for purposes hereafter declared. 
All his Staffordshire manors in the lordships of Cheadle and 
Dilhorne to go to his daughter Elizabeth and her heirs. 
“ And for defaut of such issue male of my body lawfully 
begotten then I will for divers causes and considerations, 
and specially for that that Anne Welles wieff of John Welles of 
the Hoar Crosse is not my daughter as I perfeghtly know will 
take it upon the perill of my soulle at the dredfull day of 
Juegment and wold not that wrongfull begoten heires nor those 
that be not of my blode shulde inherit my manors nor any parcell 
thereof, I will that in as muche as the Manor of Norbury and 
Roffington hath continued in my name this cccc. yeres and more 
or there about and wold that it so shold doo and continue if it 
* This John F, was of the Somershall branch of the family. He was ap- 
pointed to the vicarage of Dovebridge in 1520, and rector of Norbury in 1535. 
He held both preferments till his death in 1551. 
