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CoutvilJtttious from t^t Court l^oUs of ti)t 

 i^anov of Utttle Ci^estn*. 



By H. E. Currey, M.A. 



jgg=^«|N the reign of Edward I., the Manor of Little Chester 

 ^^» ^1 ^^^^ ^^^ property of the Deans of Lincoln, and 

 i^ l^j passed out of their hands into those of the Eccle' 

 siastical Commissioners only in 1845, on the death 

 of the then Dean. Down to 1865, the manor was held by 

 successive lessees. The following list of them is derived from 

 the notes and titles on the Rolls : — 



Francis Curzon, 1562 — 1566. 



John Bullock, 1590. 



Baptist Trott, 1623. 



John Bullock, 1630 — 1633. 



Sir John Fitz Herbert, Kt., Robert Holt, Elijah WoodrofTe 

 and Godfrey Froggatt, 1642. 



Robert Holt, and Godfrey Froggatt, 1663 — 1666. 



Sir John Curzon, Kt. and Bt., 1667. 



Simon Degge, afterwards Sir Simon Degge, Kt., 1668 — 1702. 



Simon Degge, 1703 — 1729. 



Elizabeth Degge, jun., Spinster, 1730 — 1731. 



John Hay, and Elizabeth his wife, 1731 — 1736. 



Elizabeth Hay, widow, 1738. 



Simon Degge, 1739— 175 1. 



Robert Taylor, and the Trustees under his Will, 1755 — 1763. 



William, Duke of Devonshire, 1764 — 1811. 



