50 THE MANORS OF KIRK LANGLEY AND MEYNELL LANGLEY. 



We find Henry Pole buried at Langley, and Dorothy his wife, 

 who died 1558 ; and he appears to be patron of the church. Pro- 

 bably from the marriage with Twyford, he bears the arms of Pole, 

 together with those of Chandos and Twyford ; and in the centre 

 of the third shield is a cinque-foil, which denotes a third son ; but 

 the wife's bearing on the tomb is not that of Twyford.* 



An Inquisitio post-mortem, 20th Henry VIII , 1512, states that 

 Robert Knifton had in Langley 47 acres of arable land, 20 acres 

 of meadow, and 20 acres of pasture. 



William Bassett possessed the manor of Kirk Langley, probably 

 by purchase from German Pole. He held it of the heirs of Jacob 

 Strangeways, and of the heirs of Stuteville by half a knight's fee, 

 and it was of the value of ^40. 



Humphrey Bradbourne, Knt.,had the manor of Burrows in Lang- 

 ley. He held 1 messuage, 38 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 

 20 acres of pasture, and 2c acres of wood, with the appurtenances, 

 and held of the Earl of Salop, as of his manor of Kirk Langley, by 

 fealty, and paying 5 marks yearly. 



Lady Corbett, widow of William Bassett, held the manor. I 

 find that Lady Corbett was the daughter of Thomas Austen, of 

 Oxley Farm, Staffordshire, and was first married to William 

 Boothby, and was mother of Thomas Boothby, of Tooley Park. 

 For her second husband she married William Bassett, of Blore, 

 by whom she had Elizabeth, married first to Henry Howard, and 

 afterwards to William, Earl of Newcastle. Thirdly she married 

 Sir Richaid Corbett, and died 1640, aged 74, immensely rich. 

 (Vide Nichol's History of Leicestershire, vol. iii., p 732.) 



The Knivetons had also lands in Burrows, and the farm belong- 

 ing to Dr. Johnson was their property. 



Thus far I have attempted to trace the possessions of these 

 two manors until the reign of Charles II. At this period the 



* The tomb at Kirk Langley to Henry Pole and Dorothy, his wife, is to the 

 eldest son of Henry Pole, who married the heiress of Twyford. For full ex- 

 planation of the armorial bearings on this tomb, and for further particulars 

 relative to the Twyford and Pole families, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. iv., 

 pp. 267-8, 273-5.— Ed. 



