IIADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR, AND ITS LORDS. <) 



be paid annually at llie feast of S. John the Baptist, for the 

 maintenance of a lamp with oil, to l)urn every night in the 

 Chapter of the said House. Wi(ne.s.se.s : Roi). de r.rendon, 

 Nich. Xuers, Sir Rob. de Thoke, Adam de Herthull. Robert de 

 Vernon, and RoI)ert de Dunes." 



Seal : " A Lyon passant in a Rundle looking to the sinister 

 point. — Endorse two barrs in a schucheon." 



Sir William de \'ernon was succeeded by his son, 



Sir Richard de Vernon, Knt. He was alive in 4 P^dwarcl I., 

 but dying without issue was succeeded by his brother, 



Robert, who it is supposed died shortly after. Robert held 

 Adstock under his brother Richard. {Testa dc yevill.) The 

 descent of Haddon and other possessions terminated in the 

 male line of the Vernons with this Robert, who appears to have 

 died without male issue, leaving an only daughter, Hawise, who 

 married 



Gilbert le Fraunceys, who was afterwards knighted, but about 

 whom but little seems to be known, Init he was probably a 

 member of a Yorkshire family of that name. He held Harlaston, 

 in right of his wife. He was dead 6 Edward T. {Inq^. p. m.), and 

 was succeeded by his son and heir, 



Richard, born in 1261. Assumed the name of Vernon. He 

 was i^resented to the Advowson of Pichcote in 1310, and in 

 8 Edward H. he conveyed Harlaston and Appleby to his son 

 Richard, who re-con\eyed them to his father. He married 

 Isabel, daughter of Sir William Gernon, Lord of Bakewell (by 

 Isabel, his wife), son of Sir Ralph Gernon, Lord of Bakewell, 

 by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Robert de Vere, Earl of 

 O.xford. He was apparently alive in 16 Edward II., when his 

 son died {Inq. p. m. 16 Edward XL), who had married Matilda 

 or Maud, daughter and co-heir of William de Camville, Lord 

 of Clifton, CO. Staff. In 1337 William de Camville granted to 

 his daughters, Matilda de Vernon and Eleanor, wife of Richard 



