1 6 HADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR. AND ITS LORDS. 



discovered under this tomb, supposed to be tlie remains of Sir 

 George Vernon and his two wives, but it may be questioned 

 whether Matilda, the second wife of Sir George, was interred in 

 the Vernon Chapel, as she married, secondly, Sir Francis Hast- 

 ings, of North Cadbury, in Somersetshire, of the family of the 

 Earls of Huntingdon. This marriage took place before April, 

 1569. (Belvoir Sett.) 



A few remarks may be offered in connection with the Vernon 

 monuments in the Chapel. Regarding the small alabaster 

 altar-tomb commemorating John Vernon, son and heir of 

 Sir Henry Vernon, of Haddon, who died in 1477, it has 

 been conjectured that this John was the father of 

 Richard, who succeeded Sir Henry, but this cannot 

 have been the case, on reference to an Inquisition 

 taken in 15 15, after the death of Sir Henry, in which Richard 

 is described as the son and heir of Sir Henry, and of the age of 

 thirty years and upwards ; accordingly he would be born about 

 1484, some seven years after the death of John, who would be 

 the elder In-other of Richard, and not his father, and could not 

 have been more than ten years of age, as his father's IVIar. Sett, 

 is dated 6th October, 1466. 



On the division of Sir George Vernon's estates, Tong, Har- 

 laston, and other lands in Staffordshire, passed to Sir Thomas 

 Stanley, of Winwick, co. Lane, while Haddon, and other large 

 possessions in Derbyshire, and elsewhere, became the property 

 of the family of Manners. In 1565 Margaret, the widow of Sir 

 George Vernon, surrendered her interest under the will of the 

 said wSir George in all his possessions to Thomas Stanley and 

 Margaret, his wife, and to John Manners and Dorothy, his wife. 



In a deed dated 12th Dec, 1567, John and Dorothy Manners 

 are described as of Wiverton, co. Notts., a few miles from Bel- 

 voir Castle, and in the same deed occur Francis Hastings, and 

 Maud, his wife, late wife of Sir George Vernon, which shows 

 that the widow of Sir George Vernon re-married shortly after his 

 death. In two deeds dated 1569. John .Manners and his wife 

 are described respectively as of Ufifington, co. Line, and of 

 Wiverton. 



