ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 473 



Sir Thomas Manners, Lord Re:, of Etall, was created Earl of R.ut- 

 land, 17 K.Henry VIII, 1526 (i>j. 



Sir Roger Manners, Kt. of this antient family, an ornament of 

 the court of Q^ Elizabeth, gave four fcholarfhips to Corpus Chrlfti 

 college, in Cambridge, famous for its library over die chapel, the 

 donation of one of its learned ions, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Kt. keeper 

 of the great feal and privy counfellor to CX Elizabeth ; an excellent 

 repofitory of antiquities, the library of the monuftcry of Stokc- 

 Clare, in Suffolk, being preferved and placed in it by Archbifliop 

 Parker, its venerable warden, and an eminent antiquary. 



Etall, was found by an inquifition to be in the pofTeflion of the 

 crown, 10 Q^Elizabeth (iu). It came afterwards into the poflef- 

 fion of Sir Robert Carr, Kt. fecond fon of Sir William Can; of Green- 

 head, Bart, on whofe death it was under fequeflrarion by the par- 

 liament for eleven years and a half, but was rcftored to his fon, 

 William Carr, and Mrs. Margaret Can; by compofition, 1 5 th Febru- 

 ary, 1653 (xj. 



Ic 



(v) Hoi, Chron. vol. ii. p. 892. 



(iv) Domina Regina EHzalctba feifua eft de et in caftro, et manerio, de Etall, cum villa ; 

 de et in medietate de R'plington, Tritlingtan, turn certis terris in Whct'toti, Hawku'iH, St-r",> 

 fordham, Matfen-eafl, Hugh, Fenham, Hctvtsll, et Hcmeldcn, ut de corona. 



Efcaet. deanno io,': 



(x) Upon the application of Mrs. Margaret Carr, and William Carr, and upon the peru 

 fal of feveral warrants and orders of the committees of fequeflration in the time of the late 

 ufurped powers, as alfo on the report of Sir Peter Balk, Kt. her late majcfty's attorney gene- 

 ral, to whom the bufinefs was referred, it appears, That the faid manour of Etall was under 

 fequeftration for xi years and a half, and was not difcharged thereof until the I5th of Feb- 

 ruary, 1653, an ^ tnat on the payment of the whole compofition-money, being 539 /. 8;. jd. 

 and confidering the whole matter both as to the legality and equity thereof, it is thought fit, 



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