By Sir Charles Hobhouse, Hart. 



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be cut and felled (pollard trees excepted) " [1792] ; the lessees were 

 prohibited from making any assignment of the premises, " otherwise 

 than by mortgage, or marriage settlement, or will/' and even then 

 previous intimation was to be given to the bishops (1805) and the 

 leases, though ostensibly made to run for twenty-one years, were 

 practically renewed, on considerations made, every seven years. 

 The lessees of the manor house were : — 

 The Bretons, 1547 to 1638 — with sub-tenants in William 



Bromfield, d. 1582, and the Cornwallises. 

 The Cornwallises and William Whitwell 1638—1654. 

 William Watson 1654—1695. 

 Daniel Webb 1695—1731. 

 John Thresher 1731—1737. 

 Sir Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset 1737—1757. 

 Lord Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset 1758—1792. 

 Anna Maria, Dowager Duchess of Somerset 



and her heirs 1799—] 804. 



William Cass, of the Poultry, London 1805—1812. 

 John Long, the Elder 1812—1833. 

 John Long, the Younger 



The Rev. Walter Long, Kelloes House C 1835 1842. 



Catherine Elizabeth Mary Long J 

 Wade Browne and his heirs 1842 — 57. 



Mrs. Wade Browne and her lessees — Edward 

 Pennefather and the Rev. E. R. Eardly 

 Wilmot 1857—1863. 

 H. B. Caldwell, Esq. 1864—1870. 

 It is probable that the Bretons, or Brittons, were connected with 

 the manor before they came to reside here, for I find a certain 

 William Britton recorded as auditor to the Priory, in the return of 

 the temporalia in 1535, on a yearly fee of 40<s. 



Thereafter in 1570 (twelfth of Elizabeth), a Henry Britten, 

 probably the lessee of 1547 — 48, pays a quit rent of 46s. Hd. to the 

 crown for the manor, and presents to the rectory ; and in 1576 — 77, 

 respectively, are baptized Henry and George, the sons of George 

 Britton. 



