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Title: Collections for a history of Staffordshire
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Staffordshire Record Society
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Publisher: Birmingham, Eng. : Houghton and Hammond
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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lands, all of 1 Ancient Petitions, Nos. 8580 and 11903 (Record Office). - It should bo stated here that the lute Canon Bridgcman is not responsible forthe conclusions put forward in the foregoing pages (pp. 50-08), although they arein a great measure based upon his ro-earches. The view taken by him was thatthere were two Sir Adams de Peshalc of Weston, father and son, and that the firstwas t he husband of Elizabeth de Weston and of Elizabeth ap Rees, the second beingthe issue of his marriage wit h Elizabeth de Weston and t he husband of <Joy< c Bottet ort.lie also traced the devolution of t he various shares of the manor somewhat differently.But further evidence which came to light after his death, especially the Shropshireinquisition taken on the death of Sir Adam de Peshale in 1410 and the fulevtranscripts of several of the Weston deeds in Add. MS. 186G7, showe 1 that the viewtaken by him on these points was untenable, and necessitated the rewriting of thisportion of the work.
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W&STON-UNDEll-LIZAltn, IN THE COUNTV OE STAFFORD. 90 which were give-n by Sii- John to his younger son Richard, who.seating himself there assumed the name of Peshall and was theprogenitor of that family which in succeeding ages arose to verygreat eminence and esteem in this and the neighbouring counties,his descendants matching with the heirs of Weston, Cavers wall,Chetwynd, Knightley, Malpas and Swynnerton, with whom theyhad great possessions in this county (Stafford) and in Cheshireand Shropshire; hut. as they advanced their fortunes by theirmarriages so the greatest part of their lands were afterwardspassed away with heirs Female, the only surviving male branchbeing that of Horseley and Suggenhall (adjoining to Peshall).1 Erdeswick says: ,k I have seen a deed, made (as 1 take it) in thetime of Henry III, whereby Eobertus, films Stcphani de Peshall(Jedil iVno Johctnni de Stvinnerton tot am terrain suam in Peshall,eum domibus tt vedditibus, scrritiis, Uomagds, luardis, rehviis et

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