| Description | They include abstracts of title and copies of 16th century Bailiffs' Accounts and Royal Grants. Sir Edward claimed his right to hold Court Baron at Long Lawford, appoint a game-keeper and take up waifs and strays, basing his claim on his possession of the manor of Newbold-on-Avon in which lies the hamlet of Long Lawford. The Duke of Montagu made his claim as Lord of the manor of Long Lawford, purchased by Elizabeth Boughton, who had married Thomas Wightman, being sold by the purchasers to the Leigh family and remaining in their possession until the death of Francis Leigh, Earl of Chichester, when it passed to his daughter who had married the Earl of Southampton, and again to her daughter, who married Ralph, Duke of Montagu, father of the present Duke. Eventually Sir Edward's claim was upheld. |