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Manors information for Old Sleaford and places above it in the hierarchy

Old Sleaford

• The knightley family of HUSSEY were long seated at Old Sleaford.
   
• The Manor House here was rebuilt in 1500 by baron HUSSEY. The site of the old mansion is called Old Place.
   
• Robert EVA has a photograph of Old Place on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2020.
   
• John Lord HUSSEY was beheaded in Lincoln in 1536 for treason in the revolt against Henry VIII.

England

• The National Archives' project to update the Manorial Documents Register is now complete. Note particularly the links on that page to the TNA guide and to the A-Z list of manors. Quoting the TNA guide: The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is maintained by The National Archives, on behalf of the Master of the Rolls, as a record of the whereabouts of manorial documents. It is not a register of title to manorial lordships and we do not collect or record this type of information.
• Primary Sources: English Manorial Documents "From English Manorial Documents, Translations and Reprints from the original Sources of European History, E. P. Cheyney, tr., vol. 3, no. 5 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1907), pp. 3-32". This includes examples from several parts of the country, including Essex, Durham and Norfolk.