MANTON, (Rutland) bet. Martinsthorp and Normanton, was anciently an alien priory, and afterwards bel. to the collegiate
Ch. of Tattershal in Lincolnshire; but was granted by Henry VIII. at the Diss. to Charles Brandon D. of Suffolk. In Q.
Mary's R. it bel. to Tho. Lovel; and in Q. Elizabeth's to Sir Hen. Sidney, who conveyed it to Michael Lewis, whose brother
sold it to Will. Kirkham, as he did to Roger Dale, whose grandson sold it to Abr. Wright. Here was a chantry, which was
given by K. Edw. VI. with the estate bel. to it, to Gregory Ld, Cromwell; but it came to the crown, and was granted by Q.
Eliz. to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester.