MUSCOMB, NORTH and SOUTH, (Nottinghamshire) near Newark. Part of the former bel. once to a family of the same name, and another part to the abbey of Peterborough and other religious houses; and some lands here were given to Newsted-Abbey, which Edw. VI. gave to Leon. Brown and Ant. Trappes. The manor of South-Muscomb bel. to St. Mary of Southwell, of which the Abps. of York had the see; and under them the Muscomb family were Lds. and gave several of their lands to mons. It came at length, by marriages through several families, to the Lds. Scrope of Masham. From them it passed through other families to Ralph Marshal, a merchant; in whose family it continued, till Ralph Marshal sold it in the last century to John Rotheram, one of the six clerks in chancery; whose sister carried it by marriage to Sir Will. Willoughby.