THISSLETON, (Rutland) on the N. side of the Co. in the York road from Stamford, was in the Busseys family from Edw. I. to
Hen. VIII. when it went to Anth. Meers, who, for want of issue-male, was the heir at law, and sold it in the R. of Eliz.
to Sir Edm. Brudenel, ancestor of the Earls of Cardigan, to whom it descended. In the R. of James I. John Ld. Harrington
held 50 acres of land here of the K. in capite, by the 100th part of a Kt's. fee. Here is a ch. sc.