HUNNILY, (Warwickshire) near Wedgncck and Kenilworth, was in the R. of Hen. III. the estate of the Berefords, then of the Peches, and in the next R. went by marriage to Sir William Mountfort of Coleshill, whose grandson, Sir Simon, being attainted in the R. of Henry VII. it came to the crown, and was granted to the Earl of Kildare and his wife, and their male-heirs; but his son forfeited it to the crown in the next R. and it was granted to Sir Tho. Palmer, who forfeited it in the R. of Q. Mary, by whom it was given to Mich. Throckmorton, Esq; who left it to his son, Francis, then but seven years of age. One Hill, then in possession of it, held it by a long lease from Sir Thomas Palmer, and dying, left issue several sons, which Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester hearing of, possessed himself of it, through colour of a title from Francis Hill, the youngest; but, after the Earl's death, Thomas the eldest recovered it, and sold his interest to Roger Burgoyne. In 1686 it was purchased by Francis Ld. Carrington, whose descendant, Ld. Charles, conveyed it to Will. Hungate, &c. of whom it was purchased in Q. Anne's R. by John Sanders, Esq; who rebuilt the Ch.