LINBY, (Nottinghamshire) bet. Sherwood-Forest and Codnor-Castle, bel. heretofore to Trinity-Priory at Lenton, and to
Newstede-Abbey, and afterwards to the crown, when K. John gave one moiety to Will. St. Michael of London, and the other to
Sir Peter Lettris and his brother, to hold of the crown during pleasure. The K's. moiety reverted to Henry III. and
usually went along with the Lp. of Mansfield. The other moiety was alienated in the R. of Edw. III. to Sir William de
Hameldon, from whom it passed to the Strelleys, and from them by marriage to the Staveleys. During this, that part of the
K's. moiety which had been given to Newstede-Abbey, by the purchaser Sir John Crumbwell, was, with that mon. given by
Henry VIII. at the Diss. to Sir John Byron, Kt. whose descendant, Ld. Byron, still enjoys it, or did so very lately. The
Earl of Harrington has a seat here.