MAKESTOCK-CASTLE, (Warwickshire) on the E. side of Coleshil, was formerly reputed a member of the Lp. of Solihull. In the R. of Hen. III. it bel. to Will. de Odingsells, but was carried by marriage, in the R. of K. Edw. I. to John de Clinton; whose son, William, in the R. of Edw. III. founded a castle, and made a park here; but one of his descendants, in the R. of Hen. VI. passed away the Lp. to Humphrey E. of Stafford, afterwards D. of Buckingham; on the attainder and execution of whose descendant, Edward, in the R. of K. Hen. VIII. he gave it to Sir Will. Compton, in whose family it continued, till William Ld. Compton, his great grandson, sold it, in the R. of Q. Eliz. to Sir Tho. Egerton; from whom it was purchased by Tho. Dilk, Esq; whose posterity enjoyed it in 1640. One of the Clintons, who was E. of Huntingdon, founded a priory here, in the R. of Edw. III. which, with the estate settled upon it, was, after the Diss. granted by Hen. VIII. to Cha. Brandon, D. of Suffolk, who sold it to Rob. Trapps of London, Goldsmith; and it came since by marriage to Edward Ld. Leigh of Stoneley.