MORTON-MERIAL, (Warwickshire) on the N. side of Kineton, on the Thelsford that runs into the Avon, is so called, because
it is divided into two parts, the latter being a quarter of a m. from Morton, where the Ch. stands. This manor being in
the crown, after it had been possessed by the Trimnels, was granted by K. Edw. VI. to John Dudley, then Earl of Warwick,
afterwards Earl of Northumberland, who conveyed it to John Coleburn, whose descendant, Sir Edmund, sold it to Rich.
Murden, who had only one daughter and heir married to Sir Stephen Harvey. It came afterwards, partly by marriage and
partly by sale, to Edmund Temple, who conveyed it to John Fiennes, father of the Visc. Say and Sele; but the reversion of
a part of it coming by marriage to Francis Bagshaw, was by him sold, in 1719, to Mr. Henry Wise of London.