PACKINGTON, (Staffordshire) on the N. W. side of Tamworth, was anciently held of the Bp. of Litchfield, by a family of the
same name. In the R. of Hen. VI. it bel. to Hump. Stafford, D. of Bucks; and in that of Hen. VII. to the Dudley family;
but it came in the last century to the Stamfords; whose ancestor, William Stamford, had a grant of this manor, as it is
said, from Hen. VIII. for taking the D. of Longueville prisoner at the siege of Therouenne in France.