RADFORD-SIMELY, (Warwickshire) near Offchurch, so called from the ford here, or passage towards Warwick, bel. anciently to
the Simelies; and afterwards to the canons of Kenilworth, the Kts.-templars, and the nuns of Wroxhall. Upon the Diss. it
was given to Sir Thomas Darcy, who conveyed it to Rich. Knevit; whose son in the R. of Eliz. sold it to John Brown, of
Barnam in Sussex, father of Sir Will. Brown; after the death of whose son, Geo. Brown, without issue, it came to
Elizabeth, wife to Will. Throckmorton, who sold her right in it to Humph. Greswold, rector of Solihull; whose son, Marshal
Greswold, does now, or did lately, enjoy it.