SIBTHORP, (Nottinghamshire) bet. Shelford and Normanton, bel. anciently to the Sibthorps; one of whom founded a mon. here, which upon its Diss. by Hen. VIII. was with all the lands bel. to it granted to Dr. Tho. Magnus and Richard Whalley; whose grandson of the same name first enclosed it, then incumbered it, and lastly sold it. It became in time the estate of the late D. of Newcastle; whose trustees (while he was retired to France from the resentment in Pt.) sold it to Edw. Whalley, major-general of the Pt.-armies, and one of the K's. judges; who being for that reason attainted after the Rest. of Ch. II. that K. gave his estate to the D. of Newcastle, who had indeed been paid for it before; but having been forced to sell it, by those who enabled Whalley to buy it, it was but a restitution of his estate, which he would otherwise have kept. But however that happened, John Whalley, son, or grandson or the major-general, who married Sir Herbert Springate's daughter, has possession of the estate, by virtue of a mortgage that the D. had made of it to Sir Arnold Waring.