To anyone interested in DUTTON history. The following piece of documented history was sent to me by a friend who knew I was interested in anything related to the family. I pass it along without change or comment for what it may be worth to the cousins & relatives. ============================================================================ The manor at Langley in Hertfordshire acquired from Stephen de Cheyndut was similarly improved. Subsidiary interests were purchased at Macclesfield, at Burgh, and in anticipation of the queen’s dower tenure at Banstead in Surrey (another of John de Burgh’s manors) It is in connection with such additions to the queen’s estates that an element of disorder surfaces. Bartholomew de Redham claimed her bailiffs disseised him of ten librates at Hautbois allegedly appurtenant to Scottow, and John de Antingham was ejected from land at nearby Witchingham and Alderford. William Payforer was ejected from 380 acres in Kent claimed as appurtenant to Bockingfold (a member of Leeds), and at Bockingfold itself the advowson was usurped from Leeds Priory. By 1278 the queen’s men seized a wardship at Marple in Chester, allegedly appurtenant to Macclesfield, and after Hugh Despenser in 1287 surrendered to her his right at Denton in Macclesfield, her men ejected Hugh de Dutton from his holding. After Eleanor in 1276 purchased from Henry de Newburgh the manor of Hurcott in Somerset, she occupied a further ten and one-sixth fees in Dorset and Somerset, claimed as appurtenant to the lands originally purchased. (Parsons; p. 133) >From catalog of Eleanor of Castile’s lands: 29a. Cheshire [June 1287? X Oct.1288]. A third part of the manor at Bollington, include. A third of the chief messuage and a third of a mil with appurts, from which the Q’s bfs ejected Hugh de Dutton after Hugh Despenser surr. Bollington. Dutton brought an action to recover his right in the eyre at Macclesfield, Oct. 1288; the bfs answered that the K was fully enfeoffed by Hugh Despenser and was in peaceable possession, but Dutton might sue against the K (Stewart-Brown, ed., Rolls of Chester, 239-40). In 1291 Dutton sought to recover the land; his complaint was dismissed as he had a like action pending in another court (JUST 1/1149 m.10). See CIPM, iii, nos. 219,220. From: John Carmi Parsons. Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth- Century England. St. Martin’s Press, NY:1995. ISBN 0-312-08649-0