Royal Charters: Forgeries, Authentics, and Diplomatic Editions
TNA, Lewis 1989 appendices, Carpenter-Sharpe-Doherty Project · 6 entries
Confirmed
TNA C 53/19 mem.9 — 1227 inspeximus carrying the Stephen carta, Henry I notificatio, and 1199 King John charter for Stradbroke
CHN-303 · TNA
Three charters enrolled together in a single Charter Roll inspeximus, 1227. The Stephen-era carta and Henry I notificatio have been identified as forgeries fabricated by a single hand c.1195–99, on the diplomatic evidence assembled in the Carpenter, Sharpe, and Doherty edition (2014). The 1199 King John charter is authentic. The forged pair were probably manufactured to procure the John confirmation, against the political backdrop of the Honour of Eye returning from the king's hand.
Confirmed
King John charter B33 — Stradbroke fee farm confirmation, 17 June 1199, Shoreham
CHN-303 / CHN-137 · Magna Carta Project
Authentic foundational instrument of the documented le Rus tenure. Ernald Rufus pays ten marks relief to hold Stradbroke at fee farm of £28 "just as his grandfather Ernaldus Rufus well and freely and wholly had it in the time of King Henry, the king's great-grandfather." Sealed by Hubert Walter as Chancellor, witnessed by the Earls of Essex, Pembroke, and Norfolk. Date and place confirmed by the King John Itinerary Project.
Confirmed
Charroux endowment charter — Roger the Poitevin and Almodis, c.1094×1102, issued at Stradbroke
CHN-304 · Lewis 1989 Appendix C
Critical primary attestation of Roger the Poitevin's physical presence at Stradbroke during the William Rufus honour-of-Eye tenure. Edited from Poitiers Bibliothèque municipale coll. Fonteneau vol.4 p.119, an eighteenth-century copy from the lost "great cartulary" of Charroux. Original lost. Roger's issuance of a major Anglo-Norman charter physically at Stradbroke confirms the manor as a residence-of-record for the honour-of-Eye lord under William Rufus.
Confirmed
Henry I confirmation charter to Charroux, c.1102–1106, "Apud Peri"
CHN-305 · Lewis 1989 Appendix B
Partial confirmation: Henry I confirmed only what Roger gave from his own Domesday holdings (Culpho, Wellingore from Roger himself; Durand Malet from another), pointedly NOT what Roger gave from the Honour of Eye (Barrowby, Sedgebrook, Bing, Framlingham/Flemworth, Holy Trinity Ipswich). Eye-honour properties restored to Malet family or directly to Eye Priory.
Confirmed
Hervey of Léon charter, c.1139–40 — Honour of Eye succession recital
CHN-306 · Calendar of Charter Rolls Vol. V, pp.366–7, no.10
Contemporary primary-source recital of the Honour of Eye succession: Robert Malet → Roger the Poitevin → Henry I (retained seven years) → Stephen of Blois (held as Count of Mortain twenty-two years total) → William of Ypres → Hervey of Léon. THE PRIMARY EVIDENTIAL BASIS for the corrected Honour of Eye chronology in the Lewis 1989 framework.
Confirmed
Carpenter, D., Sharpe, R. and Doherty, H. (2014). Charters of William II and Henry I Project — "Ernald Rufus" headnote and editions
CHN-303 · actswilliam2henry1.wordpress.com · Oxford / UEA · Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Authoritative scholarly diplomatic edition. Confirms the Stephen-era carta and Henry I notificatio in the 1227 inspeximus as fabrications produced c.1195–99 by a single hand. Establishes the five-generation le Rus genealogy with primary-source attestation for each generation. Subsumes existing partial citations and provides the diplomatic framework for the entire le Rus tenurial sequence. Grade 1.
Patent Rolls
The National Archives · 7 entries
Confirmed
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Richard II, Vol. II 1381–1385, p.478, Membrane 9 — 23 May 1382, Westminster — Crown re-grant to Michael de la Pole
CHN-360 · TNA C 66 · HMSO
First primary-level instrument bringing Michael de la Pole into the Stradbroke chain. Post-Ufford-escheat Crown re-grant of "fee farm of 40 marks of the manor of Stradbrok." Three years before the earldom of August 1385; the lordship-economic substrate of the de la Pole entry into the manor.
Confirmed
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Richard II, Vol. III 1385–1389, Membrane 29 — 3 August 1386, Westminster — Consolidated confirmation of de la Pole portfolio
CHN-362 · TNA C 66 · HMSO
Fee-simple consolidated confirmation of the Costesseye reversion plus all prior Letters Patent including "40 marks of rent from the fee farm of HIS manor of Stradbrok." Sealing instrument for the post-earldom de la Pole estate apparatus.
Confirmed
Patent Roll 30 Henry VIII — Brandon / Crown exchange, Honour of Eye including Stradbroke, 1538
CHN-08 · TNA
Confirmed
Pat. 2 Henry VIII p.1 m.17 — Executed grant to Anne Howard in tail, November 1510
CHN-30 · TNA · In Letters & Papers Henry VIII Vol.1 g.632/64 [1344]
Confirmed
Pat. 2 Henry VIII p.2 m.5 — John Sharp life appointment, bailiff of Stradbroke and Wingfield
CHN-31 · TNA · In Letters & Papers Henry VIII Vol.1 g.632/65 [1345]
Confirmed
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Elizabeth I, Vol. XX (L&I Society Vol. 300), 31 Elizabeth I 1588–89, entry 885 m.18 — 2 April 1589 — Crown alienation licence Wentworthe to Lawrence
CHN-365 · TNA C 66 · List & Index Society Vol.300
Crown alienation licence permitting Michael Wentworthe to alienate the manors of Stradbroke and Wingfield to Henry and William Lawrence. Anchors the late-Elizabethan transfer phase of the manor through the post-Dissolution period.
Ordered
C 66/3396 — Patent Roll 9 William III Part 7 — Cornwallis Letters Patent 1697
CHN-40 · TNA
Ordered; resubmission pending with locating reference King's Warrant Book XIX pp.213–4.
Close Rolls
The National Archives · 6 entries
Confirmed
Close Roll Richard II, 11 June 1378 — Stubcroft quitclaim, William de Wyngefeld to de la Pole
CHN-20 · TNA
Names the full estate complex including Wingfield.
Confirmed
Close Roll Richard II — Fee farm exchange, Stradbroke 40 marks to Eye, c.1385
CHN-21 · TNA
Confirmed
Close Roll Richard II — Livery to 2nd Earl of Suffolk, c.1395
CHN-22 · TNA
Confirmed
Close Roll Richard II, 10 April 1396 — Feoffment, 2nd Earl to Bishop of Exeter and others
CHN-23 · TNA
Confirmed
Close Roll Richard II, 1397 — Advowson of Wingfield College granted
CHN-24 · TNA
Permanent detachment of the Wingfield advowson. Manorial land connection persists.
Confirmed
Close Roll Henry VI, c.1450 — Livery to Alice de la Pole after death of 1st Duke of Suffolk
CHN-25 · TNA
Charter Rolls
The National Archives · 2 entries
Confirmed
Charter Rolls — Market and fair grants to Hugh I Ruffus, Stradbroke and Woodbridge, 1225–1227
CHN-396 · TNA C 53 · Hardy 1844 RLC Vol.II
Three primary chancery instruments: 25 October 1225 (Friday market interim grant during Hugh II's minority); 26 November 1225 (day-change to Tuesday); 1227 perpetual Friday Stradbroke and Wednesday Woodbridge market grant to Hugh I Ruffus, by then sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. The 1227 perpetual grant is the legal substrate of the wide market street of Stradbroke that survives today.
Confirmed
Charter Rolls Vol.2 p.272 mem.6 — Free warren grant c.1284–85, Wytton and Stradebrok
CHN-02 · TNA
Wytton and Stradebrok appear in the same grant to the same lord — structural evidence for the unity of the manorial complex.
Pipe Rolls
The National Archives · 3 entries
Confirmed
Pipe Roll 31 Henry I (1130), Norfolk and Suffolk, p.90 — Ernald fitz Roger, 60s de feodo suo
CHN-35 · TNA · Hunter 1833 Record Commission edition read directly from Internet Archive
Earliest contemporary primary-source attestation of the le Rus family at Stradbroke. Read directly from Latin: "Et Ernaldo fil' Rogeri .lx. s. nuo. de feodo suo."
Confirmed
Pipe Roll 5 Henry II (1159), pp.9, 11 — Intervening Ernald Ruffus, 60s allowance plus 60s amercement pro recreantisa
CHN-303 derivation · TNA · Record Commission edition
Documents the generation between Ernald fitz Roger (1130) and the Ernald Ruffus who received John's 1199 confirmation. The intervening Ernald received the established 60s annual allowance, then was amerced 60s pro recreantisa — the offence of cowardice or disloyalty in service. Probably died c.1159–60.
Confirmed
Pipe Roll 6 Richard I (1194), p.66 — Longchamp accounting £14 half-year farm of Stradbroke
CHN-34 / CHN-303 · TNA
William Longchamp — Bishop of Ely and administrator of the Honour of Eye — accounts for £14 farm of Stradbroke for half a year to Michaelmas 1194, confirming the £28 annual fee farm unchanged across the late twelfth century. Specific primary-source citation per Carpenter, Sharpe and Doherty (2014).
Hundred Rolls
The National Archives · 1 entry
Confirmed
Rotuli Hundredorum Vol.2 pp.186–187, 189 — Hundred of Hoxne, Richard de Breouse, 1275
CHN-44 · Illingworth and Caley Record Commission edition, 1818
Seven passages read directly. Records the gallows at Stradebroke; courts in three manors; the free tenant John Stradebroc bearing the village as his surname.
Inquisitions Post Mortem and Domesday
The National Archives · 11 entries
Confirmed
Domesday Book — Little Domesday Suffolk §6.308 (main Stradbroke entry) and §21.45 (Ely)
CHN-01 · opendomesday.org · manuscript images read directly
Robert Malet / Edric of Laxfield. 35 households, 5.5 carucates, woodland for 400 pigs, 2 churches, annual value £16. Ely co-overlord confirmed at §21.45. Full landholder breakdown re-read in S40 (CHN-359): Robert Malet 5.5 carucates plus 17 sokemen plus 4 Norman subtenants plus 2 churches with 40 acres; Bishop of Thetford 10 acres; Abbot of Ely 2 carucates plus disputed-by-Bigod church; Roger of Poitou Chickering church.
Confirmed
IPM John de Thorp, December 1340 — Hoxne, Wutton, Stradebroke, Welebeye as a single holding
CHN-03 · TNA
Confirmed
IPM Eleanor de Wingfield, August 1375 — TNA C 135/254/8 — manors of Stradbroke and Wingfield
CHN-04 · TNA · Read from AALT membrane images at zoomed resolution, 29 March 2026
Original Latin parchment confirms a singular tenure clause for "Stradebrok and Wyngefeld" held of the Honour of Eye at fee farm of 40 marks per annum — one fee, one farm, one mesne lord. Katherine de la Pole named as heir, of full age, requiring no wardship.
Confirmed
IPM Robert de Brewes, 1325 — Robert dies a minor in king's ward shortly before 12 July 1325
CHN-315 · TNA C 134 · HMSO CIPM Vol.VI
Establishes Robert de Brewes as never having held the lordship in his own right; the king held it in wardship via Edmund Bacun.
Confirmed
IPM John de Brewes of Stinton, 17 April 1342 — succession of son John (b. 23 March 1329) in Crown wardship
CHN-314 · TNA C 135 · HMSO CIPM Vol. IX
Establishes the death date of Sir John de Brewes of Stinton at 17 April 1342 (not c.1346 as previously believed) and documents the previously-unrecognised b.1329 generation in Crown wardship 1342–1350.
Confirmed
IPM John 2nd Lord Norwich, 1373 — Brewes-Norwich genealogical material
CHN-313 · TNA · HMSO CIPM Vol. XIII
Brewes Surrey and Wiltshire architecture; primary-source prosopography for the 1370s Brewes-Norwich-Wingfield network.
Confirmed
IPM Sir John de Wynegefeld, 1361/2 — CFR composite documenting death-event
CHN-355 · TNA C 60 · HMSO CFR Edw III
Three CFR entries plus systematic CCR negative finding establish Sir John's 1361/2 death and the January 1362 wardship to Eleanor de Wingfield. Founder of Wingfield College.
Confirmed
IPM diptych Michael de la Pole 2nd Earl of Suffolk, 1415 — Stradbroke and Wingfield held of the Crown as of the Honour of Eye
CHN-356 / CHN-357 · TNA C 138 · HMSO CIPM Vol. XVI
Confirms the 40-mark fee-farm relationship continuing 40 years after Eleanor's 1375 IPM. The dove-parcel in-chief tenure of two white doves is upstream and separate from the fee-farm structure.
Confirmed
IPM Elizabeth Countess of Surrey (Henry VII) — Thorphall in Horham with 40 acres in Stradbrok
CHN-26 · TNA
Confirmed
IPM William le Rus 1253 (44 Henry III File 23 No.462) — Alice le Rus sole heir
CHN-72 · TNA
Confirms 40-mark fee farm of Honour of Eye; Alice le Rus identified as sole heir aged six.
Confirmed
IPM William le Rus 1260 — Dual honour tenure confirmed
CHN-73 · TNA
Eye 40-mark fee farm and Lancaster honours both confirmed.
Parliament Rolls
The National Archives · 4 entries
Confirmed
Parliament Roll Richard II, 12 September 1385 — De la Pole earldom; Stradbroke 40 marks
CHN-05 · TNA SC9 · Via Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME), British History Online
Confirmed
Parliament Roll 8 Henry VII, 1493 — De la Pole restoration; Stradbroke and Stubcroft named
CHN-07 · TNA SC9 · Via PROME, British History Online
First explicit documentary pairing of Stradbroke and Stubcroft as a named manorial unit.
Confirmed
Parliament Roll Henry VII, 1495 — Restitution of Edmund de la Pole
CHN-27 · TNA SC9 · Via PROME, British History Online
Confirmed
Parliament Rolls SC9/19 m.7 — Lincoln Parliament 1316, Mary de Braose petition
TNA · Read at primary level via Mackenzie (CHN-43); independently corroborated via PROME
Old French text confirms William and Richard de Breouse as brothers — critical for establishing the Stradbroke line of descent.
Exchequer and Treasury Records
The National Archives · 2 entries
Confirmed
Calendar of Treasury Books, William III 1696–97 — Cornwallis grant progression
CHN-09 · TNA · Seven screenshots filed CHN-09a through CHN-09g
Pages 97–98, 116, 293, 382, 418–419. Fee simple grant to Charles, 4th Baron Cornwallis confirmed. King's Warrant Book XIX pp.213–4 confirmed as TNA locating reference.
Confirmed
TNA Public Record Office List of Court Rolls of Crown Lands (Class LR 3), HMSO Da 0623132, June 1993 — Suffolk section
CHN-366 · HMSO · List & Index series
Finding-aid evidence of Stradbroke court-roll survival 1532–1645 across six Crown-administered bundles plus parish references. Identifies LR 3/62/2 (Stradbroke Crown court rolls 1553–58) as the lead opportunistic-retrieval target for the Mary I confirmatory-grant window. Registered as TARGET-WG-16.
Letters and State Papers
The National Archives · 4 entries
Confirmed
Letters and Papers Henry VIII, Vol.1 g.257/36 [649] — John Sharp appointed bailiff, November 1509
CHN-28 · TNA
Confirmed
Letters and Papers Henry VIII, Vol.1 Entry 520 [1129] — Howard indenture, 1 July 1510
CHN-29 · TNA
Crown covenants to grant Stradbroke to Anne Howard in tail.
Browsed
Calendar of State Papers Domestic, William III — Cornwallis index entry
TNA
Index confirms Charles Lord Cornwallis as husband of Ann Duchess of Buccleuch; lease of the Honour and manor of Eye.
Confirmed
Letters Patent 1208, RPat 81a — Advowson of Stradbroke in the king's gift by reason of Eye
CHN-303 · TNA · Hardy 1835 Rotuli Litterarum Patentium
Walter de Gray's late March 1208 letters patent presenting to the church of Stradbroke "by reason of the honour of Eye being in the king's hand." Confirms the advowson of Stradbroke was attached to the lordship of the manor by 1208 and travelled with the lord.
Probate Records
Principal Registry; Ancestry; HMCTS · 6 entries
Confirmed
PROB 11/1724/445 — Will of Matthias Kerrison, PCC Hober Register, proved 30 April 1827
CHN-41 · TNA
Read in full from TNA PDF. Stradbroke named individually as a manor. Strict tail male remainder to Emily Harriet Kerrison. Note: Lawrence (2000) cites this incorrectly as PROB 11/1724/244 — an error corrected in this research.
Confirmed
National Probate Calendar 1887 — Will of Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison Bt, proved 15 February 1887
CHN-64 · Principal Registry · Via Ancestry calendar images
Died 12 July 1886 at Brome Hall. Executors: Baron Ashburton and Baron Digby. Personal estate £75,436 16s. 3d. Entailed real property passes under 1827 strict settlement.
Confirmed
National Probate Calendar 1894 — Will of The Right Honourable Edward Stanhope, proved 13 April 1894
CHN-47 · Principal Registry · Via Ancestry calendar images
Read from Ancestry image: 111 Eaton Square, Middlesex; Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire; died 21 December 1893 at Chevening near Sevenoaks. Executors: Earl Stanhope and Colonel Egerton. Effects £51,878 18s. 5d.
Confirmed
National Probate Calendar 1919 — Agnes Burrell Bateman (Lady Bateman), probate 23 May 1919
CHN-66 · Principal Registry London · Via Ancestry
Died 13 March 1918, Brome Hall, Norfolk. Executor: Agnes Rosamond Bateman Hanbury. Effects £4,330 12s. 5d.
Failed
HMCTS probatesearch.service.gov.uk — Search: "Stanhope Edward", 1893–94
HMCTS digital probate search
Systematic indexing failure: the calendar entry begins "the right honourable Edward" rather than surname-first, causing the digital index to miss it entirely. Entry subsequently located by browsing Ancestry calendar images directly.
Pending
PA1S form — Stanhope will, Principal Registry, folio 1732, affidavit 4451 (fee £16)
Principal Registry London
Will confirm real property disposition and beneficiaries. Action: submit PA1S form.
Death Duty Registers (IR 26/27)
The National Archives · 2 entries
Confirmed
IR 27 Death Duty Register index — Stanhope entries
TNA · Via Findmypast
Affidavit 4451/folio 1732 (legacy duty) and affidavit 4488/folio 1732 (succession duty). Independently corroborates probate calendar details.
Pending
IR 26 folio 1732 — Stanhope death duty register entry (beneficiaries and real property)
TNA · Remote copying not available from this series
Action: visit to TNA Kew or commission a paid researcher.
Court Records
Norfolk Record Office; Suffolk Archives · 7 entries
Confirmed
NRO CHC 269785 — Court Baron 16 October 1862, Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison Bt as lord
CHN-16 · Norfolk Record Office
Chief Steward: Thomas French. Deputy Steward: John Charles Warnes. Official stamped copy. Last confirmed court baron in the archive sequence.
Ordered
NRO CHC 269783 — Court Baron 13 October 1801 (1st Marquess Cornwallis as lord)
Norfolk Record Office
Steward: Henry Browne. Admission of Mark Butcher on surrender of Mary Birch.
Ordered
NRO CHC 269784 — Court Baron 15 October 1807 (2nd Marquess Cornwallis as lord)
Norfolk Record Office
Steward: Meadows Taylor. Third proclamation for heirs of John Rice Birch, re-admission of Mark Butcher, Nollothays in Wingfield.
Confirmed
SRO HA116/4/1/13/3 items 1, 4, 6, 8 — Court Baron with Leet, 1704–1789
Suffolk Archives Ipswich
Confirms Court Baron with Leet jurisdiction 1704–1789 — the highest manorial designation.
Confirmed
Suffolk Archives HA12/B4/15 — Kemp admissions, court roll evidence 1763–87
CHN-10 · Suffolk Archives Ipswich
Documents Kemp to Adair transition; confirms Cornwallis lordship through to 1800.
Confirmed
Suffolk Archives HA116/4/1/13/1 item 15 — Admission, 17 October 1793
CHN-11 · Suffolk Archives Ipswich
A copyhold tenant admission — not a change of lordship. Confirms Cornwallis family held the lordship continuously 1697–1823.
Excluded
SRO HA116/4/1/21 — Clubbe correspondence, 1808 and 1819
Suffolk Archives Ipswich
Examined; determined to relate to the Barlehaugh Hall freehold estate, not to the manorial lordship. Outside scope of manorial title inquiry.
Ministry of Agriculture — Copyhold Enfranchisement Records (MAF)
The National Archives · 3 entries
Confirmed
TNA MAF 9/307/9 — Thurley Enfranchisement Award, 1868; 2nd Baronet named as lord
CHN-45 · TNA · File 8489, sealed copy
Names Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison Bt as Lord of the Manor. Grade 1 government instrument.
Confirmed
TNA MAF 9/307/33 — Brickdale Enfranchisement Award, 1893; Edward Stanhope named as lord
CHN-46 · TNA · File 17092
Stanhope signs personally as "Lord of the Manor." Pivotal finding establishing the previously unknown intermediate lordship 1886–1893. Grade 1 government instrument.
Ordered
TNA MAF 20/171/2637 — 319-page copyhold enfranchisement file
CHN-12 · TNA · Ordered 30 March 2026; approximately £500
Expected to confirm Kerrison as lord and document active manorial administration across the Victorian period.
Parliamentary Survey
The National Archives · 1 entry
Ordered
TNA E 317/Suff/19 — Parliamentary Survey of Stradbroke and Stubcroft, 1650
TNA · Not yet received
Commonwealth-period survey of the manor and its constituent parts. Expected to document the extent and character of the Stradbroke and Stubcroft estate at the mid-seventeenth century.
Chancery Records
The National Archives · 1 entry
Pending
TNA C 16/24/H32 — Henniker v Henniker Chancery case, 1861
TNA · Requires 3 working days' notice
Of interest for the scholarly history; not material to the title registration inquiry. Bill only: Lord Henniker sues wife, children, Earl of Stradbroke, Kerrison, and Ellice.
Feet of Fines
The National Archives · 4 entries
Confirmed
TNA CP 25/1/216/42 — Alice de Breouse conveys Stradebroke to her son Richard, 1296
CHN-43 · TNA · Read at primary level via Mackenzie (2017); independently corroborated via Farrer Honors and Knights' Fees
Confirmed
TNA CP 25/1/283/17 — William and Richard de Breouse exchange of manors, 1271
TNA · Translated by Mackenzie (2017); cross-checked against Farrer
Confirmed
TNA CP 25/1/221/90 — Suffolk Feet of Fines 31/32 Edward III No.39, 1357 — Sir Richard de Breouse conveys Wingfield to trustees
CHN-400 · TNA · Read at senior-academic Grade 1 level via Bloore & Martin 2015 / Rye 1900
First step of the two-step Brewse-to-Wingfield trustee-mediated transfer mechanism by which the main manor of Wingfield passed from the de Brewse family to Sir John de Wingfield.
Confirmed
TNA CP 25/1/221/91 — Suffolk Feet of Fines 33 Edward III No.10, November 1359 — trustees settle Wingfield on Sir John de Wingfield and Eleanor
CHN-400 · TNA · Read at senior-academic Grade 1 level via Bloore & Martin 2015
Closing settlement of the 1357–59 trustee transfer. The instrumentum of the Brewse-to-Wingfield transition of the main manor.
Archive Collections
Suffolk Archives; British Library; Staffordshire RO · 11 entries
Confirmed
Suffolk Archives HB 18/17.2 — John Norden Crown Survey of Stradbroke, 1621
CHN-317 · Suffolk Archives Ipswich · 73 manuscript pages read directly
Inquisitio Manerii de Stradbrok in Comitatu Suffolk, taken by John Norden Esquire and John Norden Gentleman, deputies of Sir Richard Smyth, surveyors-general, in the time of Charles Prince of Wales, AD 1621. Foundational source for sub-manor and hamlet identification: six hamlets (Wotton, Buttleshawgh, Pixhawgh, Barlehawgh, Ashfeild, Wingfeild); structure of manorial waste; tenants by name; copyhold and freehold geography. Read across multiple sessions S32 onward.
Confirmed
Suffolk Archives HA68 — Kerrison-Bateman collection, institutional history
CHN-14 · Suffolk Archives Ipswich
Confirms Cornwallis family held continuously from 1697 grant; Agnes inherited. HA411 rentals of 1792 and 1800 also confirm Cornwallis administration.
Ordered
Suffolk Archives HA68 — Sections 1, 3, 4, and 12
CHN-67+ · Suffolk Archives Ipswich · Ordered 30 March 2026; £288 total
Priority sections: Section 3 (wills and settlements) and Section 12 (Cornwallis/Stradbroke material). Contact: Tilly Farrow.
Confirmed
Suffolk Archives HA411 — Cornwallis estate rentals 1792 and 1800
Suffolk Archives Ipswich
Confirms Cornwallis administration in the late eighteenth century; cross-corroborates the 1801 and 1807 court baron records in NRO CHC.
Pending
Suffolk Archives HA85/662/384 — Matthias Kerrison notebook, 1820–26
Suffolk Archives Ipswich · Separate collection from HA68
Access request pending. Source of detail underlying Lawrence (2000) for transaction details of the 1823 purchase.
Pending
Suffolk Archives HA85/3116/588
Suffolk Archives Ipswich · Separate collection from HA68
Access request pending.
Pending
BL Additional MS 19,138 ff.173–175 — Davy pedigree volume, Kerrison material, October 1824
British Library · Paid scan request pending
Pending
BL Cole's MSS Vol. XXIV
British Library · Pending visit
Suckling footnote 15 lead. Antiquarian collection with potential medieval Suffolk material.
Pending
BL Lansdowne MSS Vol. V
British Library · Pending visit
Suckling footnote 15 lead; antiquarian collection with potential Stradbroke / Hoxne Hundred material.
Pending
BL Additional MS 8177
British Library · Pending visit
Confirmed
Epitome of Title — prepared by Pinney Talfourd LLP (vendor's solicitors)
MAN-05 · Private document
Starting point for the primary source verification programme.
Tithe Evidence
TNA IR 29 series · 2 entries
Confirmed
Stradbroke tithe apportionment and map, 1840
TTH-01 through TTH-05 · TNA IR 29 series · Suffolk Archives
The tithe apportionment records parcel-level holdings and tenure across the parish. Demonstrates the distinction between freehold tenure and manorial lordship in the mid-nineteenth century Stradbroke landscape. The apportionment documents the broader pattern of landholding across the parish at 1840.
Confirmed
Wingfield tithe apportionment and map, 1840 — TNA IR 29/33/467
CHN-343 · TNA · Sealed 31 October 1840
Parallel documentary fingerprint for Wingfield Green as manorial waste. Four perimeter parcels positively apportioned with the Green centre absent from the schedule; structural fingerprint matching Stradbroke OS Parcel 1479 / Wootten Green at parish-record level.
Maps and Cartographic Evidence
Ordnance Survey; National Library of Scotland; HMLR MapSearch · 4 entries
Confirmed
OS 6-inch survey, 1891 — Sheets XXVI.SE, XXXVII.NW, .SW, and .NE
MAP-02 through MAP-05
Parish-level survey of Stradbroke and its immediate environs. Multiple moated sites visible. Valuable for establishing the historic settlement pattern of the village and its surrounding landscape.
Confirmed
OS 25-inch survey, 1884 and 1904 editions
MAP-06 · National Library of Scotland georeferenced collection
Field-by-field cadastral detail. Confirms the Wootten Green / OS Parcel 1479 boundary structure into the late-Victorian period.
Confirmed
OS current survey — HMLR MapSearch overlay
MAP-08 / MAP-09
Establishes parcel 1479 as currently unregistered in the registered land context. Included in registration bundle to Newhall Solicitors 30 March 2026.
Confirmed
National Library of Scotland — georeferenced pre-1900 OS map collection
maps.nls.uk
Research-grade interface used for boundary work across all chapters from S33 onward. Public domain reproductions of the 6-inch and 25-inch surveys with georeferencing.
Manorial and Title Instruments
4 entries
Confirmed
Purchase deed — Private acquisition, 22 May 2024
MAN-01 · Private document
Confirmed
Manorial Society of Great Britain — Letter of recognition, 23 May 2024
MAN-02
Confirmed
Manorial Services Ltd / Strutt and Parker — Auction catalogue, Volume 5, November 2022
MAN-03
Four independent professional parties confirmed the validity of the title prior to acquisition.
Confirmed
Epitome of Title — Pinney Talfourd LLP (vendor's solicitors)
MAN-05 · Private document
Starting point for the primary source verification programme.
British Newspaper Archive
Accessed via Findmypast, 3 April 2026 · 18 entries
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, No.1059, 14 August 1830 — Cottages copyhold auction
CHN-48
Both lots described as copyhold of the Manor of Stradbroke with Stubcroft; quit rent 2s. 1d.
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, No.1469, 23 June 1838 — Farm copyhold auction; Buttlesey Green reference
CHN-49
Farm of 22.5 acres described as copyhold of the Manor of Stradbroke with Stubcroft. A further lot described as freehold land 'formerly part of Buttlesey Green' — evidence that other greens in the parish were being enclosed and converted to freehold during this period.
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, No.1626, 26 June 1841 — Stradbroke and Wingfield lots copyhold
CHN-50
Both lots — one in Stradbroke, one in Wingfield — described as copyhold of the Manor of Stradbroke with Stubcroft, confirming the manor's administrative reach into Wingfield.
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, No.2002, 2 September 1848 — 'Copyhold of the Manor of Stradbroke cum Stubcroft'
CHN-51
Latin form 'cum Stubcroft' used — a minor variant, the only instance noted.
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, No.2400, 19 April 1856 — Dwelling house copyhold
CHN-52
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, 19 March 1864 — Wingfield cottages copyhold of Stradbroke manor
CHN-53
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle, 23 August 1873 — Cottages copyhold
CHN-54
Confirmed
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1895 — Stradbroke entry
CHN-55 · Via Findmypast, Census, Land and Substitutes
'Stradbroke and Stubcroft manor belongs to Lady Bateman.' Confirms Agnes Lady Bateman as holder by 1895.
Confirmed
Ipswich Journal, 4 June 1870 — General Courts Baron notice; Kerrison as lord; Lawton as Steward
CHN-56
Formal public notice of court convening: 'General Courts Baron and Customary Courts of Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison Baronet, Lord of undermentioned Manors.' Court held at the Queen's Head Inn, Stradbroke. Steward: Geo. W. Lawton, Eye.
Confirmed
Ipswich Journal, 18 May 1872 — General Courts Baron notice (second year)
CHN-57
Identical format to CHN-56. Confirms annual court cycle.
Confirmed
Ipswich Journal, 24 and 31 May 1873 — General Courts Baron notice (third year)
CHN-58
Published in both issues — standard dual-notice practice. Combined with CHN-16, CHN-45, and CHN-46, these notices establish a continuous sequence of court activity from 1862 to 1893.
Confirmed
Bury and Norwich Post, 13 July 1886 — Full obituary of Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison
CHN-59
Born 2 January 1821; succeeded to baronetcy 1853; 'leaves no issue'; 9,955 Suffolk acres.
Confirmed
Shields Daily Gazette, 13 July 1886 — Death notice
CHN-59a
Died at Brome Hall, Sunday evening — consistent with the East Anglian Daily Times placing the death at 00:30 Monday 12 July 1886.
Confirmed
Suffolk Times and Mercury, 23 July 1886 — Funeral report
CHN-60
Interred Brome churchyard; notes Cornwallis family monuments in Brome Church.
Confirmed
Framlingham Weekly News, 25 May 1889 — Funeral of Dowager Lady Henniker
CHN-61
Lady Henniker identified as eldest daughter of the late General Sir Edward Kerrison Bt (1st Baronet). Lord Stanhope and Lord Bateman both present as mourners — placing all three connected families in the same room. Confirms the Kerrison-Henniker family network.
Confirmed
Suffolk Chronicle Supplement, 29 January 1887 — Kerrison memorial subscription list
CHN-62
Earl Stanhope of Chevening, Sevenoaks, subscribed £3 3s. — identifying him as an acquaintance in the Stradbroke orbit before he became lord of the manor.
Confirmed
East Anglian Daily Times, 13 July 1886 — Full extended obituary
CHN-63
Death confirmed: half-past midnight Sunday night = 00:30 Monday 12 July 1886. Agnes described as the youngest sister, married to Lord Bateman of Shobden Court. Confirms 2nd Baronet and Lord Henniker as brothers-in-law.
Browsed
Suffolk Chronicle, 2 September 1848 — Kerrison JP requisition for Stradbroke police station
Five Suffolk justices of the peace including Sir Edward Kerrison sign a requisition for a police station house in Stradbroke. Confirms the 2nd Baronet's local administrative presence.
Probate Calendar, Census, and Civil Registration
Accessed via Ancestry, 3 April 2026 · 6 entries
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Westminster, London, Church of England Marriages 1754–1935 — Agnes Burrell Kerrison, 13 May 1854
CHN-65 · St George Hanover Square, Entry No.90
Groom: William Bateman Hanbury, Baron Bateman. Bride's father: Edward Kerrison Bt K.C.B. Confirms full family name as Bateman Hanbury.
Confirmed
England and Wales Deaths 1837–2007 — Emily Harriet Kerrison
GRO Vol.2A p.317 · Via Findmypast
Death confirmed Q1 1874, Sevenoaks district, Kent, aged 58. She predeceased the 2nd Baronet by twelve years — the key fact in the Stanhope succession mechanism.
Browsed
1861 England Census — Sir Edward Kerrison at Ilfracombe, Devon
Census night 7 April 1861: Sir Edward C. Kerrison (head, age 40) and Lady Caroline Kerrison (wife, age 42) at Ilfracombe. No children listed — consistent with 'leaves no issue' confirmed elsewhere.
Browsed
1871 England Census — Sir Edward Kerrison at Brome Hall, Suffolk
Census night 2 April 1871: Sir Edward C. Kerrison (head, age 50) and Lady Caroline (wife, age 52), with 14 servants. Again no children listed.
Browsed
Norfolk Register of Electors, 1861 — Kerrison Edward C., Brome Hall, Suffolk
Norfolk Western Division Dereham Outvoters entry 1086. Confirms Kerrison's freehold interest in Breckles, Norfolk.
Pending
PA1S form — Agnes Burrell Bateman will, Principal Registry London, probate 23 May 1919 (fee £16)
Will confirm real property disposition and whether Stradbroke with Stubcroft is named. Executor: Agnes Rosamond Bateman Hanbury.
Cartularies and Monastic Archives
Suffolk Records Society · 2 entries
Confirmed
Brown, V. (ed.) (1992). Eye Priory Cartulary and Charters, Part One. Suffolk Charters Vol. 12. Boydell Press / Suffolk Records Society
CHN-376 · SRS Vol. 12 · On order
Authoritative modern edition of all surviving Eye Priory charters, Part One. Displaces the standing "forthcoming, SRS" placeholder. Methodological note per Carpenter, Sharpe and Doherty (2014): a significant portion of the Eye Priory cartulary is forged at the diplomatic level; specific entries require individual evaluation against the Charters Project framework.
Confirmed
Brown, V. (ed.) (1994). Eye Priory Cartulary and Charters, Part Two. Suffolk Charters Vol. 13. Boydell Press / Suffolk Records Society
CHN-376 · SRS Vol. 13 · Read at image level Session 45
Second of the two-volume edition. The published apparatus is the appropriate citation framework for all Eye Priory material; supersedes earlier antiquarian references throughout the manorial title chain.
Record Commission Editions
Hunter, Hardy, Astle · 7 entries
Confirmed
Hunter, J. (ed.) (1833). Magnus Rotulus Scaccarii: The Great Roll of the Pipe, 31 Henry I. Record Commission
CHN-35 substrate · Read directly from Internet Archive (Identifier: magnumrotulumsc00huntgoog)
The earliest surviving English Pipe Roll, edited from the original at the Public Record Office. Stradbroke entry at p.90: Ernald fitz Roger, 60s de feodo suo, Norfolk and Suffolk account. Earliest contemporary primary-source attestation of the le Rus family at Stradbroke in the surviving record.
Confirmed
Hardy, T.D. (ed.) (1833). Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati, Vol. I (1204–1224). Record Commission
CHN-392 · Read directly from Internet Archive
Full Latin text edition of King John's and the early Henry III Close Rolls. The Stradbroke market grants and chancery instruments of 1216–1224 are anchored here at primary editorial level.
Confirmed
Hardy, T.D. (ed.) (1835). Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati, Vol. I, Pars I (1199–1216). Record Commission
CHN-381 · Read directly from Internet Archive
Full Latin text edition of King John's Patent Rolls. The 1208 Walter de Gray Stradbroke advowson presentation (RPat 81a) is anchored here.
Confirmed
Hardy, T.D. (ed.) (1835). Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turri Londinensi Asservati, Tempore Regis Johannis. Record Commission
CHN-303 derivation · Read directly from Internet Archive
p.13: Ernald Rufus 1199 ten-mark relief for Stradbroke at £28 fee farm. The authentic financial counterpart to the 1199 King John charter B33.
Confirmed
Hardy, T.D. (ed.) (1837). Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati, Vol. I, Pars I (1199–1216). Record Commission
CHN-381 · Read directly from Internet Archive
Full Latin text edition of King John's Charter Rolls. The 1199 King John charter B33 for Stradbroke is anchored here at primary editorial level.
Confirmed
Hardy, T.D. (ed.) (1844). Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati, Vol. II (1224–1227). Record Commission
CHN-395 / CHN-396 · Read directly from Internet Archive
Full Latin text edition of the early Henry III Close Rolls. The 25 October 1225 interim Friday market grant and 26 November 1225 day-change to Tuesday are anchored here at primary editorial level. CHN-396 derived directly.
Confirmed
Astle, T., Ayloffe, J. and Caley, J. (eds.) (1802). Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi. Record Commission, London: Eyre and Strahan
CHN-382
Abbreviated calendar of all Patent Rolls in continuous sequence; predates the modern HMSO CPR series. The 1545 Chickering chapel post-Dissolution Crown grant is anchored here at primary editorial level.
HMSO Calendars and Peerage References
HMSO and major scholarly editions · 7 entries
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Cokayne, G.E. et al., The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 2nd ed. revised, multiple volumes 1910–1959
CHN-123 (Vol. II Brewes) / CHN-287 (Vol. IX Norwich) / CHN-288 / CHN-156 (Vol. XII Pt 1 Wingfield, Tibetot)
Standard reference for English peerage genealogy and tenurial descent. Used systematically for Brewes, Norwich, Wingfield, and de la Pole succession material. Subsumes nineteenth-century antiquarian peerage references throughout.
Confirmed
HMSO Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents. Multiple volumes
CHN-313 (Vol. IX) / CHN-314 (Vol. IX) / CHN-315 (Vol. VI) / CHN-316 (Vol. XIV/XV) / CHN-355 (Vol. XII) / CHN-356 / CHN-357 (Vol. XVI)
Series of authoritative HMSO printed calendars of medieval IPMs. Vol. IX (Edward III 1336–46) anchors the Brewes-Norwich-Surrey architecture; Vol. XII anchors the Sir John de Wingfield 1361/2 death-event composite; Vols XIV-XVI anchor the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth century Stradbroke prosopography.
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Calendar of Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, Vol. I (1227–1231). HMSO, 1902
CHN-398
Functionally Volume 3 in the continuous Close Rolls edited sequence following Hardy 1833 Vol. I and Hardy 1844 Vol. II. Covers the 1227 perpetual market grant period and the immediate aftermath.
Confirmed
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) — Given-Wilson, Brand, Phillips, Ormrod, Martin, Curry, and Horrox. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005
Via British History Online
Authoritative modern edition of all surviving medieval English Parliament rolls. Access route for CHN-05 (Richard II 1385), CHN-07 (Henry VII 1493), and CHN-27 (Henry VII 1495). SC9/19 m.7 (Lincoln Parliament 1316) accessed at primary level via Mackenzie (CHN-43).
Confirmed
Calendar of Patent Rolls. HMSO, multiple volumes 1891–1981
CHN-360 / CHN-361 / CHN-362 (Vols. Ric II); various others
The Richard II Vol. II 1381–1385 and Vol. III 1385–1389 volumes anchor the de la Pole period at primary editorial level. Used across the medieval and early-modern chapters.
Confirmed
Calendar of Charter Rolls. HMSO, multiple volumes 1903–1927
CHN-02 / CHN-306 derivation
Vol. II p.272 mem.6 (1284–85 free warren grant Wytton and Stradebrok) and Vol. V pp.366–7 no.10 (Hervey of Léon charter c.1139–40, by way of Henry III inspeximus) anchored here at primary editorial level.
Confirmed
Calendar of Fine Rolls. HMSO, multiple volumes
CHN-303 derivation / CHN-113 / CHN-314 / CHN-355
Fine Roll 13 (1199), entry for Ernald Rufus: ten marks of relief for Stradbroke at £28 fee farm. Fine Rolls Edward II anchor Robert de Brewes's 1325 minority wardship. Fine Rolls Edward III anchor the January 1362 Wingfield wardship to Eleanor de Wingfield.
List and Index Society Volumes
L&I Society · 3 entries
Confirmed
List and Index Society Volumes 286, 293, 294, 297, 300, 301, 302 — Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I (unprinted by HMSO)
Purchased by direct order via Euan Roger
L&I Society Vol. 300 entry 885 mem.18 = primary citation for CHN-365 (2 April 1589 Crown alienation licence Wentworthe to Lawrence). The List and Index Society publishes the late-Elizabethan and later Patent Rolls that HMSO did not reach in its printed CPR series; without these the late-Tudor and early-Stuart chancery material is inaccessible.
Confirmed
List and Index Society Volumes 268, 269, 270, 271 — Crown Lands (LR class) finding aids
Purchased by direct order
Finding aids for the LR class at TNA, including the LR 3 series (court rolls of Crown lands). Cross-references the HMSO 1993 PRO printed list (CHN-366) for the Suffolk section.
Confirmed
List and Index Society — methodological note
The List and Index Society is the institutional continuation of the work of the nineteenth-century PRO List and Index Series, publishing finding aids and editions for record classes not covered by HMSO's commercial Calendar of Patent Rolls programme. Direct correspondence with the Society's editorial staff (Euan Roger) supplies invoices and bank-transfer instructions; the PayPal system is unreliable.
Books and Scholarly Articles
26 entries
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Bloore, P. and Martin, E. (eds.) (2015). Wingfield College and its Patrons: Piety and Prestige in Medieval Suffolk. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843838326
CHN-33 / CHN-400 / CHN-401 / CHN-402 / CHN-403 plus twelve annotation extensions
Comprehensive scholarly volume on Wingfield College and the de la Pole-Wingfield-Brewse network. Recent intake (Session 49) generated four new CHN entries: CHN-400 (1357–59 Brewse-to-Wingfield trustee transfer via TNA CP 25/1/221/90 and /91, the primary instrumentum of the Wingfield succession); CHN-401 (1240 Stradbroke pannage dispute and early-thirteenth-century assarts); CHN-402 (Eleanor de Verlay's maternal line via Glanville); CHN-403 (1545 Chickering chapel post-Dissolution Crown grant). The volume's appendix timeline attributes the original Stradbroke grant to "Stephen, count of Blois and lord of Eye, 1113–25, in fee-farm" — an attribution consistent with the authentic 1199–1200 Fine and Pipe Roll citations although the supporting forged Stephen carta has been rejected diplomatically (Carpenter, Sharpe and Doherty 2014). The strong-form F3 falsification test against the singular tenure clause survived this volume's intake intact.
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Carpenter, D., Sharpe, R. and Doherty, H. (2014). Charters of William II and Henry I Project — "Ernald Rufus" headnote and editions
CHN-303 · actswilliam2henry1.wordpress.com · CC BY-NC-ND
Authoritative scholarly diplomatic edition of the Stradbroke charter forgeries. Confirms the Stephen-era carta and Henry I notificatio in the 1227 inspeximus as fabrications produced c.1195–99 by a single hand. Establishes the five-generation le Rus genealogy with primary-source attestation. See also Royal Charters category above for the diplomatic edition itself.
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Lewis, C.P. (1989). "The King and Eye: a Study in Anglo-Norman Politics." English Historical Review, Vol. 104 (CCCCXII), July 1989, pp.569–587
CHN-302 · Oxford Academic / JSTOR · doi:10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCXII.569
The single most authoritative treatment of Honour of Eye institutional history covering c.1066–1140. Establishes the corrected Honour of Eye chronology (Robert Malet d. c.1106; Henry I demesne 1106–1113; Stephen of Blois as Count of Mortain 1113–1135). Includes Latin texts of the Charroux endowment charter (Roger the Poitevin, issued at Stradbroke) and Henry I's confirmation. Grade 1 peer-reviewed scholarly authority.
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Farrer, W. (1923–1925). Honors and Knights' Fees: An Attempt to Identify the Component Parts of Certain Honours and to Trace the Descent of the Tenants of the Same. Vols I, II, III. Manchester University Press
CHN-311 · Read directly from Internet Archive
Foundational scholarly work on English honorial structure. Vol. II covers the Honour of Eye descent and the le Rus and Brewes pedigree material. Cross-corroborates Mackenzie (2017) at the antiquarian-scholar level and independently confirms the William and Richard de Breouse brotherhood for the early-fourteenth century.
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Mackenzie, P.W. (2017). "Stradebroke and Wingfield Manors, Suffolk." Internet Archive. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
CHN-42
Independent researcher working directly from Latin and Old French primary sources with full citations. Fills the de Breouse period c.1253–1375 and corrects a Complete Peerage error on Eleanor de Wingfield's lineage. Grade 4 by methodology; many findings now independently anchored at Grade 1 via Farrer, Bloore-Martin, and HMSO CIPM.
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Mackenzie, P.W. (2017). "Review of the Ancestry of Sir Richard de Brewes." Internet Archive. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
CHN-43
SC9/19 m.7 (Mary de Braose petition, Lincoln Parliament 1316) read in Old French; confirms William and Richard de Breouse as brothers — resolving a key genealogical question in the medieval succession.
Confirmed
Martin, E. (1990). "Mettingham Castle: An Interpretation of a Survey of 1562." Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Vol. XXXVII Part 2, pp.79–111
CHN-345
Provides the peripheral-green castle-siting comparative for the Battlesea Green analysis. Mettingham's castle is sited at the periphery of the moated complex on a green, matching the Battlesea Green / Stradbroke pattern.
Confirmed
Suckling, A. (1846). The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, Vol. I. London
CHN-346 · Read directly from Internet Archive
Antiquarian county history with detailed Mettingham material. Footnote 15 supplies the leads for Cole's MSS Vol. XXIV and Lansdowne MSS Vol. V (both BL, pending). Ridgeway description (Beccles — Stradbroke — Debenham) cited at CHN-01.
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Hazlitt, W.C. (1874). Tenures of Land and Customs of Manors, formerly published by Thomas Blount, 5th edition. London
New source S49
Provides the earliest direct chancery citation for the Stradbroke dove-tenure: Placita Coronae 4 Edward I (1275–76). The textual chain back to Thomas Blount's seventeenth-century antiquarian record. Underpins the OS Parcel 1479 / Wootten Green argument with primary-chancery legal anchoring of the dove serjeanty.
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Lawrence, A. (2000). "The Kerrison Family of Brome Hall, Suffolk." Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Vol. XXXIX Part 4, pp.470–483
SRC-01
Note: footnote 34 of this article cites PROB 11/1724/244 — an error. The correct reference is PROB 11/1724/445 (the Will of Matthias Kerrison). The error has been corrected in this research.
Confirmed
Roberts, R. (2010). Lost Country Houses of Suffolk.
CHN-17/18
Confirms Cornwallis-to-Kerrison purchase details.
Browsed
Copinger, W.A. (1909). Manors of Suffolk, Vol. 4
Secondary source only
Lists five manors for Stradbroke parish without citation authority. No independent legal weight. Browsed for orientation; not cited as primary evidence.
Browsed
Blomefield, F. History of Norfolk.
Secondary source only
Various references for the le Rus period (Ernald Rufus, Hugh Rufus, the market grant). Useful for orientation; no independent legal weight.
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Whitelock, D. (1930). Anglo-Saxon Wills. Cambridge University Press
Contains Bishop Theodred II will c.942 (Electronic Sawyer S1526) — the best pre-Domesday candidate mentioning the Stradbroke area. Not yet read in full.
Confirmed
Bede; Colgrave, B. and Mynors, R.A.B. (eds. and trans.) (1969). Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford Medieval Texts. Clarendon Press
Bede III.18–20 for the Christianisation of East Anglia. Foundational source for the institutional ecclesiastical framework within which Stradbroke's churches eventually developed.
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Swanton, M. (trans. and ed.) (1996). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. J.M. Dent
Sub anno 869 for the death of King Edmund and the Viking conquest of East Anglia — the political rupture that ended the Wuffinga kingdom and established the Danelaw context.
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Fairweather, J. (trans.) (2005). Liber Eliensis: A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth. Boydell Press
Liber Eliensis is the institutional record of Ely Abbey. Because Domesday records Stradbroke as commended to the Abbot of Ely, the Ely archive becomes the closest thing to a continuous institutional memory for the pre-Conquest landscape.
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Warner, P. (1996). The Origins of Suffolk. Manchester University Press
General Suffolk settlement from pre-history to the Normans. Foundational for the landscape history of the Stradbroke claylands.
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Warner, P. (1987). Greens, Commons and Clayland Colonization: The Origins and Development of Green-side Settlement in East Suffolk. Leicester University Press
Establishes the green-side settlement pattern characteristic of east Suffolk — the structural context for Stradbroke's green-edge hamlets (Wotton, Buttleshawgh, Pixhawgh, Barlehawgh) recorded in the 1621 Norden survey.
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Warner, P. (1986). "Shared Church-Yards, Freemen Church-Builders and the Development of Parishes in Eleventh-Century East Anglia." Landscape History, Vol. 8, pp.39–52
Provides the social-historical framework for the multiplication of small churches in zones of high free tenure — explaining the two-churches phenomenon at Stradbroke.
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Martin, E. (1999). "Greens, Commons and Tyes." In Dymond, D. and Martin, E. (eds.), An Historical Atlas of Suffolk, 3rd edition. Suffolk County Council / Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
Companion chapter to Warner 1987 in the standard reference atlas for Suffolk historical geography.
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Blair, J. (2005). The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society. Oxford University Press
The authoritative modern treatment of the Anglo-Saxon church. The minster system and the development of local churches provide the framework for interpreting Stradbroke's two-church record at Domesday.
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Miller, E. (1951). The Abbey and Bishopric of Ely: The Social History of an Ecclesiastical Estate from the Tenth Century to the Early Fourteenth Century. Cambridge University Press
The standard scholarly account of Ely's estate formation. Establishes the institutional framework within which the Domesday-attested Ely co-overlordship at Stradbroke developed.
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Watts, V. (ed.) (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press
Etymology of Stradbroke: Old English stræt (road; ultimately from Latin strata) + brōc (brook). The settlement defined by its relationship to movement and water.
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Margary, I.D. (1973). Roman Roads in Britain, 3rd edition. John Baker
Roman road network in Suffolk. Establishes the broader alignment of the north Suffolk ridgeway running obliquely from Beccles through Stradbroke and Debenham. The Roman attribution for the specific stretch is plausible but unconfirmed.
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Cronne, H.A. and Davis, R.H.C. (eds.) (1968). Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066–1154, Vol. III: Regesta Regis Stephani ac Mathildis Imperatricis ac Gaufridi et Henrici Ducum Normannorum 1135–1154. Oxford: Clarendon Press
CHN-377
Standard scholarly edition of the charters of Stephen and Matilda. Provides Regesta nos. 180, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 402, 783 (Henry I notificatio for Stradbroke). The diplomatic apparatus is the appropriate citation framework for the c.1135–1154 royal acta period at Stradbroke and Eye.
Online Databases and Websites
17 entries
Confirmed
opendomesday.org — Suffolk entries for Stradbroke
Initial Domesday access; screenshots saved.
Confirmed
British History Online (british-history.ac.uk) — IPM series, Charter, Close, and Parliament Rolls
Access route for numerous CHN entries including CHN-02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 25, 26, 27 and others.
Confirmed
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) — Given-Wilson, Brand, Phillips, Ormrod, Martin, Curry, Horrox. Woodbridge, 2005. Via British History Online.
Access route for CHN-05 (Richard II 1385), CHN-07 (Henry VII 1493), CHN-27 (Henry VII 1495).
Confirmed
Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT) — TNA C 135/254 membrane images
IPM Eleanor de Wingfield membranes read at zoomed resolution directly from AALT scans.
Confirmed
Magna Carta Project (magnacartaresearch.org) — King John charter 1199, B33
John charter confirmed authentic. Date confirmed as 17 June 1199, not 17 May as given in Blomefield — a transcription error.
Confirmed
King John Itinerary Project (neolography.com) — Date verification for 1199 charter
Confirms John was at Shoreham on 17 June 1199, not Westminster on 17 May. Blomefield's date is a confirmed transcription error.
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Internet Archive (archive.org) — Pipe Roll 31 Henry I, Hunter 1833 edition
Identifier: magnumrotulumsc00huntgoog. Page 90 read directly from Latin.
Confirmed
Ancestry.co.uk — National Probate Calendar 1858–1966; England and Wales Deaths 1837–2007
Stanhope probate calendar entry located by browsing 1894 S section images directly, after HMCTS digital search failed. Emily Harriet Kerrison death confirmed Q1 1874 Sevenoaks (GRO Vol.2A p.317). Subscription cancelled after full extraction, 3 April 2026.
Confirmed
Findmypast — British Newspaper Archive; IR 27 Death Duty Register index; civil registration
Principal access route for BNA material (CHN-48 through CHN-63). IR 27 Stanhope entries confirmed. Subscription cancelled after full extraction, 3 April 2026.
Confirmed
TNA Discovery catalogue — MAF series, PROB series, C series IPMs, IR 26/27
Used throughout for document identification and ordering. Occasional outages noted.
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Electronic Sawyer (S1526) — Bishop Theodred II will, c.942
Best pre-Domesday candidate mentioning the Stradbroke area. Not yet read in full.
Browsed
Cracroft's Peerage — Agnes/Cornwallis entries
Confirms Agnes as lady of the manor; Cornwallis family succession details.
Failed
HathiTrust — Various sources
Consistently returns HTTP 403 errors. Internet Archive used instead for the same content throughout this research.
Failed
British Library imaging portal (
[email protected]) — Online access
Portal outages noted on multiple occasions. Manual scan requests submitted by email instead.
Failed
HMCTS probatesearch.service.gov.uk — Search: 'Stanhope Edward', 1893–94
Systematic indexing failure due to honorific-first format in the calendar. Entry located via Ancestry instead.
Nil
Findmypast — Ann Kerrison death search (England and Wales Deaths 1837–2007)
No civil registration record found. Most probable explanation: Ann Kerrison predeceased 1837, before civil registration began. This negative result is not material to the title succession.
Nil
Herefordshire Archives — Agnes Bateman-Hanbury probate search
No record found at Herefordshire. Agnes Burrell Bateman's probate was proved at the Principal Registry, London (23 May 1919) — not Herefordshire. Research direction corrected accordingly.