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or the soke; (2) those who held lands outside, but owed suit at the court.

I. The lords of the manor of South Hiltoft held an independent manor, but still were not included amongst the ‘foreign’ tenants, as S. Hiltoft was in Ingoldmells. On the earliest roll appears the name of Sir Thomas de Burnham, knight, who held this manor probably in right of Philippa his wife, who seems to have been the same person as Philippa de Hiltoft who presented to the church of Ingoldmells in 1273. Robert de Hiltoft had presented to this church in 1227, and Sir William de Hiltoft presented in 1324, whose daughter and heiress Alice married Sir William de Skipwith, and thus the Skipwiths^[1] acquired the manor of Hiltoft. From the Skip­withs it passed to the Balletts, and in 38 Elizabeth ‘John Ballett died seised of the manor of South Hiltoft freely held of this manor by the rent of 39^s 8^d yearly, and common suit of court, and Nicholas Ballett is his kinsman and next heir.’^[2]

The Gipthorps certainly held lands of the lord of Ingoldmells in Skegness, and probably also in Ingoldmells. Sir Peter de Gipthorp, knight, died seised^[3] in 1334 of the manor of Wolmersty in Wrangle, Alexander being his son and heir. In 1369 Robert, son of Peter de Gipthorp, chivaler, secured by a fine^[4] lands in Burgh, Ingoldmells and Winthorpe, after his death to Peter, son of Alexander de Gipthorp, knight, and Agnes his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies. But before this in 1346^[5] William, son of Sir Alexander de Gipthorp, had succeeded to lands in Skegness, which had belonged to Simon de Thorp, whose daughter he had married. To one branch of the Gipthorps William Manby esq^r succeeded as tenant before 9 Elizabeth, having married Alice, daughter and coheir of Thomas Gipthorp. It seems probable that Alice was sister to William son of Thomas Gipthorp, who died^[6] in 1506, leaving a son William, who seems to have died without issue. Sir John Babington, who was tenant in 1499, and Lord Sheffield, who was tenant in 1567, held lands which had been William Gipthorp's.^[7]

The Lords de Willoughby succeeded to the Bek lands in

1. See History of Ormsby.
2. Ingoldmells Court Rolls.
3. Chancery Inq. p. m. 8 Edw. III. lst n^rs. no, 36.
4. Feet of Fines, Lincoln, 43 Edw. III.
5. P. 129.
6. Chancery Inq. p. m. 22 Henry VII. no. 165.
7. Duchy of Lancaster Records, Bundle P. no. 29; and Babington Pedigree­.