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Withcall, 1⅔ fees. Costa or Costentinus de Withcale was Succeeded by his son Ranulph, who had 3 sons, William, Henry and Simon.^[1] Henry son of William held^[2] these fees c. 1243. The Lords de Cantilupe are the earliest tenants of these fees mentioned on the court rolls. To them succeeded the Lords de la Zouch, of whom Eudo had^[3] married Milicent, daughter of William, and sister and coheir of George de Cantilupe. In 1376 Ralph de Daubenay is mentioned as tenant. I suppose he and others held lands in Withcall which were of the Cantilupe fee, for in 1428^[4] the Lord de la Souch, Patrick Skypwith, John Legburn, clerk, William Daubenay and the abbot of Kirkstead held severally 1 fee in Withkall, formerly John Daubenay’s, of the fee of Cantilupe. In 1575^[5] two manors at Withcall, formerly of William de Cantilupe and Ralph de Newton, late belonging to the College of Tattershall, and now to Henry Sidney, knight, were held of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Ashby cum Fenby, Hole, Itterby and Brigsley, 1 fee.

A.D. 1210–12 John de Lasceles^[6] held 1 fee in Askeby, Brigelega, Wathe, Ravendale, Ellesham, Iterby, Hol, of the Honor of Lascy. In 1301 Philip Fraunke, son and heir of Dominus William Fraunke, was distrained for the relief of one knight's fee. The will of William Fraunk, knight,^[7] was proved 5 Jan. 1346, and mentions Alan his son. In 1427–8 William Fraunk, chivaler,^[8] held half a fee in Briggele and Wathe, and half a fee in Clee and Utterby, which had been Alan Fraunk's. In 1493 Lady Elizabeth Tunstall, widow, daughter and heir of Sir William Fraunk, knight, and Thomas Tunstall, her son and heir,^[9] manumitted by deed Robert Abbot of Itterby in the parish of Clee. Thomas Tunstall died^[10] 7 May 1493, and his sister and heir, Elenor or Ellen, married John Ascough. In 1547 Richard Ascough, gent., and others were plaintifis, and John Ascough, esq^r, and others deforciants of the manor of Ashby cum Fenby.^[11] Later, Sir Christopher Wray, knight, Chief

1. Cathedral Charters.
2. Testa de Nevill, p. 305.
3. Chancery Inq. p. m. 1 Edw. I no. 16.
4. Exchequer Q.R. Misc. Bk. vol. iv.
5. Duchy of Lancaster Records, Bundle P. no. 29.
6. Liber Ruber, i, 518.
7. Test. Ebor. i. 30.
8. Lay Subsidy Roll, 136/167.
9. Hist. Com. 14th Report, Grimsby MSS.
10. Church Notes by G. Holles.
11. Feet of Fines, Lincoln, Mich. 1 Edw. VI.