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1295 it was found^[1] that Alice de Vavasor, deceased, held cer­tain lands in Cockerington of Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, and William Vavasor is her son and heir. In 1342 Henry le Vavasour^[2] granted his manor of Cockerington to feoffees, who were sworn to assign it to the abbot and convent of Louth Park. His wife, Constance, afterwards said that he was not of sound mind, and I suggest that a compromise was made, for we find the Vavasours in possession of the manor, and the abbot in possession of certain lands there. In 1401–2 Henry Vavasour and the abbot held the 2 fees. In 1427–8 Henry Vavasor held^[3] in Cockeryngton and Salfletby two fees, formerly Henry Vavasor’s, whereof the abbot of Louth Park held in alms ¼ f., and the prior of Alvingham, the heirs of John Goderde, the abbot of Louth Park and others held between them ½ f. of the said 2 fees.

Henry Vavasour was seised^[4] of the manor of Cockryngton, and 31 July 1510 he enfeoffed certain feoffees for the use and performance of certain articles of agreement upon the marriage of John, his son and heir apparent, and Anne, now John’s wife, and sister of Henry Lord le Scrop of Bolton. Henry died 31 October 1515, and John Vavasour esq^r is his son and heir, and 21 and more. The manor is held of the king as of his honor of Bolingbroke. In 1565–6 Sir William Vavasour, knight, and John Vavasour, his son,^[5] sold the manor of Cockerington to Ralph Scrope esq^r. In 1575 the manor^[6] formerly Of William Vavasor, knt., and now of Adrian Scroope, held of the Queen as of her Duchy of Lancaster by the service of 2 knights, was in the Queen’s hand because of Adrian’s minority. Certain lands there formerly belonging to the abbot of Louth Park were held of the duchy, and came into the hands of the late King Henry VIII by reason of the dissolution of the abbey.

Dunholme, ⅓ fee. Roger de Lacy, who died in 1211, held the 4^th part of a fee^[7] in Dunham, and Nicholas de Aula held it

1. Lansdowne MS. 207. C. p. 629.
2. Chronicle of Louth Park Abbey, p. 59.
3. Exchequer Q.R. Misc. Bk. vol. iv.
4. Chancery Inq. p. m. 8 Henry VIII, no. 113.
5. Notes on Visitation of 1634, p. 105. There is an excellent account here by Mrs. Tempest of the Scropes of Cockerington.
6. Duchy of Lancaster Records, Class xxv. Bundle P. no. 29.
7. Testa de Nevill, p. 345.