. The history of Ailington, Aylton, or Elton. I $ WM^^BVHBBHKIBn ( 71 ) CHAPTER IX. THE OWNERS OE ELTON HALL. The Sapcote family were the first possessors of the Hall of whom wehave any authentic records. There is a parish of the same name inLeicestershire, and as in an early Lincoln will, written in Norman Erenchand dated the Nativity of our Lord 1345, we find a bequest, inter alios,to John de Sapcote, it is probable that in this case, as in many others,the family took their name from the place. It is certain that their connection with Elton was of a very earlydate, and that it continued for
. The history of Ailington, Aylton, or Elton. I $ WM^^BVHBBHKIBn ( 71 ) CHAPTER IX. THE OWNERS OE ELTON HALL. The Sapcote family were the first possessors of the Hall of whom wehave any authentic records. There is a parish of the same name inLeicestershire, and as in an early Lincoln will, written in Norman Erenchand dated the Nativity of our Lord 1345, we find a bequest, inter alios,to John de Sapcote, it is probable that in this case, as in many others,the family took their name from the place. It is certain that their connection with Elton was of a very earlydate, and that it continued for at least three hundred years. That theypossessed considerable property in the parish in the time of Edward in the account of Hides, where it is stated there was inAylington one hide and a half of the soccage of Burgh, the profits ofwhich arose to the Abbey of Eamseye from its estate here, rated in 1303at xlv s. vi d., and were paid by Sapcote. Proofs of their interest in the neighbourhood may also be gatheredfrom other wills proved
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