Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . THE SEAT OFTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES MANN, EARL CORNWALLIS. This seat is in the hundred of Maidstone, and forms part of the Manorof East Farleigh. It was anciently called Capells Court, from the fa-mily of Capell, who were proprietors of it. Richard de Capell, whodied m the fifteenth year of Richard II., left a son, who, in the reign ofHenry VI., alienated this place to Richard Baysden, from whose de-scendants it was subsequently purchased in the reign of Elizabeth bySir Anthony Maney, of Biddenden, in th
Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . THE SEAT OFTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES MANN, EARL CORNWALLIS. This seat is in the hundred of Maidstone, and forms part of the Manorof East Farleigh. It was anciently called Capells Court, from the fa-mily of Capell, who were proprietors of it. Richard de Capell, whodied m the fifteenth year of Richard II., left a son, who, in the reign ofHenry VI., alienated this place to Richard Baysden, from whose de-scendants it was subsequently purchased in the reign of Elizabeth bySir Anthony Maney, of Biddenden, in this county, Knight. Sir An-thony ^ade this his seat, and at his death was buried in the parishChurch, as was his son, Walter Maney. Sir John Maney, Baronet, socreated A D. 1641, son of the last mentioned owner of Linton, was aperson of devoted attachment to king Charles I., during the troublesof that monarchs reign, and, in consequence, suffered the confiscationof his estate. In the following reign, having previously recovered hisproperty, by compounding for it, he alienated this seat
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