A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
is family has been for several centuries I John Peeter or Petre, who lived in theresident, and possessed of lands, in the west reigns of Richard II. and Henry IV. Byof England. According to Risdon and otherantiquaries, the Lady Alice Pole, in thereign of Henry III. gave the manor and cas-tle of… … Ins wite Alice he lelt issue two sons, 1. John, his successor. 2. Nicholas, wlio succeeded to his mo-thers estates in Dorsetshire, and re-siding at Rakebeare, in that county,was M.P. for Shaftesbury in the2-8thof Henry VI. and d. s. p. John Peter, the elder brother, inherited 30 PETER, OF HARLYN.…
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