certainly waspossessed by one of that name andfamily as early as 1229, and continued intlie male line of the same till about 1358,Avhen it passed by marriage to the Do laMares, and from them in like way to SirGeorge Forster, he liavhig married thedaughter and heiress of John de la i\Iare,Esq. This… … a5| m I ■2^ if SEATS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 47 Sir Humphrey, had the honour of a royalvisit from Queen Elizabeth in 1601. About 1740 the estate again passed bymaniage from the family possessing it,tind this time to Ralph Congreve, Esq.;but it -was sold by tlie executors of one ofhis descendants in 1847…
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