Tunstall Old Court

Title deeds and related documents of properties in Tunstall (Salop), Betton under Lyme (Salop), Almington (Staffs) and Tyrley (Staffs) sold to Basil Edwin Proctor on his purchase of title of Lordship of Tunstall Old Court (1987), by Manorial Research Ltd.

<p>The Staffordshire Record Society in 1948 published "The Manor of Tyrley, in the county of Stafford, down to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914" by Francis Randle Twemlow.</p>

Indiscriminately extracted from same source as deeds and court rolls sold in 1984 together with the title of Lordship of Betton in Shropshire (S.R.O. microfilm 4708, originals destroyed by Linklaters and Paines, Solicitors), to which cross references are made. According to the Manorial Documents Register, the Court Rolls of Tyrley are in private hands. The single fragment of court roll in this deposit is a remnant of the period when the Tyrley Court Rolls were housed at Tunstall.

The medieval vill of Tunstall, part of the manor of Betton in Hales, was granted to Shrewsbury Abbey by Hamo Peverel in 1136x39, and confirmed in a charter of Matilda 1142x46. After the Dissolution, it appears to have passed to Sir Rowland Hyll of Hawkstone, who treated it as demesne - Thomas Bulkeley, to whom he leased the estate (5194/C/1) was his Steward for the manor of Drayton. It appears to have passed through the hands of Ralph Thickness and John Preston before being acquired by the Church family c. 1610. One third of the manor of Tyrley, partitioned in 1587, and other property in Staffordshire, was by then included in the estate. In part it passed to the Broughton family by the marriage of Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of William Church, to Peter Broughton of Lowdham, Notts. (1716-1777). Their grandson, Peter Broughton, assumed the name Strey during the period 1827 to 1837 only.