William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, 3rd Baron Burghley, Knight of the Garter, Member of Parliament, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, Privy Councillor., KG, Member of Parliament for Stamford and Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire., Member of Parliament for Stamford, Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, Member of Parliament for Stamford and Rutland

Dates: 1566–6 July 1640

Eldest son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and Dorothy Neville. He inherited the Exeter title in 1623 and displayed the family achievement incorporating the Neville Latimer…

William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Knight of the Bath, Knight of the Garter, Privy Councillor, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Dorset, Member of Parliament for Weymouth, King's Lynn and Hertfordshire., Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, High Steward of St Albans., Member of Parliament, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Dorset., Baron Ros from 1591, styled Lord Ros, ambassador extraordinary to Spain, travelled in Europe, associated with the Jacobean court., Viscount Cranborne from 1605 to 1612, member of the Lords during the Commonwealth and Restoration periods., 16th Baron Ros of Helmsley, sometimes numbered 17th Baron de Ros, ambassador extraordinary to Spain in 1616, royal ward in his minority., Baron Ros of Helmsley from 1591, 1616., 16th Baron Ros of Helmsley from 1591, heir to the Exeter Cecil earldom, although he died before his father.

Dates: 28 March 1591 – 3 December 1668

English peer and politician who succeeded his father Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in 1612. He maintained the Salisbury estates and political position through the Stuart monarchy,…

William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, 8th Baron Saye and Sele, Privy Councillor, Master of the Court of Wards, High Steward of Oxford University, Parliamentarian leader, prominent landowner and Parliamentarian, promoter of the Providence Island Company.

Dates: 28 May 1582–14 April 1662

William Fiennes succeeded his father as Baron Saye and Sele and was created Viscount Saye and Sele in 1624. He was a major political figure in the opposition…

William FitzGeoffrey Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex

William James Dalrymple Bedding Fanshawe West, Esq., Lord of Watlington-West Norfolk

Dates: C.2026

William Martin Alleyne Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter, Lord Martin Cecil until 1981, Earl of Exeter and Baron Burghley from 1981, Canadian rancher, head of the Emissaries of Divine Light from 1954., head of the Emissaries of Divine Light, 16th Earl of Exeter, 17th Baron Burghley, Canadian cattleman, head of the Emissaries of Divine Light during part of his later life.

Dates: 27 April 1909 – 12 January 1988

Born into the senior Exeter branch of the Cecil family, Martin was the second son of William Thomas Brownlow Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter, and Myra Rowena Sibell…

William Michael Anthony Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter, Lord Burghley from 1981 to 1988 as heir apparent, Earl of Exeter and Baron Burghley from 12 January 1988, member of the House of Lords from 1989 until the hereditary peerage reforms of 1999, Canadian rancher and businessman, former head of the Emissaries of Divine Light., 17th Earl of Exeter, 18th Baron Burghley, hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords from 26 April 1989 until the exclusion of most hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999.

Dates: Born 1 September 1935

Born at Kamloops, British Columbia, Michael is the only son of Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter, and Edith Lilian Csanady de Telegd. He was educated in Canada…

William Thomas West

Dates: 1594

William West (c. 1548–1598) was an English lawyer and legal writer, known as the author of Symbolæographia, a standard legal text of its time.LifeHe was the son of Thomas West of Beeston in Nottinghamshire,…

William Trusbut

[Unnamed] Burston

An unidentified Burston who is reported in a nineteenth-century genealogical and antiquarian source to have held Aldons Manor jure uxoris through a daughter and coheir of Sir William…

6th Duke of Devonshire and James Loch, trustees for the 5th Earl of Carlisle

Dates: trustees from 1834; James Loch died before 1868

The named trustees who administered the Ainstable manor trust for the Earl of Carlisle from 1834.

A freeman of Harold

A W Milburn

A. H. O. Taylor

A. J. Robarts

Dates: acquired the manor about 1850; died before 1927 or otherwise ceased to hold before the VCH account

Landowner who purchased Stockholt from the Duke of Buckingham about 1850 and whose grandson owned it by 1927.

Abbess and Convent of West Malling, Benedictine nunnery of the Blessed Virgin at West Malling, Kent

Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved during the English Reformation

The West Malling religious house was a Benedictine nunnery that held the Great Cornard manor and administered it through a manorial steward.

Abbess of Shaftesbury

Abbey of Cwmhir, Cistercian community

Abbey of Dore, Cistercian monastery

Dates: Founded 1147; dissolved September 1536

Dore Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded at Abbey Dore in 1147 by Robert de Ewyas. Its community held and administered a substantial landed estate until the Dissolution…

Abbey of Pershore, Benedictine abbey of St Mary

Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Abbey of Pershore was a major Worcestershire Benedictine institution and the recorded Domesday lord and tenant-in-chief of Alderminster.

Abbey of Saint-Evroult, Normandy

Dates: Medieval institution

The Norman abbey of Saint-Evroult was a medieval Benedictine religious house. It is recorded in the Adminton account as the recipient of a temporary assignment of the manor…

Abbey of St John at Colchester

Abbey of St Peter, Abbotsbury, represented by its abbot

Abbey of St Peter, Gloucester, Benedictine abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

Dates: Medieval institution; dissolved in the sixteenth century

The Benedictine abbey of St Peter at Gloucester held extensive agricultural, riverine and manorial estates in Gloucestershire, including the Abload estate at Sandhurst. After the Dissolution, surviving interests…