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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Manor of Overseal
Parent Body	Honour of Tutbury
Also Known As	Little Seal; Overseal, Netherseal and High Grange
Place	Seale
Epithet	Manor
History	At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Overseal was held by Nigel de Albani but was soon part of the fee of Ferrers. In the mid-13th century it was given by William, son of Ralph de Meisham to the Abbey of Merevale in Warwickshire. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the manor became the property of Walter Devereaux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, when it also took in the manor of High Grange alias Seale Grange. Sir William Gresley seems to have bought it from Walter’s 2nd son before 1565. It remained with the Gresleys until 1626, when Sir George Gresley conveyed it to Gilbert Morewood. After the death of Gilbert Morewood in 1650, the manors of Overseal and Netherseal passed to his daughters, Grace, wife of Simon Bennett, and Francis, daughter of Sir Thomas Gresley, with a partition being agreed between the Bennetts and the Gresleys for the former to receive Overseal and the latter to receive Netherseal. n Sarah Frowde, then the Blois family in 1750. The Mowbrays seems to have been lords from at least 1848 to 1876, with members of the Gresley family being referred to as lords of the manor in the early 20th century (up to 1932). Overseal was originally in Leicestershire until transferred to Derbyshire in 1897. Geographic Extent Land in the townships of both Overseal and Netherseal
Source	The Gresleys of Drakelowe by Falconer Madan (1899) The History and Antiquities of Leicestershire: Volume 3, Part 2, pp. 989-992, by John Nichols (1804) Assorted trade directories, 1848-1932
Source	Court rolls and records (15th-18th cent) at the Derbyshire Record Office
Authorised Form of Name	Seale; Manor of Overseal; Manor

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