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(d.c.1603), of Holbeach, Staffs. and Shelford, Warws. Constituency Dates Droitwich 1586 Biography The Lyttelton family had considerable influence in Droitwich, where Gilbert Lyttelton was an elector, and it is therefore highly likely that the man identified above was the 1586
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for boroughs where Rutland normally had influence. Manners received from his great-uncle and namesake the manors of Fleet Fitzwaters and Holbeach, Lincolnshire, and, from his father the manor of Whitwell, Derbyshire. He was thus endowed with a sufficient estate to
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1400, May 1403; oyer and terminer Aug. 1386 (poaching on the earl of Northumberland’s estates); inquiry Aug. 1387 (trespasses at Holbeach), May 1391, May 1392 (refusal of chantry priests to perform their duties); to hold a special assize 1392; of
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Carleton acquired extensive interests in the fenlands bordering the Wash in the neighbourhood of Holbeach and Wisbech. These included leases of former monastic land at Holbeach, where he owned at least 1,000 acres of marshland grazing, a house in Wisbech
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of his nephews and great-nephews. The manor of Long Bennington went to the 5th Earl of Rutland, Fleet Fitzwaters and Holbeach and chantry property to his namesake Roger Manners II, and Pillerton to Oliver Manners; other tithes, and rectories and
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