Thomas Stuteville Esq.

  General Notes:

By an indenture dated 23rd of June, in the twenty-eighth year of Queen Elizabeth, Lord Thomas Howard, in consideration of the sum of four thousand seven hundred pounds, sold to Thomas Stuteville, Esq. of Dalham, the manor of Abbot's Denham, the park and enclosed ground, called Southwood Park, or Sowood Park, and the park called Combey, excepting a piece of ground, parcel of Southwood Park, containing seventy-two acres, called Little Southwood Park, severed from the remainder, and sold to Sir John Heigham.

In the fortieth year of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Stuteville settled his estates in Suffolk upon Martin Stuteville, his son and heir apparent, and Katherine his wife, daughter of John Holland, Esq. in special tail male; and, in the fourth year of James I. the said Martin Stuteville (then Sir Martin Stuteville) had" livery of his father's lands, including Great Southwood Park.

In consequence probably of a defect in the original patent under which Lord Thomas Howard derived his title, a fresh grant from the Crown issued in the fourth year of James I,0 by virtue of which the manors of Desening, Shardelowes in Cavenham, Cresseners, Talmages, and Passelewes, and all that park, pasture and land inclosed, called by the name of Southwood, alias Sowood Park, and the park called Comby, and tiie warren called Disennige, a meadow called Long Mead in Gazeley, and eleven acres of land near the same, all which hereditaments, situate in various places therein named, had been parcel of the possessions of Edward, Duke of Buckingham, attainted, together with all manner of tythes, privileges, and appurtenances to the same belonging, were conveyed to Sir Martin Stuteville, and his trustee, Edward Lukener, Esq. in fee.
Great Southwood Park descended from Sir Martin to his son and heir Thomas Stuteville, who had livery of his father's lands in the ninth year of Charles I, and settledp them in the same year on the issue of himself and Judith his wife, daughter ofMatthew Robinson, Esq.

This Thomas died in 1649, leaving Thomas, who died without issue, and Charles, heir to his brother. He, in the thirtieth year of Charles II, levied a fine of Southwood Park among his other family estates, which, in 1702, were conveyed byElizabeth Stuteville, widow and executrix of the said Charles Stuteville,and devisee named in his will dated the 20th August 1698, to Simon Patrick, son of Simon, Bishop of Ely; and Simon Patrick in 1708, received a confirmation of the same from Charles, son and heir of the said Charles Stuteville.q

Under an Act of Parliament, in the tenth year of Queen Anne, for sale of the estates of Simon Patrick, clerk, and indentures dated 29th and 30th October 1712, Great Southwood Park, with Dalham, and other lands, passed to John Affleck, Esq. ancestor of the Rev. Sir Robert Affleck, Baronet, the present owner of this property.

As to Little Southwood Park, which was excepted out of the bargain and sale from Lord Thomas Howard to the Stutevilles, it was by deedrdated 17th June, in the twenty-eighth year of Queen Elizabeth, conveyed by Lord Thomas, in consideration of the sum of four hundred and ninety pounds, to Sir John Heigham, of Barrow, by description of all that parcel of ground, parcel of Southwood Park, containing three score and twelve acres, as the same was severed from the said park, and lying in Hargrave, Denham, Dalham, Tunstall, Ousden, and Wickham Brook, or some of them, being on the side of the park called Partridge side, and abutting east and south upon the residue of the said park, on the north upon a wood called Leasure Grove, parcel of the manor of Abbot's Denham, and on the west upon customary land calledPeppers, and other lands, parcel of the same manor.

Sir John Heigham, in the thirtieth year of Queen Elizabeth, settled Little Southwood Park upon Thomas Heigham, his second son. In 1619,' Sir Martin Stuteville, to whom, jointly with Edward Lukener, then deceased, the whole of Southwood Park had been granted by King James's patent, released his interest in Little Southwood Park to Sir John Croftes, who had purchased it in the sixteenth year of the same reign, from Martin Nunn and George Nunn, gentlemen, who derived their title from the Heigham family.
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Thomas married Anne Whitney. (Anne Whitney was born in 1548 in Essex, England and died on 28 Jul 1608 in Dalham, Suffolk, England.)