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| | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |
 | | The Throckmorton family, minor gentry from Throckmorton and Fladbury in Worcestershire, acquired property in Coughton, near Alcester, in the early fifteenth century. |
 | | The earliest (from 1317) tend to relate to the family's ancestral estates in Worcestershire, though the great majority (nearly 500) are of sixteenth-century date and later. |
 | | Of the 1,500 court rolls, the most notable runs are for Coughton itself, 1484-1731 (53 documents), Sambourne, 1472-1849 (56 documents), Spernall, 1619-1731 (45 documents), Buckland, in Berkshire, 1245-1757 (80 documents), Weston Underwood, in Buckinghamshire, 1295-1754 (62 documents), and, the finest, Chaddesley Corbett, in Worcestershire, 1338-1829 (125 documents). |
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