| AdminHistory | Bears an endorsement that it was found by John Phillips in 1805 'in looking over one of the bundles of the title deeds in the Kington box'. Kington is an adjoining parish to Dormston and the manor belonged to the Vernon family of Hanbury Hall. This property came to Phillips in 1804 in right of his wife, the former Emma Vernon, heiress, who was famously divorced from Henry Cecil (later Marquess of Exeter) and had married Phillips, a solicitor, as her third husband in 1795.
The map was seen by the Worcestershire antiquary Peter Prattinton in 1826 when he copied it into his notes with the following caption 'Reduced from a very rude old map amongst the Kington title deeds at Hanbury Hall'. It had evidently been removed from the Hanbury Hall archive before it was donated to the Record Office in the 1970s. |