I Shaw del Ravenhill Scuita CLIFTON CAMVILE CHURCH, STAFFORDSHIRE Published as the Act directs, Feb 1, 1790, by I. Robson, Bond Street &&. TOPOGRAPHER, NUM B. X. FOR JANUARY, 1790. Being No. I. of VOL. II. ART. I. Hiftory of Clifton Camville, Staffordshire. CLIFTON CAMVILLE, a manor filling up the most eastern angle of the county of Stafford, (the point of which angle has been commonly fuppofed to meet the western point of Leicestershire, in the center of a crofs, dug, antiently no doubt, in the turf of a small wafte, call'd No-man's Heath, but appears much more probably to be feparated from the laft county by an interval of about half a mile;) was held, according to Erdfwic before the Conqueft, by Earl Algar, and in 20th of the Conqueror, by the King. In 9th E. II. (the date of the record call'd Nomina Villarum,) he fays Sir William Camvile was Lord thereof, and that it had then been the feat of the Camviles for many defcents. Burton, (Leicestershire in Newton-Burdett) gives, incorrectly, those descents for 5 generations preceding William: but Dugdale feems to correct that account in a manner to be depended on, citing all along his authorities as ufual. None of the three authors fay when or how Clifton first came to the family of Camvill, Camvile, or Caumpvyle, (for it is written in these and various other ways:) but it appears to have been poffeffed by Gef. frey, eldest son of William Camvill, by Albreda, daughter and heir of Geffrey Marmion, (which Albreda, who was married in or before 11th John, brought to the Camvills great part, her huf • Warwickshire 1730, p. 845. band |