Excerpt from Additions to the History of the Swynnertons: Printed in Vol. VII, "Staffordshire Collections"
Reasons for these statements will be given early in the following pages, from which it will be seen that the estate of Little Sugnall, however acquired, and that that of Dorslow, remained with his direct descendants during the whole of the thirteenth century and beyond.
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