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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Drayton Manor was
a British stately home at Drayton Bassett, in the District of Lichfield,
Staffordshire, England. The manor of Drayton was owned from the time of
the Norman Conquest by the Bassett family, until in the 13th century,
the male line failed and Margaret Bassett heiress to the estate married
Edmund Lord Stafford. The estate remained in the ownership of the Earl
of Stafford until the attainder and execution of the Duke of Buckingham
( the 7th Earl) in 1483, when it passed to the Crown. Thereafter several
owners included the Earl of Leicester and from about 1600, the Earl of
Essex.
