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To entice you into following up on this article I leave you with three sentences from the description of the manor of South Weald in Essex (VCH Essex, Volume VIII, 1983, page 80). Each of the facts is footnoted to a document in the Essex Record Office.

"Scroggs (d. 1683) was succeeded by his son William who in 1685 sold the South Weald estate to Erasmus Smith or Heriz (d. 1691), a Turkey merchant. The estate passed in succession to Smith's sons Erasmus (d. 1707), Samuel (d. 1732), and Hugh (d. 1745). Hugh's heirs were his daughters, Dorothy, wife of John Smith Barry and Lucy, wife of James Smith Stanley, Lord Strange, who in 1752 together sold the estate to Thomas Tower of Iver (Bucks.)."