When Alice Pantulf died, her daughter Cecilia succeeded to High Hatton. It was in Cecilia's right that her second husband, Baldwin de Hodnet, was seized of High Hatton, when he suffered his second forfeiture for rebellion against King John. This forfeiture commenced in 1215 and lasted till November 1217. During the interval, William de Stanton had possessed himself of High Hatton, but was ejected by Baldwin de Hodnet, as soon as the latter obtained his pardon. At the Assizes of 1221, William de Staundon sued Baldwin de Hodnet and Cecilia his wife, for novel disseizin, "they having ejected him from his tenement in Hatton". Baldwin appeared and produced the King's Writ ordering his restoration to all his lands, and in particular, "to the dower, late Alice Pantulf's, whose daughter and heir, Cecily, was Baldwin's wife". Under this Writ he had seizin of Hatton. 1
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19 Feb 1225, Staffordshire
Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to cause Thomas Corbet to have full seisin without delay of the manor of King's Bromley with appurtenances, which Cecilia of Hadley, whose heir is the same Thomas, held of the king in chief by £4, as the king has learned by the inquisition that the sheriff took by his order, having accepted security from him for rendering £4 to the king for his relief. Before the justiciar and the bishop of Bath.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 9 Hen. III, 102
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