It is probable that Hamo Peverel's illegitimate daughter, Seburga, had some feoffment in Cherrington, which was in due course inherited by Alan de Hadley, her son and heir. Alan de Hadley is said to have given a hide in Cherinton to Wombridge Priory. It is observable that Henry II.'s confirmation to that House, passing in the Autumn of 1181, mentions Alan de Hadley's grant in Cherinton to have been of a forndell (i.e. a virgate) only;- and that Alan de Hadley's own Deed, already set forth, uses the same expression;- but that Pope Urban's Bull of 1187 confirms the grant as that of a whole hide, and attributes it to William de Hadley and his son and heir, Alan, jointly. This would make it part of the original foundation of Wombridge Priory, and so early as the close of Henry I.'s reign. 1
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Between 1175 and 1180, Alan de Hadley, William de Ercalew, and Pagan de Hadley (three brothers I think) attest a Charter already given under Tibberton.
In the same interval Alan de Hadley's grant to Wombridge is attested by William de Ercalew and Payn his brother.
About 1188, William de Hedlega attests a Charter of Walter de Dunstanvill (I.) ; and about the same time Alan de Hadley is followed by William de Ercalou in a Pimley Deed. 2
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Alan de Hedley had from King Henry II. a grant of the Staffordshire Manor of Bromley Regis. The Grant seems to have been in fee-farm, at an annual rent of £4. per annum, and by service of one tenth part of a knight's-fee. The King also appears to have retained his right to assess tallages in Bromley.
In the year 1195, the Custos of the King's Escheats in Staffordshire accounts 7s. 1d. for the issues or ferm of Bromley during such time as it had been in the King's hand. The inference from this is that Alan de Hadley had died between Michaelmas 1193 and Michaelmas 1195 (for these Escheators' accounts have a retrospect of two years); and that Bromley had remained an escheat for little more than a month. Subsequently we know that it was handed over to Roger Corbet of Tasley, as husband of Cecilia, daughter and sole heir of Alan de Hadley. On independent grounds I should fix on the year 1194 as that of Alan de Hadley's death and Roger Corbet's succession to Hadley. 3
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