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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)”Henry married Alice Cornwall, whose second husband Thomas Charlton had the manor in 1397, apparently during the minority of Thomas, Henry and Alice's son”