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Hallon became the focus of a bitter legal wrangle, lasting over several decades, the origin of which is recounted by
Randall, the historian of Worfield, with some apologies for straying into the "region of tradition, but tradition fortified by facts." Joyce Leighton remarried after the death of
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Leighton was a powerful force politically in Shropshire during the 1580s. He was a member of the Council in the Marches and became
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the council, and his family were among the foremost gentry families in a gentry-dominated county, he would have had little difficulty inserting his son into a county seat. Francis took the second seat, deferring in
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mentioned again by name in the records, so it is likely his studies were intended to give him the legal foundation useful to his future position as a significant landowner in
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Francis Bromley and Joyce Leighton had two children:
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