_Sydenham or Tidenham._--I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the
inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being
_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester,
was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this
parish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_
itself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it.
These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets,
were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap.
26. § 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly
circumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of
Westbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a
part.