No mention of it is in Dugdale's Monasticon, and it was probably only a grange; but it still owns some very fine old trees, the bordering copses are full of violets, and the rare lathyrus Nissolia has been found there.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Several monarchs have also had names given them in mockery, as Antigonus was called Doson, and Ptolemy, lathyrus.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
For Cleopatra the queen was at variance with her son Ptolemy, who is called lathyrus, and appointed as her generals Chelcias and Ananias, the son of that Onias who built the temple in the province of Heliopolis similar to that of Jerusalem.
"The Makers and Teachers of Judaism"
Charles Foster Kent