Timeline item 07: 1628 - The first Duke of Buckingham buys the estate. Oliver Cromwell seizes it but it is returned to the second Duke on the restoration of Charles II
Timeline item 21: c1957 - Major Blount, C J Phillips's nephew and heir, vacates the hall. The estate is divided into lots and sold, thus ending 780 years of the Manor of Old Dalby
Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (John Nichols, 1800) Vol. III pt. 1: East Goscote Hundred, pp. 242-258, describing Dalby on the Woulds (Old Dalby)