https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1900s/Vol_6/Suckling.pdf
SOME NOTES ON THE MANOR OF STANBRIDGE EARLS IN THE PARISH OF ROMSEY EXTRA.
BY MRS. SUCKLING.
Amoung the ancient manors for which the county of Hampshire is deservedly renowned few exceed in' historic interest that of Stanbridge, or Stanbrigge, once the seat and later the
reputed burial-place of Ethelwulf, King of the West Saxons.

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These bare facts of a most romantic and interesting family history, teeming as it
does with dramatic incident, must suffice for this chronicle of
the 168 years of the Fifield tenure of Stanbridge, which now
passed into the hands of Mr. W. E. S. Nightingale,
who in 1874 left it to his daughter Frances, wife of Sir Harry Verney Bart.,
of Claydon, a lady deeply interested in -the preservation of Stanbridge and its antiquities. But the old order changes and gives place to new—Embly itself has passed from the
Nightingales, the last Fifield heir has emigrated to. New
Zealand, the Hampshire Gollops are extinct, the Kirkebys are
no longer represented in the county in which they so long
flourished, and the Mortimers,.Earls of March, who gave their
riame to the manor at the Stone Bridge, are long since merged
in the house of Plantagent which is now represented by our
Sovereign Lord Edward the Seventh' Defender of the Faith
and King of Greater Britain.