STAPLEY. Stapley Is a township In Cheshire, where an ancient family of this name resided at an early period. The Stapleys of Sussex, extinct baronets, claimed descent from them, but it is more prolmble that they were indigenous to the southern county, where, in the neighbourhood of Battel (and near the hundred of Staple) a family of Staplehithe are found in the XIV. and XV. centuries.

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