Sir Edmund de Soterley of Soterley, Knight. Pardon granted to Edmond de Soterley for acquiring in fee without license from Sir Robert de Soterley, Knight, 2 tofts (sites for a dwelling house) and 4 carucates of land in Stoke and Harthe in Worral, County Suffolk, held in chief, with restitution of the same 2-Dec-1311. Edmund de Soterley, Lord of the Villa of Soterley, was on Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk in 1327 and paid 6 shillings and 7 pence tax. Commission of Oyer and Terminger on 4-Feb-1328 to Robert Banyard, John Claver, Thomas de Reppes and Thomas de Birston on complaint of John de Howeworth that Edmund de Soterley, Riginald de Welyngton, Thomas Guage, Wm. de Dellyrige, and Clarice, his wife & Peter Ie Bone, Robert, Howeworth, Norfolk, By fine of one mark because he is so poor. 1-Aug-1332, commission of Oyer and Terminer issued to Roger de Kordeston, Thomas Bacon and Thomas Reppes on complaint of Katherine, the wife of the late Robert Fitz Auburn, that Edmund de Soterley, Knight, Edmund his son, Roger le of Soterley and John Elliott of Soterley, did, at Soterley, brake in pieces a cart of his, worth 20 shillings, killed 3 horses, carried away his goods & assaulted his servants; by a fine of one mark. In the Red Book of Fees for the Exchequer (treasury) in the Court of Chester there are 82 Fees, or holdings, in the Court of Chester there are 82 Fees, or holdings, in the County of Ehester according to the Inquistion (fact finding) made by Alan le Zouche when Justice among others; Edmond de Soterley, 1 fee, 18-Mar-l338. Sir Edmund was a Knight of the Shire, of Edward III (1331-1333). His wife Joan had two sons: 1. Sir Roger, 1344, no issue. 2. Sir Edmund.
