4Mary Cholmondley was involved in a forty years law suit with her father's brother George Holford of Narborough over the estate.  Lady Mary Cholmondley bought Vale Royal.   James I visited, holding court at Vale Royal for three days, dubbing Mary the "bolde lady of Cheshire."   Eventually there was a division of land; Mary Cholmondley had the manor of Holford and George Holford the manor of Iscoit bordering Flintshire.  Further division took place later with one part of Plumley divided between the Mainwarings and the Leicesters.  The manors of Plumley and Holford were purchased in 1791 by Thomas Langford Brooke, Esq., of Mere from Thomas Asherton Smith, Esq., to whose grandfather Thomas Asherton they were given.