^{page 146 note *} The Countess Gundreda was the second wife of Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, who died, according to Dugdale, in 1177, and by whom she had a son William. (Plac. Abbrev. 9 Reg. Johan. rot. 7, in dorso. Rot. Cur. Reg. 1 Johan. 2 tom. 184.) This lady, about the year 1188 (Charta Reg. Hen. II. apud Gedington, Dugd. Mon. vol. iv. p. 338), founded the priory of Bungay, which she endowed with the lands of her frank marriage, of the inheritance, apparently, of Hugh Bardolf, whose ancestors and the Bigots would seem to have acquired the demesnes which Earl Hugh and Archbishop Stigand held in Bungay at the time of the Domesday Survey. (Plac. Abbrev. 2 Reg. Johan. rot. 3. in dorso; Rot. Cur. Reg. 1 Johan. 2 tom. 253.)

^{page 147 note *} This roll is endorsed, in error, Plac. 10 Regis Johannis, and Dodsworth, in his Collections, has a minute of it under that date. In the 1st King John, Geoffrey de Lodnes and Alice his wife obtained a writ of warranty against Robert de Crec. Rot. Cur. 1 Reg. Johan. vol. ii. p. 100.

^{page 147 note †} By a charter in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., Bartholomew de Crec, son of Robert de Crec, confirmed to his eldest son, Robert, the manor of Crec; willing, if he died without issue, that the same should go to Geoffrey his son by Margaret his wife, daughter of Geoffrey de Anes. On the seal affixed is a winged figure of Victory, apparently the impression of a gem, inscribed with the name of Bartholomew de Crec.