page ii note * The dwelling of Henry Fitz Aylwin, the first Mayor of London, a very fair house, stood on the north side of the Church of St. Swithin and churchyard, and the advowson was appropriated to the mansion, as appears from an inquest taken after the death of Robert Aguylon, his descendant, hereafter cited. This Church of St. Swithin was situate at the south-west corner of St. Swithin's-lane, over against London Stone, in Candlewickstreet, but in Walbrook ward, and from the situation thereof hath been called St. Swithin in Candlewick-street, but more frequently of late St. Swithin London-Stone. At the present time this street goes under the name of Cannon-street. Hence the appellation given to Henry Fitz Aylwin, as being of London Stone, in the Chronicle.

page xxxii note * Herman, Comte of Ribourg, was deceased without issue at the time when Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was Emperor of Germany, who bestowed his succession upon Peter, Comte of Savoy, as to all which was held of the Empire. The election of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was assented to by him on the feast of the Holy Innocents, 28th Dec. 1256, in the chapel of St. Stephen in Westminster before the King and his council, and in the following year Margaret de Savoy was married to Baldwin, Earl of Devon and of the Isle. The words of Matthew Paris are as follows: “Baldewinus de Ripariis, Domina Regina procurante, quandam alienigenam ducit in uxorem, Sabaudiensem, ipsius Region consanguineam. Ad ipsura vero Balduinum spectat Comitatus Devoniæ; et sic diatim devolvuntur nobiles possessiones et hæreditates Anglicanæ ad alienigenas. Quod scire nolunt vel dissimulant Anglici pusillanimes; quorum ignavam et supinam simplicitatem Wallensis strenuitas reprehendit.” In the following year Thomas, Comte of Flanders, came to England, according to the same historian: “Ad quindenam vero Paschte, venit Thomas comes quondam Flandriæ, Londoniis, inftrmus vectus in lectica, liberatus a careers Taurinensium, pro qua liberatione mercatores Astenses multa pecunia sunt redempti. Rex enim Francorum, ad petitionem Papæ, multos eorum cepit et ad redemptionem coarctavit; donee dictus Thomas liber in Angliam rediret, adubera munera reoepturus.” Thomas, Comte of Flanders in right of his wife Joan, was second son of Thomas, Comte of Savoy, who died 20th Jan. 1233, and brother of Margaret, Countess of Devon. His decease in England is assigned to the next year (1259) by this contemporary historian.

page xxxii note † Baldwin de Reviers, the last Earl of Devon of this family, was born 1st Jan. 1235, according to the Book of Tewkesbury, “Amicia, filia Gilberti comitis de Clare, peperit filium Baldwino de Ripariis dum adhuc esset in custodia, in nocte Circumcisionis Domini, nomine Baldwinum; “as also two daughters, Isabella, born a°.1237, wife of William de Fortibus, Comte of Aumale, and Margaret, a nun at Lacock. This son, husband of Margaret, whom Brooke and Cleaveland and the editors of L'Art de Verifier les Dates wrongly name Avicia, died in 1262, according to the chronicles of Gloucester, Baldwinus de Insnla, Comes Devonie, nepos Richardi, Comitis Gloucestriæ, obiit. The writs of Diem clausit extremum to William de Weylond, escheator of the King citra Trentam, are dated apud Turrim Londoniarum xiii die Julii, anno regni nostri xlvii, 13th July, 1263, but the inquisitions are of earlier date. The jury in the county of Devon found that he held Plympton with the appurtenances, and that it wag worth lx li. per annum in all issues, with Honiton, Columpton, Bickleigh, Buckland, and Walkhampton, with their appurtenances, which were worth yearly xx^xx li. held of the Lord the King in capite, but they knew not by what service, and that his nearest heir was Isabella, Countess of Aumale, after the decease of the son of the same Baldwin. The jury in the county of Surrey found that Baldwin de Insula, late Earl of Devon, held on the day he died of the Lord the King in capite in that county the manor of South Lambeth, with its members, Streatham and Mitcham, worth in all issues xx li. xviis. vi d., and they say that Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Aumale, is the nearest heir of the said Baldwin de Insula, and is of the age of twenty-five year, which inquisition was taken on the morrow of Palm Sunday, 47th Henry III. 26th March, 1263. Also the jurors of Hertfordshire for the manor of Sawbridgeworth say that his sister was of the age of twenty-four years or more. The name of this son was John, who died in his infancy in France. Baldwin of the Isle, the last Earl of Devon of this line, had interment at Bromere, an Austin priory, com. Hants.

page xxxiv note * The surname de Fortibus was derived from Fors, a commune of the canton of Prahecq, arrondissement of Niort, departement of Deux Se`vres, in Poitou, as is evident from the following charter, copied in the register of Philip Augustus, at the Bibliothèque du Roi, Paris, No. 8408:—

”Ego Alicia, Comitissa Augi, notum facio universis presentes litteras inspecturis, quod ego terram de Forz, quam habebam in pignore pro centum et quadragintis marcis argenti, de quibus me teneo pro pagata, dimisi in manu karissimi domini mei Ludovici Regis Francie illustris, ad cujus manus devenerat ex exchaeta Guillelmi, quondam domini de Forz et Comitis Aubemarle. In cujus,” etc. Actum Parisiis, anno Domini Mo, CC°. xxx° tercio, mense Februarii.

page xxxvi note * The same error is also to be found in the historical narrative at p. 204 of the Appendix to this volume.

page xxxviii note * The charter here referred to is entered on the Roll of Charters of the 32d year of Henry III., 1248, in these words:—”H(enricus) Rex, &c Archiepiscopis, &c salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto Agujllun quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warrennam in omnibus dominicis terris suis maneriorum suorum de Watton et de Adyntona et de Percinges, ita quod nullus intret terras illas ad fugandum in eis vel ad aliquid capiendum quod ad warennam pertineat sine licencia et voluntate ipsius Roberti et heredum suorum super forisfacturam nostram x librarum. Concessimus etiam et hac eadem carta nostra confirnuimis predicto Roberto, quod ipse et heredes sui inperpetuum habeant unam feriam apud predictum manerium suum de Watton singulis annis duraturam per tres dies, videlicet, in vigilia, in die, et in crastino Nativitatis Beate Marie, nisi feria ilia sit ad nocumentum vicinarum feriarum. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod predicti Robertus et heredes sui imperpetuum, &c Hiis testibus, W(altero) Norwicensi episcopo, R(ogero) le Bigod comite Norfolcie et marescallp Anglie, Roberto Passelewe archidiacono Lewensi, Rogero de Thurkelby, Johanna de Lessinton, Paulino Peyvre, Roberto le Noreys, Willelmo Gernun et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Bliburgam xxix die Marcii. (Blythburg, com. Suff.)”

page xxxviii note * The charter here referred to is entered on the Roll of Charters of the 32d year of Henry III., 1248, in these words:—”H(enricus) Rex, &c Archiepiscopis, &c salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto Agujllun quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warrennam in omnibus dominicis terris suis maneriorum suorum de Watton et de Adyntona et de Percinges, ita quod nullus intret terras illas ad fugandum in eis vel ad aliquid capiendum quod ad warennam pertineat sine licencia et voluntate ipsius Roberti et heredum suorum super forisfacturam nostram x librarum. Concessimus etiam et hac eadem carta nostra confirnuimis predicto Roberto, quod ipse et heredes sui inperpetuum habeant unam feriam apud predictum manerium suum de Watton singulis annis duraturam per tres dies, videlicet, in vigilia, in die, et in crastino Nativitatis Beate Marie, nisi feria ilia sit ad nocumentum vicinarum feriarum. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod predicti Robertus et heredes sui imperpetuum, &c Hiis testibus, W(altero) Norwicensi episcopo, R(ogero) le Bigod comite Norfolcie et marescallp Anglie, Roberto Passelewe archidiacono Lewensi, Rogero de Thurkelby, Johanna de Lessinton, Paulino Peyvre, Roberto le Noreys, Willelmo Gernun et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Bliburgam xxix die Marcii. (Blythburg, com. Suff.)”

page xl note * The grant under which Robert Aguylon put forth his claim had been made to bisfether, William Aguylon, in these terms, according to an entry on the roll of Charters of the 15th year of Henry III. 1231, under the heading Pro Willelmo Aguillun. Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie, &c salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra eonflrmasse Willelmo Agollun terrain que fait Roberti de Curcy in Emeleworth et Warblinton cum redditibus et homagiis, et quam predictus Willelmus prius tenuit de balliva Johannis Regis, etc. habendam et tenendam de nobis et heredibus nostris sibi et heredibus suis, quousque terram illam reddimus reotis heredibus ejusdem terre per voluntatem nostram vel per pacem nostram, reddendo inde nobis et heredibus nostris ipse et heredes sui singulis annis ad Pascham unum par calcarium deauratarum pro omni servicio, et si forte terram illam reddiderimus reotis heredibus, sicut predictum est, nos vel heredes nostri feciemus eidem Willelmo vel heredibus suis rationabile excambium in wardis vel escaetis ad valorem ejusdem terre. Quare volumus, etc. pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod predictus Willelmus et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant et teneant predictam terram cum omnibus pertinentiis suis tarn in redditibus quam in homagiis, bene et in pace, libere, quiete, et integre, faciendo predictum servicium, sicut predictum est. Hiis testibus, H(uberto) de Burgo etc. Godefrido de Craucumbe, Johanne fllio Philippi, Emerico de Sacy, Henrico de Capella, Radulfo Marescallo et aliis. Datum per manum venerabilis patris R(adulfi) Cicestrensis Episcopi canoellarii nostri, apud Windesoram xxx. die Junii. Robert de Courcy was Baron of Courcy in Normandy, now a commune of the canton of Coulibtsuf, arrondissement de Falaise, departement du Calvados, and with other Normans withdrew his allegiance from King John, and transferred it to the Conqueror of his sovereign, King Philip Augustus. Warblington is a parish in the hundred of Bosmere, division of Portsdown, and Emsworth is a hamlet in the same parish. He had also a manor in the parish of Bilsington, in the hundred of New Church, lathe of Shepway, com. Kent, together with lands in Snargate, a parish in the hundred of Langport, which were also escheats of the Normans. Upon the forfeiture of Robert de Courcy his manor of Bilsington was committed to Henry de Sandwich by Letter Close of King John, dated at Winchester 30th Sept. 1204, and addressed to the sheriff of Kent. He held it up to 18th October, 1207, when the King gave the custody of it during pleasure to William, Earl of Arundel, and it continued in his descendants down to Hugh, last Karl of Arundel of the line of Albini. Hasted, in his account of this manor, which was held by the serjeanty of being Chief Butler to the King at his coronation, totally omits all notice of the tenure of Robert de Courcy, and falsely ascribes its acquisition to William de Albini in the reign of Henry I.

page xlii note * Pro Roberto Aguillon. Rex Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, &c salutem. Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra eonfirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto Aguillun quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant unum mercatum singulis septimanis per diem lune apud manerium suum de Grreteham in comitatu Suhantonie et unam feriam ibidem singulis annis per tres dies duraturam videlicet in vigilia, in die, et in crastino Decollationis Sancti Johannis Baptiste, nisi etc. Hiis testibus, Waltero de Valencia fratre nostro, Johanne de Warenna comite Surreie, Hunfredo de Bohun comite Herefordie, Philippo Basset, Roberto Walerand, Willelmo de Wintreshull, Willelmo de Aete, Petro de Chaumpvent, Willelmo Belet, Radulfo de Bagepuz, Galfrido de Percy, Waltero de Burges, Rogero Stephade Wauton et aliia. Datum per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium xxviii die Maii (28th May, 1270).

page xliii note * Pro Roberto Aguillon. Rex Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, etc. salutem. Seiatis nos concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto Aguillon quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant liberam warrennan in omnibus dominicis terris suis de Bures in comitatu Suffolcie, dum tamen terre ille non sunt infra metas foreste nostre, ita quod nullus intret terras illas ad fugandum in eis vel ad aliquid capiendum quod ad Warrennam pertineat sine licencia et voluntate ipsius Roberti et heredum suorum super forisfacturam nostram x librarum. Concessimus etiam eidem Roberto quod ipse et heredes sui imperpetuum habeant unum mercatum apud predictum manerium suum de Bures singulis septimanis per diem Jovis et unam feriam ibidem singulis annis per tres dies duraturam, videlicet, in vigilia et in die et in crastino Sancti Michaelis, nisi mercatum illud et feria eto. Quare etc. Hiis testibus venerabile patre W(altero) Eboracensi archiepiscopo Anglie primate, G(odfrido) Wygorniensi et K(ogero) Lichfeldensi et Coventrensi episcopis, Gilberto de Clare comite Gloucestrie et Hertfordie, Johanne de Warrenna comite Surreie, Humfrido de Bohun comite Herefordie et Essexie, Rogero de Mortuomari, Rogero de Leyburn, Willelmo de Wyntreshull, Willelmo Belet, Petro de Chaumpvent, Rogero de Wauton, Gilberto filio Hugonis et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium xiii die Junii (13th June, 1271).

page xliv note * The account of Edburton parish in Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, vol. ii. p. 236, is extremely deficient, and he has neglected to cite the entry in Domesday relating to this parish. It is evident that this entry under Terra Willelmi de Warene in Poninges hundred is applicable to this parish: “Osuuardus tenet de Willelmo Berohinges. Ipse tenuit T. R. E. et potuit ire quo voluit. Tune et modo se defendebat pro iii hidis. Terra est ii carucarum et dimidie. In dominio est una, et ii villani et iiii bordarii cum una caruca, et dimidium molinum de xl denariis, et vii acre prati. Silva ii porcorum. In Leuues una haga et dimidia de Ix denariis. Valet et valuit xl solidos. In eadem villa tenet Tezelinus de Willelmo ii hidaa et pro tanto se defendit. In Trailgi jacuere, quam tenet Willelmus de Braiosa. Bellinc tenuit de Goduino comite. In dominio eat una caruca et iii villani et ii bordarii cum dimidia caruca. Dimidium molinum de xiii solidis et iiii denariis et iii acre prati. Silva ii porcorum. In Leues dimidia haga de ii denariis. Iadem Tezelinus tenet de Willelmo Fochinges. In Sepelei jacuit, quam tenet Willelmus de Braiosa. Heraldus tenuit T. R. E. Tune et modo se defendit pro iii hidis et una virgata, Villani vi ibi sunt cum ii carucis. He duce terre Tezelini insimul sunt. Valet et valuerunt semper 1 solidos. Willelmus de Wateville tenet Percinges. Azor tenuit de Rege E. et ii homines de Azor. Pro v hidis et dimidia ae defendit tune et modo. Tune fuerunt ii” Halite, modo in uno manerio. Terra est v carucarum et dimidie. In dominio est una, et iiii villani et iii bordarii cum una caruca. Ibi ii serri et iii acre prati. Silva iiii porcorum. De pastura vi denarii. T.R.E. valebat lx solidos et post xl solidos. Modo 1 solidos.” Under the heading Terra Willelmi de Braiosa, in Burbece Hundredo mention is made of Trailgi, the land of Earl Godwin in the tenure of Bedling, then held by William Miles of William de Braiosa, who had seven hides, which lay in Berts, which William de Warren had in his rape. Now Tezelinus was the predecessor of Bartholomew de Cheney in the manor of Addington, com. Surrey, and the manor of Perching was belonging to his daughter, and the heirs of Bartholomew de Cheney held the two hagse in Lewes; hence both will have been derived from this common ancestor. Truleigh, or Truly, is a hamlet of Edburton parish, and as it lay in the vill of Berchinges that place will be identical with the modern name of this parish. The church of Edburton, dedicated to St. Andrew, paid xl shillings pension to the prior of Lewes; and in the charter of William de Warren, the second Earl of Surrey, son of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and of Gundreda his wife, we read “ad Perching decimam Willelmi filii Techelini et Willelmi filii Alfinene et ad Folkinges decimam Godefridi de Bellomonte.” William, the son of Tezelin, the Domesday tenant in Berchinges, had therefore lands at Perching, and thus the identity is confirmed, as to its site in Edburton. The benefice is a rectory in the archdeaconry of Lewes and deanery of South Mailing, to which it was given by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1150, and paid a yearly pension of 6s. and “Hundredum de Ponyngg est JohannisComitis Warrenne, villata de Percynge est Isabelle Bardolf;” and Thomas Bardolf, her son, in the hundred of Burghbeche, belonging to William de Brewosa, as follows: “Villa de Edburton et Thrule est Willelmi de Northo, Hngonis de Hamme, Thome Bardolf.” From this valuable record it would seem that Perching and Polking were both in the Hundred of Poynings and Rape of Lewes, and that Edburton and Truleigh (Berchinges, Trailgi) were the vills in the Hundred of Burbeach and Rape of Bramber. Another hamlet of this parish has name Peathorne, or Pawthorne, and in Domesday of the land of William de Warene in the hundred of Poninges we read,” Trevenot tenet de “Willelmo Paveorne. Ipse tenuit de rege E. et potuit ire quolibet. Tuno se defendebat pro iiii hidis, modo pro una hida et dimidia, quia alise aunt in rapo Willelmi de Braiosa. Terra est i caruce et ibi est in dominio cum ii bordariis. In Leuues iii hags de xviii denariis. Valet et valuit xxx solidoa.” The land of William de Braiose in Burbeach hundred comprised the vills of Beeding, Erringham, Shoreham, Truly, Totington, together with eight hides which lay in Redmelle, which William de Warene holds in his rape, and seven hides which lay in Berts (Berchinges) which William had also- in his rape. In the Nomina Villarum those in the Hundred of Poynings are Percynge, Nytymber, Ponyngges, and Picoumbe; and in the hundred of Burbeach, Edburton et Thrule, Horton et Eringehain, Beding, and Old Shoreham. In the Nona returns this parish has the name of Edbourghton. The only church mentioned in Domesday is that of Poynings in the hundred of that name, and in Beeding in the hundred of Burbeach there were two churches; Radmell and Shipley are the other places named above. The chapel at Percyng is now destroyed.

page 2 note a The cartulary of the abbey of Abingdon, Cotton MSS. Claudius B. VI. which has a chronological statement of the several benefactions made to the abbey in the lives of each abbot, contains this notice of the gift of the church of Newnham in the time of the abbot Faricius, who was elected in 1100, and died 23 Feb. 1117 under the rubric De eceleua de Niweham.

Willelmus de Curceio, Regis dapifer, hunc plurimo excolere abbatem solebat amore. Hujus villa erat Niweham trans fluvium Tamesiin sita, ville vero que Culeham dicitur contermina, de qua in gestis Abbatis Athelelmi fit mentio. Idem itaque Regis dapifer ejusdem sue possessions eccleaiam cum terra, id est, una hida, et decimis sive cyreaceattis, reliquisque suis eonsuetudinibus abbati Faricio et monachis in Abbendonia perpetno dono conceasit preter duas portiones sue proprie decime in eadem villa. Hujus autem rei donation em cum sua conjuge altari sancte Marie imposuit atque coram his testibus confirmavit, Serlone Episcopo de Sais, Nigello Abbate de Burtona et multis aliis. Sees was the seat of the Bishop, in whose diocese the castle of Courey was situate, and Serlo, abbot of St. Evroult, had been consecrated bishop of that see on the 22nd June, 1091; the other witness wag the abbot of Burton-upon -Trent.

Under the rubric “De decima ejusdem ville “the narrative is thus continued: “Non multo post vero tempore predictus abbas cum eodem Willelmo de duabus suprascriptis porcionibus decime sermonem habuit, et de quadam piscatione, que Anglice nominator Sotiswere, quatinus et istam cum predicta donatione ecclesie Sancte Marie et sibi condonaret. De his quoque rebus, dum abbas se intromitteret apud eundem virum, per viginti marcas argenti finem fecit, ita ut ipse concessum cum litteris gigillatig Regis prefati (Henrici) de omnibus jam diotis donationibus requireret, et requisition Abbendouiam deferet, et die festivitatis Romani Rothomageosis arohiepiacppi (23 October) coram omni eonventu monaehorum et presentia horum laicorum super altare sancte Marie offerret, Willelmi Regis camerarii, Wini et multorum aliorum. Et misit ipse Willelmus dapiferum suum, Croisfredum, et saisavit inde ecclesiam et abbatem per Willelmum Cellerarium. Fiscationi adjacent xvii. acre telluris. Que tali ipse abbas decretione monasterii officinis locavit; capellam predicts ville cum rebus suis universis edituo. Duas vero decime dominii partes elemosinario. Piscariam cellerario impertiri curavit.”

Under the rubrio “Confirmatio Kogis Henrici” we read as follows: “Henricus Rex Anglorum Roberto epiacopo Lincolnie et Willelmo vicecomiti de Oxeneforda et omnibus baronibns Francis et Anglis de Oxenefordscira, salutem. Sciatia quod concedo Sancte Marie de Abbendona et monachis ejusdem loci perpetuo habendam ecclesiam de Neweham et terrain et decimam totem ipsius manerii, et alia que ad ipsam ecclesiam pertinent, et piscariam cam omnibus sibi pertinentibus, sicut Willelmus de Curci, dapifer meus, eis dedit et conceasit. Testibus Rannulfo Episcopo Dunelmensi et Rogero Bigod per Goiffredum Peccatum apud Corneberiam in die Sancti Luce Evangeliste (18 October.)

This royal concession is of earlier date than the battle of Tenchebray, fought on Saturday, the ere of St. Michael, 1107, when Robert, Duke of Normandy, was made prisoner by Waldric, the King's chaplain, qui militibus sociatus in certamine constitit, Chancellor of England in 1108, and afterwards ordained Bishop of Laon by Pope Paschal at Avignon in 1109, which diocese he held about three years, up to the 25th April, Friday in Easter week, 1112, when he was assassinated in the cloisters of his cathedral. Woodstock, Oombury and Which wood were the names of the demesne forests of the King in Oxford, shire at the time of the Survey in Domesday, and the park of Combury was doubtless the vicinity of Woodstock. Under the rubric “Carta Henrici Regis de diversis rebus quas abbas Faricius adquisivit,” we have again this recital: “Et ecclesiam de Niweham cum terra sibi pertinente et decimam ejusdem ville et nnam piscariam cum rebus sibi pertinentibus, sicut Willelmus de Curceio predicte ecclesie dedit in elemosina;” which charter has the signatures of King Henry, his Queen Mathildis, his son William, Ralph Archbishop of Canterbury, Turstan Archbishop of York, William Bishop of Winchester, William Bishop of Exeter, Theoldus Bishop of Worcester, Roger Abbot of Fecamp, and Rannulph Chancellor of King Henry, and not those printed by Dugdale in the Monasticon, vol. i. p. 106, though professed to be taken from this very manuscript, where we read of a Theobald Bishop of Winchester, a pure invention of that compiler. The date of this charter may be assigned to the year 1120, as Thurstan was only consecrated to his see at the Council of Rheims, held in October 1119, and the son of King Henry perished in the Blanche Nef 25th November of the year following.

The decease of William de Courey is mentioned by this chronicler in these words:— “Post mortem autem istius Willelmi, filius ejus Willelmus donationem patris sui taliter confirmavit,” which precede the rubric “Carta Willelmi junioris de Curceio de ecclesia de Niweham,” and is the charter produced before the jurors:—

”Ego Willelmus de Curceio reddo Deo et beate Marie et ecclesie de Abbendonia elemosinam, quam pater meus dedit predicte ecclesie, videlicet, ecclesiam de Niweham, et -unam hidam terre et omnem decimam de dominio meo et. tocius ville et unam piscariam cum omnibus sibi pertinentibus, et pasturam ccc ovium et octo bourn et x vaccarum in mea dominica pastura, et unum pratum qui vocatur Cumede, unde ego accrevi elemosinam patris mei, consilio et voluntate fratris mei, Robert!, et militum meorum. Et volo ut ecclesia predicta teneat ista in pace et quiete et libere et honorifice et ut nullus earn inquietet. Qui vero hanc redditionem vel donationem actu vel consilio violaverit, maledictionem Dei et ejusdem genetricis Marie sustineat. i Huic autem redditioni vel donation! Interfuerunt testes, Robertus de Curceio, Philippus Dapifer, Willelmus de Estuna, Hugo Walensis, Berengerus, Rotbertus presbyter, Godefridus presbyter, Willelmus Nepos, Rogerus de Lillebona, Ricardus filius Fulconis, Mainardus de Niweham.”

Emma de Falaise, his mother, was living in 1131, the date of the earliest Pipe Roll, where her name occura among the tenanfe of lands in Wiltshire to whom the King had remitted the amercements due for murders committed in the hundreds where their fief was situate. Mention of the county of Somerset is unfortunately omitted on this roll. The charter of her son is probably of the reign of Stephen, as the only one of the witnesses, Jiis knights, surviving in 1168, wag Berenger; who held half a knight's fief of William de Courey the Third, who, as well as his grandfather, was Dapifer Regis Anglie.: By his wife, Ctundredade Warren, he left an only son, underage 3 John, 2d May 1207r—22d May 1202, as appears by this entry on the Pipe Roll of that year:—” Wiltescira. Gundreda de Warrenna c marcas pro habenda custodia G(uillelmi) filii sui, sicut continetur in Rotulo precedenti.” He died without issue, and Alice de Courey was his sister and heir, as men* tioned in the text.

page lx note * Dugdale concludes his biography of Falcasius de Breaute, misprinted Breast, with a remark that he had a daughter called Eve, second wife to Lewleyn ap Jorworth Prince of North Wales, citing in the margin, History of Cambria, by David Powell, p. 315. The edition of that work, 1774, concludes the life of Lhewelyn ap Jorwerth, deceased in 1240, in these words: “he bad issue by his only wife Joan, daughter to King John of England, one son called David, who afterwards succeeded in the Principality of Wales; and a daughter named Gladys, who was married to Sir Ralph Mortimer.” Hence, if taken from some older edition, that writer taw reason to discredit the. fiction in the one of later date.

page lxi note * In the Roll of Arms compiled in the reign of Henry III., MCCXL—HCCXLV, we read, “Robert Agulon porte de goules ov ung fleur de lis argent,” and “John de Nevill le Forrestier d'or ung bende de gules, croiselles noire.” In the 51st year of Henry III., 1267, Robert Agulon exercised the office of Sheriff for the counties Of Sussex and Surrey for three parts of that year and for the first quarter of the following year, being also governor of Guildford castle. By Letter Patent, dated at Reading, 5th October, 1267, King Henry III. granted to Robert Agulon the land which had been that of William Mannion, situate at Berwick, a parish in the hundred of Long-bridge, rape of Pevensey, com.Sussex; and in the same Roll of Letters Patent in which this grant is entered is also an inspeximus of a charter of Hugh de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle, com. Hereford, demising to Robert Agulon the annual rent of 12 li., which William Marmion, son of Robert Marmion, used to render to him out of his lands in Wygeton and Berwic, having these witnesses, Sir John de Lynde, Robert de Brewes, William de Faukesham, Henry de Ponyngs,, Hugh Bony, Robert de Kokefield, Robert Peake, Walter Perfyngs, Peter do Nevill, William de Wyntrinton, William le Covert, and others. William Marmion had forfeited this manor of Berwick by reason of his adherence to the revolted barons, but it was eventually restored to his son and heir, John Marmion.

page lxii note a Bicker is a parish in the hundred of Kirton, parts of Holland, Lincolnshire, lying between Boston and Folkingham, and it was doubtless whilst lurking in one of its dykea that Hugh de Nevill, on seeing the approach of the royal forces, came forth and threw himself upon the mercy of the King. On the same Patent Roll is also this letter of the King on his behalf, given on the same day as this dictum, after the King's return from the siege of Kenilworth to Warwick, which castle only surrendered on the feast of St. Martin, 11th Nov. following:—

“Rex omnibus ballivjs et fidelibus suis &c salutem. Sciatis quod perdonavimus Hugoni de Nevilla tranBgressionem, quam fecit frangendo prisonam nostram de Norwyco et ab ipsam evadendo, et eciam utlagariam, si qua in ipsum ea occasione promulgate fuerit, et firmam pacem nostram ei inde concessimus. In cujus rei &c Teste R(ege) apud Warrewicum xxiiii die Junii.”

page lxiii note a Wakering, a parish - in the hundred of Rochford, com. Essex, distinguished from another of the same name by the epithet Magna, Anglicè Much Wakering, was of the inheritance of Henry de Cornhulle, fether of Joan, the wife of Hugh de Nevill, the Forester, as we learn from an entry in the Testa de Nevill, under Hundredum de Rochford. “Wakeringa est in manu Hugonia de Neovilla per dominum regem cum filia Henrici de Cornhulle, et tenetur per serricium unius militia, et valet xl li. cum stauro.” Weathersfield, a parish in the hundred of Hinkford, in the same county, wag of the inheritance of the family de Courcy, as we learn from this entry on the Rotulus de Pominabus, pneru et puellis de Essex, in 1185, 31 Hen. II. under Hundredum de Henigforde. “Willelmus fllius Willelroi de Curci est in custodia Domini Regis, et per eum in custodia Roberti le Poher, et est xx annorum. Werefeld, terra sua, valet per annum xx libris, et dictus Robertus habuit custodiam jam xv annis.” By his wife Gundreda de Warren this William de Courcy was father of a son of the same name, in ward of his mother as late as 3 John, 1201–2, who is among the debtors to the crown in Wiltshire on the Pipe Roll of that year in 100 marks for having the custody of William her son, who died without issue, and of Alice, wife, first of Henry de Cornhulle, and secondly of Warine Fitzgerold.

page lxiv note * Radway is a hamlet in the parish of Cannington, which, with Week, a hamlet, in the parish of Stoke-curcy, were members of the Honour. The hundred of Cannington was given by King Henry III. to the elder Hugh de Neville. The church and manor of Cannington had been made parcel of the endowment of a nunnery, established there by Robert de Courcy in the reign of Stephen. West Harnham is a chapelry in the parish of Combe Biaset, in the hundred of Cawdon and Cadworth, com. Wilts, and is mentioned in the Testa de Nevill under the heading Feoda Johannis de Nevill, in that county. “Waltarus de Lillebon unum feodum in Myddelton; Willelmns Gerbert unum feodum in Odestok; Johannes de Nevilla unum feodum in Harreham de Honore de Stokecurci.” Odstook ia ? parish in the same hundred, and Milton Lilbourn a parish in that of Kinwardstone. In 1168 Robert Oerbert held one knight's fief of William de Curci, the steward, of the old feofment, and of the new feofment by his father Walter de Lillebone held one knight's fief. Michael de Spichwio was then a tenant of the barony of Mesehines, then belonging to his mother Avicia de Romeilli. Michael de Spichewyk died seized of the manor of Spicheswioke, in the county of Devon, owing suit of court to the manor of Stokecurcy, in 33 Edw. I. (Esch. 83 Edw. I. n. 42.) Philip de Columbers, in 45 Hen. III., died seized of one knight's fief in Honibere, held of Hugh de Nevill, and worth yearly 10 li., leaving Philip his son and heir, aged 33 years, the person named. Honibere is a tything of the now parish of Lilstock, formerly a chapelry to Stoke-curcy.

page lxv note * Arnhale, Arnall, otherwise Arnold, is a parish in the hundred of Broxtow, com. Nottingham, and by charter, dated at Winchester, 4 May, 1204, King John gave to Hugh de Nevill his manor of Ernhale, with all the soke and all its appurtenances, and with the advowson of the church, to hold of him and his heirs in feefarm, rendering therefrom annually ten pounds by tale, payable at the Exchequer of London; namely, at the Exchequer of St. Michael, and doing the service of the fourth part of the fief of one knight for all service and demand in that behalf. After the death of Hugh de Nevill it was held by Herbert de Nevill, a younger son, by the concession probably of his elder brother, John de Nevill, whom he survived. In the Testa de Nevill is this entry: “Herbertus de Nevill tenet totam villam de Arnhall et quartern partem ville de Wudeburg, pro quibus reddit per annum x libras.” The following Letter Patent, on the Roll of the nineteenth year of Henry the Third, fully establishes this seizin in contradiction to Thoroton, who supposed that Herbert was a misprint for Hugo. “Rex liberis hominibus tenentibus terras de Herberto de Nevilla in Arnhale et in soka, salutem. Rogamus vos quatinus prefato Herberto domino vestro, qui auxilio nostro indiget ad se sustentandum in servicio nostro et ad debita sua acquietanda, rationabile auxilium benignius impendatis, ita quod eundem dominum vestrum in hiis, que penes ipsum habebitis expedienda, promptiorem et benigniorem invenire merito debebatis, nosque devotionem vest ram, quam erga dominum vestrum geritis memoratum, habere debebamus ob hoe merito commendatam. T(este) R(ege) apud Windaoram vii° die Junii.” Woodborough is a parish adjoining Arnall, but in a different hundred, that of Thurgarton, concerning which we have these entries. “In Wudeburg est una bavata terre de dominico Regis de Arnhal, quam Hugo de Nevill tenet infra firmani de Arnhal de dono domiui Regis Johannis, qui respondet de xxviii s. x d. In Oxton est una parva bovata terre, que perficit illam magnum bovatam de Wudeburg, et debit respondere ad Hernhal.” Oxton is in the same hundred, and there were two bovates in Strelley, anciently of the soke of Arnall, rendering iii s., and other two in Broxtow by the same service of the same soke, and one bovate in Bilborough, rendering vii d. to the soke of Arnall. Strelley and Bilborough are parishes, but Broxtow, which gave name to the hundred, was only a chapelry in the last-named parish. The statement of Thoroton that Hugh de Nevill held a fourth part of a knight's fee in Arnall, which Hugh de Nevill, his father, held, citing Testa de Nevill, is utterly false, as there is no such sevenentry, and Hugh de Nevill had no son of that name. On the Pine Roll, 80 Hen. III., 1246, is also an entry, pro Herberto de Nevill, in these words: “Quia constitit Regi quod Johannes de Nevill in vita sua legavit Herberto de Nevill custodiam terre et heredum Willelmi de Nevilla, que fuit in manu ipsius Johannis, habendam et tenendam usque ad legittimam etatem ipsorum heredum una cum maritagio eorumdem, mandatum est Henrico deWingham etCoeseatori suo in eomitatu Surreie, quod de custodia predictorum terre et heredum eidem Herberto plenam seisinam habere faciant cum omnibus eatallia et proficuis in predieta terra inventis, quando illain capi fecerunt in manum Regis. Teste Rege apud Wudestokam xxviii die Augusti.” William de Nevill was probably another brother, who held land in Ox9tead, a parish in the hundred of Tandridge, com. Surrey, of the inheritance of his mother, Joan de Cornhull, as the following entry in Testa de Nevill proves: “Hugo de Nevilla tenet quandam partem in Acstede in capita de domino Rege per servieium duorum militum et dimidii de Honore Bolonie; quam cepit cum filia Henrici de Cornhulla.” Herbert de Nevill, as appears by the dictum, died without issue, as Arnall reverted to the elder line.

page lxxiv note * There is also an extent of the manor of Addington, with lands in Waldingham and Crowhurst, com. Surr. from which a rent of three shillings and three pence was payable on the feast of the Purification of St. Mary to Reginald de Ymmesworthe, and other sums at the terms of Easter, St. John the Baptist, and St. Michael, as also a pound of cummin to the Prior of Lewisham in Kent; but it is now utterly illegible.

page lxxiv note † Tanner, in his Notitia Monastica, under Tortington near Arundel, page 561, cites Plac. ad Husting. London. 14 Edw. I. de mansione in parochia Sancti Swithini London, cum patronatu dicte ecclesie, etc. legato huic Prioratui per Robertum d'Aguilon cum corpore suo.

page lxxxiii note * The term esmere signifies richly wrought, and ia unnoticed by Sir Harris Nicolas in his translation. (Roquefort, Otlossaire, p. 517); and that of de grant maniere has been misunderstood. “Hugh Bardolf, a man of mighty deeds, rich, gallant, and courteous, bore upon azure three cinquefoils of pure gold beautifully wrought.” The same editor in his biographical notice of this baron prefaces it with this uncalled for observation, “the particulars, which have been preserved of this individual are exceedingly few and unsatisfactory;” and, as a specimen of his accuracy, he tells us that bis ancestors had been possessed of baronial rank by tenure of the lordship of Bradwell in Suffolk from the reign of Henry the Second. Now it so happens that Bradwell is a parish in the hundred of Dengy, Essex, situated on the sea-shore, and had been given in part by Thomas Bardolf in frank-marriage to three of his daughters, wives respectively of William Bacon, of Robert de St. Eemy, and of Baldwin de Thony. The entry is in the Testa de Nevill, under the heading De serjantiis arentatis in comitatu Essexie per Robertum Passelewe tempore Henrici filii Regis Johannis, and reads as fellows; Willelmus, frater Domini Regis Henrioi, dedit Bradwell per servicium unius militis Thome Bardolf et Thomas Bardolf dedit tres partes ville tribus filiabus suis in maritagio, scilicet, Roberto de Sancto Remigio, Willelmo Bacun et Baldwino de Thony; et idem Thomas retinuit dimidinm feodum militis, scilicet, quartam partem, quam Baldwinus de Thony et Thomas de Borfare tenent, et quartam partem, quam Simon Cocua tenet in eadem villa. Et quando Normanni demiserunt terras suas dominus Rex Johannes dedit partem Willelmi Bacun et partem Roberti de Santo Remigio Thome filio Bernardi, et postea dedit Alicie de Gtarpenvilla, que modo tenet per servicium dimidii militis. In the Rotuli NormannUe, p. 127, we read, Essex; Bradewella. Terra, que fuit Doonis Bardolf, et modo est ‘Willelmi Bacun et Roberti de Sanoto Remigio, whose portions, of the value of 20 K. with the stock, were then in the King's hands, as escheats of the Normans. The suzerainty of this fief, with the advowson of the church, dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle, continued in the line of Bardolf till the attainder of the Lord Bardolf in the reign of Henry IV.

page lxxxiv note * The writ of Diem clausit extremum to the escheator, Henry de Bray, for taking into his custody the lands of the deceased William Bardolf, as well those of his own inheritance, as those of the inheritance of Juliana de Gurnay, his wife, has the King's teste at Westminster, 23rd day of December, 18th year of bis reign, 1289. The finding of the jurors at Mapledurham, com. Oxon, on the 3rd day of January following, which manor he had held of the inheritance of his wife, by the service of one knight's fief of the Earl Warren, as to the age of his son and heir at that time, is thus expressed; Item dicunt quod dominus Hugo Bardolf filius dicti Willelmi Bardolf, propinquior heres est dicti Willelmi, et fuit etatis triginta annorum circa festum Saaicti Michaelis anno regni Regis Edwardi xvii°.

page lxxxvi note a Worcngay is a parish in the hundred of Clackolose, com. Norff., and its castle wag the caput of an extensive honour in that county, held by Hermerus de Ferrariis under William the Conqueror, whose immediate descendants assumed the local surname from this residence, a proof that he was a younger brother of Henry de Ferrariis, baron of Ferrieres in Normandy. In 1168, William de Wormegai held in capite of the king fourteen knight's fiefe and a half, all of whom had been enfeoffed in the time of King Henry I., except Richard, son of Wace, whom his father had enfeoffed of his demesne afterwards, whereof he did the service of the fourth part of a knight. Of the see of Norwich he also held ten knight's fiefe. The inquisition on the death of Hugh Bardolf describes Wormegey cum membris, Rungeton, Fincham, Stowe et Welle et Quynberg as held by barony, and the render of eight shillings each month towards the custody of the castle of the king at Norwich. Of the foundation of the family of Warren, was a priory of canons of the order of Saint Augustine, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Holy Cross, and St. John the Evangelist, who were patrons of the parish church under the invocation of St. Michael, which curacy ha» been described by Ecton and Willis as that of the Holy Cross. Cantley and Caistor were parcel of the inheritance of Juliana de Gournay, and Strumpshaw was an acquisition from Sir Stephen de Strumpshaw, who in the fourth year of the reign Edw. I., 1276, enfeoffed William Bardolf and Juliana de Gournay, his wife, of this manor, with its appurtenances, and was held of Sir John de Wauton by the service of half an ounce of silk or muslin annually, or 6d. at Michaelmas.

page lxxxvii note * Houghton, near Dunstaple, com. Bedf., Bledlow, Wendover, and Hulcott, com. Bucks, and Birling, near Eastbourne, com. Sussex, were all of the barony of Gournay, and Shelford com. Notts was the caput of the barony of Ralph Hanselyn. The inquest taken at Shelford on Friday next before the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, 16th Oct., 1304, describes the lands in Shelford to be held with other lands in divers counties of the lord the King in capite by the service of the moiety of one barony. The same jury say that Thomas Bardolf is the next heir of the said Hugh, and is of the age of 22 years and more, and that the court then was worth annually xiiis. iiii d. Sum of the whole extent xK. xviiid. ob. quad. Stoke Bardolf was also part of the same moiety, owing the service of one knight's fief, and valued at xvift. vis. 6b. As early as the 8th year of Henry I. 1108, the barony of Geoffrey Alselin had been divided between his nephew's son, Robert de Caux, and Geoffrey Halselin, his own son, as appears by this entry in Jerburc wapentake containing the amount of land held by each tenant in capite at that date, Cotton. MS. Claudius C. r. Rodbertus de Chalz et Goffridus Halselinus in Wragebi iiii carucatas, et v bovatas et tertiam partem unius bovate. At the time of Domesday survey, Geoffrey Alselin was tenant of Wrawby, and Ralph, his nephew, held it under Geoffrey, as also of a berewick and soke of this manor in Elsham and Kettleby, which descended to their heirs. In 1131, Ralph Halselin rendered account of 200 marks of silver, and one mark of gold, for the relief of the land of his father, Geoffrey, in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. In the last named county Ockbrook was of the inheritance of Ralph Alselin, and was held by William and Hugh Bardolf, for half a knight's fief, as part of the barony of Shelford.Halloughton, com. Leicester, was also parcel of this barony, which descended in the line of Bardolf.

page lxxxviii note * The inquest taken after the decease of Hugh, Lord Bardolf, respecting the manor of Addington in Surrey, contains the fullest and most correct details as to its tenure, and is as follows: Inquisitio facta coram Escaetore Domini Regis apud Adyngton xiiii^o die Octobris anno xxxii regni Regis Edwardi de terris et tenementis, que fuerunt Hugonis Bardolf in comitatu Surreie, die quo obiit, per sacramentum,&c. Qui dicunt per sacramentum suum quod dominus Hugo Bardolf tenuit die quo obiit in comitatu predicto manerium de Adyngton de domino Rege in capite de hereditate Isabelle uxoris sue, filie et heredis Roberti Aguillon, que superstes est, per servicium ad inveniendum unum cocum ad coronamentum domini Regis ad faciendum unum ferculum pro domino Rege, quod vocatur Mees de Geroun, sumptibus domini Regis in una olla lutea. Et dicunt quod predicta hereditas simul cum aliis terris descendebat prefato Hugoni et Isabelle uxori sue ut jus et hereditas ipsius Isabelle per mortem predicti Roberti Aguillon post matrimonium inter prefatum Hugonem et Isabellam contractum. (Extent.) Dicunt etiam quod est ibidem quoddam capitals mesuagium cum gardino adjacente, una cum aysiamentis grangie de Waldyngham et valet per annum xviiid. Summa totalis huius inquisitionis xili. guadrans. Inde in auxilium Vicecomitis Surreie ad festum Natalis Domini viii d. ad Pentecosten xxi d. et ad festum Sancti Michaelis xxi d. Item Johanni de Bures ad Pascham v s. et ad festum Sancti Michaelis v s. Item custodi de Mertone Hall Oxonie ad Pascham et ad festum Sancti Michaelis vs. per equalem porcionem. Item Roberto Russel iis. ad predictos terminos per equalem porcionem. Item domino de Wykham ad festum Sancti Michaelis iiiid. Item Priori Sancte Marie de Suthwerk ad predictum tenninum vid. Item Priori de Levesham unam libram cumini, pretium id. et ob. ad predictum terminum. Summa Redditus resoluti xxiis. id. ob. et sic remanet de claro ixli. xviis. xd. ob quad. Et dicunt quod Thomas filius predicti Hugonis est heres ejus propinquior, et fuit etatis viginti et duorum annorum die Sancti Prancisci ultimo preterito.

Suthantonia. Inquisitio capta apud Wordy in comitatu Suthhantonie secundo die Octobris anno regni Regis Edwardi xxxii de terris, &c. ut supra. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod Hugo Bardolf, die quo obiit, nichil tenuit in dominico suo ut de feodo de domino Rege in capite nec de aliis in comitatu predicto. Qui dicunt quod unum tenementum in Gretham cum pertinentiis et quatuor marce annui redditus in Emmesworth tenta de Domino Rege in capite per quod servicium ignorant sunt hereditas Isabelle, que fuit uxor Hugonis Bardolf, que eidem Isabelle descendebant post mortem Roberti Aguilloun, patris sui, ut filie et propinquiori heredi ejusdem Roberti; qui quidem Robertus Aguillon obiit nunc ad decem et octo annos post tempus quo dictus Hugo dictam Isabellam desponsavit et ex ea prolem suscitavit; et post mortem dicti Roberti dicta tenementa seisita fuerunt in manum domini Regis et ex postfacto dictis Hugoni et Isabelle restituta, dicte Isabelle tanquam hereditas. Item dicunt quod est in dicto tenemento de Gretham una grangia et una boreria debilis cooperta cum stramine et valet cum exitu unius gardini per annum xiid. (Extent.) Item sunt apud Emmesworth xvi custumarii reddentes iiii^or marcas pro omnibus serviciis in grosso. Item dicunt quod Thomas Bardolf, filius predicti Hugonis, est eius heres propinquior et est etatis viginti et duorum annorum die beate Francisci post festum Sancti Michaelis in anno regni Regis Edwardi xxxiis. Interrogati quare hoc sciunt, dicunt quod bene recolunt quod natus fuit in comitatu Hertfordie apud Wattonam in anno regni Regis decimo, et magno fuit inde locucio et noticia in partibus istis ita quod bene recolunt quod tantum tempus est elapsum.

Summa totalis viili. viis. ob.

This last inquest relates only to what was held of the king in capite in the county, and not to the manor of Greatham itself, which was held of the Earls of Surrey.

page xc note * The manor of Barcomb, in the hundred of that name, rape of Lewes, com. Sussex, was held of the Earls of Surrey by the service of the fourth part of one knight's fief, and the sum total of the extent is put down at xviiH. xiis. iiiid. by the jurors, and was parcel of the inheritance of the junior branch of the great family of Warren, mentioned above.

Rugkington is a parish in the hundred of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, Lincoln, and with its hamlets of Digby and Leasingham, now parishes, was parcel of the barony of Shelford, as also Rowston and Brancewell named in the extent.

Fillingham, a parish in the hundred of Aslacoe, parts of Lindsey, west riding, was at the time of the survey of Domesday the land of the Saxon Colsuan; and in 1108 Robert de Haia held in Figlingaham six earrucates and six bovates, to whom this estate had been granted after the decease of its previous tenant. Of his son Richard de Haia Doun Bar. dolf held one knight's fee in 1168, and had two sons, Doun Bardolf and Thomas Bardolf. The first named gave to the Premonstratensian abbey of Blanchelande, in the diocese of Coutances, of the foundation of Richard de Haia, in 1154, on the day of the dedication of the new church, 14th Jan. 1185, an annual rent of four marks of silver out of his manor of Fillingham, and assigns this rent in this manner; namely, six bovates of the land of his demesne in the same Till, each bovate of nine acres of arable land, and three of meadow, together with two tofts in the north part of the vill; and other six bovates, with the villains upon them. His brother, Thomas Bardolf, who married Rosa, daughter of Ralph Hanselyn, heiress of Ralph Hanselyn, her grandfather, left issue a son, Doun or Dodo, the heir to his father and uncle, who was of age in 1198, when he paid a fine to have livery of his Honour. The inheritance of Richard de Haia, by descent through the families of Canville and Longespee, came to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in right of marriage with Margaret Longespee. The inquest on the decease of William Bardolf, father of Hugh Bardolf, 18th Edw. I., describes this manor as held of the Earl of Lincoln by the service of one knight's fief, and the sum total of the extent to amount to xi li. xs. yd. oi., whose heir, Hugh, was then of the age of thirty years and more. The church of Fillingham, dedicated to St. Andrew, rendered annually ten shillings to the church of Cameringham, which had been an alien priory, subject to Blancheland.

Strumpshaw is a parish in the hundred of Blofield, com. Norfolk; and in the 1th year of Edward I., 1276, Sir Stephen de Strumpshaw and Margaret his wife conveyed the manor of Strumpshaw, with lands in Redham and Tunstal, and the advowson of St. Peter's church in North Birlingham, after the decease of the survivor, to William Lord Bardolf and Juliana his wife. On the decease of William Lord Bardolf the jury, upon the inquest taken at Strumpshaw on Wednesday next after the Circumcision of the Lord in the year of the reign of King Edward xviii., 4th Jan., 1290, declared that the aforesaid Juliana, his wife, had been in full and peaceful seisin of this manor, together with her aforesaid husband, up to the day of the decease of the aforesaid William, and that the aforesaid manor was held of Sir John de Wauton by the service of half an ounce of silk yearly, or sixpence on the feast of St. Michael. Sum of the extent xix li. iiii s. viii d. Upon the inquest taken after her decease at Cantley, 23rd Edw. I., 1295, the jury found that she also held lands in the same vill of the Bishop of Norwich, and of Sir Robert de Caston, and of Simon de Caverham, in the vill of Tunstall. The family of Caston were patrons of the advowson. The advowson of the church of North Birlingham was exchanged by William Lord Bardolf with the prior and monks of Castleacre for that of Westbriggs in Norfolk, 13th Edw. I., 1285, of which the presentation remained in this family until the reign of Henry the Fourth.

page xciv note * On the Rolls of Parliament of the 15th and 16th years of Edw. II., 1321–2, among the Petitions in Parliament is one in this form: A nostre seignur le Roi e a son counseil monstre Isabelle, que fust la feme Hugh Bardolf, que come nadgaires que nostre Seignur le Roi eit sui un bref scire facias vers la dite Isabelle des tenemenj en Emnesworth et Warbleton, dount ly e son pere e son ael nnt este seisis peisiblement pax les ohartres le Roi Henry et le Roi Edward, Piere notre Seignur le Roi que ore est, et dount plee pent unqore devant Sire Henry le Sorope et ses compaignouns, Lieutenans notre Seignur le Roi, et la dite Isabelle ad plede a juggement, lequel juggement ad pris delay ja par quatre auns; et sur ceo, nient contre esteant, le plee et le procej pendauntj devaunt les ditj justices, laquel suyte est faite par Robert le Ewer pur le Roi a ceo qu'il dit, et Robert le Ewer en les ditj tenement} c'n est abatu, en despit de la Court notre Seignur le Roi ou le dit plee pent, et la dite Isabelle de tout en ad nettement oste. Dount la dite Isabelle prie, q'ile peusse estre restitut a les avant dits tenemenj selon ley de terre et usage du reaume. Et que les justices en le pie et le proces (levant eux pendaunfj aillent au juggement, pour le droit notre Seignur le Roi declarer et droite faire, si plesir ly soit.

Responsio. Quoad primutu articulum. Habeat breve in cancellaria ad communem legem. Et quoad secundum articulum. Habeat breve ad excitandum Justiciarios, &c.quod precedant ad judicium, &c. Et si diffioultas interfuit quare id facere non possint, binc mittant Recordum et processum in Parliamento.

Robert le Ewer was Lord of Warblington, of which parish Emsworth is a hamlet, pleasantly situated close to the sea, and, as her son, Thomas Bardolf, died seized of these tenements, 3rd Edw. III., 1330, Isabella Bardolf will have had judgment in her favour.

page xcviii note a The writ to John de Bolyngbroke, the escheator of the King beyond Trent, notifying the decease of Thomas Lord Bardolf, has the King's teste at Kenilworth, 30th day of December, 3rd year of his reign. Before this escheator an inquisition was taken at Stoke- Bardolf, a hamlet in the parish of Gedling, hundred of Thurgarton, Notts, on Monday next before the feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary the Virgin, 4th Edw. III. 30 Jan. on which the finding of the jurors was, that Thomas Bardolf held in his demesne as of fee on the day on which he died, in the county of Nottingham, the manor of Stoke Bardolf, with meadows, rents, and woods belonging to the same manor in Shelford, and elsewhere beyond Trent, which are not extended in this extent, of the Lord the King in chief as of his crown, by the service of the fief of one knight. (Extent.) Pasture of Aldenholm, and a certain ferry over Trent, as also a certain wood with underwood and pasture of no value because in the forest of Shirewood. They also say that Thomas held on the day of his death, in the aforesaid Till of Stoke, one messuage of Adam de Everingham by military service and by suit of court of the same Adam at Shelford, from three weeks to three weeks, and worth annually as regards the herbage in summer 6d. Sum total, 14li. 11s. 3d. and no more, because the rest of the issues are beyond Trent. They also say that John Bardolf, son of the aforesaid Thomas Bardolf, is his next heir, and was of the age of 17 years on the day of St. Hillary last past. Another inquisition was taken before the same escheator at Shelford on the Monday following, 4 Edw. I. on which the finding was that Thomas Bardolf died seized of a moiety of the manor of Shelford with the appurtenances, of the Lord the King in chief by the service of half a knight's fief, and they say that there are no messuages and no lands in demesne belonging to the same moiety, but that the sum of the value of the said moiety of the manor of Shelford was Sli. 5s. At Ockbrook, a parish in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, the lands and tenements held of the King in chief by military service, were valued at 12li. 6d. The extent of the lands and tenements which had been those of Thomas Bardolf made by the escheators of the King beyond Trent was returned at 218 li. 17 s. 1d. and those on the hither side of Trent made the sum total of 253 li. 8 s. 10 d. and one farthing. In Leicestershire he held the manor of Halloughton of the King in chief, as parcel of the moiety of the Barony of Shelford, by the service of one knight's fief, and of the same honour were the manors of Ruskington with its members, Westborough with its members, and Wrawby with its members, in Lincolnshire, that of Middleton alias Milton Malsor in Cambridgeshire, and Alvaston, Ambaston, Thurlston, Eskinton, and Breason in Derbyshire. He also held these advowsons, half of the church of Gedling, com. Notts, the churches of Tilney, Morley, Westbriggs, Fincham St. Martin, and North Rungton in com. Norfolk; of Owmby, Brinkhill, Ruskington, and Westborough, Lincolnshire; of Plumpton, com. Sussex; of Stapleford and the chapel of Whemsted, com. Herts; and of Bradwell, com. Essex. At the time of the survey of Domesday, Goisfridus Alselin was lord of Shelford, and in several entries mention is made of Ralph, his nephew, and before the year 1108, 8th Henry I. this barony of the Domesday tenant was in moieties between Robert de Caux (Chalz or Calz) and a second Geoffrey Halselin, the son of Ralph, as appears by this entry in a record of that date. Rodbertus de Chalz et Goffridus Habelinus in Wragebi 4 carrucatas, et 5 bovatas, et tertiam partem unius bovate, under Jerburc wapentacha. In Domesday, this manor in Yarborough wapentake is thus described under Terra Goisfridi Alselin. Manerium. In Waragebi habuit Tochi ii carrucatas terre, et iii bovatas, et v partem unius bovate ad geldum. Terra vii carucarum. Ibi mine in dominio ii carrucse, et xvi villani, et xv bordarii habentes iiii carrucas. Ibi ecclesia et presbiter et c acræ prati, et c acræ silve. Pastura per loca. Tempore Regis Edwardi valuit x libras, modo vi libras. Tailla xx solidi. Radulfus tenet de Goisfrido. Soca. In Eleham ii carueatæ terre et ii bovatæ ad geldum. In Chetelbi iii bovataæ terræ et iii pars i bovate ad geldum. Terra vi carrucarum. Soca et inland in Waragebi. Ibi nunc in dominio i carruca, et xi sochmanni, et iiii villani, et viii bordarii cum ii carrucis, et cxiiii acra? prati. This Robert de Caux had apparently married the daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Aselin, and the barony descended in moieties to each of these representatives of the two tenants in Domesday. In the Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I. under the heading Nova Placita et Nove Conventiones in Notinghamscira et Derbiescira, we read Radulfus Halselinus reddit compotum de cc marcis argenti et i marca auri pro relevatione terre patris sui; and this Ralph will have been son of Geoffrey living in 1108, and was yet alive in 1168, of which date is his carta, containing the names of those who held of him of the old and the new feofment, from which we learn that his mother had received a marriage portion out of lands purchased by the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Bloet, deceased 10th Jan. 1123, and that be had given eight solidatæ of land out of his demesne to his son. Rosa Hanselyn, the daughter and heiress of this son, also named Ralph Hanselyn, was given in marriage by Henry II. to Thomas Bardolf, who, 18th Hen. II. accounted for 25 li. of the scutage of this honour upon occasion of the expedition to Ireland, the same number being mentioned in the carta of his grandfather. The manor of Wrawby was subinfeuded from the time of Henry I. and in 1168 William Hanselin of Wrawby held the fief of two knights of the old feofment.

page cvii note * These three manors had been granted to Sir Roger Damory and Elizabeth de Burgh, his wife, in reeompenee of the former's service at the battle of Bannockburn, nigh Stirling, fought on the eve and day of St. John the Baptist, 1314, 7th Edw. II., as we learn from three charters on the Patent Roll, 10th Edw. II., pro Rogero Dammory et Elizabetha uxore ejus:

Rex omnibus ad quos, ’ pro nobis et heredibus nostris prefatis Rogero et Elizabethe manerium de Faukeshall cum pertinentiis, quod Ricardus de Gereseye, nuper Pincerna hospicii nostri, tenuit ad terminum vite sue, et quod post mortem ejusdem Ricardi ad manum nostram jam devenit, Habendum et tenendum eisdem Rogero et Elizabethe et heredibus ipsius Rogeri, una cum feodia militum, adTpoationibus ecclesiarum, et omnibus aliis ad manerium ilium spectantibus, de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia inde debita et consueta imperpetuum, in valorem viginti librarum terre per annum, in parte satisfactionis dictarum centum marcarum terre. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Northamtonam sexto die Julii. Per ipsum Regem.

By previous charters, dated respectively at Clarendon, 11th Feb., and at Windsor, 3rd May, 1317, the manor of Halghtone of the value of 7 li., and the manor of Sandhalle of the value of 20 li. were granted to the same parties in like form.

page cx note * The charter of Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Aumale and Devon, and Lady of the Isle, by which she granted to King Edward I. the whole Isle of Wight, the manor of Christchurch in Twynham, in Hampshire, ac manerium de Lamheth, in comitatu Surreie, simul cum maneriQ, quod vocatur La Sale Faukes, in Parochia de Lamheth, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis, for 6000 marks, bears date apud Stokwell prope Lamhethe die lune proximo ante festum Sancti Martini in hyeme, Anno Domini Millesimo cc° nonagesimo tertio, and was witnessed by the Lord Anthony, Bishop of Durham, Sirs Richard de Aston, Gilbert de Knovill, Richard de Waldegrave, Jordan de Kingeston, Robert de Gflaumorgan, and John Heynonia, knights, John de fcrrymstede, Philip de Tanga, Roger de Ctardino, Walter de Langton, clerks, and others. On the same day she made her will, and named by her fingers her executors, namely, the Abbot of Quarr, the Prior of Brommore, the Prior of Christeschurch, and Gilbert de Knovill, and being thereby fatigued, she retired to rest. After having partaken of the holy communion at the hands of Brother William of Gainsborough, her confessor, between midnight and dawn, 12 Nov. 23 Edw. I. she expired; and on the same day, the feast of St. Martin, the aforesaid sum of money was paid to the merchants of Spina in the house of the Bishop of Durham, who were to answer thereof to her executors, when they should claim it. The hall of Faloasius, otherwise Faukeshalle, now corruptly Vauxhall, doubtless owes its names to some construction erected by Falcasius de Breaute in this extensive parish, when he had the custody of Baldwin de Reviers, Earl of Devon and the Isle, the son of his wife, Margaret de Reviers, named above. (In the Nomina ViUarum for the county of Surrey, 9th Edw. I I. 1316, under Hundredum de Bryxiston, we read, Villa ds Kenington est Comitis Warenne, Villa de Lambethe et Stockwell est Domini Regis et Juliane Romayne, Villa de North Lambethe est Archiepiscopi Cantuarie.) In the Testa de Nevill under Surrey is this entry: Baldwinus, filius et heres comitis de Insula, est in custodia Falconis de Breaute, qui debet esse in custodia domini Regis; et terre ejus in hundredo de Bricsiston, et valent per annum xviii. libris. Kennington was granted to King Edward the Second by John Earl Warren, on the 30th day of June, 9th Edw. I I. 1316, and subsequently to the date of this exchange it was a royal seat.

page cxi note * John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, brother of Edward the Third, according to the Scotichronicon, died of a wound received from the King at Perth, during the month of September, 1336; tandem sibi occurrit ad villam de Perth frater ejus Johannes, Heltham nomine, per partes occidental™ Scotiaa iter agens, que terras, quas frater suus nuper ad pacem acceperat et ecclesiam Prioratus de Lesmahago gladio et igne consumpsit, ac plures animas ad ecclesias confugientes, igne supposito, cum ipsis ecclesiis extinxit et penitus delevit. Cumque idem Rex, ante magnum altare Sancti Johannis, super praexnissis ipsum, ut debuit, argueret; et ipæ Regi indignanti animo responderet, subito fratris spata sive cultello extracto percussus, rebus exutus est humanis. Dugdale suppresses this imputed assassination, describing him to have merely fallen sick at the town of St. John, and to have there departed this life, without wife or issue; whence his body was brought to the Abbey of Westminster, and buried in St. Edmund's chapel under a monument, which yet remains, without any epitaph to tell the sad story of his unhappy end.

page cxi note dagger John de Sekford had a confirmation of the grant of the manor of Clopton for life in the sixth year of Edward III. 1322. (Rot. Pat. 6 Edw. III. pars prima.)

page cxii note * Alianora, the widow of Guy de Ferre, was deceased 23 Edw. III. 1849, and in the Nomina Villarum, 9 Edward II. in the county of Suffolk, Hundred de Waynford, we read Uketleshale, Domini, Comitissa Marisoalla, Guido Ferre, Jacobus de Feleshale; and Hundred de Carleford, Clopton, Dominus Thomas le Latymer. But of Clopton, and several other manors, there is no inquisition at the time of his decease, 8 Edward III. 1334; whence it may be inferred that he was either not a tenant in fee, or had released his claim in the same to the King. Guido Ferre was deceased 4 Edw. III. 1330.

page cxiii note * The manor of Clarette, in the parish of Yeldham, hundred of Hinckford, com. Essex, has the name of Clare in Domesday, and was parcel of the honour of Earl Eustace of Boulogne. In a surrey of the honour of Boulogne in the Liber Niger Scaccarii, in the reign of King John, under De feodo Willelmi de Mustruillo (Montreuil) vi milites; “inde habetur in Essex Claretta, quam heres Radulfi de Cornhull tenet per unum militem, et tria quarteria, Geldham, quam Comes Albrieus tenet pro duo militibus et uno quarterio.”Yeldham, now a parish, was a berewick of Clare at the time of the Survey.The daughter and heir of Ralph de Cornhulle was doubtless the wife of Robert de Crevequer, whose son and heir, Hamon de Crevequer, married Maud de Avranches, heiress of the barony of Folkstone. Their grandson, Robert de Crevequer, forfeited the manor of Chatham in Kent, and the manor named above, in the reign of Henry III. The former manor was given to Guido Ferre for his life, and the last to the family of Clare, subject to this payment.

page cxiv note * These lands in Staundon, otherwise Standon, which had been those of William de Wymondham, were doubtless identical with the manor called La Dons in Standon, of which Elizabeth de Burgh died seised.

page cxvi note * Robert Bardolf was the last descendant of a branch of the baronial family of Bardolf, settled at Mapledurham, com. Oxon, a manor derived from the marriage of Hugh de Gournay with Edith, daughter of William Earl Warren, and which had been granted to Sir John Bardolf, second son of William Bardolf, Baron of Wermegay, and Juliana de Gournay, heiress of that ancient and once powerful line of Norman barons, who derived their name from Gournay-en-Bray, chef-lieu of the canton of that name, arrondissement of Neufchatel-en-Bray, departement of the Seine Inferieure. Robert Bardolf died issueless on the 20th day of May, 18th Rich. II. 1395, seised of the manor of Watton att Stone, com. Herts, according to this finding of a jury, on an inquisition taken at Puckeridge, on Tuesday, the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, 19th Rich. II. “Dicunt quod Willelmus Bardolf, quondam dominus de Wyrmingeye, jam defunctus, fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo de manerio de Watton atte Stone cum pertinentiis in eodera comitatu, et cepit in uxorem Agnetem nliam Michaelis domini de Ponynges, modo uxorem Thome de Mortymer militis, et diu post sponsalia inter prefatum Willelmum Bardolf et Agnetem celebrata, dominus Willelmus Bardolf, de manerio predict© ut in dominico suo ut de feodo seisitus, per cartam suam dedit et concessit Roberto Bardolf militi in brevi nominate manerium predictum cum pertinentiis habendum et tenendum eidem Roberto ad totam vitam suam, ita quod post decessum predicti Roberti Bardolf manerium predictum cum pertinentiis prefato Willelmo Bardolf et heredibus suis revertatur et remaneat inperpetuum, licencia domini Regis inde optenta, ut intelligant.” The tenure of this manor was by petit sergeanty, and by the service of 13 s. i d. to be paid yearly to the Lord the King by the hands of the sheriff of the county of Hertford who should be in office at the time, and by the service of 2 s. paid at two sheriffs’ turns in the hundred of Broadwater, held at the feasts of Easter and Michaelmas, and by the service of doing suit at the court of the shire of Hertford, held from month to month, and by the service of doing suit to the aforesaid hundred, from three weeks to three weeks, value x/i. They also found that Sir Robert Bardolf died 20th day of May then last past, and that Thomas Bardolf, son of the aforesaid William Bardolf, was the next heir of the said William Bardolf, and of the age of 24 years and more, but who the next heir of the said Robert may be they knew not. The inquisition at Watlington, com. Oxon, on Saturday next before the feast of St. Lawrence, 19 Rich. II. describes the same Robert Bardolf, chivaler, to have long before his death given, granted, and by his charter confirmed, to Sjr George Felbrigg knight, Roger Marshall, John Lynde, and John Cook of Wyckham, his manors of Mapledurham Gurnay, and of Stoke de Lisle, in the aforesaid county, with all their appurtenances, to have and to hold for ever; by virtue of which gift and feofment the aforesaid parties being seised thereof, they regranted the same manors to the said Robert Bardolf and Amicia his wife, yet surviving, to hold for the term of their joint lives, rendering to the said feoffees a rose on the 24th day of June, with reversion to themselves. The manor of Mapledurham Gurnay was worth 20 marks, and was held of the Earl of Arundel, heir of the Earls Warren; and that of Stoke de Liele was worth 8 li. and held of the Earl Marshal; but the service of each was unknown to the jurors. He also held the manor of Holton in the same county for the term of his life of the concession of Sir William Bardolf, which had been previously granted by John Lord Bardolf to a certain Nicholas Dammory for the term of his life, and of which the reversion, after the decease of this tenant, was given to Robert Bardolf by the said Sir William Bardolf, with reversion to his heirs after his decease. This manor was held of the lord the King as of the honour of Wallingford, by service unknown to the jurors, who said that the aforesaid Robert died on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord last past, and that they were ignorant who was his next heir. Amicia, his wife, had by her first husband John Beverlee, valet to King Edward III. two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, and at her decease, which occurred 1st October, 1417, Robert Langford, son of Anne, and Walter Daundsey, knight, son of Elizabeth, were found to be her heirs.

page cxviii note * John Lord Bardolf has been apparently sent on a mission by the King into Italy, to uegooiate the return of Pope Urban V. to Rome, who was then residing at Avignon, as Beveral Popes had done before him since the year 1304, and of his having been employed on a similar mission in 1352 at the court of Pope Clement VI. this bull in his favour and that of his wife is sufficient evidence, as an example of the great esteem in which they were held by that prelate, of which a transcript has been incorrectly printed by Mr.Parkin, in his History of Norfolk, under Wormegay.

”Clemens episcopus, servus servorum Dei, dilecto filio, nobili viro, Johanni Bardolf, militi, et dilecte in Christo filie, nobili mulieri, Elizabethe, ejus uxori, Norwicensis diocesis, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Sincere devotionis affectus, qui ad nos et Romanam geritis ecclesiam, non indigne meruit ut peticionibus vestris, ” (7 August, 1352.)

As John Lord Bardolf was tenant of Caythorpe by the courtesy of England, his wife, Elizabeth, of royal descent, will have been deceased in his lifetime; and as to their two daughters, Isabel and Agnes, records are silent as to whom they married.

page cxx note * Nailsworth is a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, hundred of Longtrees, Gloucestershire, two milea from Minching Hampton. This manor, with Pinbury, a hamlet in the parish of Duntisborne, had been given to the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Caen, by King William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda, the founders, by this charter, of which a copy has been inserted in the cartulary, a MS. in the Bibliotheque du Roi at Paris, n. 5650, fol. 17, recto.

”Quisquis sancte Dei ecclesie quamlibet suarum rerum portionem in beneficium attribuit, in eelesti regno a summo Betributore sibi nequaquam diffidimus remunerari. Quapropter ego Willelmus Anglorum Eex et Normannorum atque Cenomannorum princeps et uxor mea, Matildis Regina, Balduini Flandrensium dueis filia, neptisque Henrici Francborum illustrissimi Regis, damus et imperpetuum concedimus ecclesie Sancte Trinitatis, quam pro salute animarum nostrarum in territorio Cadomi coedificavimus, hos infrascriptos manerios cum omnibus appenditiis suis ita quidem solutos et quietos sicut erant die qua Edwardus Rex vivus et mortuus fuit; scilicet, Felestede in comitatu de Essessa, Hantoniam et Penneberiara in comitatu de Gloueestra, Tarentam in comitatu de Dorseth. Hanc itaque cartulam et nostra et episcoporum ac magnatum nostrorum auctoritate eonnrmamus anno ab incarnatione Domini M° Ixxxii”, indictione vta, ea videlicet conditione ut si quis temerario ausu persistendo aliquid surripere temptaverit, anathema factus, orthodoxorum communitate careat iramque Dei omnipotentis incurrat. Sig+num Willelmi Anglorum Regis. Sig+num Comitis Boberti Moritonii. Sig+num Lanfranci Archiepiscopi. Sig+num Matildis Begine. Sig+num Roberti Comitis filii Begis. Sig+num Gaufredi episcopi Constantiensis, Sig+num Willelmi Comitis filii Regis. Sig+num Walchelini episcopi. Sig+num Henrici filii Regis. Sig+num Willelmi de Braiosa. Sig+num Stigandi episcopi. Sig+num Alani Comitis. Sig+num Willelmi de Varenna. Sig+num Henrici de Ferieres. Sig+num Edwardi Vicecomitis. Sig+num Hugonis de Portu. Sig+num Rogerii Bigot. Sig+num Hugonis Comitis de Cestra. Sig+num Rogerii Comitis de Montegomerii.”

In Domesday, Gloueestrescire, under Terra iEccIesise Monialium de Cadomo, these manors are mentioned; in Cirecestre hundred, Ecclesia Monialium Sancte Trinitatis de Cadomo tenet de Bege Penneberie—in Langetreu hundred. Ipsa ecclesia tenet Hantone-Goda comitissa tenuit T.R.E. Nailsworth is not mentioned, but it was parcel of the manor of Hampton, as we learn from this escheat. Horsley, the parish in which it is situate, had been given to the abbey of St. Martin of Troarn, of the foundation of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Salop, by William the Conqueror, which had also been a manor belonging to Goda, the sister of King Edward.

page cxxii note * By the jurors of an inquisition taken at Addington after the decease of Thomas Lord Bardolf, 14 Feb. 4 Edw. III. 1330, this manor was declared to be held of the King in chief by a certain service, namely, that of serving up in the presence of the lord the King on the day of his coronation, three dishes of a certain mess called Maupygernoun, one to be set before the King, another before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the third before the nobleman whom the lord of the manor shall choose to assign, in lieu of all service.

page cxxiii note * Ruskington, an extensive parish in the hundred of Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, is described in Domesday under the heading Terra Goisfredi Alselin, Laxewelle Wapentacha, by the name of Reschintone, and at that time was in the joint tenure of Goisfred Alselin and his nephew Ralph, save six bovates of land, which Drogo de Bevrere, (La Beuvriere, canton de Bethune, arrondissement de Bethune, departement du Pas de Calais,) held. Attached to it were three berewicks, Amwick, Bransewell, and Evedon, and an extensive soke. The Priory of Haverholme was within the limits of this parish, on an island of 300 acres, formed by two branches of the Sleaford river, and having been relinquished by the Cistercian monks of the abbey of Fountains, who repaired to Louth Park, Alexander Bishop of Lincoln, by charter, in the year 1139, bestowed this site upon a monastery of the order of Sempringham; at which date the parish was of the joint tenure of Ralph Hanselin and Robert de Calz, to whom the Bishop gave a mill in exchange for their shares. The inheritance of the former descended to Daon, Doun, or Dodo Bardolf, husband of Beatrix de “Warren, deceased prior to the date of these Letters Close, addressed to the Sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Essex, and Nottingham, notifying the King's grant of the custody of the land which had been that of Daon Bardolf to Robert de Vipont during pleasure, from Lexinton, (Laxton, com. Notts.) 23rd day of February 1205, and in favour of whose widow we have these Letters Close of the 12th of March following.

Rex Roberto de Veteriponte, etc. Precipimus tibi, quod sine dilatione facias habere Beatrici, que fuit uxor Daonis Bardulfi, Riskintonam cum pertinentiis, quod fuit predict! Daonis, pro rationabili dote sua, que earn contingit de libero tenemento, quod fuit ipsius Daonis, quondam viri sui, nisi predietum manerium excedat terciam partem tocius terre, que fuit sepedicti Daonis. T(este) Simone de Pateshilla apad Notingham xiii. die March'. per eundem. Sub eadem forma scribitur Vicecomiti Lincolnie

On the eleventh year of the reign of King John, this entry is on the Pipe Roll, under Norfolc et Sudfolc. Beatricia filia Willelmi de Warrenna, reddit compotum de M.M.M. et c marcis reddendia infra iiii. annos pro habendis terris et tenementis que fuerunt patris sui, et que ei hereditarie descendunt, et pro habenda rationabili dote sua, que earn contingit de tenementis que fuerunt Doun Bardolfl, quondam viri sui, et quod non distringatur ad se maritandum, et quod debita que pater suus Regi debuit, reddantur de communibus catallis que fuerunt tarn patris sui quam Milisentie uxoris patris sui, die qua pater suus obiit. Her father, William de Warren, gave to the Canons of Southwark, together with his body, sixty acres of land in the parish of Foot's Cray, in the hundred of Ruxley, Kent, called Wadeland, for the souls of his father Reginald and of his mother Alicia, and of wife Beatrix, and of Reginald their son, and of Beatrix and Isabella their daughters. This grant was confirmed by his daughter and heiress, by this charter.

Ego Beatrix, filia Willielmi de Warenna, post mortem viri mei, Douni Bardulfi, dum essem in viduitate mea, concessi et confirmavi donationem, quam pater meus Willielmus de Warenna fecit canonicis de Suthwerke pro salute avi mei Reginaldi de Warenna et Alicie avie mee, et patris mei Willielmi et matris mee Beatricis, et fratris mei Reginaldi, cujus corpus ibi requiescit, et Isabelle sororis mee, et mee, de lx. acris terre in Fortiscrea, viz. in Wadeland, cum pertinentiis suis,

As printed in the Monasticon, vol. ii. p. 85, this charter is a manifest corruption of the original, and falsely headed Carta Beatricis, uxoris eiusdem Willelmi,

Joan, Princess of Wales, was the widow of Edward the Black Prince.

page cxxv note * Pursuant to a writ to Robert de Loxley, escheator of the lord the King, in the county of Surrey, with the King's teste at Westminster, 11th Feb. 2 Ric. II. 1379, an inquisition was taken before him at Croydon on Saturday, 7th day of May following, on which the jurors declared that it was not to loss or prejudice of the lord the King, or of others, should the King concede to William Bardolf, of Wirmegeye, licence to grant his manor of Addington, with the appurtenances, to William Walcote, for the term of his life, to hold of the King and his heirs, by the service due and accustomed, with remainder after the decease of the aforesaid William Walcote to William, son of the aforesaid William Bardolf, and to the heirs issuing of the body of the aforesaid William, son of William, and in case of his death without issue remainder over to the heirs of the aforesaid William Bardolf, to be held of the lord the King and his heirs by the said service. Et dicunt quod manerium predictum tenetur- de domino Rege in capite per servicium serjenterie coquine, qualiter et quo modo ignorant. Value 66s. 8d. No other lands in the county. Hence the finding of the jury at his decease was owing to this manor being thus alienated in his lifetime, with reversion to his younger son, William Bardolf.

page cxxvii note * The manor of Brattelby, in the hundred of Lawriss, parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, is the first named in Domesday, among those belonging to Colsuain, and subsequently to Robert de Haia, the owner of Fillingham, and was apparently considered as the caput of this Honour. Nicholaa de Haia, the heiress of this family, was the wife of Gerard de Camvill, whose tenure of this manor is thus set down in the Testa de Nevill. Idem Girardus tenet de domino Rege feodum unius militis et quartern partem feodi unius militis in Figlingham, unde Donus Bardolf, qui mortuus est, tenuit feodum unius militis de eo, et Willelmus filius Thome quartern partem feodi unius militis per idem servicium. Idem, Girardus tenet de domino Rege feodum unius militis in Kameringham et in Brotelby. Idem, Girardus habet illud in dominico. The heiress of the family of Camville, Idonea, was the wife of William Longespe, who held this Honour 20th Hen. III. 1235, as we learn from the returns of the collectors of the aid granted in that year to the King, who rendered accompt of the assessment in the county of Lincoln, parts of Lindsey, namely, Jollan de Nevill and William de Baillol; iidem reddunt compotum de viii marcis pro Willelmo Longa Spate de feodo Nicholae de Haia. Et debet xvi libras de remanente xvi feodorum de veteri feoffamento. In the reign of Edward the Third this Honour escheated to the crown after the decease of Alice de Lacy, the widow of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, in 1348; but the statement of the jury that it was held of Thomas Earl of Chester is apparently erroneous, unless a son of that name had been born of Anne of Bohemia, the first wife of Richard the Second, who died an infant subsequent to this date, and before the time of its erection into a Principality, which was hereafter, according to an Act of Parliament, 21st Ric. II. to serve as the appanage of the future heir apparent to the throne, if God should grant the King this blessing.

page cxxix note * At the time of the Survey under William the Conqueror the land of Robert de Vescy comprised a manor in Helpringham, wapentake of Aswardburn, of seven earrucates and three bovates. A manor in Caythorp, having nineteen carrucates and two bovates in demesne, and twenty-eight carrucates and six bovates of soke geldable. Land to as many ploughs, i. e. forty-eight, to which were adjacent three hundreds, Prieston, Normanton, and Willoughby, and in it were two churches and two priests, and half a mill, worth ten shillings, and eight hundred and eighty acres of meadow. Land in Brandon and Rauceby was also soke of this manor, and a half carrucate in Swayton was a berewick of the same. A manor in Steveninge of six bovates, with two salt-pits of two shillings and eight pence, and a fishery, yielding two hundred eels and eighteen acres of meadow. Six bovates and a half of land in Heckington, in Aswardburn wapentake, was also soke of Caythorp. In the Testa de Nevill for Lincolnshire, under Feoda Willelmi de Vescy, we read as follows:—” Willelmus de Blokevill tenet unum feodum in Turleby, Willelmus de Latimer tenet tertiam partem unius feodi in Heckington. Cathorp, Friston, Normanton, Seggebrock et dimidia Ancastra de feodo Willelmi de Vescy. Johannes Coleman unum feodum in Cathorp. Radulphus filius Johannis unum feodum in Normanton. Jollanus de Evermue unum feodum in Wylgheby. Rogerus de Burleg dimidium feodum in Suggebrock. Willelmus de Latimer nonam partem unius fepdi in Bykir. Willelmus le Latimer duas partes unius feodi in Elpringham. Willelmus le Latimer tenet terrain suam in Swaneton, et quando scutagium est ad xl. solidos quelibet bovata dat viii. denarios.” The two churches mentioned in Domesday will have been those at Caythorp and Normanton. Frieston is a hamlet of Caythorp; Willoughby and Sudbroke are hamlets in the vicinity of Ancaster. Thurlby near Bourne is in the hundred of Ness, and Heckington in that of Aswardburn. Bicker is in the hundred of Kirton, and Swayton in that of Avelund. The Steveninge of Domesday was in Bickere hundred, and gives name to the manor of East Evening, in Swineshead. The heiress of William Lord Latimer, deceased 28 May, 4th Ric. II., was Elizabeth, the wife of John Lord Neville of Raby. Hamondbeck was the name of a drain extending from Spalding to Boston haven, and passing through Bicker.

page cxxx note * The capital manor Westborough, m the hundred of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, was held conjointly by Geoffrey Alselin and Ralph his nephew at. the Survey, and at that time the parishes of Doddington, Claypool, and Stubton, adjoining the parish of Westborough, were included in the soke of this manor. In the reign of Henry the Third William Bardulf held in Westborough, Dodington, Stubeton, and Parva Thorp, in chief of the lord the King, the fiefs of two knights. The other moiety was held by Robert de Everingham in demesne of the King in chief of the fief of Caux. Fenton is adjacent to Stubton, in the same hundred. The manor of Wrawby is in the hundred of Yarborough, parts of Lindsey, North Riding, and in the parish is the chapelry of Glandford Brigg; Elsham is an adjoining parish. In the Testa de Nevill we have this entry under Wapentac de Jerdeburgo, Wragby:—” Gilbertus de Arcubus tenet in Ellisham, Wraby, et Kettelby feoda duorum militum de Roberto de Everingham, et idem Robertus de domino Rege in capite de conquestu. Item Willelmus de Alneto, Walterus de Pertenay et domina de Drayna tenent in Ellesham, Wraby, et Kettelby feoda duorum militum de Domino Bardulfo et idem Bardulfus de domino Rege in capite de conquestu.” Kettleby is a hamlet in Bigby, adjacent to Wrawby.

page cxxxi note * Bledlow, a parish in the hundred of Aylesbury, Bucks, had been parcel of the land of Hugh de Gournay, and by him given in alms with the church to the abbey of Bec-Herluin, in Normandy, as this entry in the Testa de Nevill attests:—” Elemosina. Bledelow. Abbas del BekHarlewyne tenet in elemosinam de feodo Hugonis de Gurnay.” The lands in Wendover came to the Bardolfs from the same family. Hulcot is a parish in the same hundred, held of the baronies of Trailli and Kainho, but there is no record to show how it came to be a member of the manor of Stow-Bardolf in Norfolk.

page cxxxii note * Enhale, usually written Elme, and Newton, are parishes in the Isle of Ely, in the vicinity of Wisbeach, and in the Testa de Nevill there is this entry as to the tenure in the reign of Hen. III. “Baldewinus de Rosei tenet in Enhale, insimul cum terris suis in Houtton, Crek, et Gydestern in com. Norfolcie feodum unius militia de Honore de Wermegay. Baldewinus de Rosey tenet in Enhale quartern partem feodi unius militia de Wermegay.”

page cxxxii note † The extensive parish of Bradwell, in the hundred of Dengy, the most ancient inheritance of the family of Bardolf in England, had been entirely subinfeuded at the date of this entry in the Testa de Nevill. Willelmus, frater domini Regis Henrici, dedit Bradewelle per servicium unius militis Thome Bardulf, et Thomas Bardulf dedit tres partes ville tribus filiabus suis in maritagio, scilicet, Roberto de Sancto Remigio, Willelmo Bacun, et Baldwino de Thoeni, et idem Thomas retinuit dimidium feodum militis, scilicet quartam partem quam Baldwinus de Thoeni et Thomas de Borfare tenent et quartam partem quam Simon Cocus tenet in eadem villa. Et quando Normanni amiserunt terras suaa dominus Rex Johannes dedit partem Willelmi Bacun et partem Roberti de Sancto Remigio Thome filio Bernardi, et postea dedit eas Alicie de Garpenvilla, que modo tenet per servicium militare. Thomas Fitz Bernard was husband of Alicia de Garpenvilla, daughter and heir of William de Garpenville and Albritha de Rumenel, who with the same Albritha had all her inheritance and the marshalsea of the King's birds, and this succession was confirmed to him by charter of King John, dated at Woodstock, 18th day of March, 5th of John, 1204. Mary, daughter and heir of John de Orby, who had been the wife of Sir John de Roos of Helmsley, com. Ebor. chivaler, died without issue 18th Ric. II. 1394–5, when Maud, the wife of Ralph Lord Cromewell, mother of Avicia Lady Bardolf, was found to be her cousin and one of two coheirs. William Lord Bardolph presented Henry Croydon on the 26th June, 1384, to the church of the Holy Trinity of Bradwell juxta Mare, upon the resignation of Guido Mone.

page cxxxiii note * The chapel of St. Mary, in Watton, called Whemsted, waa of the presentation of the Lords Bardolf, and on the 18th Jan. 1375, William Lord Bardolf presented John Disseford.

page cxxxiii note † Portslade, a parish in the hundred of Fishergate, rape of Lewes, had been constituted the principal seat of the honour, consisting of ten fiefs in Sussex, which was apportioned to Reginald de Warren, younger brother of William de Warren, third Earl of Surrey, and upon the decease of his son and heir William de Warren, this inheritance, together with the barony of Wermegay, derived from her grandmother, Alice de Wennegay, devolved upon Beatrix, his only surviving child, then the widow of Doun Bardolf. Not long after she remarried Hubert de Burgh, the chamberlain of King John, by whom she had sons, who died in infancy, and was herself deceased before the close of the year 1214,16 John. Her son by her first husband was of age and in possession of his paternal inheritance in the following year, but was, it seems, compelled by his step-father to make him a grant of the capital manor of Porteslade, with its appendant knight's fees, which is enrolled on the Pipe Roll of the second year of Henry HI. 1218, under Northamptonshire. Hubert de Burgh, created Earl of Kent by Henry III. died at Banstead in Surrey, 12th May, 27 Hen. III. 1243, and in the same year William Bardolf had livery of the honour of Wormegay, held by him during life by the courtesy of England. His son and heir John de Burgh, who never assumed the title of earl, succeeded to his lands in England, and in the Testa de Nevill, under the heading Isti tenent de Honore Warrenne, que est in manu Petri de Sabaudia, we read Johannes de Burgo decem feoda militum in Porteslade de eodem Honore, omitting all mention of the mesne tenure of William Bardolf, whose representative was John Lord De la Warre at the time of the caption of this inquisition.

page cxxxvi note * Doctor Lingard, in his History of England, where he speaks of these transactions, erroneously describes Sir Thomas Mortimer, chevaler, as Lord Thomas Mortimer; and is also wrong in the supposition that Hackney was the place of rendezvous. In the Nomina Villarum, made pursuant to writs dated at Clipston, com. Notts, S March, 9 Edw. II. We have among the names of villa in Middlesex, in the hundred of Ossulston, the following entry, Villa de Fynchesle cum Harengeye et Sarneresbarnot, of which the Bishop of London was lord. The last name is miswritten, but is doubtless identical with Friarne Barnet, inasmuch as it is situate in the same liberties as the viU of Finchley, namely, those of Finsbury and Wenlakesbarnet.

page cxxxix note * In the Nomina Villarum for the county of Buckingham, 9 Edw. II. 1316, we read, in Hundredo de Aylesbury ville de Broughton cum Hulcote, villa una, Abbas de Mussendene et Walterus le Graunter; Astone Clintone, Willelmus de Monte Acuto; et Wendover Burgus, Robertas de Fenes; and in Hundredo de Rysebergh Bledelawe, dominus Abbas de Bek-Harlewyne. For the county of Bedford in Hundredo de Mannesheved cum dimidio Hundredo de Stanebrugge sunt ville de Hoghtone Regis, Eytone, Wylesnade et Toternho sunt tres ville. Willelmus la Souche dominus. Birchemore cum Woubourne Chapele est una villa. Willelmus la Zouche et Abbas de Wouburne. Birchmoor was originally a parish, having a church dedicated to St. Mary, now destroyed, and the chapelry of St. Mary Woburne was within it, and had been appropriated to theAbbey of Woburne.

page cxxxix note † The manor of Crowebergh was parcel of the honour of Valoines, as we learn from an entry in the Testa de Nevill, enumerating the fiefs of that honour, Alicia Wyschard tenet quartern partem unius militis in Crobberwe; and in the sixth of Edward I. Alexander de Baliol claimed divers liberties in his manors of Benyngton, Waltone, Box, and Croubery, and William Comyn in Sacombe, which they held in purparty of the inheritance of Christiana de Valoines. Thia manor is probably identical with that of Greenbury in the parish of Barley.

page cxl note * The chapel of St. Mary, Watton-att-Stone, was situate in the hamlet of Whemsted or Wimsted in that parish, and on the presentation of Sir William Bardolf, knight, John Disseford was instituted to the same 18 Jan. 1375.

page cxl note † This charter is proof of the residence of William Lord Bardolf and the Lady Agnes Poynings his wife, at the manor of Birling, at-the time of its date, and hence it will have been at this manor in Sussex that Thomas Lord Bardolf was born.

page cxli note * The name of Kingeshalle, attached to this manor, proves it to have been of ancient demesne, and probably a royal residence prior to the exchange at the time it was in the King's hands.

page cxli note † The priory of Wormegay, or Wermegay, -was of the order of St. Augustin for Black Canons, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Holy Cross, and St. John the Evangelist, of the foundation of either Reginald de Warren or of his son William de Warren; there being no existing record of its first endowment, and totally omitted by Dugdale in his Monasticon. It stood in a close, opposite to the castle of Wormegay on the left hand as you enter the village from the east, the priory being on the north side, and the castle on the south. The parish church of Wormegay, dedicated to St. Michael, stands near a mile east of the village, and had been appropriated to the priory from the earliest times. This parish is in the hundred of Clacklose and half, as is also West Briggs, which adjoins it; to the church of which village, dedicated to St. Botolph, Sir Thomas Mortimer presented John Walton in 1397. Whinburgh is a parish in Mitford hundred and half, to the church of which village Sir Thomas Mortimer presented John Fyssher in 1391, and the King in 1397, on the forfeiture of Sir Thomas Mortimer. Garveston, in the same, has its church dedicated to St. Margaret, to which Sir Thomas Mortimer presented John Salyng, alias Alger, in 1392, and John Newman in 1392. Cantley, a parish in Blofield hundred, has its church under the same patroness, to which Sir Thomas Mortimer presented Peter Whyten in 1391; and in 1406, after the death of Agnes Lady Bardolf, Sir William Bardolf, knight, her second son, lord of this manor, presented John Dowes. North Rungton, a parish in Freebridge hundred, has its church dedicated to All Saints, to which Agnes Lad; Bardolf presented Thomas Mayster in 1402, thus furnishing evidence of the decease of Sir Thomas Mortimer, her second husband, as from the time of his forfeiture to his death the presentations were made by the Crown.

page cxliv note * Robert III. King of Scotland, died on Palm Sunday, 4th April, 1406.

page cxlv note * This is the account furnished by the Scoti-ohronieon of Fordun, who was apparently a believer in the report that Richard the Second was alive and then a fugitive in Scotland, as he declares that many from England in those days fled from the court of Henry the Fourth and came into Scotland to King Richard, and among them Henry Percy the elder, with his grandson Henry the younger, the Lord Bardolf, and two Welsh bishops— namely, Griffin Bishop of Bangor, and David Bishop of St. Asaph, and the Abbot of Welbeok. He also describes Sir Thomas Rokeby erroneously as a certain Richard Rukby, a vassal of the Karl of Northumberland, and hence a certain degree of discredit attaches to his story of the enterprise having been prompted by his treacherous advice. It is absurd to suppose that King Henry IV. would have appointed any of the liegemen of the Earl of Northumberland to the post of sheriff, whose treason dated from an earlier period than the year he was in office.

page cxlvi note * The feast of St. Valentine occurs on the fourteenth of February, and in the year 1408 it was on a Tuesday, and hence the Sunday next after was the 19th day of February, the eleventh calends of March, and not the second calends of March, as it stands printed in the Ipodigma Neustriæ of Walsingham, which error has been blindly followed by every modern writer, and doubtless arose from a misconception that the Arabic number 11 was the Roman numeral II.

page cxiv note * Margery Lady Scrope was the widow of Stephen Scrope, second Baron Scrope of Masham, deceased 25 January, 1406, and a daughter of John Lord Welles, whose son Henry, third Lord Serope of Masham, Was beheaded 5th August, 3 Ren. V. 1415, and attainted. This manor, which has now the name of Carlton-Soroop, is in the hundred of Loveden, and will have been thus granted out by the King after it had come into hia hands % the forfeiture consequent upon this treason.

page clvi note * Sir John Phelipp, knight, had in his retinue thirty men-at-arms and ninety archers, and, from an inquisition taken after the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham, K.Q. his, uncle, at Farringdon, com. Berks, 8th of July, 1428, before Thomas Rothwell, the King's escheator, as to his tenure of the manor anciently called Worth, and then divided into the manors of Wadeley and Wykingesham (which had been given by King Edward III. By his letters patent, dated 16 April, fiftieth year of his reign, 1376, to Sir Gilbert Talbot, chiva)er, deceased, by the name of Gilbert Talbot, of Castle Richard, Esquire, and had escheated to the Crown by reason of the decease of Richard de Pembrugg, chivaler, withoat issue of his body, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body; after whose decease, his widow Margaret had dower assigned to her in the same, the reversion of which, and the residue of the same manors, had come into the King's hands by the decease of Richard Talbot, son and heir of the same Sir Gilbert, as well as of the aforesaid Gilbert, without issue male, and had been given by Henry V. late King of England, by his letters patent, dated 10 November, first year of his reign, 1113, to his beloved and faithful knight Sir Thomas Erpingham, for the term of his life,) we learn that Sir John Phelipp, and Matilda, his wife, had the reversion of the same manors after his decease, to them for their lives, and to the heirs of the body of Sir John Phelipp, of the grant of the same King; and that upon their decease without issue, the King, by his letters patent dated 8 December, third year of his reign, 1415, granted the said reversion, after the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham and the Lady Margaret Talbot, to his beloved and faithful knight William Porter, to hold to him and his heirs male. The inquisition has also this finding as to the decease of the said tenant for life and his heir: “Quod predictus Thomas Erpyngham, miles, obiit die dominica proxima post festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptiste ultimo preteritum (27 Jun. 1428) et quod eedem due partes maneriorum predictorum valent per annum in omnibus exitibus xl marcas, et quod Willelmus Phelipp, miles, est consanguineus et heres ejus propinquior, videlicet, films Juliane sororis dicti Thome, et est etatis quadraginta annorum et amplius.'’ By the inquisitions taken after the decease of Sir John Phelipp, knight, pursuant to writs with the teste of John Duke of Bedford, Guardian of England, at Westminster, 8th October, 3 Hen. V. 1418, we learn that Sir William Phelipp knight, Thomas Chaucer esquire, and others, had enfeoffed Sir John Phelipp knight and Alice his wife, and the heirs issuing of their bodies, in the several manors of the inheritance of Thomas Chaucer, the father of the said Alice, and each contains this finding as to the day of his decease and the age of his heir, and, as being of earlier date than the one cited above, the statement as to age is doubtless correct; “Quod predictus Johannes Phelipp obiit die Mercurii proximo ante festum Sancte Fidis Virginis ultimo preteritum, et quod Willelmus Phelipp, frater dicti Johannis, est ejus heres propinquior, et etatis xxxi annorum et amplius.” Besides the manors held by him in right of his wife, the other property consisted of forfeited lands belonging to the attainted Henry Lord Scrope of Masham, and the alien abbeys of Fontevraud and the Holy Trinity of Caen, granted by the Sovereign; but he had nothing of his own inheritance,—a proof that he was the younger brother, and consequently not more than thirty years old at the time of his decease. Alice, his widow, remarried, first, Thomas de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, K.G-. slain 3 Nov. 7 Hen. VI. 1428; and, secondly, William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, afterwards Marquis and Duke of Suffolk, K.G. murdered on the 2nd of May, 28 Hen. VI. 1450,

page clxi note * Pursuant to a writ addressed to Henry Barton, mayor of the city of London, and the King's escheator in the same, with the King's teste at Westminster, 1st Nov., 7 Hen. VI., 1428, the following inquisition was taken respecting the tenure of Sir Thomas Erpingham of this messuage, in the city of London, 4th day of October, 8 Hen. VI., 1429, by the oath of twelve jurors, honest and lawworthy men of the said city:—” Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod Thomas Erpyngham in dicto brevi nominatus tenuit de domino Rege die quo idem Thomas Erpyngham obiit unum hospicium cum una shopa eidem hospicio annexa et aliis pertinentiis situatum in parochia Sancti Benedicti in Thamys Strete, in civitate domini Regis predicti, quod quidem hospicium cum shopa et aliis pertinentiis suig dictus Thomas habuit de dono domini Henrici nuper Regis Anglie, avi domini Regis nunc, ad terminum vite ipsius Thome Erpyngham, etquod idem hospitium cum pertinentiis valet per annum ultra reprisas, si locaretur, lxs., et dicta shopa valet per annum ultra reprisas vij. viiirf. Dicunt tamen iidem jurat ores quod dictum hospicium cum pertinentiis atetit vacuum a quarto die Julii anno regni domini Regis nunc sexto, quo die dictus Thomas obiit usque ad festum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste tune proximo sequens, ad quod festum Willelmus Phelipp, chivaler, dictum hospicium cum shopa et aliis pertinentiis intrant et occupavit et adhuc occupat, eo quod idem Willelmus Phelipp habuit et habet dictum hospicium cum shopa at aliis pertinentiis suis per litteras patentes Domini Regis none; Bed quern statum inde habet juratores predicti penitus ignorant. Et dicunt quod dictum hospicium cum pertinentiis suis tenetur de domino Rege in libero burgagio sicut tota oivitas Londoniarum tenetur; sed per quod servicium dicti juratores penitus ignorant. Dicunt ulterius iidem juratores quod non est aliquis heres ipsius Thome Erpyngham; neo idem Thomas Erpyngham plura terras seu tenementa habuit infra libertatem civitatis prediote dicto die quo obiit, prout predictis jurat or ibus ad presena constare potest quoquo modo. In cujus rei juratores predicti huie inquisitioni sigilla sua apposuerunt. Data quarto die Octobris anno octavo et loco supradictis.” These ignorant citizens erroneously name the day of the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham as Sunday the 4th day of July, instead of the preceding Sunday, 27th June, as put down in the earlier inquisitions, whence we may infer that he died at his manor of Erpingham; and this jnisstatement has been adopted by Mr. Beltz in his “Memorials of the Garter.”

page clxiii note * On the back of this roll of letters patent is this entry—” Willelmus Phelipp miles eapi, talil senescallus ducatus nostri Lancastrie in comitatibua Derbie, Norffolcie, et Suffolcie, Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium, iv die Decembris.”

page clxvi note * Dennington is a parish in Suffolk, in the deanery of Hoxne, as are now also Brundish and Tattington; though the former was once a chapelry to Tattington. Glemham Parva is a parish in the deanery of Orford, and Creetingham in that of Loose; from which last 18 d. was due annually to this chantry in Dennington, mistaken for a college by Ecton in his Thesaurus. They were all comprised in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich. ‘Wilbraham Parva is in the deanery of the same name, com. Camb., and comprised in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely.

page clxvi note † Brusyard was the site of a nunnery of minoresses, of the order of St. Clare, founded in the 38th year of Edw. III., at the suggestion of his son Lionel, Duke of Clarence and Earl of Ulster, and presided over by an abbess, and lies in the immediate vicinity of Dennington. Redlingfield was also a nunnery in the same neighbourhood, of the foundation of Manasses, Comte of Guinea, and of Emma, his wife, daughter and coheir of William of Arques, misprinted “Arras” by Dugdale and Tanner; and the name of the Prioress Alicia Lampitt is an addition to the nomenclature of its superiors; they were Benedictinenuns.

page clxvii note * Dugdale cites this passage from the will in register Chichely, p. 481, in proof of his erroneous statement, that Sir John Fhelipp, knight, was father of Sir William Fhelipp, having overlooked the word parentum, in which his parents are included. It is selfevident that reference is here made to his brother mentioned in the text.

page clxviii note * Carhoe or Carrow was a Benedictine nunnery in the county of the city of Norwich.

page clxviii note † Brandeston is the adjoining parish to Cretingham, and in the same deanery of Loose. The family of Tyrwhitt had anciently their seat at Kettelby, in the parish of Bigby, soke of Wrawby, which was part of the barony of Shelford, and is doubtless the manor which was recovered by Sir William Tyrwhitt, ancestor of the baroriets of that name, who resided at Stainfield, to the same county.

page clxx note * The word tricennale was significative of an office of thirty masses, which was performed during as many days for the deceased, and hence its application in the will as descriptive of the day of burial, when this office commenced. This phrase Dugdale has absurdly translated by the English word ‘” month's-mind.”

page clxxi note * Baddingham Is a parish in the deanery of Hoxne, adjacent to Dennington.

page clxxi note † William Alnwiek, archdeacon of Salisbury, was appointed to the see of Norwich 27th Feb. 1426, and translated to Lincoln 19th Sept. 1436 j obiit 5 Dec. 1449.

page clxxi note ‡ John Beaumont, Lord of Folkingham, com. Line, was at the date of this will a baron, and the husband of his only child Elizabeth; but prior to the decease of William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf, he was created on the 12th Feb. 1440 the first English viscount, by reason of his descent from the vicomtes of Maine.

page clxxii note * John Heydon was of Baoonsthorp, com. Norf. and a lawyer of great eminence.

page clxxii note † Reginald Rous was of Dennint ton, and ancestor of Sir John Rou9, baronet, of Henham, in the parish of Bulohamp, Suffolk, who was created, May 28,1796, Baron Rous of Dennington, and 18 July, 1821, Viscount Dunwich and Earl of Stradbroke.

page clxxii note ‡ Dngdale, in his abstract of this will from Register Chieheley, in the library at Lambeth, with his usual carelessness, has assigned a wrong date to this codicil, as if it had been of the eighth of July next ensuing that of his will, instead of the right date, 30th May, 19th Hen. VI., 1441, the year of the decease of the testator. And hence the discrepancy in describing John Lord Beaumont as a viscount before his creation to the title, if the codicil had been dated 8th July, 1439, as it stands printed in his Baronage, vol. il.p. 214.

page clxxvi note * This entry upon the Roll of Letters Patent was pursuant to the statute 18 Hen. VI. cap. 1, by enacting, “that of every warrant hereafter sent to the Chancellor of England, the day of the date of the delivery of the same to the Chancellor shall be entered of record in the Chancery, and that the Chancellor do cause letters patent to be made upon the same warrant, bearing date the day of the said delivery into Chancery, and not before inany case.”

page clxxviii note * This Robert Erpingham by his will left legacies to all the friars in Norwich, —” Hie jacet Dominus Johannes de Erpingham Miles, quondam Dominus istius ville, qui obiit primo die mensis Augusts, anno Domini M.CCC.LXX0. cuius anime propicietur Deus. Amen.” Hence father and son had died in the same year, and it is evident from the age of Sir Thomas Erpingham (who in 1406 was pledge for Sir Edward Hastings, of Elsing, Knight, in the Court of Chivalry, in the great cause between Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn, plaintiff, and him, about the arms and title of Hastings, and made his deposition in his favour in the following year, 9 Hen. IV., wherein he swears to his being of the age of fifty years and upwards), born in 1357, that he was son of this Robert Erpingham, and brother of Sir John Erpingham and Juliana wife of Sir William Phelipp. As these manors were vested in the feoffees named in the text, the inquisition post mortem after the decease of Sir Thomas Erpingham contains no notice of his tenure of these manors, although, pursuant to the writ of the 1st of July, to the escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk, an inquisition was taken at Erpingham on the 2d day of November, 7 Hen. VI., 1428. The finding was to this effect: ‘? Quod dictus Dominus Rex octavo die Julii anno regni sui primo, per litterasauas patentes dictis juratoribus super capcionem hujus inquisitionis ostensas, inter alia concessit Thome Erpyngham chivaler in dicto brevi nominato, per nomen dilecti et fidelis militis sui Thome Erpyngham, et Roberto Haye clerioo, ac Roberto Lymburn clerico, adhuc superstiti, ad opus Domini Thome Erpyngham prioratum de Toftys et maneria de Toftys et Horstede in comitatu predicto, una cum omnibus decimis, ” The value of this priory and manors was 30 K. annually, and he is declared to have held no other lands in the county. The finding as to the day of his decease and as to his heir, is the same as in the inquisition at Farringdon, save that his heir, Sir William Phelipp, is said to be thirty years and upwards of age: a correct statement. The alien priory of Toft Monks was a cell to the abbey of St. Peter and Paul at Preaux, near Pont Audemer, in Lower Normandy; and the manor of Horstead belonged to the abbey of the Holy Trinity at Caen.

page clxxix note * In the Nomina Villarum, 9th Edw. II. 1316, for the county of Norfolk, Hundredum de Suth Erpyngham, we read, “Erpingham cum Ingworth, et sunt domini ejusdem, Robertus de Erpingham, Willelmus Gerberge, Edwardus filius ejus, Prior de Fakenhamdam, Petrus de Brampton, Henricua de Coleby.” Hanworth is a manor in the hundred of North Erpingham, and was then held by John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk; and Parkin, the continuator of Blomefield, in ignorance of this tenure of the manor of Erpingham, informs us that Sir William Phelip Lord Bardolf died seised of the manor of Belhouse in Hanworth, and that William Viscount Beaumont held it in the beginning of Edward the Fourth's reign. In Domesday this manor of Erpingham was of the land of Roger Bigot. Horseford was the site of a castle, and descended in the line of Clavering, Ufford, Bowet, to Elizabeth Bowet, the heiress, wife of Thomas Lord Dacra of the South, and not John, aa written in this inquisition. Under Erpingham Mr. Parkin appends this note, in reference to William Phelipp, Lord Bardolf:—”In 1415, 3 Hen. V. he was hired to serve the King with 12 men at arms and 24 archers, and to attend him over the sea in his own person for three months, beginning June 22, and to be ready at Southampton; he was to be paid out of the next fifteenths granted by the laity. He sealed with his arms, Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter an eagle displayed argent; crest a garb or, and circumscribed ‘Sigillum Willielmi Phelip militis.'” The helmet on his monument is surmounted by this crest. In 1430 Sir William Phelipp, knight, and Joan, his wife, presented Joan Keche, named in the text, to the church of St. Mary Erpingham, who was deceased in 1435. The following charter is of importance in elearing up the confused account of the Norfolk Topographer:—“A Justice de Cestre ou a son Lieutenant, &c Robert de Erpingham et Johan son filz et Johan de Colby, chivalers, saluj. Come done nous soit a entendre que Isabelle la file Monsieur Richard de Stockport mourut seisi en son demeigne de certains tenements en la dit counte, a quel Isabell John fitj Monsieur Edward de Warrenn, a ceo que nous avons entendus de notre part, est cozen et droite heire. Et pur certain nous vous facions assavoir que Cioilie, la file Monsieur Nichole de Eton, fust marie au dit Monsieur Edward, et que l'avantdit Johan est eisne fit} et heire as dits Monsieur Edward et Cicilie et nee3 et engendre3 dedeins les esposailes. As queux choses tesmoigner a cestes lettres patentes nous avons mis nos seales. Done a Erpingham le viii. jour de Marj Tan du reigne du Roy q'or est quaranteqnart (8 Mar. 1370).” To this deed these three seals remained attached: a fesse of seven fusils between 3 escallops, circumscribed, “Sigillum Johannis de Colby;” an inescutcheon between eight martlets, circumscribed, “Sigillum Roberti de Erpingham;” and the same, with a label of three points, circumscribed, “Sigillum Johannis de Erpingham.” Hence, in the interval between the date of this charter and the first day of August following, these two knights, father and son, were both deceased, and the heir was Sir Thomas Erpingham, the younger brother of the latter, and not the son, as Mr. Parkin has conjectured. These manors and advowson had been enfeoffed to three persons, who in right thereof presented to the church in 1372, of which the advowson was in moieties between the Abbot of Holm and the lord of the manor. In 1403, Sir Thomas Erpingham presented John Lynes to this church. The description of the manor in the inquisition as that of Sir Robert Erpingham is sufficient proof that he was the fether of Sir Thomas and Lady Phelipp.

page clxxx note * On the Roll of Letters Patent, 19 Hen. VI. m. 5, under the heading “Pro Johanne Vicecomite de Beaumont,” we have a recital of the Letters Patent of the said King, bearing date 1 lth Nov. 16th year of his reign, in respect of the honour and manor of Wyrmegay, the manors of Stowebardolf, North Rungton, Fareswell in Fyncham.and all lands, tenements, rents, and services, with the appurtenances, in Stowebardolf, North Rungton, Fyncham, and Tilney, which had been those of Thomas late Lord of Bardolf, and which, after his forfeiture, had been granted by Henry the Fourth to Thomas Duke of Exeter and the heirs of his body, and then in the King's hands by reason of his decease, thereby granted to Sir William Phelipp and Joan, and to the heirs of their bodies; also of those of the 31st day of Jan. 16th year of his reign, as to the reversion of the moieties of Cathorp, &c held by the same parties and Anne Lady Cobham; and those of the 10th May, 16th year of his reign, as to the manors of Halloughton, Castre, and Clopton, with this clause following; “Nos, bona et laudibilia servicia, que dileotus et fldelis oonsanguineus noster Johannes Vicecomes de Beaumont nobis impendit indiesque impendere non desistit, extunc contemplantes, de gratia nostra speciali, concessimus quod dicta honor et manerium de Wyrmegaye, &c, que prefata Joanna sic tenet in forma predicta, et que, si ipsa sine herede de corpore suo et corpore dicti Willelmi Phelipp procreato obire contigerit, ad nos et heredes nostros reverti debebant, eo quod predietus Willelmus Phelipp mortuus est, acmedietates dictorum maneriorum de Cathorp, &c que quidem medietates, &c post mortem prediote Anne ad predictam Johannam et heredibus de corpore ipsius Johanne et de corpore predicti Willelmi Phelipp exeuntibus virtute dictarum litterarum patentium eisdem Willelmo et Johanne inde confectarum remaneri debebant, eo quod predietus Willelmus Clyfford sine herede de corpore suo et corpore predicte Anne procreato obiit, ut predictum est, et que post mortes earumdem Anne et Johanne, si ipsa Johanna sine herede de corpore suo et corpore prefati Willelmi Phelipp exeunte obire contigerit, ad nos et heredes nostros reverti debebant, ac etiam alie medietates maneriorum de Clopton et Castre, que quidem &c (ut supra) prefato Johanni Vicecomiti de Beaumont integre remaneant, habenda et tenenda sibi et heredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus imperpetuum de nobis et heredibus nostris per servicia inde debita et consueta. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium xxx^o die Augusti.”

Hence, in case of failure of issue of his deceased wife, under this grant he would have been tenant in tail of the lands belonging to the family of Bardolf in Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and of the manor of Birling in Sussex, with remainder to any heir of his body. By his second wife, Katharine, Duchess of Norfolk, he had issue one daughter, Katharine, married to Henry last Lord Grey, of Codnor, com. Derb., to whom she was second wife. Milles in his Catalogue of Honour makes John Viscount Beaumont, father of Joan wife first of Sir William Willoughby, brother of Robert Lord Willoughby, and secondly of William Marquis of Berkeley; but Dugdale, on the authority of evidences at Berkeley, says she was daughter of Sir Thomas Strangways, knight, second husband of the Duchess of Norfolk.

page clxxxi note * William Alnwick, Bishop of Norwich, 27 Feb. 1426, had been translated to Lincoln 19th Sept. 1436, and hence the description as late Bishop of Norwich. He died 5 Dec.1449.

page clxxxiii note a Sir William Bardolf, knight, had been Lieutenant of the Captain of Calais, Richard Earl of Warwick, during the reign of Henry V. and died without issue on Sunday, the feast of St. James the Apostle, 25 July, 1 Henry VI. 1423, seized for the term of his life of the manor called Kingeshall, in Clopton, together with the advowson of the church of Debach, belonging to the same manor, worth 40s. annually, held of the lord the King in chief by fealty, and the render of one pair of gilt spurs, price 6d., for all services, according to an inquisition taken at Woodbridge, com. Suff. on Wednesday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the second year of the reign of Henry the Sixth after the Conquest, 15 Sept. 1423, before Edmund Wynter, the King's escheator in the laid eounty, which has this finding: “Dicunt quod predictus Willelmus Bardolf obiit die dominica in festo Sancti Jacobi Apostoli ultimo preterito, et quod Anna nuper uxor Willelmi Clifford militis defunoti et Johanna nunc uxor Willelmi Phelipp militis sunt consanguinee et heredes predicti Willelmi Bardolf propinquiores, videlicet, filie Thome fratris predicti Willelmi Bardolf. Et dicunt quod predicta Anna est etatis trigintaquatuor annorum et amplius, et quod predicta Joanna est etatis triginta-tres annorum et amplius.” The jury, on a second inquisition, taken at Cantley, in the county of Norfolk, on Saturday next after the feast of the Nativity of Blessed Mary the Virgin, 11th Sept.before the same escheator, found as follows: “Quod dominus Henricus nuper Rex Anglie post Conquestum quartus, avus domini Regis nunc, per Iitteras suas patentes, quarum datum est xii° die Augusti anno regni sui sexto, concessit Willelmo Bardolf militi in dioto brevi nominato maneria de Qwynbergh, Cantele, et Strumpeshagh, cum omnibus pertinentiis in comitatu predicto, una cum advocacionibus ecclesiarum et feodis militum ad predicta maneria pertinentibus, que per forisfacturam domini Thome, nuper domini de Bardolf, ad manus ipsius nuper Regis devenerunt, habenda predioto Willelmo pro termino vite sue in forma in eisdem litteris contenta; quo pretextu predictus Willelmus Bardolf de maneriis predictis cum pertinentiis fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de libero tenemento. Et dicunt quod postea idem nuper Rex per Iitteras suas patentas dictis juratoribus super capcionem hujus inquisitionis in evidentia ostensas, quarum datum est apud Westmonasterium decimo nono die Junii anno regni sui nono, inter alia reeitando quod dilecti sibi Willelmus Clifford chivaler et Anna uxor ejus et Willelmus Phelipp, nunc miles, et Johanna uxor ejus, filie et heredes Thome domini de Bardolf defuncti, sibi dederunt intelligi qualiter idem nuper Rex xii° die Augusti, anno regni sui sexto, per Iitteras suas patentes concessit predicto Willelmo Bardolf, per nomen Willelmi Bardolf chivaler, maneria predicta cum pertinentiis per nomina maneriorum de Qwynbergh, Cantele, et Strumpeshagh cum omnibus pertinentiis in comitatu Norfolcie, que quidem maneria in manus predicti nuper domini Regis tanquam forisfacta occasione rebellionis per Thomam dominum de Bardolf facte devenerunt, habenda et tenenda eidem Willelmo Bardolf ad terminum vite sue, reversione inde eidem nuper Regi reservata, de gratia sua special! Et de assensu consilii sui et per finem ducentarum marcarum ad opus suum solutum, inter alia dedit et concessit eisdem Willelmo Clifford et Anne uxori ejus et Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne uxori ejus reversiones prediotorum maneriorum de Qwynbergh, Canteley et Strumpeshagh cum pertinentiis, habendas et tenendas eisdem Willelmo Clifford et Anne uxori ejus et Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne uxori ejus pro termino vite eorum et protermino vite illius eorum qui supervixerit, et heredibus de corporibus eorum exeuntibus, et pro defectu exitus reversione inde prefato nuper Regi et heredibus suis spectante imperpetuum una cum feodis militum et advocacionibus ecclesiarum. Dicunt etiam quod predictus nuper Rex de uberiori gratia sua et de assensu concilii sui per easdem Iitteras patentes inter alia concessit prefatis Willelmo Clifford et Anne uxori ejus et Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne uxori ejus quod si ipsi aut heredes sui de corporibus suis exeuntes informari vel aliqualiter certiorari possint in futurum, quod maneria predicta seu aliqua parcella eorumdem talliata existent vel existat, unde predicte Anna vel Johanna seu heredes sui sunt vel possunt hereditari, quod tune presens concessio seu acceptacio ejusdem prefatis Willelmo Clifford, Anne, Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne, aut versus ipsos vel heredes de corporibus suis, ut premittitur, exeuntes prejudiciale vel exclusio in futurum non existat, sed quod bene licet sibi et heredibus actionem, recuperacionem, et avantagium sua, prout pro proflcuo suo et avantagio suo melius videbitur, capere, hac concessione per dominum nuper Begem eis facta seu acceptacione ejusdem non obstante. Virtute ipsiusdoni et conoessionis predictus Willelmus Bardolf predictis Willelmo Clifford et Anne, Willelmo et Johanne, attornavit et postea de statu suo predicto inde pretextu premissoram obiit seisitus. Et dicunt quod predictum manerium de Quinbergh, exceptis cxxviii. acris terre in eodem manerio, tenetur de domino Eege in capite per servieium unius feodi militis, et quod predicte cxxviii. acre terre tenentur de manerio de Hardyngham, per quod servieium ignorant. (Extent.) Et quod advocaciones ecclesie predicte ville de Quinbergh et ecclesie ville de Gerston pertinent eidem manerio, unde Qwinberg valet x H. et Gerston JEX marcas. Cantele manerium extentura, et quod advocacio ecclesie predicte ville pertinet eodem manerio et valet xx libras. Et in manerio de Cantele, videlicet in villis Castre Sancte Trinitatis et Castre Sancti Edmundi in hundredo de Estflegg sunt terre et curia, et dicunt quod advocatio ecclesie Sancti Edmundi de Castre pertinet manerio de Cantele et valet x marcas, et quod predictum manerium tenetur de domino Bege in capite per servieium unius militis. Strumpshaghe manerium extentum, et quod tenetar de Domino Rege in capite per servieium unius militis. Item dicunt quod predictus Willelmus Bardolf miles tenuit die quo obiit in dominico suo ut de feodo manerium de Scrouteby in comitatu predicto. (Extent.) Et dicunt quod predictum manerium de Scrouteby tenetur de Thoma Huntyngfeld per servieium unius feodi militis. Et dicunt quod predictus Willelmus Bardolf obiit die Dominica in festo Sancti Jacobi Apostoli ultimo preterito, et quod predictus Willelmus Clifford obiit sine herede de corpora predicte Anne exeunte diu ante mortem predicti Willelmi Bardolf. Et quod predicta maneria de Qwinbergh, Cantele, et Strumpshagh cum pertinentiis predicte Anne ac predictis Willelmo Phelipp et Johanne pretextu premissorum jam remanere debent.” Heirs and ages as above. Another inquisition was taken at Lewes on Saturday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 18th Sept. 2 Hen. YI. before Richard Wymeldon escheator, which describes the tenure of the deceased in the same words as the above in regard ofthe manor of Plumpton, with the liberties and advowson of the church, and the manor of Berkompe alias Barkhome, with the liberties and advowson of the church, held of the castle of Lewes, in the county of Sussex. Debach is a. small parish in the hundred of Wilford, Suffolk, with its church dedicated to All Saints, adjacent to Boulge, with which it is now united, and situate in the deanery of Wilford. Whinborough or Whinburgh, with its church dedicated to St. Mary, and Garveston, with its church dedicated to St.Margaret, are situate in the hundred of Mitford, and deanery of Hingham. Hardingham ii also adjacent, and the manor of Swathings in Hardingham was held of the Lords Bardolf by the ancient family of Gurney. Cantley, with its church dedicated to St. Margaret, is situate in the hundred and deanery of Blofield, and in 1406 John Dowes was presented to this church by Sir William Bardolf, knight, and in 1437 Thomas Muriel by Sir William Phelipp, in right of Joan, his wife. Caistor or Castor, in the hundred of East Flegg, was divided anciently into two parishes, St. Trinity, given by John Lord Birdolf, in 35 Edw. III. to the Gilbertine Priory of Shouldham, for the better support of Margaret de Montfort, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Catharine daughter of Guy de Warwick deceased, and his own sister Elizabeth, nuns there; and St. Edmund, to which church, in 1401, Richard Swayne had been presented by Sir ?William Bardolf, whose widow Joan remarried Richard Selling, who, 3 Hen. VI. Released this manor for an annuity to the Ladies Anne Clifford and Joan Phelipp.

page clxxxix note a The parties named in this will are, first, her niece, and probably god-daughter, the Lady Joan Boteler, daughter of Sir Andrew Boteler, knight, and of Katharine, sister of Sir William Phelipp Lord Bardolf, who was yet surviving. Her own sister was Anne Lady Cobham, and John Viscount Beaumont, her son-in-law. Joan, daughter of the latter and grand-daughter of the testator, was subsequent to this date the wife of John Baron Lovell of Titchmarsh, com. North0. The Lady Brewes was Ela, daughter of Sir Miles Stapleton of Ingham, com. Norf. and of Bedale, com. Ebor. and then the widow of Sir Robert Brewes of Salle, com. Norf. knight. The Lady Charles was Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Charles of Kettleburgh, com. Suff. knight. Lady Heveningham, wife of Sir John Heveningham of Heveningham, com. Suff. knight, had name Elizabeth, and -was after his decease the wife of John Wymondham, esq. The Lad; Cromwell wasJUargaret, daughter of John Lord Deincourt, and sister and coheir of William Lord Deincourt. John Heydon has been mentioned as executor of William Fhelipp Lord Bardolf. The wife of Sir Miles Stapleton was Catharine, daughter of Sir Thomas de la Pole, son of Michael, fint Earl of Suffolk of that family, after his decease the wife of Sir Richard Haroourt of EUenhaU, com. Staff, knight. The wife of Sir Bryan Stapleton of Kessiagland, oem. Suff. knight, had name Isabella, but her lineage is unknown; he was younger brother of Sir Miles Stapleton. Sir Thomas Tudenham of Keddington, com. Suff, knight, was beheaded on Tower Hill on the 22nd of February 14fil. Thomas Lord Scales of Scales Hall in Middleton, com. Norf. was slain on the 25th of July, 38 Hen. VI. 1460.

page cxc note * The extract from this will is in the Norris MSS. vol. 2, p. 176.

page cxcv note * In the note at the foot of p. cxl. the conjecture that Croweberg was the manor of Greenbury, is erroneous. It was the name of a separate manor in the parish of Wattonatt-Stone, as appears by a record cited in Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, namely, Hot. Claus. 8 Ric. II. m. 33, being a copy of the grant made by William Bardolf, knight, Lord of Wyrmegaye, to John Cley, clerk, John Grene, clerk, Robert Alesaundre and Nicholas Horspath, of the said manor of Crowbergh in the vill of Watton-at- Stone, and of lands in Datchworth, Welwe, and Aston. Datchworth, Welwyn, and Aston are adjoining parishes to Watton-atte-Stone. One of the heirs of Peter de Valoinea was Alexander de Baliol, and according to Chauncy, the older historian of this county, he granted this estate to Sir Robert Aguillon.

page cxcvi note † The church of Stapleford, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanery of Hertford, archdeaconry of Huntingdon, diocese of Lincoln, in the patronage of the lords of this manor of Watton, called Bardolfs, and in its immediate vicinity, was thus filled by incumbents at this time under Bishops Repingdon and Alnewick: William Swayn, 4th Dec. 1409, presented by William Phelipp, esquire; William Berle, priest, 31st Oct. 1416, upon the resignation of the same by Sir William Phelipp, knight; William Goodwife, 4th Sept. 1443, upon the resignation of Simon Wylde, by Sir Reginald Cobham of Sterbergh, knight, and Anne, his wife, and Joan, widow of Sir William Phelipp, knight, Lady Bardolf.

page cxcvii note * Apparently the moiety of the manor of Shelford, which was of the Everingham fee, a family in which the representation of the lines of Canx and Berkin had vested, had beensold prior to the decease of Reginald de Everingham and of his son Edmund in the 15th Rio. II. 1391–2, as there is no mention of their being seized of this moiety in the inquisition taken after their deaths; and hence this moiety being held in fee by -Anne, Lady Cobham, she was empowered to grant it to the feoffees named in the text, one of whom was Richard Illingworth, whose son and heir, Ralph, 17 Edw. IV. 1477, acknowledged himself to hold the manor of Shelford, called Everingham Fee, of the King in chief, for half a knight's ftef. The other moiety was the Bardolf Pee, and passed to her heir, William, Viscount Beaumont, along with Stoke Bardolf manor, in the parish of Gedling.

page cc note * The church of Plumpton had been given by Reginald de Warren to the Prior and Canons of St. Mary Overy, Southwark, as we learn from a charter printed by Dugdale in the Monasticon. Both the churches of Plumpton and Barcombe were rectories, out of which pensions were owing to the Priory of Lewes, of 2Gs. 8d. from Plumpton, and 5». from Barcombe. They are situate in the Archdeaconry and Deanery of Lewes, diocese of Chichester; and had lay patrons at the time of Pope Nicolas's Taxation in 1291. Birling was only a manor in the parish of East-Dean-cum-Friston, hundredof Willington and rape of Pevensey, giving name to Birling Gap Upon the sea coast. The Honour, of which the castle of Pevensey was the chief seat, was afterwards designated the Honour of L'Aigle from the family which possessed it in the reign of Henry the First and so surnamed from a town in Normandy. In one inquisition Birling is described to be held of the Honour of Aquila, and eventually this Honour became parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster.

page cciii note * The writ is as follows:—” Henricus, Dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie, Escaetori suo in comitatu Lincolnie, salutem. Qnia Willelmus Beaumont, miles, Dominus Bardolf, filius Johannis nuper Vicecomitis Beaumont, et Elizabethe uxoris ejus defuncte, eonsanguineus et heres Johanne, Domine de Bardolf, que de nobis tenuit in capite, die quo obiit, videlicet, filius Elizabethe, filie predicte Johanne, ae eonsanguineus et heres Anne, que fuit uxor Eeginaldi Cobham militis, que similiter tenuit de nobis in capite die quo obiit, videlicet filius Elizabethe, filie dicte Johanne, sororis ejusdem Anne, dicit se plene etatis esse et petit de nobis terras et tenements, que sunt de hereditate sua et in custodia Johannis Vicecomitis Beaumont ex commissions nostra, sibi reddi; per quod volumus quod idem Willelmus, qui apud Edenham in comitatu predicto natus et in ecclesia ejusdem ville baptizatus fuit, ut dicit, etatem suam probet coram te. Et ideo tibi precipimus quod ad certos diem et locum, quos ad hoc provideris, probacionem predictam per sacramentum tarn militum quam aliorum proborum et legalium hominum de comitatu predicto, per quos probaeio ilia capi et veritas etatis predicte melius sciri posset et inquiri, capias. Et scire facias prefato Johanni quod tune sit ibidem ad ostendendum, si quid pro se habeat vel dicere sciat quare prefato Willelmo, ut illi, que plene etatis est, si plene etatis sit, terras et tenementa predicta cum pertinentiis reddere non debeamus. Et probacionem illam sic captam nobis in cancellaria nostra sub sigillo suo et sigillis, per quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione mittas et hoc breve. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium secundo die Septembris anno regni nostri tricesimo nono.” There is also this endorsement on this brief:—” Executio istius probationis patet in quadam probatione huic brevi consuta;” and below, “Et ulterius vobis certifieo quod infrascriptus Johannes Viceeomes mortuus est. Ricardus Pyssheburn, armiger, Escaetor.” Hence the Sovereign up to this time was uncertain as to the fate of his gallant adherent, and as this proof of age was delivered into the Court of Chancery on the 20th day of September, 39 Hen. VI. by the hands of William Belford, it would only be on that day that the truth of his being slain was certified to his Sovereign.

page cciii note † Polkingham, a market-town and parish in the hundred of Avelund, parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, was also the site of a castle, which, after being the capital seat of the Honour of Gaunt, was, with its appendant knight's fees, given to Henry de Beaumont, his cousin, by Edward the Second, in the first year of his reign.

page cciv note * Edenham, a parish in the wapentake of Beltisloe, parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, had, with its soke, been parcel of the Honour of Gaunt; thus, in the Testa de Nevill, under Wapentacha de Beltislowe, we read, “Gilbertus de Gaunt tenet Edinham per baroniam de domino Rege in capite de conquestu. Item, Abbas de Valle Dei et Hugo de Bussey tenent ibidem feodum unius militis de Radulpho de la Bruere, et idem Radulphus de Gilberto de Gaunt, et idem Gilbertus de domino Rege ut supra in capite.” This abbey of Vaudey is in the parish of Edenham, of the foundation of Geoffrey de Brachecurt, with the consent of Earl Gilbert; and to this spot, then called Brachecurt, a monastery of Cistercian monks was transferred from Bytham, an adjoining parish, where they had been first planted by William Le Gros, Comte of Aumale, in 1147. To this abbey the church of Edenham, dedicated to St. Michael, was appropriated. Thomas Claymound was lord of the manor of Little Hale, alias West Hale, near Folkingham, a hamlet of Great Hale.

page cciv note † John Litlington was Abbot of Crowland at this date, 23rd April, 1438. Bartholomew Brokesby, esquire, had letters of protection, dated 14th June, 3 Hen. V. 1415, in consequence of his being engaged to accompany the King in his expedition to France. He was seated at Freeby, com. Leic, and died 27 Hen. VI. 1448. Sir William Porter, knight, resided at Collyweston, com. North, near Stamford, and Anne was probably the first wife of Sir William Porter, heir to his father, Sir William Porter, knight, deceased in 14 Hen. VI. 1436, whose second wife, Agnes, daughter and coheir of Sir Adam Francis, knight, died in 1 Edw. IV. 1461, she being then his widow.

page ccvii note * Sir William Armine, knight, of Osgodby, a hamlet of the parish of Kirkby Underwood, adjacent to Edenham, is said to have married a daughter and heiress of Brittain of Barmeston—doubtless this Margaret.

page ccvii note † Grimsthorpe was a manor in Edenham, and anciently of its soke. “Gilbertus de Gaunt tenet Edenham et sokam in dominico de baronia sua,” is an entry in the Testa de Nevill under Belteslaw; and in the Nomina Villarum, 9 Edw. II. 1316, Edinham, Suthorpe, Eylestorp, Grummestorp, and Scotilthorpe are described as one vill in Beliteslawe. In the reign of Henry the Second, Robert Fitz-Hugh of Tatersale held one knight and a half of the demesne of Edenham; and his descendant, Robert de Tatersale, in the time of King John, had in Grimestorp the fief of a fifteenth part of one knight, which Hugh de Nevill, Grassus, held. In his descendants this manor continued for several generations, until it was acquired by the lord of the fief, John, Viscount Beaumont, who made it his

page ccviii note * On the Patent Roll, 39 Hen.VI. m. 18, under the heading “De licencia ingrediendi,” we read as follows:—“Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gracia nostra speciali concessimus et per presentes licenciam dedimus Willelmo Beaumont, militi, filio et heredi Johannis Vicecomitis Beaumont nuper defuncti, quod ipse in omnia et singula castra, dominia, maneria, terras, tenementa, possessiones, reveniones, hereditamenta quecumque cum feodis militum, advocationibus ecclesiarum, abbatiarum, prioratuum, capellarum, cantariarum et hospitalium, ac aliis commoditatibus et pertinentiis quibuscumque, que per sive post mortem predicti nuper Vicecomitis ad manus nostras devenerunt et in manibus nostris adhuc existunt seu devenire et existere debent, et que prefeto Willelmo nunc Vicecomiti Beaumont per sive post mortem predicti nuper Vicecomitis aliquo modo descenderunt, remaneant vel pertinent, sive quovismodo descenders, reverti, remanere vel pertinere sive spectare debent seu deberent, licite et impune ingredi et seisiri et plenam et pacificam seisinam et possessionem inde capere ac exitus et proficua omnium et singulorum castrorum &c. a tempore mortis predicti Johannis nuper Vicecomitis Beaumont percipere, ac ea sibi et heredibus suis retinere, habere et tenere possit absque processu communi inde vel alicujus inde parcelle secundum legem regni nostri Anglie seu cursum cancellarie nostre faciendo, seu manus nostras amovendo, homagio tamen et fidelitate nobis in hac parte debitis nobis semper salvis. Et quod iidem ingressus, seisina et possessio per ipsum Willelmum nunc Vicecomitem Beaumont de et in premissis in forma predicta habiti et optenti sint et existant sibi et heredibus suis adeo efficaces et validi ac tanti vigoris in lege erga nos et heredes nostros, ac si esset vel essent ei una sufficiens et legalis liberacio vel plures sufficientes et legales liberaciones eorumdem per ipsum Willelmum, nunc Vicecomitem Beaumont, extra cancellariam nostram et per cursum communis legis nostre debite, prosecute et habite, aliqua negligencia, omissione vel misprisione aut aliquo defectu quocumque in inquisitionibus post mortem predicti nuper Vicecomitis, necnon omissione capcionis alicujus inquisitionis vel inquisitionum, que post mortem predicti nuper Vicecomitis capi debuissent, aut aliqua re vel materia vel quibuscunque nominibus predictus nuper Vicecomes Beaumont aut predictus nunc Vicecomes in inquisitionibus predictis censeantur, aut eo quod nulla inquisitio post mortem predicti nuper Vicecomitis virtute brevis nostri de diem clausit extremum capta et in cancellaria nostra retornata existat, aut eo quod expressa mencio de vero valore annuo premissorum, aut aliis donis et concessionibus eidem nunc Vicecomiti Beaumont seu alicui antecessori suo per nos vel per aliquem progenitorem nostrum ante hoc tempora factis, in presentibus facta non existit, aut aliquo statute seu ordinacione in contrarium facto, ordinato seu proviso, non obstante. In cujus rei, &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium xv^o die Novembris. Per breve de private sigillo et de data &c.

page ccxxi note * Norden, in his Description of Essex, mentions “Wyvenhoo Hall, decayde. A stately howse; sometyme E. of Oxford.” The families of Beaumont and Vere were nearly related through the marriage of Henry fifth Lord Beaumont with Margaret, daughter of John de Vere, seventh Earl of Oxford. In the east window of the church of Bartonupon-Humber is still remaining a portraiture of this nobleman in painted glass; and beneath was this tetrastick:

The word between brackets wanting in the original, thus supplied by Mr. Segar, was doubtless a third repetition of the word “iterum.”

page ccxxii note * Elizabeth Scrope, Viscountess Beaumont, was married to John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, son and heir of John de Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford, by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Howard, junior, knight, prior to 10th April, 24 Hen. VII. 1509, the date of his will, in which “Elizabeth my wife” is named executrix. By his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Richard Earl of Salisbury, he had a son, John, who died young in the Tower of London during his father's exile; and by his second, the lady above named, he had no issue. Departing this life 10 Mar. 4 Hen. VIII. 1513, he had interment in the Priory of Colne, under a tomb, which he had prepared for himself and Margaret his first wife, there already buried. The next Earl of Oxford, John de Vere, nephew of the deceased Earl, son of Sir George Vere, knight, his brother, died without issue, 14 July, 18 Hen. T i II. 1526, in the lifetime of the Countess of Oxford, and was succeeded in the Earldom by his cousin, John de Vere, fifteenth Earl of Oxford, son and heir of John, son and heir of Robert, uncle of the thirteenth Earl, husband of Elizabeth Scrope. By her will, bearing date 30th day of May, 29 Hen. VIII. 1537, proved 6th Nov. following, she bequeathed her body to be buried in the Parish Church of Wyvenhoe, by the corpse of William Viscount Beaumont, her first husband. Her effigy in brass still remains, with this inscription: “Of your charitie pray for the Soule of the high andnoble Lady, Elissabeth Scroope, first married to the noble lord, William, late Vycount Beaumont, lord Comyn, Bardolphe, Phelipp and Erpingham; and after Wife unto the high and noble Lorde John, sumtyme Earl of Oxford, High-Chamberlain of England and Admiral of the same, Vycount Bulbeck, Lord Scales, Councelor to our Soverayne lorde the Kyng, and knyght of the most noble Order of the Garter. The which Lady, Elizabeth, departed to God, the 26th Day of June, 1537, on whose Soule, and Christen Souls, Jesu have Mercy.” Her mantle is emblazoned on each side with the arms of her family, quarterly, 1 and 4, a bend with a crescent for difference, Scrope; 2 and 3, a saltire engrailed, Tiptoft. Over the right shoulder of the effigy is a shield, quarterly; 1 and 4, quarterly, a mullet in the first quarter, Vere; 2 and 3, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee, Howard, impaling her own coat as above. Over the left shoulder is also a shield, quarterly; 1, sem£e of fleurs-de-lis, a lion rampant, Beaumont; 2, quarterly, 1 and 4, three cinquefoils, Bardolf; 2 and 3, quarterly, in the first quarter an eagle displayed, Phelipp; 3, an ineseocheon within a bordure indented, Erpingham; 4, three garbs, Comyn, impaling her own coat as above. An abstract of her will is in Dugdale and in the Testamenta Vetusta by Sir Harris Nicolas, where a pedigree is appended, in which she is erroneously described as wife of John de Vere, fourteenth Earl of Oxford, nephew of her husband, whose wife was Anne or Agnes, daughter of Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, and who was not a Knight of the Garter. A correct pedigree of her paternal relations is inserted in the Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, where she is described to have had a sister, Frances, but omitting the name of her husband, Sir John St. Clere, Knight, by whom she had issue, John, Giles, and Elizabeth. Her half-sister, Frances Wyndham, had died in 1505, before the date of the will. Leland, in his Itinerary, vol. viii. f. 109 b. under Leicestershire, says, “Lughborow was of the Bellemount's lands, and the late old Countes of Oxford had it in Doure. Bewmaner, where Leonard Gray, by the King's leave, dyd dwell, was also the Lord Bellemount's, and so was thegreat pasture betwyxt Leircestre and Groby, called Bellemont's Lease.”

page ccxxiv note * The day of the battle of Stoke-by-Newark, in the county of Nottingham, was Saturday, the 16th of June, aad not the 20th, as here written.

page ccxxiv note † This act of attainder wag passed in the Parliament holden at Westminster 9th Nov. 3 Hen. VII. 1487, and sets forth how John, Earl of Lincoln, on the 19th day of the month of March last past, departed to the parti beyond sea, and there prepared a great navy from the coast of Brabant, with which he arrived in the ports of Ireland, where, on the 21th day of March, in the city of Dublin, he caused one Lambert Symnell, a child of ten years of age, son to Thomas Symnell, late of Oxford, joiner, to be proclaimed King of the realm; and from thence arrived with a great navy in Furness in Lancashire, the 4th day of June last past, whence, the same day, with Sir Thomas Broughton, knight, and others, to the number of 8000 men, in hostile manner he passed on continually from place to place until he came to Stoke in the county of Nottingham, where, the 16th day of June last past, he levied war against the person of his Sovereign and natural liege Lord, and gave to him mighty and strong battle. Throughout this Act there is no mention of Francis Viscount Lovell, who was apparently left out by reason that he had been already attainted in the Parliament holden at Westminster, 7 Nov. 1 Henry VII. 1485, as one of the partisans of Richard the Third. The second special act of attainder was therefore unnecessary, and its sole object appears, in making such false allegations, to have been to find some pretext for barring his heirs from claiming any inheritance, which would have reverted to him, had he been alive.