daughter, whose custody was given by the King to John de Torkesay, clerk, by Letters Close, dated at Canterbury, 8th Oct. 1215, together with that of the manor of Westcliff, which had been in the custody of Hugh de Boves. Amaury Comte of Evreux, husband of Milesendis de Gournai, was already deceased without issue previous to the voyage of the King into Poitou, as appears from Letters Close to Gion of the Chancery and to the Sheriff of Southampton, with the King's teste at the Tower of London, 4th Jan. 1214, commanding them without delay to cause the executors of the will of Amaury Comte of Evreux to have the chattels which had belonged to the same Comte, in Thornbury, in the bailiwick of the former, and in Petersfield and Mapledurham, in the bailiwick of the latter; and, in fact, his death will have been antecedent to the 20th day of November 1213, on which the King sent his Letter Close with his own teste at Tewkesbury, to the Sheriff of Buckingham, commanding him to cause Gillebert de Clare to have without delay full seisin of the two parts of the land which had belonged to Amaury Comte of Evreux, in Marlow and Hameldon in his bailiwick, and to cause Milicenta, the widow of the same Comte, to have the third part, with the chattels found in it. Another Letter Close, with the King's teste at Guildford, 15th Dec. following, addressed to the same sheriff, repeats the injunction for the Comtesse of Evreux to have her chattels, which she had in the land of Marlow and Hameldon, before Gilebert de Clare had seisin thereof by royal precept. On the back of membrane 10 of the roll of letters patents of the 16th year of King John, 1214-15, is this memorandum, Miliscent, comitissa de Ebroicis, attornavit loco suo Henricum de Nereford de placito terre inter ipsam comitissam et Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem et Priorem Dunestaple et Gunfridum de Mandevilla et Ysabellam uxorem suam, et Gilebertum de Clare. Et mandatum Justiciis de Banco quod ipsum Henricum attornatum suum loco suo recipient. On the Roll of Fines of the 17th and 18th of King John, m. 8. is a memorandum, notifying that the King had pardoned to William de Cantilupe 262 marks and 16d. which he owed to the King for the custody of Wilton, and 200 marks by which he had made fine with the King for having the Comtesse of Evreux on behalf of his son for a wife; and the precept to the Barons of the Exchequer to cause the said William to be quit thereof bears date at Marlborough, 8th July, 1215. This marriage was, therefore, completed at this above date, for it is certain that Milecent, Comtesse of Evreux, was the wife of William de Cantilupe, junior, at the date of the following Letter Close on the part of the young King Henry III. to Roger de la Zouch, with the teste of the Earl Marshal, at Winchester 15th day of March, 1217; whereby he was commanded to cause our beloved and faithful William de Cantilupe, junior, and Milisant, who had been wife of Aumary, late Comte of Evreux, to have without delay the reasonable dower of the same Milicent belonging to her of the manors of Petersfield and Mapledurham, which had belonged to the said Comte of Evreux, late her husband." During the six first years of the reign of Henry III. the lands of Hugh de Gournay were in the hands of the Crown, except during such terms as their custody was granted to William de Cantilupe by these several Letters Close: "The King to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire. We command you that you cause forthwith to be | King." The only exception made to full restidelivered to our beloved and faithful William tution regarded the land of Hugh de Gurnay de Cantilupe all the lands, with their appurte- in the soke of Waltham, com. Linc. which the nances, in your bailiwick, which were those of Sheriff was directed to take into the King's Hugh de Gurnai, and are in the occupation of hands, and to keep in his custody, with all the Hugh his son, and send to him some worthy chattels belonging to it. On the Fine Roll is and liege knight of your shire, by whose super- also a precept of the same date and to the same vision the rents and issues of those lands may effect, addressed to William de Cantilupe, who be collected, who, together with the same Wil- had had the custody of these lands up to this liam, may sufficiently answer thereof to us or time. to one whom we shall have appointed. And &c. Witness the Earl, at Warwick, 20th day of Dec. 1217." To the same effect it was commanded to the Sheriff of Norfolk and the Sheriff of Buckingham. "The King to the Sheriff of Lincoln, health. We command you that without delay you cause our beloved and faithful William de Cantalupe to have full seizin of all the land which was that of Hugh de Gurnay in your bailiwick, which we have committed to him to be in his custody as long as shall be our pleasure. Wherefore, &c. Witness, the Earl himself, at Westminster, 24th day of Jan. in the second year of our reign, 1218." The Sheriff of Norfolk was also written to in like form. In the sixth year of Hen. III. 1222, restitution was made to the heir, and in this form, as to the lands in Norfolk: "The King to the Sheriff of Norfolk. Know that we have restored to Hugh, son and heir of Hugh de Gurnay, all the lands and tenements which were those of Hugh de Gurnay his father, and are in our custody, and which belong to him by right of inheritance. Now, therefore, we command you that you cause him to have thereof, without delay, full seisin, with all their appurtenances in your bailiwick. Witness, Hubert, &c. at Westminster, 2nd day of May, in the year of our reign the sixth, through of our reign the sixth, through the same and the council of the Lord the In the account of Mapledurham mention has already been made of the death of the last Hugh de Gournay, and of the devolution of his barony in England on his infant daughter and heiress, Juliana de Gournai, afterwards the wife of William Bardolf, junior, deceased in her lifetime, 1 Dec. 1289. On that occasion the King wrote to Master Henry de Bray, Escheator citra Trentam, to this effect: "Ex parte Juliane de Gurney, que fuit uxor Willelmi Bardolf, defuncte, que de nobis tenuit in capite, nobis est ostensum, quod cum ipsa Juliana una cum predicto Willelmo conjunctim fuisset feoffata de manerio de Strummeshagh cum pertinentiis, et ipsa inde in plena et pacifica seisina simul cum predicto Willelmo a die feoffamenti predicti usque ad diem obitus ejusdem Willelmi extitisset, vos nichilominus manerium illud cum pertinentiis et etiam quasdam alias terras et tenementa que predictus Willelmus tenuit de hereditate ipsius Juliane in ballivia vestra die quo obiit, una cum aliis terris et tenementis que fuerunt ipsius Willelmi, occasione mortis ejusdem, cepistis in manu nostra et ea ei detinetis minus juste in ipsius Juliane dispendium non modicum et gravamen; nos, igitur, super premissis plenius certiorari volentes, vobis mandamus quod per sacramenta proborum et legalium hominum de ballivia vestra, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter inquiratis si predicta Ju liana una cum predicto Willelmo de predicto manerio cum pertinentiis conjunctim fuit feoffata, et inde in plena et pacifica seisina, simul cum predicto Willelmo, usque ad diem obitus ejusdem, sicut predictum est, nec ne. Et si sit, tunc qualiter et quo modo et per quantum tempus iidem Willellmus et Juliana de predicto manerio ante mortem ejusdem Willelmi fuerunt feoffati, et eciam quas terras et que tenementa predictus Willelmus tenuit de hereditate ipsius Juliane in ballivia vestra die quo obiit, et quantum valeant per annum. Et inquisitionem inde distincte et aperte factam nobis, sub sigillo vestro et sigillis eorum per quos facta fuerit, sine delatione mittatis et hoc breve. T. meipso apud Westmonasterium xxiii die Decembris, anno regni nostri decimo octavo." The brief is indorsed Norfolcia, and under it an inquisition was made at Stromeshawe on Wednesday next after the circumcision of the Lord, Jan. 4, 18 Edw. I. 1290, by the oaths of twelve jurors, who found that Sir Stephen de Strommeshawe had enfeoffed William Bardolf and Juliana de Gurnay, his wife, of the manor of Strommeshagh, with its appurtenances, in the same county, in the fourth year of the reign of Edward I. and that the aforesaid Juliana had been in full seisin with the aforesaid William, her husband, up to the day of the death of the aforesaid William, her husband; and that the aforesaid manor was held of Sir John de Wauton, by the service of half an ounce of silk yearly, or 6d. on the feast of St. Michael; the said manor, of which they made extent, was worth in all the sum of 19li. 3s. 8d. The same jurors also say, that the said William held the manor of Caistor of the inheritance of the aforesaid Juliana, his wife, and that it is held of the Lord the King in capite by barony of the Honour of Gournay. They also say that the advowson of the churches of Holy Trinity and St. Edmund were appurtenant to the manor, which yielded in all 15li. 4s. 11d. They also say that the same William held the manor of Caunteleys, which is of the inheritance of the aforesaid Juliana, his wife, of the Lord the King in capite by barony of the Honour of Gournay, and that the advowson of the church of Caunteley was belonging to the manor, which yielded 19li. 10s. xid. The sum total of the issues of those three manors is put down at 53li. 13s. 6d. In Sussex by an inquisition taken at Berling on Tuesday Jan. 3, 1290, it was found that William Bardolf died seized of the manor of Berling, which is of the inheritance of Juliana de Gurney, late his wife, and held in capite of the lord the King by barony, to wit, of the barony of Gurney; its total sum, 14li. 11s. 2d. The Lady Juliana de Gournay, relict of William Bardolf, survived him five years, and was deceased on the 23rd Edw. 1, 1295, prior to the 6th day of Nov. of which date is the King's writ at Odymere, to Malculinus de Harleye, his escheator citra Trentam, for seizure into the King's hands and the safe custody of all the lands and tenements of which she had been tenant in demesne at the day of her death. It is endorsed 8 Nov. and pursuant thereto these inquisitions were taken, Bucks. Inquisitio facta de terris et tenementis que fuerunt Juliane, que fuit uxoris Willelmi Bardolf, defuncte, in Wendover et Bledelawe in com. Buck. die Mercurii proxima post festum S'ci Martini anno regni Regis Edwardi xxiii°. (16 Nov. 1295) per Robertum Freynel de Bledelawe, Hugonis Lambard de eadem, &c. juratores. Item, dicunt super sacramenta sua quod sunt ibidem de redditu assiso libere tenentium ad festum S'ci Michaelis xxviis. vd. ob. et ad festum Annunciationis Beate Marie, ixs. vd. ob. Et tenentur de Isabella de Fenes per servitium quarte partis unius feodi militis. Dicunt etiam quod Hugo Bardolf miles est propinquior heres ejus, et fuit de etate xl annorum ad festum Sancti Michaelis proximo preteritum. In cujus rei, &c. Summa valoris predictorum ten'. xxxvis. xid. Bedf. Inquisitio facta de terris et tenementis que fuerunt Juliane Bardolf defuncte in com. Bedeford capta apud Donstaple per breve domini Regis die Sabbati proxima post festum beate Katerine virginis, anno regni Regis Edwardi xxiiii° (26 Nov. 1295) per sacramenta Johannis filii Gileberti de Stanbrugge, &c. Qui dicunt super sacramenta sua quod predicta Juliana nullas terras tenuit in dominico die quo obiit in comitatu predicto; sed dicunt quod predicta Juliana tenuit lxs. et iid. annui redditus in Kynggeshougthone in capite de d'no Rege provenientes de iiii tenentibus, videlicet, de Johanne Durant juniore de Dunstaple pro una virgata terre xvis. viiid. Item, de Johanne de Linleye de Houghton pro tribus virgatis terre et dimidia in Kynggeshouton, xviiis. vd. Item, de Roberto de Linleye et Thoma Maynard de Hogthon pro una virgata et dimidia xxvs. Item, dicunt quod d'ns Hugo Bardoulf est verus et propinquior heres predicte Juliane, et plene etatis. Inquisitio facta die dominica in festo S'çi Edmundi Regis et Martini (20 Nov. 1295) apud Lewes de terris et tenementis Juliane, que fuit uxor Willelmi Bardulf, in comitatu Sussex per sacramenta Willelmi de Lemon. Juratores dicunt super sacramenta sua, quod predicta Juliana, uxor predicti Willelmi Bar dulf, die quo obiit, tenuit manerium de Berlinge juxta Estbourne in comitatu predicto de Baronia de Gurnay, quam quidem Baroniam tenuit de d'no Rege in capite per quod servicium ignorant. (Extent of manor, yielding annually 17li. 14s. 114d.) Item dicunt quod Hugo Bardulf est propinquior heres predicti Juliane, et est plene etatis." There was also an inquisition concerning the lands and tenements of the lady Juliana Bardolf in the county of Norfolk taken at Cantley on a Saturday, by which she was found to have held the manor of Caistor with its appurtenance of the lord the King in capite by the service of six knight's fees; which manor and that of Cantley are extended. Another finding relates to the manor of Strumpeshagh, and to tenements held in the same, held of the Bishop of Norwich and Robert de Catton, and in Tunstal of Simon de Caverham. "Dicunt etiam predicti juratores quod d'nus Hugo Bardulf propinquior heres est omnium terrarum et tenementorum, que dictus Willelmus Bardolf et dicta Juliana uxor ejus adquisierant eis et heredibus suis et de quibus obiit seisita." Of the whole of this property of his mother Hugh Bardolf died seized in 32 Edw. I. 1304, and Thomas Lord Bardolf, her grandson, in 3 Edward III. 1330; but these later descents, in conjunction with Wendover and King's Houghton, I now leave to future research, my object in the collection of these materials having been to show the conflicting tenures in these several manors, as affecting only the Barons de Gournay. of William de Warren measures two feet eleven inches long, by twelve and a half inches broad, and is eight inches deep, all the angles being squared, and the flat loose cover lapping an inch over. On the upper surface, at one end, is inscribed in legible contracted characters, Willelmus. The cist of the Countess his wife is two inches shorter, and one inch deeper, and the word Gundrada is inscribed on the cover. Since No. XIII. of the Appendix (at page 73) | interlaced cords moulded in the lead. The cist was printed off, an interesting discovery of the remains of Gundreda, Countess of Warren, and of William de Warren, her husband, has been made at Lewes in Sussex. The workmen employed in making a cutting for the Lewes and Brighton Railway, through the lands of the Priory of St. Pancras, at the former place, in the course of their excavations found two leaden cists or chests filled with bones, and inscribed in early English characters, the one GUNDRADA and the other WILL'M9. There can be no question that these were the remains of William first Earl Warren and his Countess Gundreda, the founders of Lewes Priory, and that the spot where these cists were found was the chapter-house of the monastery. These chests or cists are both of similar form and dimensions, ornamented externally by a large net-work of It is obvious that these leaden chests, from their size, cannot have been the original receptacles of the bodies of William and Gundred, but that for some reason their remains were removed from their first place of repose after the bodies were so decayed that the bones only remained transferable to their final abode. The characters in the inscriptions of the names resemble the form of those used in the twelfth |