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LOSDOX, SATURDAY, JANUARY JO, 1009.

CONTENTS. No. 266.

NOTES : Greystoke Family, 81 Bibliographical Technical Terms, 82 Shakespeare in French Shakespeariana, 84 "Kersey," 85 Christopher Ludwick "Qood-fors" Thackeray Anecdote" Now or never" Whyte de Malle- ville-;-Chinese Pronunciation, 86" Fesse " : " Miniver " " White Eyes "Nicholas as a Feminine Name, 87.

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Ruflnus Anne Boleyn's Remains Denvir Surname, 88 Potter's Bar: Seven Kings Byron's Birthplace William Merry, 1735 Parliamentary Banner in the Civil War Sir Isaac Goldsmid Glossaries to the Waverley Novels Carmarthen Families : Paddington House Saxon Abbeys, 89 Ewen Maclachlan Valentine Douglas, O.S.B. Coffee drinking in Palestine Stratton Fight, Cornwall, 90.

REPLIES : Ruckholt House, 90 The Longmans : the 'Marseillaise' Lascar Jargon, 92 Egypt as a Place- Name, 93 Authors of Quotations Wanted "Psycho- logical moment " Gower, a Kentish Hamlet, 94 St. Anthony of Vienne Blue Coat School Costume, 9C 4 Folkestone Fiery Serpent,' 97 Aerial Navigation Mrs. Oliphant's ' Neighbours on the Green ' Seaquake and Earthquake "Comether " " It is the Mass that matters,"

NOTES ON BOOKS : Andrew Lang's 'The Maid of France 'William Barnes's Poems' Echoes from the Oxford Magazine.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. OBITUARY : Richard Hemming. Notices to Correspondents.

GREYSTOKE FAMILY.

IN the review of ' Nunburnholme : its History and Antiquities,' by the Rev. M. C. F. Morris (10 S. x. 79), it is stated that " Mr. Morris has made out a satis- factory list of the Lords of Nunburnholme from Forne, who may have held it pre- vious to the Norman time. He may have been, and probably was, ancestor of the Greystockes."

To remove all doubt as to Forne' s position AS lineal ancestor of the Greystokes and as to his tenure of Greystoke before the Con- quest, I offer the following notes from my collection of materials towards a history of the Feudal Baronage of Yorkshire.

The first of the family upon record may \>e identified with a considerable degree of certainty as Sigulf, one of the magnates of Cumberland in pre-Conquest days, thus mentioned in the important charter of Gospatric found at Lowther Castle in 1902 by the Rev. F. W. Ragg :

" I will that the men that dwell with Thorfynn -at Garden and at Combedeyfoch be as free with him as Melmor and Thore and Sygulf were in Eadread's days." Ancestor, vii. 246 ; ' V. C. H. Cumb.,' ii. 233, 241n.

Sigulf was the father of Forne, who appears in the Yorkshire survey as one of the King's thegns holding in 1086 in Brunham (Nun- burnholme) 11 ploughlands. It is extremely probable that he also held under Henry I., if not in 1086, the following lands in' the soke of Pocklington Nunburnholme, 1 ploughland ; Millington, 13 ploughlands ; Waplington, 2 ploughlands ; Thornton- le-Moor, half the manor or 2 plough- lands ; and 14 bovates of a berewick in Millington containing 2 ploughlands, the remainder of which was given to Robert de Brus.

Forne was a trusted servant of the Crown in Yorkshire in the time of Henry I. in asso- ciation with Walter Espec and Anketill de Bulmer. He attested many royal charters among others the confirmation to St. Oswald of Nostell of the benefactions made by Swein son of Ailric, which passed at Portsmouth upon the transfretation (Cotton MSS., Vesp. E. xix. f. 7b). It was recorded by the inquest of service made in 1212 that Henry I. gave Greystoke (near Penrith) to Forne the son of Siolf. Here we are pro- bably justified in reading confirmed in place of gave. Forne also held several manors in Westmorland. At Winchester in 1110 he attested the royal confirmation of the privileges and customs of the church of York ; and he was one of the magnates who in 1121 at York heard the claim pre- ferred by the monks of Durham to Tyne- mouth (' Historians of York,' Rolls Series, iii. 36; '* Sym. of Durham,' ii. 261). He was probably the donor of two bovates of land at Besingby to Bridlington Priory, and with Ivo his son gave two bovates some- where in his fee in Durham to the church of Hexham (' Priory of Hexham,' Surtees Soc., i. 59). He died shortly before 1130, when his son Ivo owed the Exchequer 51. for his father's land and 5 marks of the pleas of Blithe (Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I., 25). Eda, sister of Ivo, after having had, as it is said,, a bastard son by Henry I. named Robert, married Robert de Oilly, Baron of Hook Norton in Oxfordshire (Lappenberg, ' Eng- land under the Norman Kings,' 348n. ; ' Mon. Angl.,' vi. 251a).

By Agnes his wife Ivo had a daughter Alice, who was given by her parents in marriage to Edgar, son of Earl Gospatric, with a dowry of ten manors, viz., in Durham, Ulnaby and Thornton by the Tees ; in Westmorland, Knock Salcock (Chonoc- Salechild) and Yanwath (Euenewit) ; in Cumberland, Blencowe (Gleneklau) ; and in Coquetdale, Trewhitt and " Cers," Great