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CONTENTS. No. 39.


 * Descendants of Waldef of Cumberland, 241

sr's Letters, 242 Northburgh Family, 244" Field rshall, the Lord Itoberts," 1644 Coleridge Bibliography, " Bugrnan " Kirklington Barrow Robin Hood's ide John Laurence, Writer on Gardening, 246 Heacham Parish Officers "Dago" "Shroff" Thomas Walker in Dublin, 217.

QUBKIBS: The Tricolour, 247 Wiltshire Naturalist Fontninebleau Bears and boars in Britain Lemans of Suffolk Journal of the House of Commons A. and R Edgar Shakespeare Autograph Countess of Carberry, 248-The Missing Link-Daldy Swift's Gold Snuff-box George, P'ce of Salm Salm Pike or McPike Gamage Iktin Dean Milner, 249 Ser.jeantson Family "Free trade "=Smua:gling " Mass meeting," 250.

BBPLIKS: 'Goody Two Shoes,' 250 Port Arthur Ame- rican Yarn Regiments engaged at Boomplatz " Giving the Hand" in Diplomacy, 251 Broom Squires Finchale Priory. Durham " Vine" Tavern, Mile End, 252 Isabelline as a Colour Khaki Desecrated Fonts, 253 Portuguese Pedigrees Gwyneth " Tote " Rules of Christian Life Documents in Secret Drawers. 255 Storming of Fort Moro Northern and Southern Pronun- ciation Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Manors Cape Dutch Language, 2b* Thomas Pigott Duchess Sarah Killed by a Look "Feed the brute "Bristol Slave Ships Moral Standards of Europe, 257 Anahuac Philip Baker Old Testament Commentary, 258.

NOTES ON BOOKS : 'Barnstaple Parish Registers' Clifton's French Dictionary ' Cupid and Psyche '- 'Great Masters' Payne on Anglo-Saxon Medicine 'Clarence King Memoirs' Old Hendrik's Tales' The Folk and their Word-Lore.'

Notices to Correspondents.

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DESCENDANTS OF WALDEF

OF CUMBERLAND.

THERE seems a good deal of confusion in the various accounts of the descendants of Waldef. the brother of Dolphin and Gospatric. From King David's charters to Coldingham in 1139 it appears that Waldef had two sons : Alan (of Allerdale) and Gospatric (Raine's 'North Durham, Coldingham,' ch. xix., xx.). Gospatric, son of Waldef, is also mentioned along with Gospatric the Earl in Malcolm the Maiden's confirmation to Dunfermlyn ('Reg. Dunfermlyn,' p. 22). According to a memorandum quoted by Mr. Joseph Bain, it appears that Gospatric was a bastard and received the lands of Bolton and others from his brother, Alan of Allerdale (Bain's ' Calen- dar of Doc.,' ii. p. 16). My interest lies chiefly in the line of this Gospatric of Bolton, and I should be obliged if any reader of * N. <k Q.' would clear up doubtful points in the following notes. Gospatric of Bolton evidently had a son Waldef, who had a daughter Christiana, who was heiress of Bolton in Cumberland, Burnham in Bucks, and other lands in Scotland (Bain's ' Calendar iof Doc.,' i. No. 429). This lady married Duncan de Lascelles, and her paternity is given in the agreement between her and

Duncan on the one part and Hugh, Abbot of Jedburgh, on the other part. It is there stated that her father was Waldef, son of Gospatric. It is clear that Christiana's father could not have been Waldef of Cum- berland, from the age of her daughter, so that he must have been son of Gospatric of Bolton.* In 1200-1 Christiana and Duncan de Lascelles, her husband, "account for 101. for having her land of Bolton which is her heritage, since she cannot have a reasonable part of her heritage in Scotland " (ibid., No. 308). There are many documents relating to Christiana and her husband, and the two can be traced in Scottish records. Duncan was son of Alan de Lascelles by his wife Juliana de Sumerville (who was her father?), and he had a brother, Alan de Lascelles, who held extensive estates in Fife, of whom anon. Dundkn de Lascelles, mentioning C[hristiana] his wife, made a small grant of property which Sir Alexander de Moravia confirmed as if he were his heir (* Lib. Prioratus Sancte Andre,' pp. 275, 340-1). But it is certain that Duncan and Christiana had a daughter and heir, for in 1211-12 " William de Briwere accounts for 60 merks and one palfrey for the marriage of Cristiana, daughter of Duncan de Lascelles, with half of the vill of Burnham " (Bain's 'Calendar of Doc.,' i. Nos. 490, 549). Again, on 11 Feb., 1220/1, King Henry III. " ordains Robert de Veteripont to give seizin to William de Briwere, who has the ward of the land and heir of Duncan de Lascelles, of the wood pertaining to the Manor of Boolton as Duncan had it in his lifetime" (ibid., No. 794). It being thus established that Duncan had a daughter and heir, it would be interesting to trace her subsequent history and the further descent of the lands. The point is important, because it will throw a sidelight upon the way in which the Morays became possessed of Duncan's Scottish lands. The Morays of Skelbo and Culbin also inherited part of the lands of Alan de Las- celles, the brother of Duncan. Alan married a ady named Amable ('Lib. Prioratus de Sancte Andre,' p. 260), whose parentage is unknown MSS. in the British Museum which seems to ndicate that she was Amabile FitzDuncan,
 * o me, but I have a jotting from the Eyton

as Christiana de Wyndleshore and that she calls Walter de Wyndleshore her brother. The above maternity is doubtful ; she may have married a tVindsor ? A Waldef, son of Gospatric, appears in Scottish records who could not be Waldef, after- wards Earl of Dunbar, or Waldef, brother of dolphin. The designation "of Cumberland" is merely for identification. Waldef owned land iii Fife.
 * I am aware that Christiana appears on record