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pEarl Leofric (995),= d. 31 Aug., 1057.

pGodiva (1040), sister of Thorold, sheriff of Lincoln.

Thorold, sheriff of Lincoln, dead 1086.

Robert Malet, uncle of Lucy.

Alan of Lincoln,=f

uncle of Lucy

Earl Algar,=j (1000), d. 1059.

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Earl E Edwin Mo d-1063.

= Ivon Tailbois (l),=i ? dead 1094.

a countess 1119, d. about 1141; if so, set. 84.

=(2) Roger fitz= Gerold de Roumare, d. c. 1094.

p[3) Ranulf Meschin, Earl of Chester 1119, d. 1129.

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arl Algytha, = rkar. wife of King Harold.

r Ribald, lord= of Middleham 1086.

^Beatrix William de Ranulf, Ea (1075). Roumare Chestei (1094), (1095), Earl of d. 17 Kal. J Lincoln. 1153. . _ 1

Alfred, nepos

Toroldi,, 1086.

Radulf fitz Ribald

of Middleham,

v. 1154.

Gilbert son of=pGodith

Ketel, (Godiva).

son of Eldred.

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and the latter to Ranulf Meschin. Rufus seems to have made it a condition that they should give the churches to St. Mary's Abbey at York, in which he was taking great interest at that time, and this they both did.

It was not until 1092 that the King with a large army got to Carlisle, repaired the city and the castle, and left a garrison under the command of Ranulf. This is the last we hear of Ivon, as the romance of ' Ingulph,' written two centuries after, cannot be trusted. He was either declared a traitor and managed to escape abroad or, more likely, died, because very shortly after Lucy is found to be already the wife of Ranulf Meschin at Carlisle. Yet in this short interval she had married and lost her second husband, Roger fitzGerold, by whom she had a son, afterwards Earl of Lincoln. At last, in 1119, she herself became a Countess, her husband having succeeded to the Earldom of Chester.

Ivon left by Lucy a daughter and heiress, Beatrix, whose heirs for several generations held the barony of Kendal. Ribald of Middleham, her husband, it is stated in a contemporary document, " gave the church of ' Optone ' to Spalding fifteen years before he gave the manor with his daughter to Gilbert." This was undoubtedly Gilbert, the son of Ketel, son of Eldred. Yet the Cartulary of St. Mary's at York made a strange error by making Eldred the son of Ivon ! This was copied into another Cartu- lary, and adopted by the historians of Westmorland, even the last, Mr. Ferguson.

"Chetel," son of Eldred, was the most influential thane in Cumberland, and we find him soon after giving the churches of Workington and Corby to St. Mary's Abbey,, with lands in both places.

We learn from a charter of Gilbert that his wife was named Godith, so after her great- grandmother. Godith was the Norman for Godgifu, as Edith was for Eadgifu, but very rarely occurs.

The Coventry legend is called by the late Prof. Freeman (' Old English History," p. 278) " a silly story," but as Godiva is always called " Lady," not " Countess " a title unknown before Norman times this fact is suggestive of the story being much, older than is suspected. A. S. ELLIS.

Westminster.

JOHN CTJRWEN. The centenary of the birth of John Curwen, founder of the Tonic Sol-Fa Association, will be fittingly celebrated this year, so it may not be out of place to record a few words concerning this notable man in ' X. & Q.'

John Curwen was born at Heckmondwike r Yorkshire, Nov. 14, 1816. He was educated at Coward College and fniversity College, London. In 1 838 he became an Independent minister, and soon afterwards his attention was drawn to the subject of teaching singing to children in his Sunday school. He visited Miss Glover's School at Norwich in 1841, and, having tried her system, he devoted the remainder of his life to its