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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. MABCH, 1919.

after Roger's gift, it was probably not earlier than July, 1105.

It should now be possible to show the sequence of gifts and charters :

1. c. July, 1105. Roger de Gloucester, mortally wounded at Falaise, gives Coin to St. Peter's of Gloucester. Before he dies,

2. c. July, 1105, the King confirms his gift, Roger attesting the charter (ante, p. 17 ; Will. Malmesbury, p. 521).

3. ?c. July, 1105 Nov., 1106. The King grants Ablode and Pay grove Wood to St. Peter's in exchange for the monks' garden (i. 59), and issues writ no. ccxci. to Walter de Gloucester and others (ante, p. 18),

4. c. July, 1105 Nov., 1106. The King confirms (a) Roger's gift of Coin, and (b) the exchange for the garden (no. cxlii. ; also ante, iv. 280 ; text from Cambridge MS., with witnesses, ante, p. 17).

5. 1127 (if the dating clause added in the Cambridge MS. be correct), or 1123 (cp. ante, iv. 149). Gilbert de Miners claims Coin ; but the King confirms it to St. Peter's (no. cxliii. ; also Will. Malmesbury, pp. 52 1-2; original text ante, iv. 149).

I regret that at iv. 223 I implied that Walter de Gloucester did not become Sheriff and Constable of Gloucester until the death of his cousin Roger. My belief that Roger held these offices was founded on the passage in ' Feudal England ' (p. 313), where Dr. Round wrote that Mr. A. S. Ellis

" was of opinion that Walter de Gloucester was the immediate successor in the shrievalty of his uncle Durand, who died without issue. This list, on the contrary, suggests that the immediate successor of Durand was his son Roger, and that if, like his father, he held the shrievalty, this might account for the interlineation remitting, in his case, the sum due " [for the Worcester Belief, 1095].

But Dr. Round has since stated in two passages in the Victoria County History that Durand was succeeded as Sheriff by his nephew Walter ( ' Hants,' i. 425 ; ' Here- ford,' i. 279). The letter from Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London (previously Abbot of St. Peter's), printed in the ' Glouo. Cart.' (i. Ixxvi.) clearly implies that Walter was the immediate successor of Durand as Constable of Gloucester Castle. And the charter evidence seems conclusive. For Walter is styled Sheriff in a document of 1097 (Davis, ' Regesta Regum Anglo-Nor- mannorum,' no. 389), in another of 1093-7 (ibid., no. 400), and another of 1094-8 (ibid., no. 411 ; Round, ' Cal. Doets. France,' no.^468). As Walter was of age before the

decease of Durand, there is no apparent reason why his father's offices should not have reverted to him on his uncle's death.

G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley.

As I notice that on p. 17 (line 11 from foot of col. 1) I have written " Gloucester " when I intended Lisieux, may I add more precisely the approximate date of the " Confirmatio " charter as Oct. 15, 1106? The signature of David perhaps belongs to- the Queen's brother.

ST. CLAIB BADDELEY.

WILLIAM FLEETE OF SELWOBTHY (12 S. iv. 324). As this Wykehamist, whose epi- taph has been transcribed for us by MB. DODGSON, is not to be found readily in Kirby's * Winchester Scholars,' it may be convenient if I mention that he occurs there at p. 133, under the year 1555, but with his surname misprinted " Hett." The entry in the original Register runs :

" Willelmus Flett de London., xii annorum primo die Aprilis preterite, dioc. London. [Marginal note :] recessit Oxon."

As William Fleet (Flete or Fleat) he is mentioned in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.* He was Rector of Birchanger, Essex, 1569-74, and became Rector of Selworthy, Somerset, in 1570, and also of Hawkridge in the same county in 1574. H. C.

Winchester College.

PBE-RAPHAELITE STAINED GLASS (12 S. iv. 217, 337). To the list published at the latter reference might be added the window in Birchington Church, placed there by his mother in memory of D. G. Rossetti. It consists of two panels: (1) The Passover, from Rossetti' s picture ; (2) Christ giving sight to the blind, by F. J. Shields. The memorial cross over Rossetti' s grave, de- signed by Ford Madox Brown, stands a few paces from the window, in the churchyard.

JOHN T. PAGE.

To the list on iv. 337 add St. Mary the Virgin, Speldhurst, Kent, three windows by Burne- Jones ; and All Saints', Birchington- on-Sea, memorial window to D. G. Rossetti by O. Madox Brown. H. K. ST. J. S.

There is a stained-glass window designed by Burne- Jones in Christ Church, Woburn Square. J. R. H.

To the list may be added the church at Selsley, near Stroud, co. Glos. (Morris).

BC.