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 12 s. vin. FEB. s, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 105 libam & quieta ab oibz servicijs esse annuims alia v ps solumodo dni nri Reg' solvet <fc duor: houm servicia in autupno ad singlas p'ces nras. Hijs Test'. Philipp' qen'o nro en Isabel ux'e ana & Peto & Rad' filior : eiusd Philipp' & alijs. Rogavims p caritate del &: impetravims ab p'fatis fribz nris ut audito obitu nro & Philippi gen'i nri & ux'is eis Isabel & hedes nri faciant serviciu p aiabz nris sicut p aiabz specialiu frm & sororunt." The priory, originally founded at Port- chester by Henry I, was removed to South- wick between 1145-53, after which date the above grant must have been made ; since, however, the grant was confirmed between 1170 and 1180 by Pope Alexander III, together with that of the ecclesiam de Portseia (granted by Baldwin de Portseia c. 1170), of the ecclesiam de Nuthlia, and of a house in Winchester, the above charter must be earlier. If, as I think probable, the entry, under Hampshire, of the ' Pipe Roll of "13 Henry II.' is to be read: [I]m- besseta Rad redd comp de dim m ; then Half fitz Gilbert still had property there in 1167 and the date of his grant to Southwick is very probably to be ascribed to c. 1170. It is now time to consider the remaining references to Half fitz Gilbert in Hampshire. In this same 'Pipe Roll of 13 Henry II.' there is also the following entry under Hampshire : Eslega Rad redd comp de dim m, and we learn from the ' Placit. Abbrev. ' of 10 John (p. 69) that this was " Radulphus films Gileberti," and that he held of William de Venuz, who was lord of the manor of Empshott, among other places, in the second half o f the twelfth century. Moreover " Hugo filius Radulphi " (of Eastleigh) bought land from John de Venuz, c. 1220 according to V. C. H., Hants (vol. iii, sub Eastleigh) where a reference, which 1 have been unable to control, is given to ' Pedes Finium 3 and 4 Henry III.' ; since William de Venuz was contemporary with Ralf fitz Gilbert and since John de Venuz was his grandson, it is probable that " Hugo filius Radulphi " stood in the same relationship to Ralf fitz Gilbert. At any rate it seems fairly certain that Ralf of Empshott and Ralf of Eastleigh are one and the same person and it is, it seems to me, probable that this Hampshire Fitz Gilbert is identical with the founder of Markby Priory who, as we learn fro/n ' Placit. Abbrev.' 7 John (p. 46) and 9-10 John (p. 58), had a son Ralf and a grandson Hugh, who, to judge by an entry in the Rotuli Hugonis de Welles (' Lincoln Record Society,' vol. iii, p. 202), was still interested in Markby Priory, c. 1230. This Ralf fitz Gilbert appears to have been a brother of Robert fitz Gilbert of Legbouriie (Lines.) though the evidence does not seem altogether satisfactory whose family (for an. account of which cf. Lincoln- shire Notes and Queries, vols. vi. and xii.) held extensively of the Earls of Chester, It is noteworthy in this connection that Gaimar has special references to this family and to one at least of its traditions. Further he was undoubtedly familiar with the country stretching between Reading and Southampton, e.g., he chooses Portsmouth as the scene of a fictitious battle recorded by him, and preserves an account of an English retreat before the Danes up the Loddon valley by Twyford and Whistley. There is then^no difficulty in the way of identifying the "Raul le fiz Gilebert " and "dame Custance " of the epilogue with the Ralf fitz Gilbert and Constance of Empshott, but is the genealogical evidence sufficient,, at present, to warrant the further assump- tion that this Hampshire Fitz Gilbert is the same as the founder of Markby Priory an identity which would do much, if substan- tiated, to determine the authenticity of t he- epilogue ? It is on this account that I hesitate to press the evidence too far, though- more competent students than myself may be able to strengthen the claim of identity from the genealogical side. ALEXANDER BELL. 46 All Saints Road, Peterborough. ERRORS IN CARLYLE'S 'FRENCH REVOLU- TION.' A writer in last year's August number of L' Intermediate, under the heading: 'Erreurs dans Carlyle,' has indicated two oversights in this book. As neither of them draws a comment in the annotated edition of Prof. J. H. Rose or that of Mr. C. R. L. Fletcher, readers of the ' French Revolution ' ' may care to note the corrections, even if,, remembering Mr. Oscar Browning's essay on ' The Flight to Varennes,' they are proof against any surprise at the inaccuracy of Carlyle 's picturesque details. 1. In vol. i., Bk. III., chap. 6, " fascinating indispensable Madame de Buffon," mistress of the Duke of Orleans, is described as the " light wife of a great Naturalist much too old for her." Yet in his description o Egalite on his way to the guillotine (vol iii.,. Bk. V., chap. 2), when, as the procession stops at the quondam Palais Royal, " Dame de Buffon, it is said, looked out on him, in Jezebel headtire," Carlyle gives a reference^