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 i2S.viii.APRiL23,i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 323 buried in the priory. He also produced a charter given by Isabella herself confirming the gift and j another confirmation made by Henry III. on the testimony of Eleanor the queen. Isabella ad- : mitted that Baldwin had granted the manor to Breamore Priory for a term of years, but since the | prior had no seisin at the time of the earl's death j the royal charter was of no avail. Her own charter of confirmation she maintained was exacted from her during the barons' wars, w r hen she had remained loyal to the Crown in spite of the persistence of Simon de Montfort. After the battle of Lewes (14th May, 1264), while "robbers ! and disturbers of the peace of the kingdom rode ravaging with horses and arms throughout ; England," she had sought shelter at Breamore j only to find in the prior a friend of Simon de ! Montfort the younger, to whom she had been " sold seditiously " for 50 marks. In despair she had offered the charter upon the altar of the priory church of St. Michael of Breamore, and, the bribe proving successful, she was allowed to escape from the priory, though Simon de Mont- fort pursued her from place to place with horse and arms, desiring to capture her and seditiously | abduct her, until she found refuge in Wales, ' That Isabella's version was true may be inferred ; from the final agreement by which in return for ; a money payment the prior acknowledged her j right to the manor and returned to her the ; charter in dispute. The Priory of Breamore was sitiiated some nine miles south of Salisbury, and was founded as a house for Austin canons by Baldwin de Redvers and his uncle Hugh towards the close of Henry I.'s reign. That : the Countess eventually became reconciled to the monastery may, I think, be inferred from the fact that the then prior, at the time of her death, was named one of the executors of her will. In November, 1293, the Countess, baing 56 years of age, went from the Isle of Wight to London, en route for Canterbury. On her return journey to London she was seized with a fatal illness, was moved to Stockwell near Lambeth, where she expired, j On her death-bed the surrender of the Isle j of Wight to the King for a monsy payment i was hurriedly arranged under suspicious circumstances. After the death of the Countess her remains were taken to Breamore and there interred. The Rev. J. C. Hughes, writing recently to the Isle of Wight County Press newspaper, says : Last autumn I was fmuch interested in seeing in the beautiful church, largely Norman, of the village of Garsington, in the centre of the chancel, a large tomb-slab, around which run the words, becoming illegible, in Xorman French : Isabella de Fortibus gist ici ; Dieu de sa alme eyt merci. The writer goes on to say : It would seem that this is the tomb of the re- nowned Lady of the Isle of Wight in the thirteenth century. It would be interesting to learn, from some one who knows more of her history, how it was that out of all her possessions she came to be taken for burial to the Oxfordshire village of Garsington. That the Lady Isabella was first laid to rest in the priory church is fully established by the following entered on a Patent Roll, 29 Edward I, TO. 19: March, 1301, grant was made in free alms to the prior and convent of Breamore of the advow- son of the church of Brading (I. of W.) in exchange for the prior remitting to the King 500 marks, wherein the King was bound to them for corn, stock, and other things in diverse manors. This was done at the request of Thomas, prior of Breamore, and others, who were the executors of the will of Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Albemarle, and for the good of the soul of the said countess and her ancestors, whose bodies were buried in the priory church of Breamore. The church (of Breamore), quoting from, the 'Viet. County Hist.' of Hamp., iv. 599, is a most valuable and unusually complete specimen of a pre-Conquest church. . . . The probable date is late in the tenth or early in the eleventh century, and the only addition since that date is the south porch of mid-twelfth-century date. Mr. D. H. Moutray Read, ' Highways and Byways in Hampshire,' p. 266, refers also " to the old church with its stone coffins," and, " to the Priory Meadow, [where] by the river bank, the traces of some vanished building and a stone coffin tell of the Priory that once stood there." JOHN L. WHITEHEAD. Ventnor. GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (See ante, p. 127). II. THE INGLISH FAMILY. W T IHL Inglysshe, als. Richardson, glasyer. ('Freemen of York,' Surtees Soc.) Free of the city in 1450, the same year in which John Chamber the younger died, who bequeathed him, along with two others whom he called " my servants," 5s. by equal portions. To his son Richard, who had taken up his freedom three years previously, and who was therefore of sufficient age to succeed him, Chamber left his business and stock-in-trade, but as Richard Chamber died within a month of his father, and the other son was a monk, the business evidently passed to his appren- tice, William Inglish. Inglish was twice married, his first wife being named Jennett, as appears from the will of Robert Preston (free 1465, died 1503), to whom he taught