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CONTENTS. -No. 12.

TES:-Hugh Fitz Grip and the Martels. 221 Scrap- Book, 222 Mrs. Bracegirdle Lant Street, 223" He go up in his sitting" " Pung" Inclination of the Earth Axis Dutchman's Smoking, 224 Choriasmus in Scott Shakspearian Books Roman House, 225 Sir John Gaye " It blows rayther thin ! " Pseudo-Shakspeare Relic- Jews' Covering at Grace, 226.

Q (JERIES : " Daimen " " By Jingo " " Hibernicism " " Crucifixial " Poems " Ascetic " A. Newman Diar of W. Harrison Chateaubriand's " Lair," 227 Bath Appl Treuthfeild Latin Epitaph Minister of the Word o God Mantegna Shakspeare's ' Phoenix and the Turtle' Duckworth " Noblesse oblige" "He prizes his cup board" Chemistry Nicholson, 228 ' Katherine Kin rade " ' Bailiff's Daughter of Islington' 16th Ligh Dragoons " Mascot " Reference Sought Poem an Author, 229.

REPLIES : Heberfield, 229" Lord Bishop," 230-Saragoss Sea Motto Wasshebrooke Symbolism of Colours Era in Monkish Chronology, 231 Painting from the Nude- Madam Blaize, 233 Letter of Mary Stuart Portraits o Christ " Ranter," 234 A Bookbinding Question, 235 Manor House, Holloway " Tirling-pin," 236 Rev. J Logan " Creekes " Johnson Thomas Eyre Indexing 237 St. Syth, 238.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Brandes's Shakespeare ' - Aubrey's ' Brief Lives 'Heath's Fern World ' Greene'i Birds of the British Empire ' Bolas's ' Glass Blowing ' Journal of the Ex-Libris Society ' ' L'Intermediaire ' ' Melusine.'

Notices to Correspondents.

HUGH FITZ GRIP AND THE MARTELS.

JUDGING from Hutchins's 'History of I Dorset' (new ed), Eyton's ' Key to Domesday, and other works, little or nothing seems to have been, so far, found out about Hugh fitz j Grip, the Norman sheriff of that county, deceased before 1086, the date of Domesday Book. Prof. Freeman (' Norman Conquest,' 755) mentions Hugh only once, and in these words, when drawing attention to the fact that the Normans often took possession of Church lands where they had only the rights of lessees : " The doings in Dorset of Hugh, the son of Grippo

sometimes more happily written Grip, are a specimen. He was dead at the time of the Survey, but the lands which he had taken from various churches were still held by his widow. Yet even the son of Grip made offerings to the Church, taking care, however, in so doing to defraud the king."

Hugh de Wareham, as he is sometimes styled, probably from having the custody of the important castle there together with the shrievalty, Domesday tells us, having deprived the Abbot of Abbotsbury of his seigneury m Wadone, identified by Eyton as Broad Waddon, in the parish of Portisham, gave it to the ancient abbey near Havre of Monti- villier( u ecclesiaS.Mari9eVillarismonasterii").

Referring to ' Gallia Christiana,' xi. app. col. 329, we find it was really his wife who made this donation to the Norman nuns, robbing the English monks. An abstract of her charter is given, in which she is styled " Haduidis filia Nicholai de Baschelvilla uxor Hugonis de Varhan (Warham) filii Griponis." This gift was made with the consent of her husband, her friends, and King William, and witnessed among others by " Galfrid Martel, brother of the aforesaid Hugh" and Robert de Novilla, probably her first cousin. Here the place is spelt Waldun, and Hutchins (ii. 764) says it is identical with a farm called Frier "Waddon in Portisham, near Abbotsbury. Some interesting genealogical facts are revealed by this. Robert Malet, founding Eye Priory, in Suffolk, gave to it with his consent all the land Walter fitz Grip held in Frasingfield, with the mill there ('Mon. Angl.' i. 356). Walter, it will appear, was Hugh's brother, for a charter by which William Martel, King Stephen's dapifer, gave to Eye Priory all the land which Osbert de Conte- ville held in Acolt is witnessed by Walter fitz Grip, avunculus suus (Reg. f. 23). It was this William, son of Galfrid Martel, who confirmed his father's gift of Little Blenford (co. Dorset) to Clerkenwell Priory (' Mon. Angl.,' i. 431) when Albreda his mother was made a nun. Galfrid Martel gave to Bermondsey Priory in 1093, with the leave of Galfrid de Magna villa, the land of Halyngbury and the tithes of Alferton (ib. 640). William Martel, with Albreda his wife and Gaufrid his son, gave bis manor of Snape and Aldeburc to Col- chester Abbey (ib. ii. 894). Galfrid was a feudal tenant of Galfrid de Magnaville, 1086, and his name is once given in full in Domesday Book (ii. 57 b.) in reference to his holding in one of the Rodings in Essex.

The Martels and the Malets were neighbours n Suffolk and in Normandy before they came over, having been, according to an old saying, Caux.
 * he two most noble families in the Pays de

The widow of Hugh fitz Grip is said, with great probability, to have been married by Alured of Lincoln, to whose heirs the Dorset ief certainly descended. This suggests that he shrievalty of Dorset and custody of Wareham Castle were heritable as well, and Dossibly so derived from Nicholas de Basque- rille ; but there is no evidence to show that he receded Hugh or was ever in England.

About 1087, a year after Domesday, we find Alured (described as " Alfridus de Guarham," .e., Wareham) witnessing a Lincolnshire harter of Ivo Talebois to Spalding Abbey 'Mon. Angl.,' i. 308).