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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Your acknowledged skill in the languages of the ancient inhabitants of this island, has induced me to lay before you a Saxon monument of great antiquity, yet remaining in a church in Yorkshire; and it will make me happy if the interpretation of the inscription meets with your approbation.
page 40 note [a] See Plate V. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. shews the situation of the inscription. Fig. 3. represents the church of Aldbrough, and Fig. 4. one of its antient doors.
page 40 note [b] 
. Jussit dare. (Sax. Gosp. Matt. ch. xix. v. 17). 
. Jussit transire, id. Matt. c. viii. v. 18.
page 40 note [c] 
, Ego illud excitabo, id. Joh. c. ii. v. 19. 
, Num excitabis tu illud? id. v. 20.
page 41 note [c] Brit. 1600.
page 42 note [d] “Dominabatur Ulphus ille in occidentali parte Deirae, et propter altercationem “filiorum suorum, senioris et junioris, super dominiis post mortem, mox “omnes fecit aeque pares. Nam indilato Eboracum divertit, et cornu, quo bibereu consuevit, vino replevit, et coram altari, Deo, et beato Petro apostolorum principi “, omnes terras et redditus flexis genibus propinavit.”
page 42 note [e] Page 168.
page 42 note [f] Doomsday-Book, f. 303.
page 43 note [g] Archaeologia, vol. I. p. 173.
page 43 note [h] Viz. Lessete, Biworde, Fothingham, Burton, Settun, Ristun, Thorp, Lapun, Bovington, and Bergetorp.
page 43 note [i] Doomsday-Book, f. 324. The record goes on; “ Ad hoc manerium (Aldenburgh) “pertinet soca haec. Wagene, septem caruc’. Melse duae car’. Benincol duae “car'et quinque bovat’. Rugheton duae car’. Scherle quatuor car’ Duuetorp tres car’. “Meretone duae car’. Fosham duae car’. Biuinch sex car’. Niwetone una car’ et “dimid’. Ringheburg una car’. Wossum duae car' et duae bovat'. Totcle quinque car' “ et sex bovat’. Otrege dimid car’. Simul ad geldam quadraginta et una carucata“ terrae, ubi possunt esse quadraginta carucatae.”
“Nunc habet Drogo ibi duas carucatas et sex sochmannos et quatuordecem “ villanos, et tres bordarios habentes septem carucatas. Tres milites Drogonis “habent ibi duas carucatas, et duos villanos et tres bordarios. Ad eas adjacent “centum septuagmta viginti et quatuor acrae prati. Totum manerium cum appendentibus “novem leugae long. et sex leugae et dimidium lat. Tempore regis “Edvardi valetat quadraginta libras, modo sex libras.”
It is remarkable that the church of Aldburgh is not mentioned in Doomsday-Book, which is also the case with that at Kirkdale some time since laid before the Society, though both must have existed prior to the survey, as appears by the inscriptions.
page 44 note [k] Selden's Janus Anglor. l. ii. c. x. sect. 45. p. 69. et Annales Mon. Burton.
page 44 note [l] “Si quis terram haereditarkm habeat, eam non vendat a cognatis haeredibus “suis, si illi viro prohibitum sit, qua eam ab initio acquisivit. ut ita facere “nequeat.” Leges Aelfredi, 37. Wilkins, p. 43.
page 44 note [m] Doomsday-Book ubi sup.
page 44 note [n] Ib.
page 44 note [o] Mon. Angl. vol. I. p. 796.
page 44 note [p] Dugd. Baron. v. I. p. 60.
page 44 note [q] Ib.
page 44 note [r] Wagene, or Wawn, Frothingham, &c.
page 44 note [s] “Decimam de castello de Aldeburgo.“ Mon. Angl. vol. I. p. 588. N° 10. Not the least vestige of this castle now remains. Tradition says, it stood northward of the church; but an inclosure which took place at Aldburgh some years ago has quite levelled the foundations, and the well, which was within the castle and supplied it with water, is now in the high road. Ex informat. Rev. Will. Dade.
page 46 note [t] Drake's Eboracum, p. 12.
page 46 note [u] Britan. by Gibson, v. II. p. 12.
page 46 note [x] Vol. I. N° 47. Drake's Ebor.p. 36.
page 47 note [y] Dugd. Baron. v. I. p. 60.
page 47 note [z] Catalogue of the coins of Canute, p. 18.
page 47 note [a] “In Rimeswelle habuit Ode quinque carucatas terrae, et duas bovatas ad “geldam, ubi possunt esse quinque carucae. Nunc Balduinus et Guntardus habent “ de Drogone. lpsi (habent) duas carucatas, et viginti acras prati, unaleuga “long. et una lat. Tempore regis Edvatdi valebat sexaginta solidos, modo “quadraginta solidas.” f. 324.
page 47 note [b] Cod. MSS. Bib. Cotton. Cleopatra, N° II. cap. iv. p. 25.
page 48 note [c] Cron. Sim. Dunelm. col. 80. n. 21.
page 48 note [d] In Eboraco Civitate.
“Comes de Moritonio habet ibi quatuordecim mansiones et duos bancos in macello, “et ecclesiam Sancte Crucis. Has recepit Osbernus filius Bozonis, et “quicquid ad eas pertinet. Hae mansiones fuerunt horum hominum, Sonulfi 1, “presbiteri 1, Morulsi 1, Stirri 1, &c.” Et posteà, “Waldinus intercepit duas “mansiones Ketel presoiteri, pro una mansione Sterre, &c.” f. 298.
page 48 note [e] Archaeologia, vol. I. p. 179. Drake's Ebor. It is worthy of observation that the magnates or tenants in capite in the reign of the Conqueror had most of them houses in the capital city or town of the county where their possessions lay, which we may conclude were town residences for them during the winter, or to be near the Curia Comitis; and this gives us a much higher idea of the polished manner of living of our Saxon ancestors than has been imagined. Of the twenty-eight tenants in capite in the county of York, mentioned in Doomsday-Book, twelve of them had houses in the city of York; of which some of those that belonged to William de Percy, the residence of whose family in Walmgate was called Percy's Inne, still belong to his descendent the present earl of Egremont.
page 49 note [f] Vinc. N° 59 in Colleg. Armor.
page 49 note [g] In the reign of Henry III, Ralph Fitz-William de Grimethorpe married Joan, daughter of Thomas, lord Greystock, and had issue William, father of Ralph Fitz-William de Grimethorpe, summoned to parliament from 23d of Edward I. to 9 Edward II. inclusive. (Dugd. Sum. ad Parl. p. 11, et postea usq. p. 102 On this Ralph, John lord Greystock, his cousin, or nepos collateralis of his grand mother, having no issue or relations of the male-line, settled the manor and barony of Greystock in Cumberland, and all his estate, on condition he should found a college in the church at Greystock, (Dugd. Baron. v. I. p. 740. Vinc. N° 59. p. 256, in Coll. Armor.) for which donation Edward I. granted his licence dated at Odymor in France, 17 August, 25 of his reign, 1297, the said, Ralph being then in his service beyond sea. (Vide Exemplar Chartae Vine. N° 59. p. 257, ut supra.) And John, lord Greystock, dying in the 34th year of the same reign, (Esch. 34 Ed. I. N° 40. Claus. 34 Ed. I. m. 2.) he accordingly entered into possession, and assumed the name of Greystock, but retained the Grimethorpe arms, as was formerly usual; for in early times, before the use of autographs, and when seals were the only evidence, we find our ancestors were much more tenacious of such ensigns than of their nominal appellation; thus Josceline de Louvain, though a descendent in the male line from the Carlovingian or second race of the kings of France, upon his marriage with the heiress of Percy, chose rather to assume her name than change his own arms. But in after-times, when the mode of quartering arms took place, the lords Greystock of the Grimethorpe family quartered ancient Greystock with their paternal coat; and one of them on his seal significantly placed the cushion, the cognizance of the Greystocks, within the chaplet of Grimethorpe, alluding to the merging of the estate of the former family in the latter; as appears by sundry ancient deeds amongst the evidences of the earl of Surrey, who is the present possessor of the manor and barony of Greystock, by descent from Ralph Fitz-William of Grimeshorpe.
page 50 note [h] Doomsday-Book.
page 50 note [i] Esch. 32 Edw. III. N° 43.
page 51 note [k] “Le Conqueror ne vient pas pour ouster eux, qui avoient droiturell possession, “ mes de ouster eux que de lour tort avoient occupie ascun terre en desheritance “ del Roy et son coronne.“ Argumentum Anti-Normanicum, p. 63. Joh'es Shardelowe, unus Justic. de Banco, 16 Ed. III.
page 51 note [l] Spelman's Gloss. verbo Drenches, p. 184.
page 52 note [m] Aluric, the son of Richard Aschenald, a Saxon, possessed the castle of Kirk by, or Pontefract, before the Conquest, as appears in Leland's Itinerary, which being a place of strength, fit to protect the northern parts, William gave it to Ilbert de Lacy, one of his followers; yet this Aluric, and Swein his son, held a vast estate under libert at the time of the general survey, of which some of their descendents possess parts, as heirs-general, at this day.
page 53 note [n] A. 8. p. 335. in Colleg. Armor.
page 53 note [o] Ex informat. Rev. W. Dade, Rector. de Barmeton.
