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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Baldwin Wake the fourth, whose name is otherwise written Le Wac, was the possessor of the great manor of Chesterfield, in the 50th year of King Henry III, or A. D. 1266, when the battle, hereafter to be related, happened. This family had a large estate in the counties of Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, and Hertford; and their chief residence was at Brun, or Burne, in Lincolnshire, and Lidell, in Cumberland. As to Chesterfield, which accrued to them by the marriage of Baldwin the third, grandfather of Baldwin above-mentioned, with Isabella, daughter of William Briver, the description of it runs thus; “manerium de Chestrefeld, cum “redditibus et servitiis duorum tenementorum suorum de “Newbold, Barley (now Barlow), Whittington Magna, Topton “(now Tapton), Boythorp, et Ecchington, et totum wapen- “tachum prædictum;” meaning the wapentake or hundred ot Scarsdale.
page 276 note [a] Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 701. Dr. Thoroton, p. 256.
page 276 note [b] Brook's Cat. of Honour, p. 128. Sandford's Genealogical History, p. 215, 216. Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 539, et seq.
page 276 note [c] Fortè, aliorum.
page 276 note [d] Dugdale's Monasticon, II. p. 602.
page 277 note [e] Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 540.
page 277 note [d] When the King granted the rebels the privilege of redeeming their estates, A. D. 1265, the indulgence was denied to this earl, so greatly was the king exasperated against him. Math. Westm. p. 395. Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 263. Knyghton, p. 2438. Matth. Paris, p. 1002.
page 277 note [g] But of this I am not certain.
page 278 note [h] Suffeld Frith. Thomas Wikes, malè.
page 278 note [i] Sociis quos ad prœdandum acciverat dispersis. Nic. Trivet. p. 227. See also Wikes, p. 75. who calls them Vespillones, Prœdines, & Maleficos. Also Matthew Paris, p. 1002. and Walsingham, p. 470. Vispilio, Grassator Nocturnus. Du Cange. It is a compound of vespres and piller, q. d. night robbers.
page 279 note [k] Matth. Westm. calls it copiosus exercitus. And see Thomas Wikes, p. 75.
page 279 note [l] This name is very variously written: De la Haye (Knyghton, p. 2437); De Eyivle, Trivet (which I take to be right, and so Thomas Wright has Deyvill); Doyville (Annal. Waverley); De Eyvill (Dr. Thoroton); De Eywvile (Annal. Dunstaple); Sayville (Walt. Hemingford, probably for Dayville); Civile (Walsingham); Daynill and Doynell (Knyghton, p.2454; hence Danvile, in Stowe). See also Dugdale, I. p. 593. However, he was a gallant man, “Homo quidem callidus “et bellator fortis,” as Hemingford and Knyghton both write, and was of the county of Nottingham.
page 279 note [m] Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 287. but quære, as Dugdale there makes the battle in question to be 48 Henry III. two years sooner than the truth.
page 279 note [n] Stowe, p. 196.
page 279 note [o] These four last named knights I have from Mr. Stowe.
page 279 note [p] See the quotation from the Annals of Dunstaple below.
page 280 note [q] I suppose, having no other armour but a single spear. Under one guidon, one man's command.
page 281 note [s] Stowe's History, p. 196.
page 281 note [t] One of the chiefs in the Barons wars, of which this action at Chesterfield was an appendix.
page 281 note [u] Test. Lib. de Chesterfeld, &c. f. 64.
page 281 note [w] Penes Ducem de Norfolk, p.73.
page 282 note [x] Sir William Dugdale, by mistake, places the battle in 48 Hen. III. or 1264. Baronage, p. I. 287. Knyghton expressly says, where he is writing of the year 1265, “Anno sequenti mense Maii quarto die ante festum Sancti Dunstani.” Knyghton, inter X Scriptor. col. 2437. Now St. Dunstan's day was 19 May, and the annals of Waverly expressly say the battle was 15 May.
page 282 note [y] Annal. Dunstaple, cited below. Nic. Trivet, p. 227. Annal. Waverl. p. 222. Walsingham, p. 470. Wikes, p. 75.
page 282 note [z] Wikes says, fugere non poterat.
page 282 note [a] It is not said what church either by Hemingford or Knyghton; but as he was in the gout, it was probably the nearest church, so that the place he fled from was his station, as generalissimo. Perhaps the church of Chesterfield might be the place of arms, or was occupied for defence, which will account for the wool-sacks being there.
page 282 note [b] Hemingford does not mention these sacks; but Wikes say he was ignobiliter deprehensus.
page 282 note [c] I think it strange we meet with no account of so considerable a person in any other author. One may justly suspect some mistake; ought we to read subter or propter dominum J. de Daynel? to wit, Daynel for D'Eyvil, as above.
page 282 note [d] Annal. Dunstapl. p. 389. A. 1266.
page 283 note [e] Wikes, p. 76. This is attested also by others.
page 283 note [f] Wikes, ibidem.
page 283 note [g] Brookes, p. 68.
page 283 note [h] Insula de Haxalylum. Hemingford. See Nic. Trivet, p. 227. and Knygh ton, who writes it Haxalholm.
page 283 note [i] Hemingford and Knyghton.
page 283 note [k] Hemingf. p.588.
page 283 note [l] Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 540.
page 284 note [m] Hemingford, p. 587. Sir William Dugdale, by an oversight, represents Haunsard as unhorsing D'Eyvill. Baronage, I. p. 593. But see Knyghton, col. 2454. who calls him Haunsard.
page 284 note [n] Stowe.
page 284 note [o] Hemingford, p. 588.
page 284 note [p] Nic. Trivet, p. 229. Walsingham, p. 471.
page 284 note [q] Stowe.
page 284 note [r] Thomas Wikes, p. 82. Dugdale's Baronage, I. p. 593.
page 284 note [s] Dugdale, I. p. 530.
page 284 note [t] The forest must have had much wood in it at this time to have become a hiding place for this body of banditti.
page 285 note [u] A grammatical mistake for abduxerunt.
page 285 note [x] Annal. Dunstapl. p. 403.