^{page 383 note *} Proceedings, 2 S. iii. 382.

^{page 386 note *} See Mon. Ang. Walden, and Baronage, i. 204.

page 386 note † William de Say, the second, succeeded his father of the same name in 1272 and died in 1295. He was only 19 when his father died so that the deed must be after 1274, when he attained his majority. The principal manor of Edmonton acquired the name of Sayesbury after this family. See Robinson's Edmonton, pp. 40, 42.

^{page 388 note *} See Robinson's Edmonton, p. 50.

^{page 391 note *} See as to this surname Archdeacon Trollope, in the Transactions of the Line. Dioc. Archit. Soc. (Associated Societies, vol. vi. part 2), p. 174.

^{page 394 note *} Harl. Ch. 47. B. 11. Sir Robert de Hemenhale appears from Blomf. Norfolk vii. 34, to have been the first husband of Joan de la Pole. Probably by some arrangement, the manor of Polsted in Burnham was settled on this lady, in default of issue between Sir Robert and herself, as in 9 Hen. IV., Ralf de Hemenhale, Sir Robert's eousin-german, conveyed the manor (either as heir-at-law or as a feoffee) to Joan and Sir John Oldcastle, then her (fourth) husband. She was sole heiress of her father John, son and heir of William, by Joan daughter and heir of John Lord Cobham. Dugdale, quoting Robert Glover's collections, says (Bar. ii. 182), that William de la Pole grandfather of Joan married Margaret, sister and heir of William Peverel of Castle Asliby.

^{page 395 note *} Esch. 4 Hen. IV. n. 21 (p.m. Gerardi de B. senioris): 6 Hen. V. n. 45, and see the preceding note.

page 395 note † She was five times married : First to Sir Robert Hemenhale; secondly, to Sir Reginald Braybroke; thirdly, to Sir Nicholas Hawberk; fourthly, to Sir John Oldcastle, called Lord Cobham in her right; and lastly to Sir John Harpden. By Sir Reginald she left issue a daughter and heir, married to Sir Thomas Broke Lord Cobham.

page 395 note ‡ Hist. Northants, i. 342.

page 395 note § “Carta penes P. le Neve,” Bridges.

page 395 note ‖ This was probably a family arrangement, into the nature of which there is no need to inquire in this place.

^{page 396 note *} Excerpt. è Rot. Fin. i. 258, and see Baker, Northamptonshire, i. 525.

page 396 note † Excerpt, è Rot. Fin. ii. 285.

page 396 note ‡ Test, de Nevill, 354, 355b.

^{page 397 note *} Abbrev. Placit. 175, see also ibid. 165, 166 and 177.

page 397 note † Harl. Ch. 47 B. 4.

page 397 note ‡ John de Braybroke and Isabella de Longeville had in 3 Edw. III. a joint interest here also. See Rot. Hund. i. 257.

page 397 note § Harl. Ch. 47 B. 6.

page 397 note ‖ Harl. Ch. 47 B. 9.

^{page 398 note *} Harl. Ch. 46 E. 10.

page 398 note † Abbr. Plac. 352 (Pl. 18, E. II.) Vincent, in his Northamptonshire Collections (Off. Armor.), has abstracted a deed, dated 11 Edw. II., containing a release by Sir Gerard de Braybroke, knight, to Sir John la Warre, of all actions, &c., in respect of the rent mentioned in the text, with a reference to an agreement on the subject made in 3 Edw. I.

page 398 note ‡ MSS. Harl. 245, fo. 22 b.

page 398 note § Inq. p.m. Gerardi de Braybroke, chr. senioris. 33 Edw. III. No. 31 1st Nos.

page 398 note ‖ Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, i. 192 ; and see some interesting particulars of this Sir Gerard's career in Sir N. H. Nicolas's Notes, ibid. ii. 455. To these notes I shall have occasion to recur.

page 398 note ¶ Harl. Ch. 49 B. 48.

^{page 399 note *} Harl. oh. 58, G. 34.

page 399 note † Harl. MSS. 580, and nearly same pedigree, No. 4, 031, ad finem codicis.

page 398 note ‡ See also Blomfield, Norfolk, ix. 27, under Middleton, an estate comprised in the fine, 24 Edw. III. He says, that in the reign of Henry III. John de Longeville and his tenants held here and in Hardwick half a fee of the honor of Richmond. In 8 Edw. I. Hugh Verly died seized of land held of the said honor, and in the 30 Edw. I. a fine was levied between John de Longvile and Margaret his wife querents and Nicholas de Wortley deforciants of this fee, and of the manor of Overton Longville in Hunts, the moiety of Coin in Beds, &c., which were granted to John probably on his marriage settlement, but in 20 Edw. III. Margery de Satemarch held the half fee, and in 25 Hen. VI. George Lord Latimer held it of Edmund Earl of Richmond, which is the last account I find of it. Margaret de Braybroke may have been identical with this Margery and previously married to a Sautemareis. The moiety of “Coin” in Beds, no doubt means the moiety of Colmworth, the advowson regardant to which manor (and no doubt the manor itself) had been partitioned between Joan de Braybroke and Isabella de Longeville (who really was widow of a John) in 4 Edw. I.

^{page 400 note *} See Parl. Writs.

page 400 note † Her legitimacy has been doubted, but seems pretty well established. See Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, p. 23, and Egerton's Collins' Peerage, article Ferrers.

page 400 note ‡ Stemmata Shirleiana, p. 22.

page 400 note § So called in Inquisition post mortem Gerardi de Braybroke, seuioris, 4 H. IV. (Esch. Num. 21), but neither he nor his father were ever summoned to Parliament. As to this ancient barony by tenure, see the Peerages and a note by the late Sir C. G. Young, Garter, at p. 33 of Sir Thomas St. George on Titles of Honour, privately printed by Sir Charles.

page 400 note ‖ Esch. 41 Ed. III. n. 62.

page 400 note ¶ Vincent, Northamptonshire, 113. Ex cartis Ricardi Chetwode militis de Warkeworth in com. Northampton, 27th November, 1614. (Offic. Armor.)

^{page 401 note *} Esch. 4 H. IV. num. 21, and Baker's Northamptonshire under Pateshull.

page 401 note † See Bridges' Northamptonshire, and the records there cited. Also A statistical Account of the parish of Odell in Bibl. Top. Britanniea, Bedfordshire.

page 401 note ‡ Esch. 16 Richard II. pars 1^a, no. 158. There is only one writ, viz., to the Escheator in Northamptonshire, and the Inquisition is nearly illegible from the results of washing with galls to bring out the writing. So far as I can make it out it merely relates to Pateshull, reciting the settlement mentioned in the text, and names Nicholas de Wahull as the successor to the lands which Isabella had in dower there.

page 401 note § Augustine Vincent in one of his MSS. in the Office of Arms, (Northamptonshire 113, says), “Also it is written upon a marble lying before the high altar in the same church (Colm worth) these wordes : —Orate pro Gerardo Braybrok milite et Isabella consorte sua quondam Domina de Wodhull quæquidem Isabella obiit die Sancti Mareæ (sic) Evangelistæ 1093 [1393] quse jacet hie et dictus Jerardus obiit 1099.” This monument no longer exists. The dates 1093 and 1099 are both wrong, the former no doubt a misreading for 1393—but the other is quite unintelligible.

page 401 note ‖ Stemm. Shirl. app. 31 [xxxiii]. It is true that Sir Thomas Shirley, the family historian, writing about 1630, says that Sir Thomas, father of Hugh Shirley, and his lady were buried under the same tomb at Newark. Were this certain, the identification of Isabella Basset with the Dame de Wodhulle would of course fail, but the tomb was destroyed at the suppression and no epitaph from it has been recorded. I do not think, therefore, that this statement outweighs the strong evidence of identity which I have offered in the text.

^{page 402 note *} Stemm. Shirl. p. 25.

page 402 note † Ib. app. 32, xli., to which deed is attached a seal of a capital B inverted, probably the same seal as that to Sir G. Cornewall's deed.

page 402 note ‡ Ibid. xlv. His real name was Bonhum when written at full length. See among the Inquisitions on Gerard Senior's death, ubi supra, one dated Monday next after St. Peter in cathedra, 4 Hen. IV. (Feb. 26, 1403) and a writ of melius inguirendum of March 12th in that year.

page 402 note § Esch. 4 Hen. IV. num. 21.

page 402 note ‖ His will, with a codicil dated April 2, 1429, was proved July 11 in that year. Reg. Chicheley, Lambeth.

page 402 note ¶ Weever, Funerall Monuments, p. 640, gives the following inscriptions from Danbury church in Essex. Hie iacet Gerardus quondam films et heres Gerardi de Braybroke militis, qui obiit xxix Mareij M.cccc.xxii. Icy gist Perne Femme a Gerard Braybroke, fille a Monsieur Reynold de Grey Seignour de Wilton, que morust viij jour d'aureil, l'an de grace M.ccec.xiiij a que Dieu fait mercy.

^{page 402 note **} So I had supposed when the previous sheet containing the tabular pedigree went to press. Since then I have seen the codicil to the will of Gerard IV. giving legacies to Joan (2nd wife of Gerard V.) and Eleanor her daughter.

^{page 403 note *} See Topographer and Gen. ii. 260, and Courthope's Nicolas' Hist. Peerage.

page 403 note † Cart. Harl. 46. H. 49.

page 403 note ‡ Sir Gerard II. died seised of Ramardewyke, a manor in the parish of Pirton, co. Herts, jointly with Isabella his wife. Inq. 33 Edw. III. No. 31. Bleweham and Ickleford were also old family estates. See as to Ickleford Cart. Harl. 47. B. 51.

page 403 note § This manor was also held in jointure by Gerard II. and Isabella his wife, in Edw. III. (tnq. p. m. G. de B. sen. ubi supra.)

page 403 note ‖ Pole, Devonshire Collections, 411, says that Thomas Raleigh of Charneis or Charles, near South Molton, had issue William, who died s. p., and Joan, who married, first, Gerard Braybroke esquire, and secondly, Sir Thomas Bromflet ; and that on her death without issue her uncle succeeded her, and died 28 Hen. VI. This is probably the Joan in question.

^{page 404 note *} Proceedings, 2 S. iv. 200.

^{page 405 note *} Since the greater part of these remarks were in type, my attention has been called to the circumstance that Sir N. H. Nicolas had noticed the impression of the seal of Gerard IV. appended to the Harleian Charter, 47 B. 11, saying (Scrope and Grosv. Roll, ii. 455) that on that seal some remarks arise. He assumes, as I think, quite wrongly, that the impalement denotes baron and feme according to modern usage ; and observing that the impaled coat is not St. Amand, but may be Longeville, he concludes that the Longeville lady in the Heralds' pedigrees was (as I think I have proved) daughter and not widow of a Sir John de Longeville, but that she was wife either of Gerard IV. before bis marriage with Eleanor de St. Amand, or of Gerard III., in which case Sir Nicholas would suppose that the seal though used by Gerard IV. was engraved for his father. I am glad to have the support of so high an authority to my conclusions drawn independently as to the real nature of the Longeville Match, though of course not agreeing with the learned writer's view of the significance of the impalement.

page 405 note † Glover and Vincent in their pedigrees (ubi supra) have been confused, and no wonder, by the successive Gerards, and by the two Isabellas, wives of Gerard II. and III. They have omitted a generation, and given to Sir Gerard II. who died 33 Edw. III. two wives, namely, Isabella domina de Wodhulle. and Margaret, who in fact were the wives of Gerard III. (senior). By Isabella they make Gerard II. father, 1, of Sir Gerard IV. (junior), omitting Gerard III. (senior) altogether ; 2, of Robert Bishop of London, rightly enough except of course as to the mother; 3, of Sir Reginald, who was in fact the younger son of Gerard III., and that by his first wife Margaret, for had he not been brother by the whole blood to Gerard IV. (junior), his descendant Lord Cobham, could not have been, as he was, heir general to the last-named Gerard. E. W. Brabrook, Esq., F.S.A., to whom I am indebted for considerable information as to this family, has shown, in an interesting paper just published by the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, that the bishop was in orders and obtained his first preferment in 1360, about two years before the death of Sir Thomas Shirley, first husband of Isabella Lady Wahull; so that she could not have been the Bishop's mother, even if any doubt existed as to his father.

^{page 407 note *} Cheping Lamburne is Lambourn in Berkshire. In the account of Stanlegh Abbey in the Monasticon (v. 563–5) there is printed a Charter of King Richard I., whereby he confirms to that house (inter alia) what they had of the gift of Hugh de Plugeneie, namely— “Unam hidatam terræ, cum pasturis et omnibus pertinentiis suis in HupLamburne et insuper decem acras terræ de Sepland singulis annis (sic) et pasturam decem bourn et trium vaccarum cum suis dominicis bobus, et unam virgam in bosco suo ad caulas (coals ?) suas faciendas ; et totam terram dominii sui de Godeswcll cum omnibus pertinentiis suis.”