Peverell Family

Peche.
IN the tenth year of King Henry the Second’s Reign, Hamon Peche being Sheriff ^a of Cambridgſhire, ſo continued ^b till half of the twelfth year; at which time, upon the Aſſeſſment of that Aid for Marrying the King’s Daughter, he certified ^c his Knights Fees in Suffolk to be eleven an halt and two fourth parts; and in Cambridgſhire, ſeven and a twelfth part de veteri Feoffamento; as alſo, an half, third, and fourth part de novo. Which Fees in Cambridgſhire were ^d of his Wifes Inheritance, viz. Alice, Daughter ^e to William Peverell, one of the Coheirs of Pain Peverell her Brother, as part of the Honour of Brunne. For all which Fees, in 14 H. 2. he paid ^f xiil. xiv s. viz. a Mark for each Fee. And in ^g 2 R. 1. upon Collection of the Scutage of Wales, ix l. x s. ix d.
To this Hamon ſucceeded Gilbert his Son ^h and Heir;
a Rot. Pip. 10 H.2. Cantabr..
b Rot. Pip. de uſd. ann.
c d Lib. rub. ſub tit. Cantabr.
e Monaſt. Ang. vol. 2. 30a. n. 30.
f Rot. Pip. 14 H. 2. Cantabr. & Hunt.
g Rot. Pip. 2 R. 1. Cantabr.
h Mon. Angl. ut ſupra

PECCHE OF BOURN
HAMON PECCHE,1st s. by 2nd wife and eventual heir,(^a) said to have been one of the favourites of Henry I,(^b) was pardoned 28s. 7d. danegeld in Suffolk in 1130.(^c) He was with Henry II at Dover in Jan. 1155/ 6.(^d) Sheriff of Cambs and Hunts 1163-66. He m., between 1130 and 1135, Alice, da. of Robert PEVEREL, and 2nd of the 4 sisters and coheirs of William PEVEREL, of Bourn, Cambs.(^e) He was living at Mich. 1178, (^a) but d. before Mich. 1185.(^b) His widow was living at Mich. 1188.(^c)

(^a) In two pleas for the possession of Over in 1228 and 1236 between the Abbot of Ramsey and Hamon Pecche, son of Gilbert Pecche (see below), Hamon calls the present Hamon his avus, and the Abbot, obviously relying on documents in the possession of the abbey, identiﬁes this Hamon avus as the son of William Pecche the husband of Alfwen and first grantee of Over (Cart. Mon. de Rameseia,vol. i, pp. 123-27). William Pecche seems to have had besides Hamon two other sons, Simon and Ralph. In 1130 Simon Pecche was pardoned 3s. in Essex and 10s. danegeld in Norfolk (Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, pp. 56, 96); in 1086 William Pecche had held Stoke Holy Cross in Norfolk (see p. 331, note “f”), and in 1242-43 it is described as of the fee of Gilbert Pecche (Book of Fees, p. 912). In 1130 Ralph Pecche was pardoned 14s. danegeld in Cambs and 6s. in Essex (Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, pp. 46, 50); a charter of Henry I (Fœdera, vol. i, p. 10, from Carte Antiquæ) confirms to Ralph the manor of Cheveley, Cambs, as given to him by Roger FitzRichard; the charter as it stands cannot be authentic, but circa 1230 Cheveley was held by Hamon Pecche of Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, the representative of Roger FitzRichard (Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle—ed. J. W. Clark—p. 259), and the charter was probably fabricated to support true facts (cf. p. 333, note “j,” below). The devolution of their lands shows both to have died without issue; they may have been older than Hamon and sons of the 1st wife.
(^b) Cart. Rames., vol. i; p. 124.
(^c) Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, p. 96.
(^d) He attested the King’s charter granting Earl Aubrey (de Vere) the 3rd penny of the pleas of Oxfordshire (2-10 Jan.) as “Hammone Peccato.” See OXFORD, ante, p. 203, note “d.”
(^e) Her parentage is proved by a charter of her brother “Willelmus Peverel de Brunne” for Thorney Abbey, which is expressed to be “pro anima avunculi mei Willelmi Peverel de Doure, et pro anima patris mei Rodberti Peverel fratris sui, et Hamonis Peverel avunculi mei, et pro anima matris meae Adeliciae” (Dugdale, Mon., vol. ii, p. 601). See also Liber . . . de Bernewelle (p. 47), which, however, wrongly aﬂiliates William and his sisters to Payn Peverel; a chart pedigree of the coheirs of Peverel is printed by Farrer (Feudal Cambridgeshire, p. 160). From Hamon’s carta of 1166 (Red Book of Exchequer, p. 367) we learn that William Peverel gave him two knights’ fees in frank marriage with his sister; since William Peverel’s uncle Payn was still in possession in 1I30 (Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, p. 46) and Hamon’s da. Maud was aged 50 in 1185 (Rot. de Dominabus, p. 85), the marriage took place between 1130 and 1135. William Peverel d. on crusade in 1147-48, and his barony became divisible among his four sisters. Maud, the eldest, however, d. s.p., whereupon her purparty was divided among her 3 sisters (Liber . . . de Bernewelle, pp. 47-48), and Bourn, the caput of the barony, as also the patronage of Barnwell Priory at Cambridge, thus came to Hamon’s wife by right of esnecia. In his carta of 1166 Hamon distinguishes his Suffolk lands, those of Hervey de Bourges, owing a service of just over 12 knights, from his wife’s share of the honor of Bourn, amounting to slightly more than 7 knights’ fees. This Bourn in Cambs must not be confused with Bourn, Lines.
(^a) Pipe Roll, 24 Hen. II, p. 7.
(^b) When his widow and her son Geoffrey fined for the share of the honor of Bourn devolving on her by the death s.p. of her elder sister Maud of Dover (Idem, 31 Hen. II, p. 60). Hamon had a da. Maud, who m. Baldwin of Rochester and 2 other husbands (Red Bk. Exch., p. 367; Rot. de Dominabus, p. 85; cf. p. 332, note “e,” above).
(^c) Pipe Roll, 34 Hen. II, p. 41. Richard I conﬁrmed to Vaudey Abbey the gifts of Alice Peverel and of Geoffrey and Gilbert Pecche her sons (Dugdale, Mon., vol. v, p. 491). Hamon together with his wife Alice and their son Geoffrey gave their share of the church of Bitchfield, Lincs, to Bourn Abbey, Lincs (Cal. Charter Rolls, vol. iv, p. 46); they also confirmed a Peverel grant to Shrewsbury Abbey (Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. i, p. 190).

Cartae ad Abbatiam de Valle Dei (vulgariter Vaudey appellatum) in agro Lincolniensi spectantes.
    NUM. III.
Donationum Confirmatio per Regem Ricardum Primum.
      [Cartæ antiq. litera W. nu. 6.]
... In territorio de Coreby ex dono Alicise Peverell, et Gaufridi et Gilberti Peche filiorum ejus, nemus, quod vocatur Algerhage, et Almesend, cum terra in qua situm est.
This roughly translates as:
Charters relating to the Abbey of Valle Dei (commonly called Vaudey) in the county of Lincoln.
    NUMBER 3.
Confirmation of Donations by King Richard the First.
    [Ancient charters letter W. no. 6.]
... In the territory of Coreby by the gift of Alice Peverell, and Geoffrey and Gilbert Peche her sons, a grove called Algerhage, and Almesend, with the land in which it is situated.

Inspeximus and confirmation of the following charter in favour of the abbot and convent of Brunna;
… And further confirmation of the following;

… the gift of Hamo Pecce and Adelis his wife and Geoffrey their son of their share of the church of Billesfeld, in frank almoin.

    21. De Willelmo filio Pagani Peuerel.
Defuncto Pagano Peuerel, Willelmus filius eius successit ei. Et ipse, sequens uestigia patris, confirmauit canonicis predictis omnes donaciones quas pater eius eis fecit, et insuper dimidiam hydam terre in Brunna eis contulit de dominio suo; et cartam suam ipsis canonicis liberauit. Postea iherosolimam adiit, et illic a seculo migrans, nullum ex se relinquens heredem, quatuor sorores dicti Pagani filias reliquit, que totam baroniam inter se diuiserunt.
    22.Qualiter ius patronatus Ecclesie de Bernewelle descendit ad Dominum Gilbertum Peccke jure hereditario.
Tota baronia Pagani Peuerel post mortem Willelmi Peuerel inter quatuor sorores fuit diuisa. Quarum primogenita uocabatur Matildis de Doure, et ipsa sine herede de se mortua est. Et sic hereditas ipsa ad tres sorores deuoluta est, et pars predicte Matildis inter ipsas diuisa. Quarum una fuit uxor Hamonis Peche senioris que uocabatur Aelicia. Et ex illa processerunt filij et filie. Primogenitus Hamonis uocabatur Gilbertus Pecche primus. Et secundus uocabatur Galfridus Pecche. Iste Galfridus dedit canonicis Ecclesiam de Harlestone ad vesturam. De Gilberto autem processit Hamon Pecche, qui accepit vxorem nomine Euam, de partibus transmarinis oriundam, que genuit ei quinque filios et filias. Primogenitus Gilbertus Pecche, qui fuit de isto stipite vltimus noster patronus.
This roughly translates as:
    21. Of William, son of Pagan Peverel.
When Pagan Peverel died, his son William succeeded him. And he, following in his father's footsteps, confirmed to the aforesaid canons all the gifts which his father had made to them, and in addition he gave them half a hide of land in Brunna from his dominion; and he delivered his charter to the canons themselves. Afterwards he went to Jerusalem, and there, migrating from the world, leaving no heir of his own, he left four sisters, daughters of the said Pagan, who divided the whole barony among themselves.
    22. How the right of patronage of the Church of Bernewelle descended to Lord Gilbert Pecke by right of inheritance.
The whole barony of Pagan Peuerel after the death of William Peuerel was divided among four sisters. The eldest of whom was called Matilda de Doure, and she died without an heir of her own. And so the inheritance itself was divided among the three sisters, and the part of the aforesaid Matilda was divided among them. One of whom was the wife of Hamon Peche the elder, who was called Aecilia. And from her proceeded sons and daughters. The eldest son of Hamon was called Gilbert Peche the first. And the second was called Geoffrey Peche. This Geoffrey gave the church of Harlestone to the canons for vestry. From Gilbert, however, descended Hamon Peche, who took a wife named Eva, who came from overseas, who bore him five sons and daughters. The eldest son was Gilbert Peche, who was from this stock our last patron.

Peverell of Brunne:
But, not long after, this William went ^y to Jerulalem, and there died ^z without iſſue: So that his four Siſters became his Heirs, betwixt whom his Barony was divided ^a. Of theſe. Maud de Dovor, the eldeſt, died ^b without iſſue; Alice married ^c to Hamon Peche; Roeſe to ^d . . . . Harecourt; and Aſceline to ^e . . . . Watervile.
y z a b c Ibid[Mon. Angl. Vol.1.]. p 30 a. n 30.
d Ibid. n 40.
e Ibid. n. 50.

It seems that the three Coheirs of Peverel were unwilling to make good the Abbot of Shrewsbury’s title to Crugelton. Hence the following precept¹ of King Henry II. issued between the years 1155 and 1158, that is before he had been three years on the throne.—
Henricus Rex Angliæ &c., Hamoni Peech, et Gaufrido de Waltervill et Hugoni de Doura, salutem. Præcipio quod juste et sine dilacione reddatis Abbatiæ Salop’ &c., terram suam de Crugeltona quam Hamo Peverellus, cujus heredes vos estis eis dedit &c. Teste Cancellario apud Brantonam.²
… HAMO PECHE and ALICE PEVEREL, his wife, must have been married as early as 1134, for they had a daughter aged 50 in 1185.
Between the years 1161 and 1172 “Hamo Peeche, and his wife, and their son, Greoffrey, conceded to Shrewsbury Abbey a third part of Crugelton and of Slepe,” mentioning how Hamo Peverel had made, and how William Peverel, his nephew, had heretofore conceded and confirmed the grant. Witnesses, Richard (Peche) Bishop of Chester; the Abbot of Haemon; John and Wido le Strange; Alan and William de Hethley (Hadley); Robert fitz Nichel (of Shawbury); and Radulf de Tirne.²
Hamo Peche was in his own right seized of a Barony in Suffolk, consisting of 12 old fees, which he duly returned in 1165. But there is a long supplement to this return, stating what Hamo Peche held in Cambridgeshire and Shropshire, of “the Honour of William Peverel, and of the inheritance of his (Hamo’s) wife.” Hamo Peche speaks of two Cambridgeshire fees “which William Peverel had given him in frank marriage with his sister,” and part of which he himself had since bestowed on Baldwin de Roucestre with his own daughter in marriage. This is quite consistent with the idea that Hamo Peche was married as early as 1134, for William Peverel (II.) probably succeeded to the honour of Brunne, before he succeeded his Uncle, Hamo.
But to continue;—Hamo Peche’s return has these further items. “Et in Salopescire: Radulfus de Tirene (tenet) XIIam partem I militis. Et de novo fefamento, Willelmus de Hetlega tertiam partem I militis in Arcalun.”¹
Hamo Peche was Sheriff of Cambridgeshire from 1164 till Easter 1166. He was living in 1168 and paid scutage on 19 knights’-fees in that year. He died before 1185, leaving Alice Peverel his wife surviving, and leaving two sons, Geoffrey and Gilbert, of whom Geoffrey was the eldest.²
GEOFFREY PECHE is named on the Shropshire Pipe-Roll long before his Father’s death. In 1159 the Sheriff had paid 20s. to Geoffrey Peccatum, by order of the King.
In 1185 Alice Peverel and Geoffrey, her son, fined 100 merks to have their reasonable part of Brunne, as that which had been Matilda de Dover’s. The opposing claimant was Albreda Trussebut who fined 50 merks for a like settlement.³ Of course each of the two parties was claiming a third of Matilda de Dover’s inheritance, generally; or, in other words, a ninth of the Barony and estates of Peverel of Dover: for Albreda Trussebut, née Harcourt, was daughter and sole heir of Roisia Peverel.

² Salop Chartulary, No. 29.
¹ Liber Niger (Heame), I. 251, 252. Tern was of old, Ercall of new feoffment, if we take the Record as a guide. The distinction is accurately in keeping with other evidences.
² A Monastic Stemma (Monasticon, VI. p. 86, Num. II.) wrongly makes Gilbert the elder brother.
³ Rot. Pipe, 31 Hen. II., Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

WINCHESTER
SAHER DE QUENCY II, 1st s. and h., was pardoned 25s. of the donum of Northants in 1158;(^d) held a ½ knight’s fee of the Bishop of Lincoln of his wife’s inheritance in 1162;(^e) was pardoned a charge on his mother’s manor of Eynesbury afsd. in 1163;(^f) and held 1½ knights’ fees in Northants of Robert de Chokes and 1½ knights’ fees in Essex of the new feoffment of his half-br., Walter FitzRobert, in 1166.(^g) From 1170 to 1189 he was frequently with the King in Normandy and witnessed many Royal charters there.(^h) He was also Constable of Nonancourt Castle and acted as King’s Justice in Normandy.(ⁱ) He m., in 1162, Asceline, widow of Geoffrey DE WATERVILLE (or WATEVILLE),(^j) sister and coh. of William PEVEREL, of Bourn, co. Cambridge (who d. on Crusade, 1147-48),(^k) da of Robert PEVEREL, of the same, by his wife Adelicia.(^a) She d. before him.(^b) He d. in 1190.(^c).

(^d) Pipe Roll, 4. Hen. II, p. 142.
(^e) Idem, 8 Hen. II, p. 19; 15 Hen. II, p. 46; cf. Book of Fees, p. 183.
(^f) See note “c” above.
(^g) Red Book Exch., Rolls Ser., pp. 334, 349. In 1174. Henry II, gave him £22 a year in Colne, i.e. Wakes Colne, a member of the Honor of Eye (Pipe Roll, 21 Hen. II, p. 126).
(^h) Delisle-Berger, Recueil des Actes de [Henri II, passim. When in England he issued two charters and witnessed three of King Henry’s and one of his yr. br. Robert (Idem, vol. ii, pp. 47, 210, 288; Farrer, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 353; Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis, Bannatyne Club, p. 30; Hatton’s Book of Seals, no. 282, where his charter to Sibton Abbey bears his seal on tag: round, 2½ in.; red. Equestrian, ﬂat-topped helmet, hauberk (arms lozengy), kite-shaped shield; legend; SIGILLUM: SEHER DE . . .; but as to his alleged arms on the hauberk, see Appendix I in this vol.).
(ⁱ) Stapleton, Mag. Rot. Scacc. Norm., vol. 1, pp. cxiv, cxv, cxxxix; Haskins, Norman Institutions, pp. 327, 334-35.
(^j) Farrer, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 353; Pipe Roll, 8 Hen. II, p. 19; 9 Hen. II, p. 40; 2 Ric. I, p. 29; Book of Fees, p. 183.
(^k) Liber Mem. Eccles.de Bernewelle, ed. W. Clark, pp. 47-48.
(^a) For William Peverel’s 4 sisters and coheirs and the division between them of the Honor of Bourn see Clay, Early Yorks Charters, vol. ix, pp. 52-53, and ante, vol. x, pp. 332-33, sub PECCHE (of Bourn).
(^b) In 1190 her da. Asceline de Wateville, mother of Roger de Torpel, owed 60m. for seisin of the lands of her mother, who was wife of Saher de Quency (Pipe Roll, 2 Ric. I, p. 29; 4. Ric. I, p. 261; cf. Farrer, Feudal Cambridgeshire, p. 160).
(^c) Pipe Roll, 2 Ric. I, pp. 6, 8, 29, 30.

It seems that the three Coheirs of Peverel were unwilling to make good the Abbot of Shrewsbury’s title to Crugelton. Hence the following precept¹ of King Henry II. issued between the years 1155 and 1158, that is before he had been three years on the throne.—
Henricus Rex Angliæ &c., Hamoni Peech, et Gaufrido de Waltervill et Hugoni de Doura, salutem. Præcipio quod juste et sine dilacione reddatis Abbatiæ Salop’ &c., terram suam de Crugeltona quam Hamo Peverellus, cujus heredes vos estis eis dedit &c. Teste Cancellario apud Brantonam.²
… GEOFFREY DE WALTERVILLE and his wife ASCELINA, fourth sister and coheir of William Peverel (II.).—
About 1141, we have Geoffirey de Waterville attesting a Charter of the Empress Maud.¹ Somewhat later we have seen Ascelina (Peverel) attesting her brother’s grant to Haughmond Abbey. Between 1155 and 1158, we have seen Henry II. addressing Geoffrey de Walterville as one of Hamo Peverel’s Coheirs, concerned in Ercall.
But better than all this we have a Deed which speaks plainly of Geoffirey de Waltervill’s tenure of one-third of Ercall. It is his actual grant thereof to that same William de Hadley whom we have seen obtaining the other two-thirds of the Manor. The Deed passed between 1155 and 1162, probably about 1160.
G. de Waltervilla omnibus amicis suis Francigenis et Anglis, Dedi Willielmo de Hetlehe pro suo servicio totam meam partem de Herchalun, et consensu Acelinæ uxoris meæ et Radulfi filii mei. In feodo et hereditate sibi et heredibus suis, de me et heredibus meis et cum hoc meam partem de feudo Hugonis de Laci;² et hanc terram quam hic nominavi dedi illi pro servicio terciæ partis unius militis faciendo; et ideo volo et firmiter precipio quod per hoc servicium quod hic nominavi earn teneat i¹ bene et in pace cum omnibus libertatibus et cum omnibus pertinenciis, sicut Hamo Piperellus avunculus uxoris mea usque² illam melius et quietius uno die et una nocte tenuerit. Testibus, Hugone de Luisures; H. Picart; Drugone de Watervill; Widone de Watervill; Roberto Malet; Willielmo de Seto Georgio; G, fratre ejus; Toroldo de Suton; Rogero de Millinton; Roberto filio Willielmi; Simone de Sumeri; Williehno Bastart; Hamelino; Uioc Capellano; Willielmo filio Petri; Petro de Seto Martino.³
Geoffrey de Walterville was deceased in 1162. Consequently it is his widow who, as Ascelin’ de Waltervill, was assessed to the scutage of that year, as Tenant of five knights’-fees in Camhridgeshire and Huntingdonshire;— obviously her share of the Barony of Brunne.
The Liber Niger of 1165 contains no return by Ascelina de Waltervill; but I suspect it to have been her who is written as Ascelinus de Waltervill, and who held half a fee in Lincolnshire under Simon Earl of Northampton.⁴ Probably too it was her son who in one place is called Ralph de Waltervilla,⁵ and in another, Ralph fitz Asceline,⁶ in the same Record, but who does not yet appear as a Tenant-in-capite.
Between the years 1161 and 1173, I date the Deed whereby Ascelina de Waltervill (evidently a widow) and Radulf her son, concede to Shrewsbury Abbey, a third of Crugelton and Slepe, as given previously by Hamo Peverel, &c. Witnesses, Nicholas, Canon; Bartholomew d’Andevill; Droco de Waltervill; Radulf de Lindesey; Hodo; Walter fitz Harduin; Acelina daughter of Geoflfrey de Waltervill; Alan de Haleie (read Hadley); Radulf son of Teold de Terne; William fitz Warin of Burewardesley (Broseley); William de Bans; Richard de Linley.⁷

¹ Monasticon, V. 409.
² It is probable, from this expression, that during Lacy’s forfeiture, and towards the end of Henry I.’s reign, something in his Shropshire Fief had been bestowed on Hamo Peverel, and had descended to Hamo Peyerel’s coheirs. The restoration of the Lacies by Henry II. possibly obliterated the specific alienation, by reinvesting them with the estate in question.
^{1 . 2} Read ita and unquam.
³ The late Mr. George Morris’s Deeds.
^{4 . 5 . 6} Liber Niger, I. 271, 269, 198.
⁷ Salop Chartulary, No. 31.

215.
Double original, scellé.—T. I, n^o 172, p. 246.
1151-1153. — HUGUES de Chilham, fils de Foubert de Douvres, donne à l'église de Saint-Bertin, l’église de Chilham (125).
Hugo de Chileham, filius Fulberti de Dofora, omnibus Christi fidelibus salutem. Sciatis tam presentes quam futuri quod ego Hugo, filius Fulberti de Dofora(**), concessi et dedi pro salute anime mee et patris mei Fulberti et matris mee Adelit et parentum meorum, et Matildis uxoris mee et parentum suorum, et successorum nostrorum, ecclesie beati Bertini, per manum Leonii ejusdem loci abbatis, ecclesiam de Chilham cum omnibus pertinentes suis in perpetuam elemosinam possidendam; ita quod ecclesie predicte duo presbiteri capellani more solito deserviant. Si vero capellani idem non idonei inventi fuerint, consilio archiepiscopi, abbatis et nostro corrigentur (***). Insuper, religiosi quique, qui ad me hospitalitatis causa declinaverint, in domo abbatis hospitabuntur, et in ea tanlummodo paleas accipiant: cetera omnia victualia tam equis quam hominibus a domo mea recipient. Testibus hiis. Silvestro beati Augustini abbate. Willelmo priore Sancti Augustini. Petro canonico Sancte Marie Taruanensis. Willelmo Cada. Helya de Chilleham. Mathilde uxore mea. Radulfo filio Willelmi. Willelmo et Johanne fratribus ejus, nepotibus meis. Balduino de Stura. Gaufrido de Ticheseia. Guillelmo de Eslingis. Arnaldo de Bolonia.
Sceau rond de 50 mm.; type équestre: + SIGILLV HVGONIS FILLI FVLBERTI DE DOVWRE (Pl. III, n^o 60).
N. B. Cet acte, classé par D. W. sous l’an 1140, et publié par extraits dans l’Archœologia Cantiana (*), vol. IV, p. 205, est nécessairement postérieur à l’élection de Silvestre, abbé de S. Augustin, premier témoin cité, qui eut lieu en 1151, d’après la chronologia Augustiniensis insérée par M. Hardwick dans l’Hist. monasterii S. Aug. Cantuar. de Thomas Elmham, éditée en 1818. Il est aussi nécessairement antérieur à la confirmation émanée du pape Anastaso IV le 18 décember 1153. [17 November written by hand in place of the struck through date]
(**) D. W. écrit ici Defora.
(•••) D. W. Corrigetur.
(*) Transactions of the Kent Archœological Society, 1861

1151-1153. — HUGUES de Chilham, son of Foubert de Douvres, gives to the church of Saint-Bertin, the church of Chilham (125).
Hugh of Chileham, son of Fulbert of Dofora, greetings to all the faithful of Christ. Know both present and future that I, Hugh, son of Fulbert of Dofora, have granted and given for the salvation of my soul and that of my father Fulbert and my mother Adelita and my parents, and of my wife Matilda and her parents, and of our successors, to the church of St. Bertin, by the hand of Leonius, abbot of the same place, the church of Chilham with all its belongings to be possessed in perpetual alms; so that the aforesaid church shall be served in the usual manner by two priests and chaplains. But if the chaplains are found to be unfit, they shall be corrected by the advice of the archbishop, the abbot and ourselves. Moreover, any religious who decline to come to me for the sake of hospitality shall be lodged in the abbot's house, and shall receive straw there only: all other provisions for both horses and men shall be received from my house. Witnesses. Sylvester, abbot of blessed Augustine. William, prior of Saint Augustine. Peter, canon of Saint Mary of Taroua. William Cada. Helya de Chilleham. Mathilde my wife. Ralph son of William. William and John his brothers, my nephews. Baldwin de Stura. Geoffrey de Ticheseia. William de Eslingis. Arnald de Bologna.
N. B. This act, classified by D. W. under the year 1140, and published in extracts in the Archœologia Cantiana, vol. IV, p. 205, is necessarily subsequent to the election of Silvester, abbot of S. Augustine, the first witness cited, which took place in 1151, according to the chronologia Augustiniensis inserted by Mr. Hardwick in the Hist. monasterii S. Aug. Cantuar. by Thomas Elmham, published in 1818. It is also necessarily prior to the confirmation issued by Pope Anastaso IV on 18 December, 1153. [17 November written by hand in place of the struck through date]

Dovor.
To him ſucceeded Hugh, who executed the Office of Sheriff ^f in that County for three parts of 7 Hen. 2. continuing likewiſe therein, till ^g the end of the thirteenth year of that Kings Reign: And in 12 Hen. 2. upon Aſſeſſment of the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter, certified ^h his Knights Feed to be eleven, and an half De Veteri Feoffamento, beſides what he then had in his own Demeſn: For all which, in 14 Hen. 2. he paid ⁱ eleven pounds ſix ſhillings eight pence, and one mark for one Knights Fee De Novo Feoffamento (whereby it is manifeſt, that he had no leſs then fifteen Knights Fees in the whole;) and moreover five marks for ^k thoſe Knights Fees that belonged to the Honor of Brunne, which, by reaſon ^l of his Marriage with Maud, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Pain Peverell of Brunne, in Cambridgeſhire, he likewiſe then held. (Which Maud died ^m without iſſue.
f Rot. Pip. 7 H.3. Kanc.
g Rot. Pip. de uſdem an. Kanc.
h Lib. Rub. in Scacc. ſub tit. Kanc.
i Rot. Pip. 14 H.2. Kanc.
k Ibid. ſub tit. Cantabr. Huntingd.
l m Mon. Ang. Vol 2. p. 30a n. 30.

Inspeximus of the following charter:—
H. rex Anglorum R. episcopo Saresberiensi et vicecomiti et omnibus, baronibus et fidelibus suis Francis et Anglis de Berchesira, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse Pagano Peur[el] ut det Mitildam filiam suam Hugoni filio Fulberti Doure in uxorem et manerium suum de Siffort et quicquid manerio pertinet in libero maritagio sicut Paganus ei concessit et dedit post dicessum suum tenendum et habendum. Et volo et firmiter precipio ut ipsa Matilda ex quo manerium habuerit teneat bene et in pace et honorifice et quiete cum socha et sacha et tol et them et infangeneteof et cum omnibus aliis consuetudinibus suis cum quibus Paganus unquam melius et honorificentius et quietius tenuit. Testibus, Willelmo de Montefichet et Roberto de Ferrariis et Willelmo filio Odonis et Rot[rod]o de Doli et Willelmo le Sor’ et Roberto Peur[el] fratre Mattildis et Willelmo Peur[el] et Hamone Peur[el] et Hamelino de Asnevilla et Waltero de Bello Campo et Peur’ de Bello Campo et Willelmo de Lusoriis et Pagano de Bello Campo, apud Waltham. [1102-1122 possibly 8 August, 1111.]
and confirmation of the same to Henry de Bokesworth the present tenant of the said manor and his heirs. By p.s. [5294.]

Notification by Henry I to R[oger] Bp. of Salisbury and all of Berks.: That he has permitted Payn Peverel to give his daughter Matilda in marriage to Hugh son of Fulbert of Dover, with the manor of East Shefford (Siffort), [co. Berks.] and its appurtenances in frank-marriage. When Matilda receives the manor she is to hold it with sac and soc, toll and team and infangthief and all the customs which Payn ever enjoyed there.
Witnesses: William de Montfichet; Robert de Ferrars; William fitz Odo; Rotrod de Doli; William le Sor’; Robert Peverel, brother of Matilda; William Peverel; Hamo Peverel; Hamelin de Asnevilla; Walter de Beauchamp; Peverel de Beauchamp; William de Lusors; Payn de Beauchamp.
[Chart. R. 6 Ed. Ill, No. 38 (enrolment of Inspeximus). Cal. Chart. R. iv. 266.] Farrer, Itin. 669.
William de Lisures appears to have died about Christmas 1129 (P.R. 31 Hen. II, 82) and Fulbert of Dover had not been long dead in 1130 (ibid. 158).

It seems that the three Coheirs of Peverel were unwilling to make good the Abbot of Shrewsbury’s title to Crugelton. Hence the following precept¹ of King Henry II. issued between the years 1155 and 1158, that is before he had been three years on the throne.—
Henricus Rex Angliæ &c., Hamoni Peech, et Gaufrido de Waltervill et Hugoni de Doura, salutem. Præcipio quod juste et sine dilacione reddatis Abbatiæ Salop’ &c., terram suam de Crugeltona quam Hamo Peverellus, cujus heredes vos estis eis dedit &c. Teste Cancellario apud Brantonam.²
HUGH DE DOVER and MATILDA his wife complied sooner or later with this order, and in its fullest sense. By their Deed (which must have passed between 1161 and 1172) they concede to the said Abbey a third part of Crugelton and of Slepe, as Hamo Peverel had given and confirmed it. Witnesses, Geoffrey Peeche; Jordan, Clerk; Droco de Waltervill; Matilda, daughter of Geoffrey de Waltervill; Ralph de Lindesey; Hodo; Walter fitz Harduin; Alan and William de Hetley; Ralph son of Theold de Tirne; William fitz Warin of Burewasley (Broseley); Robert fitz Nigel of Schawbery; William de Bans; and Richard de Linley.³
Two of these witnesses require special notice.—Radulf de Tirne had attested Charters of Hamo Peverel both before and after the death of Henry I. He was in fact Hamo Peverel’s Feofee at Tern, which he held for a fourth of a knight’s-fee, accounted to be of old feoffment. William de Hetley or Hadley, was second son of William de Hadley (I.) by Seburga, natural daughter of Hamo Peverel, which Seburga was Matilda de Dover’s Cousin. After the death of Henry I., either Hamo Peverel, or William Peverel (II.), or his three Sisters in conjunction, enfeoffed William de Hadley in Ercall, by service of one knight’s-fee.
Hence in 1165 when Hugh de Dover made a return of his Cambridgeshire Fees, he added these items to his account—“Radulfus de Tirna (tenet) XIIam partem (unius feodi) in Salopescire,” and—“De novo fefamento; Willelmus de Helleia (tenet) tertiam partem militis in Salopescire post mortem H. (Henrici) Regis.”
I cannot stop to rectify many erroneous statements which have been made about Hugh de Dover, his Barony, and his successors. Suffice it to say that he was a great Baron of Kent and Sheriff of that County from 1161 to 1167; and that he did not get his name “De Dover” from his wife: moreover that in the year 1172 he was deceased, without issue; when his Nephew, John de Dover, succeeded to his Kentish Barony and was in turn succeeded by his son Fulbert.
Matilda Peverel, or de Dover, survived her husband, holding of course her share of the Barony of Brunne and of the Seigneury of Ercall and Tern. She was deceased in 1185, when all her inheritances were or ought to have been divided into three parts and distributed between the representatives of her three sisters.

¹ Salop Chartulary, No. 43-b.
² Bramton, in Huntingdonshire, is probably the place here intended.
³ Salop Chartulary, No. 30.

Leaving a curious, but perhaps hopeless investigation, we should here say that Domesday appears to make mention of only two Peverels, viz. William (of Nottingham) and Ranulph (of Essex), and that the latter had a small territory in Shropshire held under the Norman Earl.
This accident is, I believe, the fact which has mainly induced some Genealogists to conclude that Ranulf was Father of those Shropshire Peverels who attended the Court and enjoyed the favours of King Henry I. Such a conclusion wants all substantial foundation and is directly subverted by one chief consideration, viz. that of the many Lordships enjoyed by Ranulf Peverel in four Domesday Counties (Shropshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex), not one can be proved to have descended to those other Peverels of whom I am now to speak.⁵
The latter family consisted of several brothers or half-brothers, whose parentage is unknown, and whose very number is uncertain. If they were four, their names were Hamo, William, Pagan, and Robert, if they were only three, then Pagan and Robert constitute a single person described in different documents by different names.⁶
⁵ Their estates lay in Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Kent, and Northamptonshire, and they all came into court-favour before the death of Ranulph Peverel whose only son and successor seems to have been that William Pererel who was afterwards called of Essex or of London, to distinguish him from his Contemporaries William of Nottingham and William of Brun, or of Dover.
⁶ I shall have hereafter to recur to this subject of the Peverels. I should perhaps however state here how this doubt about Pagan and Robert arises.—
Pagan Peverel had a great Fief in Cambridgeshire by grant of Henry I. He was Founder of Barnwell Priory, and the Chartulary of that House printed in the Monasticon (vol. vi, p. 86) contains a document of very general truthfulness and which professes to give account of his descendants. It makes him Father of that William Peverel who died in Palestine, and of the four Coheiresses presently to be mentioned in the text.
That he was succeeded in Cambridgeshire by the said William Peverel and then by the said Sisters, there can be no question; and the only doubt as to the Barnwell Chronicler's accuracy arises from his giving a date for Pagan Peverel's death at least ten years too early. So much for Pagan Peverel as Father of William.
In a charter of Thorney Abbey (printed in the Monasticon vol. ii, 601, viii) this identical William Peverel (the Crusader) mentions his Father's Christian name as having been Robert.
Dugdale has adopted both statements in different parts of his Baronage without adverting to their apparent inconsistency.

PIGOTT, OF EDGMOND.
In an elaborate MS. compiled and emblazoned in the College of Arms, containing “Sundrie Ancient Remembrances of Arms, Genealogies, and other Notes of Gentillity belonging to the Worshipfull Name and Families of Pigot or Picot,” it is stated that “In the first reign of the Normans there flourished in this land two noble familys of the surname of Pigot; and that they were of the like noble linage or offspring in the Dutchy of Normandy before the Norman conquest of England, appeareth by the reverend testimonies of our ancient Heralds books and chronicles: the first whereof being named otherwiles Pigot and Picot, was Viscount Hereditary of Cambridge Sheer or Grantbridge, and Baron of Boorne or Brune in the said County in the reign of King William the Conqueror. After his death, Robert Pigot, his sonn, succeeded in the Baronie, and he forfeited the same by takeing part with Robert, Duke of Normandy, against William Rufus; and King Henry the First gave the same to Payne Peverell: This Peverell married the sister of the said Lord Robert Pigot, as Mr. Cambden noteth in his description of Cambridgeshire.”

a little way off Burne-caſtle, which was anciently the Barony of one Picot Sheriff of this County, and alſo of the Peverills, by one of whoſe daughters the Inheritance and Honours fell to Gilbert Peche; the laſt of which family, after he had advanc’d his ſecond wife’s children, made King Edward the firſt his heir. In thoſe days the Engliſh Nobility brought up the ancient Roman cuſtom in the time of their Emperors, of making their Princes heirs whenever they were our of favour.

Charters relating to Thorney Abbey in the county of Cambridge.
    No. 8.
   In Bedfordshire.
[From the Register of the Abbot of Thorney, in the possession of the Earl of Westmorland, in the year 1638], part six, fol. 4, cap. 1.]
   WILLIAM PEVEREL of Brunne, To all the sons of the holy church of God and to all her men, French and English, to her friends and neighbors, greetings and love in the Lord. Know that I have given in my village of Wilden, namely in that part which is called Oddewic, to God and St. Mary of Thorne, and to the convent of monks who serve God there, two acres of land with the men who hold them, namely that which Ailerus held by name, and another which Herbert and Pagan, Tedricus and Turgod Coc held, so freely and so quietly and honorably, that they shall not answer to me or to any one there for any exaction except for the prayers of the brethren and the benefits of the church for the soul of my uncle William Peverel of Doure, and for the soul of my father Rodbert Peverel, his brother, and my uncle Hamon Peverel, and for the soul of my mother Adelicia, and for the soul of Henry, king of England, and for the souls of all my benefactors, and for the salvation of the living and the dead. The witnesses of this donation are, &c.

707. [1105, Oct.?] Handborough [co. Oxon.]
Notification by Henry I to Roger Bp. of Salisbury and Hugh de Bocland, and Aubrey [of Berkshire] and the barons of Berks.: That he has given to Payn Peverel the manor of West Shefford (Sifort) [co. Berks.], with the all the customs which the King used to have there. They are to seise him of it.
Witness: Waldric the chancellor [1103-31 July 1106.]
[Chart. R. 6 Ed. Ill, m. 2 (Inspeximus). Cal. Chart. R. iv. 290.] Farrer, Itin. 132.

Henrici regis Angliæ quidam primatum, nomine et actu Paganus, cognomento Peverel, duas sancti Benedicti Ramesiensis coenobii villas cæca ambitione illectus, usarpare sibi sacrilega invasione conatus est, falso affirmans tam hæreditario jure quam regia donatione, ipsarum se justa possessione dominari debere. At fratres, contra, multorum attestationem veracium asserebant, eas jam olim plurimorum successione regum absque ullius unquam contradiotione sive impugnatione ab ecclesia Ramesiensi liberrime possessas fuisse, injustumque cunctis yel leviter doctis videri tot sæculis quiete habitas nova nunc et inaudita calumnia fore linquendas. Sed mens prava insatiabilis ayaritiæ, veneno semel inebriata, aut yix aut nunquam sitire desistit aliena. Prædictus namque Paganus regiæ potestati ut suæ faveret iniquitati importunis precibus suggerere non cessabat. Verum regius animus ad iniquitatem, maxime ad sacrilegii rapinam seu rerum ecclesiasticarum diminutionem, ob timorem Dei sanctorumque ejus reyerentiam flecti non potuit, quin potius justo examine causas utrobique yentilari præcepit. Interim yero frtatres causam suam cum rebus divinæ protectioni, et sanctorum Benedicti atque Yvonis patrocinio, devotis precibus committunt. Venit dies præfixus in qua abbas Bernardus cum aliquautis fratribus multique utrarumqne partium prudentes, nobiles, ac præpotentes, ad villam Slepensem in cimiterio beati Yvonis conveniunt. Sed et judiciariæ potestatis veri periti atque diserti ad dijudicandam et definiendam de qua agebatur cansam a latere Regis illuc diriguntor. Quid plura? Post multas adversariomm tergiversationes, post controversias, fratrum quoque luculenta assertione, testium idoneoram affirmatione, litterarum quoque praædecessomm regum attestatione, perspicua cognita a judicibus veritate, divina (sanctorum Benedicti atque Yvonis interyentu) gratia cooperante, supramemoratas villas Ramesiensis ecolesiæ juris atque ditionis esse equitatis censura decernunt. Quod audientes adyersarii confusi discedunt. Abbas autem cum fratribus monasterium exhilaratus repetiit. Et ut iniquitas eorum ob castigationem aliorum yerius patesceret, divina indicio fuere miracula. Nam ipsa die priusquam ad hospitium suum Paganus peryeniret, equus cui insidebat, pedibus collapsis, non sine læsione sessoris ter in terram corruit, atque de manu ejus accipiter quem tenuerat excussus silvam nunquam reversurus celeri volatu petiit. Equus quoque presbyteri sui seoum comitantis pede lapso corruit, atque confractis cervicibus, presbytero tamen illæso, vitalem flatum amisit. Dapifer etiam ipsius, vocabulo Robertus, quia plus cæteris, quasi domino suo fidelissimus, nequitiæ suæ assensum atque auxilium præbuerat, majori vindictæ merito succubuit. Denique brachium ejus dextrum ab ulna sursum usque in pectus et scapulas in tantum tam intollerabili dolore intumuit, ut propria coxa grossius effectum, neque cibum neque somnum capere, neque os aliquando ab ejulatu et stridore horribili cohibere posset. Quumque tam miserabili cruciatu mortis periculum timeret, ad beati Yvonis Slepensem ecclesiam, ubi nuper deliquerat et ob boc hujusmodi pœnam incurrerat, carro vehente portari se fecit. In qua basilica quum aliquantis diebus et noctibus veniam gemitibus atque suspiriis miserandis postulando excubasset, divina miseratione, sancti Yvonis intercessione, respectus, tandem aliquantulum meliorari, cibo paullatim refici, somno relevari, atque brachium detumescere cœpit. Et quum jam per se incedere posset, eximii patris Benedicti Ramesiense cœnobium, atque beati Yvonis ibidem salutiferum sepulchrum, gratias pro sui sospitate acturus, atque in quos peccaverat fratribus reconciliaturus, petere commodum duxit. Quo quum devotus advenisset, atque ab abbate Bernardo et a fratribus in capitulo veniam reatus sui. postulasset et impetrassat, eum ad beati tumbam Yvonis usque perducunt. Ubi quum pro eo et cum. eo exorassent et gratias egissent, atque ipse seipsum beato Yvoni servum sempitemum dedisset, ad propria tam mente quam corpore sanatum com gandio remittunt.
This roughly translates as:
A certain primate of King Henry of England, Paganus by name and pagan by deed, surnamed Peverel, enticed by blind ambition, attempted to usurp for himself by sacrilegious invasion two villages of the monastery of St. Benedict of Ramsey, falsely affirming that he should have just possession of them by hereditary right as well as by royal gift. But the brethren, on the contrary, asserted the testimony of many as true, that they had already been freely possessed by the church of Ramsey in the past by a succession of many kings without any contradiction or attack from anyone, and that it was unjust for all the lightly educated to think that they had been quietly occupied for so many centuries, and that now a new and unheard-of calumny should be abandoned. But a perverse mind, insatiable with greed, once intoxicated with poison, either ceases to thirst for something else or never. For the aforesaid Paganus did not cease to suggest to the royal power that he should favor his own iniquity by importunate entreaties. But the king's mind could not be bent to iniquity, especially to the robbery of sacrilege or the diminution of ecclesiastical things, for fear of God and his saints, but rather ordered that the cases be sent to both places after a fair examination. Meanwhile, the brothers committed their case with the things to the divine protection and the patronage of saints Benedict and Yvo, with devout prayers. The day appointed came on which Abbot Bernard with some brothers and many prudent, noble, and powerful men of both parties assembled at the villa of Slepen in the cemetery of blessed Yvon. But also the true experts and eloquent of the judicial power were directed there by the King's side to judge and define the case in question. What more? After much hesitation on the part of his adversaries, after controversies, also the clear assertion of the brothers, the appropriate affirmation of witnesses, the attestation of letters and the kings' predeceased, the clear truth being known by the judges, and the cooperation of divine grace (through the intervention of Saints Benedict and Yvon), they decreed that the aforementioned villages were under the jurisdiction and control of the Ramsey church. Hearing this, the adversaries departed in confusion. But the abbot and his brothers returned to the monastery, exultant. And so that their iniquity due to the chastisement of others would become apparent, miracles were performed by divine evidence. For on the very day before Paganus reached his lodgings, the horse he was riding fell three times to the ground, not without injury to the rider, and the hawk he had been holding, shaken from his hand, flew swiftly towards the forest, never to return. The horse of his priest accompanying him also fell with a fall, and with his neck broken, the priest, however, was unharmed, and lost his vital breath. Even his own servant, called Robert, because he had given more assent and assistance to his wickedness than the rest, as if most faithful to his master, succumbed to greater justice. Finally, his right arm swelled from the elbow up to the chest and shoulders in such intolerable pain that his own hip, made larger, could neither eat nor sleep, nor could he ever restrain his mouth from the horrible shrieking and screeching. And since he feared the danger of death from such miserable torture, he had himself carried in a cart to the church of blessed Yvo of Slepen, where he had recently sinned and had incurred such punishment for his mouth. In which basilica, after he had kept watch for some days and nights, begging for forgiveness with pitiful groans and sighs, by divine mercy, through the intercession of saint Yvon, he finally began to improve a little, gradually regained his strength through food, slept better, and his arm began to shrink. And when he was now able to walk by himself, he thought it convenient to seek the monastery of the excellent Father Benedict of Ramsey, and the healing tomb of blessed Yvo there, to give thanks for his recovery, and to reconcile the brothers against whom he had sinned. When he had arrived there devoutly, and had asked and obtained forgiveness for his guilt from Abbot Bernard and the brothers in the chapter, they conducted him to the tomb of blessed Yvo. Where, having prayed for him and with him and given thanks, and having himself given himself as a perpetual servant to blessed Yvo, they sent him back to his own company, healed both in mind and body.
p221
De Stou et Grettune. [A.D. c. 1109.]
Henricus Rex Angliæ episcopo Eliensi et baronibus et jueticiariis et vicecomitibus et omnibas fidelibus suis Francis et Anglis de Grantebrigeschire, salutem. Sciatis quoniam Bernardos abbas de Ram[esia] dirationavit in curia sua apud Sanctum Yvonem coram justitia mea, quam illuc miseram, terram de Stowe et Grettone versus Paganum Peverellum, quam ipse Paganus clamabat tenere de ecclesia de Ramesia, et recognitum ibi fuit quod nullum jus in terra ilia reclamare poterat, sed remansit terra ilia ecclesiæ de Ramesia et abbati solida et quieta de tota calumnia Pagani et successorum suorum, et hoc dirationamentum warantizo et per cartam meam confirmo, et ideo voIo et præcipio quod ecclesia de Rames[ia] et abbas eam amodo in pace et quiete et libere teneant sicut dominium ecclesiæ ejusdem, ita ne ulterius ei inde respondeat nee alicui de successoribus meis nee alteri qui per ilium clamet. Testibus, R[ogero] episcopo de Sar[esberia] et Pagano filio Johannis et W. de Hoctona, apud Westmonasterium.
This roughly translates as:
Of Stow and Gretton. [A.D. c. 1109.]
Henry King of England to the Bishop of Ely and the Barons and Justices and Sheriffs and all his faithful French and English of Granthamshire, greeting. You should know that Bernard, the abbot of Ramesia, disputed in his court at Saint Yvon before my justice, that there was a wretched land of Stowe and Gretton against Pagan Peverell, which Pagan himself claimed to hold from the church of Ramesia, and it was acknowledged there that he could claim no right in that land, but that land remained with the church of Ramesia and the abbot solid and quiet from all the calumny of Pagan and his successors, and I warrant this dispute and confirm it by my charter, and therefore I will and command that the church of Ramesia and the abbot hold it from now on in peace and quiet and freely as the dominion of the same church, so that it may no longer answer to him from there either to any of my successors or to another who claims through it. Witnesses, R[oger], bishop of Salisbury and Pagan son of John and W. of Hocton, at Westminster.

    8. De Pagano Peuerel.
Procedente uero tempore contulit dominus rex Henricus baroniam illam cuidam suo familiari scilicet Pagano Peuerel egregio militi, armis insigni, milicia pollenti, uiribus potenti, et super omnes regni proceres bellico usu laudabili. Qui partes Cantebrigie adiens, et illam domum desolatam et ad nichilum redactam intuens, deo inspirante et beato Egidio id operante¹, super ea condolens, [et] infra semet ipsum deliberans, tandem prorupit in uocem: Triginta annorum fui baptismo regeneratus. Triginta annorum ero in nouissimo die resuscitandus, Triginta hic constituam canonicos per dei graciam me ad etemam uitam producturos, et sicut loco heredis successi Pycoto ad hereditatem possidendam, ita ei succedam ad domum istam ditandam et sufficienter dilatandam.
   ¹ opinente, MS.
    9. De loco de Bamewelle.
Uidens autem locum ubi domus eorum sita erat non sufficere ad omnes officinas canonicis suis necessarias, nec eciam aquam uiuam in se continere, impetrauit ille egregius Paganus Peuerel a rege Henrico locum quendam extra Burgum Cantebrigie a magna platea usque in riueram Cantebrigie se extendentem, et amenitate situs loci satis delectabilem. Porro de illius loci medio fonticuli satis puri et viuidi emanabant, Anglice Barnewelle, id est fontes puerorum, eo tempore appellati, eo quod pueri et adolescentes semel per annum, in vigilia scilicet Natiuitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste, illic conuenientes more Anglorum luctamina et alia ludicria exercebant puerilia, et cantilenis et musicis instrumentis sibi inuicem applaudebant. Vnde propter turbam puerorum et puellarum illic concurrencium et ludencium mos inoleuit ut in eodem die illic conueniret negociandi gracia turba uendencium et emencium.
In hoc loco quidam homo magne sanctitatis, Godesone nomine, conuersari consueuerat, solitariam uitam ducens et paruulum oratorium ligneum in honore beati Andree Apostoli constructum habens, qui parum antea defunctus locum sine habitatore et oratorium sine custode dimiserat.
     10. De dilectume Pagani Peuerel quam habuit ad canonicos suos.
Predictus uero Paganus sancti nominis dei timorem pariter habens et amorem, uidens canonicos suos in dei laudibus die noctuque persistentes, deuotos et humiles, modestos et pacificos, honore se inuicem preuenientes, Priori suo Galfrido tamquam deo in omnibus obedientes, ad eorum ditacionem ardenter anhelabat, et cartam suam sigillo suo signatam, presentibus multis testibus ipsis canonicis porrigebat. Cuius tenor talis est.
     11. Qualiter Paganus dotauit canonicos suos.
Paganus Peuerel omnibus hominibus et amicis francis et anglis tam presentibus quam futuris salutem.
Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse et hac mea carta confirmasse Canonicis meis de Cantebrigia pro amore dei et pro salute anime mee omnes ecclesias et omnes decimas m Cantebrigesire quas Pycotus vicecomes eisdem Canonicis dedit concessit et sua carta confirmauit: scilicet ecclesiam sancti Egidij de Cantebrigia ubi domus eorum fundata est, Ecclesiam de Mordone cum Capella de Redreya, Ecclesiam de Thadelaus, Ecclesiam de Brunne cum Capella Castelii et cum Capella de Caldecote, Kcclesiam de Combertone, Ecclesiam de Maddingle, Ecclesiam de Ramtone, Ecclesias de Harlestone et de Henxtone, habendas et tenendas libere et quiete honorifice et integre in terris in pratis et pasturis et cum decimis molendinorum et cum omnibus alijs pertinenciis in uillis et esctra uillas et in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam.
Concessi similiter iamdictis Canonicis duas partes decimarum de omnibus dominijs omnium militum meorum in Cantebrigesire, scilicet de Landbeche, de Waterbeche, de Queye, de Stowe, de Middeltone, de Impetone, de Hystone, de Grettone, de Hokitone, de Ramtone, de Cotenham, de Lollewrthe, de Trumpitone, de Haselingfeld, de Harletone, de Eueresdone, de Toft, de Caldecote, de Kingestone, de Wynepol, de Crawedene, de Haltele, de Pampeswrthe, de Aldewincle.
Concessi similiter eisdem Canonicis quendam locum iacentem in Campis Cantebrigie pro tresdecim acris circa fontes de Barnewelle quem Henricus rex michi dedit ad domum eorum stabiliendam et fundandam, ad habendum et tenendum in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam, libere, quiete, integre, a magna platea usque in riueriam de Cantebrigia, in sicco et in marisco, secundum quod curia eorum in longum extenditur, et sicut dominus rex mihi et heredibus meis illum locum dedit.
Concessi similiter eis, in liberam elemosinam, unam hidam terre de dominio meo in Brunna, et dimidiam hidam terre in Brunna quam Frebertus presbiter tenuit et vnam virgatam terre quam Radulfus de Mordone tenuit.
Hij sunt testes etc.
    12. De cartis et confirmacionibus.
Omnes eciam confirmaciones que necessarie erant tam de rebus spiritualibus quam de temporalibus quas ipse contulerat, tam de summo pontifice quam de rege Anglie, archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, episcopo Lincolniensi et Elyensi solicite impetrauit, et ipsis canonicis ad perpetuam sui securitatem cum magno cordis affectu saluandas tradidit.
     13. Carta gloriosi regis Henrici primi¹.
   H. Rex Anglie Herueo Episcopo de Ely² et Gilberto vicecomiti et omnibus baronibus suis francis et anglis de Cantebrigeschyre salutem.
Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse ad preces Pagani Peuerel Canonicis de Cantebrigia locum quemdam in Campis Cantebrigie iacentem circa fontes [de] Bernewelle pro tresdecim acris terre ad domum eorum stabiliendam et ecclesiam suam fundandam. Habendum et tencndum in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam libere, quiete, integre, in sicco et marisco, a platea usque in riueriam de Cantebrigia, secundum quod curia eorum in longum extenditur.
Concessi eciam eis decimas de dominio meo de Cantebrigia et Ecclesiam Sancti Egidij et Ecclesiam de Cumbertone in perpetuam elemosinam. Teste Rogero Episcopo Salesburensi¹.
¹ King of England, 5 Aug. 1100—1 Dec. 1135.
² Bp of Ely, 1109—1131 (d. 30 Aug.).
³ Bp of Salisbury, 11 Aug. 1107—1139 (d. 4 Dec.).
     14. Carta domini Remigij Lincolniensis Episcopi.
   Omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filijs ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit Remigius dei gracia Lincolniensis Episcopus² eternam in Domino salutem.
   Nouerit uniuersitas uestra nos diuine pietatis intuitu ad presentacionem et peticionem domini Pycoti vicecomitis dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse Canonicis de Cantebrigia Ecclesiam Sancti Egidij de Cantebrigia ubi assensu nostro domus eorum fundata est, et Ecclesiam de Mordone cum Capella de Redderia, Ecclesiam de Thadelows, Ecclesiam de Brunne cum Capella Castelli et cum Capella de Caldecote, Ecdesiam de Cumbertone, Ecclesiam de Maddingele, Ecclesiam de Ramtone, Ecclesias de Harlestone et de Henxtone, habendas et tenendas in proprios usus libere quiete et integre cum omnibus decimis et omnibus obuencionibus et omnibus alijs pertinencijs ad inopiam suam releuandam.
   Concessimus eciam eis et presenti carta nostra confirmauimus ad presentacionem iam dicti Pycoti duas partes decimarum de omnibus dominijs omnium militum pertinencium ad Baroniam de Brunne in Cantebrigeschire scilicet: de Queya, de Stowe, de Waterbeche, de Landbeche, de Middeltone, de Impetone, de Hystone, de Grettone, de Hokitone, de Ramtone, de Cotenham, de Lollewrthe, de Trumpitone, de Haselingfeld, de Harletone, de Eueresdone, de Toft, de Caldecote, de Kingestone, de Wynepol, de Crawdene, de Hatteleya, de Pampeswrthe, de Aldewincle, habendas et tenendas in usus proprios integre, quiete, libere, ad domus sue et in ea deo seruiencium perpetuam sustentacionem. Hij sunt testes etc.
² Bp of Lincoln, 1086—1092 (d. 6 May).
     15. Carta domini Heruei Eliensis Episcopi primi.
   Herueus³ dei gracia Elyensis Episcopus omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filijs et fidelibus salutem et dei benedictionem et suam.
   Noueritis nos diuine pietatis intuitu ad presentationem domini Pagani Peuerel dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse Canonicis regularibus de Barnewelle omnes ecclesias quas predecessor noster bone memorie Dominus Remigius Lincolniensis Episcopus eis concessit et sua carta confirmauit.
Concessimus eciam eis duas partes decimanim de omnibus dominijs iam dicti Pagani et omnium pertinencium ad baroniam de Brunne in diocesi nostra. Habendas et tenendas libere, quiete, pacifice, in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam, secundum quod contlnetur in carta predecessoris nostri ad domus sue et illic deo seruiencium perpetuam sustentacionem.
Confirmamus eciam eis et corroboramus omnes alias possessiones et donaciones et elemosinas a quocumque sibi factas, relaxantes eis qui iamdictis Canonicis et Ecclesie sue aliquid boni fecerint, .xl. dies de iniuncta sibi penitentia secundum quod carta uenerabilis patris nostri W[illelmi]¹ Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi testatur.
   Hij sunt testes etc.
³ Bp of Ely, 1109—1131 (d. 30 Aug.).
¹ William of Corbeuil, Abp of Canterbury, 1123—1136 (d. 21 Nov.).
     16. Carta domini Nigelli Elyensis Episcopi.
Nigellus² dei gratia Elyensis Episcopus omnibus sancte matris Ecclesie filijs et fidelibus salutem et dei benedictionem et suam. Concedimus et confirmamus et hac carta nostra corroboramus omnes elemosinas et donaciones et possessiones Canonicorum Sancti Egidij a quocumque sibi datas³. Nichilominus autem concedimus omnibus aliquid beneficij eis impercientibus, uel eos et eorum res manutenentibus et consulentibus, partem et fratemitatem omnium benefactorum et oracionum conuentus ecclesie nostre et nostrarum, et, quod maius⁴ est, ab omnium bonorum retributore retribucionem accipiant. Si quis uero aliquid possessionum uel dignitatum uel libertatum suarum minuere nel surripere presumpserit, diuino subiaceat iudicio, donec penitencia ductus quod uersus eos deliquerit emendauerit. Valete.
² Bp of Ely, 1133—1169 (d. 30 May).
³ datis, MS.
⁴ inanis, MS.
     17. Carta Theobaldi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi.
   Theobaldus⁵ dei gracia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus tocius anglie primas omnibus sancte ecclesie filijs et fidelibus salutem. Nouerint tam presentes quam futuri quoniam omnes possessiones quas famuli Christi canonici regulares sancti Egidij de Bernewelle iuste et canonice possident uel quas in futuris temporibus canonice adipisci poterunt, tam in ecclesijs quam in alijs facultatibus decimarum siue aliarum rerum, seu donacione regum, seu largicione principum, seu aliorumcumque oblacione fidelium, confirmamus eis et auctoritate et testimonio litterarum nostrarum ea corroboramus iuxta quod in priuilegio domini pape Lucij⁶ et in carta venerabilis fratris nostri N[igelli] Elyensis Episcopi continetur. Precipimus ergo quod libere et quiete et in pace eas teneant sicut melius et liberius tempore regis Henrici tenuerunt; ne cuiquam liceat eos uel sua temere perturbare aut aliquam inde uexacionem inferre.
⁵ Abp of Canterbury, 1139—1161 (d. 18 Apr.).
⁶ Pope, 12 Mar. 1144—25 Feb. 1145.
     18. De translacione canonicorum de Cantebrigia usque ad Bernewelle.
Ad Ecclesiam Sancti Egidij de Cantebrigia, ut predictum est, Picotus vicecomes canonicos fundauit, anno domini m^o nonagesimo secundo. Sed ad predictum locum de Bernewelle memoratus uir egregius Paganus canonicos regulares cum magno apparatu et supellectili, comitante non modica caterua cleri et populi et burgencium Cantebrigie, a primo fundacionis loco postquam ibi steterant per viginti annos transtulit, et translatos in predicto loco de Bernewelle multo magis eis oportuno cum gaudio magno collocauit, anno domini m^o. c^o. xij^o, ecclesiamque mire pulchritudinis et ponderosi operis in honore beati Egidij ibidem inchoauit. Sicque beatus Andreas sicut in celo et in terra beatum Egidium sibi associans hospicioque suscipiens hospes eius usque in hodiernum diem est efectus, et ambo permanent eiusdem loci patroni usque in sempiternum.
     19. De morte Galfridi Prioris, et de reliquijs quas Paganus dedit canonicis.
Postmodum, Galfrido priore defuncto et Gerardo uiro munifico ct largo ei substituto, sex ecclesias eo tempore uacantes, quas si uellet auferre potuit, impetrata Domini Heruei Elyensis Episcopi concessione, in usus canonicorum conuertit; vnamque hidam terre in Brunna de dominio suo ipsis contulit. Confirmacione quoque et priuilegio Lucij pape idem Paganus Peuerel Ecclesiam de Bemewelle communiuit, multis indumentis ecclesiasticis et omamentis decorauit, reliquias uerissimas super aurum et topazion preciosas, quas in expedicione antiochena adquisierat cum Robcrto Curthose¹, dum signiferi uicem gereret, necnon quas a patriarcha et rege et magnatibus illius terre impetrauerat, tamquam uerus patronus et scincera dilectione plenus deuote deposuit, et multa alia bona ipsis contulisset, et ecclesiam eorum cum ceteris officinis egregie perfecisset, si eum dominus diucius uiuere permisisset.
¹ Robert, Duke of Normandy, eldest son of William the Conqueror, took the cross in 1096, and was absent from France for nearly five years.
    20. De morte Pagani Peuerel.
Uerumptamen antequam propositum suum de triginta canonicis constituendis complesset, uel sufficientem sustentacionem eis prouidisset, a translatione canonicorum decennio nondum decurso, London febre correptus migrauit ad dominum, Bernewellamque delatus in aquilonari parte magni altaris decenter est collocatus.
    21. De Willelmo filio Pagani Peuerel.
Defuncto Pagano Peuerel, Willelmus filius eius successit ei. Et ipse, sequens uestigia patris, confirmauit canonicis predictis omnes donaciones quas pater eius eis fecit, et insuper dimidiam hydam terre in Brunna eis contulit de dominio suo; et cartam suam ipsis canonicis liberauit. Postea iherosolimam adiit, et illic a seculo migrans, nullum ex se relinquens heredem, quatuor sorores dicti Pagani filias reliquit, que totam baroniam inter se diuiserunt.
    22. Qualiter ius patronatus Ecclesie de Bernewelle descendit ad Dominum Gilbertum Peccke jure hereditario.
Tota baronia Pagani Peuerel post mortem Willelmi Peuerel inter quatuor sorores fuit diuisa. Quarum primogenita uocabatur Matildis de Doure, et ipsa sine herede de se mortua est. Et sic hereditas ipsa ad tres sorores deuoluta est, et pars predicte Matildis inter ipsas diuisa. Quarum una fuit uxor Hamonis Peche senioris que uocabatur Aelicia. Et ex illa processerunt filij et filie. Primogenitus Hamonis uocabatur Gilbertus Pecche primus. Et secundus uocabatur Galfridus Pecche. Iste Galfridus dedit canonicis Ecclesiam de Harlestone ad vesturam. De Gilberto autem processit Hamon Pecche, qui accepit vxorem nomine Euam, de partibus transmarinis oriundam, que genuit ei quinque filios et filias. Primogenitus Gilbertus Pecche, qui fuit de isto stipite vltimus noster patronus. Secunda soror uocabatur Roysia; de illa processit Albreda de Harecurt. Ex illa Albreda processerunt Galfridus Trussebut, Rogerus, Robertus, Willelmus et Ricardus Trussebut. Hijs omnibus defunctis sine herede de se, tres sorores remanserunt: scilicet Roysia, Hyllaria et Agatha. Ex Roysia Robertus de Ros senior, de Roberto Willelmus de Ros, et isti tres, scilicet Willelmus, Hillaria, et Agatha heredes sunt in parte. Tercia uero soror uocabatur Ascelina de Wateruile. Ex illa nate sunt due filie, scilicet Ascelina de Wateruille, et Matildis de Diua. De Ascelina uenit Rogerus de Torpel, et de Matilde Hugo de Diua.
This roughly translates as:
    8. Of Pagan Peverel.
In due course of time, our lord King Henry bestowed that barony on a certain of his familiars, namely Pagan Peverel, an excellent soldier, distinguished in arms, a powerful militia, powerful in strength, and above all the nobles of the kingdom in his laudable warlike use. Who, approaching the parts of Cambridge, and beholding that house desolate and reduced to nothing, with God inspiring it and blessed Giles working it, sympathizing over it, and deliberating within himself, at length burst forth in a voice: Thirty years old I was regenerated by baptism. Thirty years old I shall be resurrected on the last day, Thirty here I will appoint canons who will by the grace of God bring me to eternal life, and as instead of the heir succeeding to Pycot to possess the inheritance, so I will succeed him to enrich and sufficiently enlarge that house.
    9. Of the place of Barnwelle.
Seeing that the place where their house was situated was not sufficient for all the necessary works of their canons, nor did it contain living water, that excellent Pagan Peverel obtained from King Henry a certain place outside the burgh of Cambridge, extending from the great street to the river of Cambridge, and quite delightful in its amenity. Furthermore, from the midst of that place flowed a small spring, quite pure and lively, which in English was called Barnwelle, that is, the fountains of the children, at that time, because the children and young men, meeting there once a year, namely on the eve of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, after the manner of the English, performed wrestling and other childish games, and applauded one another with songs and musical instruments. Hence, because of the crowd of boys and girls who ran and played there, it became customary that on the same day a crowd of sellers and buyers would meet there for the sake of trading.
In this place a certain man of great holiness, named Godeson, had been accustomed to dwell, leading a solitary life and having a small wooden oratory built in honor of the blessed Apostle Andrew, who, having died a short time before, had left the place without an inhabitant and the oratory without a keeper.
    10. Of the love which Pagan Peverel had for his canons.
The aforesaid Pagan, having both fear and love of the holy name of God, seeing his canons persistent in the praises of God day and night, devout and humble, modest and peaceful, surpassing each other in honor, obedient to their Prior Geoffrey as to God in all things, ardently yearned for their enrichment, and, in the presence of many witnesses, he presented his charter, sealed with his seal, to the canons themselves. The tenor of which is as follows.
    11. How Pagan endowed his canons.
   Pagan Peuerel to all men and friends, French and English, both present and future, greetings.
Know that I have given and granted and confirmed by this my charter to my Canons of Cambridge for the love of God and for the salvation of my soul all the churches and all the tithes in Cambridge which Viscount Pycot gave to the same Canons and granted and confirmed by his charter: namely the church of St. Giles of Cambridge where their house was founded, the church of Mordon with the chapel of Redreya, the church of Thaddeus, the church of Brunne with the chapel of Castel and with the chapel of Caldecote, the church of Comberton, the church of Maddingle, the church of Ramton, the churches of Harlestone and Hexton, to be held and held freely and quietly, honorably and wholely in lands in meadows and pastures and with the tithes of the mills and with all other appurtenances in the towns and villages and in free and pure and perpetual alms.
   I have likewise granted to the aforesaid Canons two parts of the tithes of all the dominions of all my knights in Cambridgeshire, namely, Landbeche, Waterbeche, Queye, Stowe, Middleton, Impeton, Hyston, Gretton, Hokitton, Ramton, Cotenham, Lollworth, Trumpitton, Haselingfeld, Harleton, Euersdon, Toft, Caldecote, Kingstone, Wynepole, Crawedene, Haltele, Pampesworth, Aldewinkle.
I have likewise granted to the same Canons a certain place lying in the Cambridge Fields for thirteen acres around the springs of Barnwell which King Henry gave me to establish and found their house, to have and hold in free and pure and perpetual alms, freely, quietly, whole, from the great street to the river of Cambridge, on dry land and in marshland, according to the length of their court, and as the lord king gave that place to me and my heirs.
I have likewise granted to them, in free alms, one hectare of land from my domain in Brunna, and half a hectare of land in Brunna which Frebert the presbyter held and one virgate of land which Ralph de Mordon held.
    12. Of charters and confirmations.
He also diligently obtained all the necessary confirmations, both of spiritual and temporal matters, which he himself had conferred, both from the Supreme Pontiff and the King of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lincoln and Ely, and delivered them to the canons for their perpetual security with great affection of heart, to be greeted with.
    13. Charter of the glorious King Henry the First.
H. King of England to Herve Bishop of Ely and Gilbert Viscount and to all his barons, French and English, of Cambridgeshire, greetings.
Be it known that I have given and granted, at the prayers of Pagan Peverel, to the Canons of Cambridge a certain place in the Cambridge Fields lying about the springs of Bernewell for thirteen acres of land for the establishment of their house and the foundation of their church. To be held and held in free and perpetual alms freely, quietly, whole, in dry and marshy land, from the street to the river of Cambridge, as far as their court extends in length.
I have also granted them tithes of my dominion of Cambridge and the Church of St. Giles and the Church of Cumberton in perpetual alms. Witness Roger Bishop of Salisbury.
   These are witnesses etc.
    14. Charter of Lord Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln.
To all the sons of the holy mother church to whom this present writing has come, by the grace of God, Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln, eternal salvation in the Lord.
Your universality will know that we, with a view to divine piety, at the presentation and petition of the Lord Viscount Pycot, have given and granted and confirmed by this charter to the Canons of Cambridge the Church of St. Giles of Cambridge, where their house was founded with our assent, and the Church of Mordon with the Chapel of Reddery, the Church of Thadelows, the Church of Brunne with the Chapel of the Castle and with the Chapel of Caldecote, the Ecclesiastical Office of Cumberton, the Church of Maddingele, the Church of Ramton, the Churches of Harlestone and Hexton, to be held and held for their own uses freely, quietly and whole, with all tithes and all oblations and all other appurtenances to relieve their want.
We also granted them and confirmed our present charter to the presentation of the said Pycot two parts of the tithes of all the lordships of all the knights belonging to the Barony of Brunne in Cambridgeshire, namely: of Queya, of Stowe, of Waterbeche, of Landbeche, of Middleton, of Impeton, of Hyston, of Gretton, of Hokitton, of Ramton, of Cotenham, of Lolleworthe, of Trumpitton, of Haselingfeld, of Harleton, of Euersdon, of Toft, of Caldecote, of Kingstone, of Wynepol, of Crawden, of Hatteleya, of Pampesworth, of Aldewinkle, to be held and held for their own uses, whole, quiet, and free, for the perpetual support of their house and the servants of God therein. They are witnesses etc.
    15. Charter of Lord Hervey, first Bishop of Ely.
Hervey, Bishop of Ely, by the grace of God, to all the sons and faithful of the holy mother church, greetings and God's blessing and his own.
You know that we, with a view to divine piety, have given and granted and confirmed by our present charter to the Canons Regular of Barnwell all the churches which our predecessor, of good memory, Lord Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln, granted to them and confirmed by his charter.
We also grant them two parts of a tenth of all the lordships of the said Pagan and of all that pertains to the barony of Brunne in our diocese. To be held and held freely, quietly, peacefully, in free and pure and perpetual alms, according to what is contained in the charter of our predecessor for the perpetual support of his house and the servants of God there.
We also confirm to them and corroborate all other possessions and donations and alms given to them by anyone, remitting to those who have done any good to the aforementioned Canons and their Church, 40 days of the penance imposed on them, according to the charter of our venerable father William, Archbishop of Canterbury, attests.
These are witnesses etc.
    16. Charter of the Lord Nigel of Ely.
Nigel, Bishop of Ely, by the grace of God, to all the sons and faithful of holy mother Church, greetings and God's blessing and his own. We grant and confirm and by this our charter we corroborate all the alms and donations and possessions of the Canons of St. Giles given to them by whomsoever. Nevertheless, we grant to all those who bestow any benefit upon them, or who maintain and advise them and their property, a share and brotherhood of all the benefactors and prayers of the convent of our church and ours, and, what is greater, let them receive retribution from the rewarder of all good. But if anyone presumes to diminish or steal any of their possessions or dignities or liberties, let him be subject to divine judgment, until he has done penance and has corrected what he has done wrong to them. Farewell.
    17. Charter of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury.
Theobald, by the grace of God, Archbishop of Canterbury, to all the sons and faithful of the holy church of England, greetings. Let both present and future know that all the possessions which the servants of Christ, the canons regular of St. Giles of Bernewelle, rightly and canonically possess or which they may acquire canonically in future times, both in churches and in other faculties of tithes or other things, or by the gift of kings, or the generosity of princes, or any other offering of the faithful, we confirm to them and corroborate them by the authority and testimony of our letters, according to what is contained in the privilege of the lord Pope Lucius and in the charter of our venerable brother Nigel Bishop of Ely. We therefore order that they hold them freely and quietly and in peace as they held them better and more freely in the time of King Henry; that no one may be permitted to disturb them or their property rashly or to inflict any harassment therefrom.
    18. Of the transfer of canons from Cambridge to Bernewelle.
As has been foretold, the Viscount Picot founded canons at the Church of St. Giles of Cambridge, in the year of our Lord 1092. But to the aforesaid place of Bernewelle the aforementioned eminent man Pagan transferred the canons regular with great equipment and furniture, accompanied by no small company of clergy and people and burgesses of Cambridge, from the first place of foundation after they had remained there for twenty years, and having been transferred, he placed them in the aforesaid place of Bernewelle, much more convenient for them, with great joy, in the year of our Lord 1012, and he began there a church of wonderful beauty and weighty work in honour of blessed Giles. And thus blessed Andrew, as in heaven and on earth, associating blessed Giles with himself and receiving him as his guest, has been made his guest to this day, and both remain patrons of the same place for ever.
    19. Of the death of Prior Geoffrey, and of the relics which Paganus gave to the canons.
Afterwards, when the prior Geoffrey died and Gerard, a generous and generous man, succeeded him, he converted six churches that were vacant at that time, which he could have taken away if he had wished, by obtaining the concession of Lord Hervey, Bishop of Ely, into the use of the canons; and he donated to them a certain tract of land in Brunna from his own domain. Also, with the confirmation and privilege of Pope Lucius, the same Pagan Peverel communed the Church of Bemewelle, adorned it with many ecclesiastical vestments and ornaments, very true relics on gold and precious topaz, which he had acquired in the Antioch expedition with Robert Curthose, while he was acting as standard bearer, and which he had obtained from the patriarch and king and the nobles of that land, as a true patron and full of genuine love, he devoutly deposited them, and he would have donated many other goods to them, and would have completed their church with other works excellently, if his lord had permitted him to live longer.
    20. On the death of Pagan Peverel.
But before he had completed his plan of appointing thirty canons, or provided them with sufficient support, not even ten years had passed since the translation of the canons, he was seized with a fever in London and migrated to his lord, and being carried to Bernewell, he was fittingly placed on the north side of the great altar.
    21. Of William, son of Pagan Peverel.
When Pagan Peuerel died, his son William succeeded him. And he, following in his father's footsteps, confirmed to the aforesaid canons all the gifts which his father had made to them, and in addition he gave them half a hide of land in Brunna from his dominion; and he delivered his charter to the canons themselves. Afterwards he went to Jerusalem, and there, migrating from the world, leaving no heir of his own, he left four sisters, daughters of the said Pagan, who divided the whole barony among themselves.
    22. How the right of patronage of the Church of Bernewelle descended to Lord Gilbert Pecke by right of inheritance.
The whole barony of Pagan Peuerel after the death of William Peuerel was divided among four sisters. The eldest of whom was called Matilda de Doure, and she died without an heir of her own. And so the inheritance itself was divided among the three sisters, and the part of the aforesaid Matilda was divided among them. One of whom was the wife of Hamon Peche the elder, who was called Aecilia. And from her proceeded sons and daughters. The eldest son of Hamon was called Gilbert Peche the first. And the second was called Geoffrey Peche. This Geoffrey gave the church of Harlestone to the canons for vestry. From Gilbert, however, descended Hamon Peche, who took a wife named Eva, who came from overseas, who bore him five sons and daughters. The eldest son was Gilbert Peche, who was from this stock our last patron. The second sister was called Roysia; from her proceeded Albreda of Harecourt. From that Albreda proceeded Geoffrey Trussebut, Roger, Robert, William and Richard Trussebut. All of them having died without heirs, three sisters remained: namely Roysia, Hilaria and Agatha. From Roysia Robert de Ros senior, from Robert William de Ros, and these three, namely William, Hilaria and Agatha, are heirs in part. But the third sister was called Ascelina de Waterville. From her were born two daughters, namely Ascelina de Waterville, and Matilda de Diva. From Ascelina came Roger de Torpel, and from Matilda Hugh de Diva.

Peverell of Brunne:
IN the laſt place I come to Pain Peverell, third Son to Ranulph Peverell before ſpecified. This Pain Peverell, being an eminent Soldier ^a, and highly famed ^b for his martial enterpriſes, was Standard-Bearer ^c to Robert Curthoſe, in the Holy Land; and aftcrwards obtained ^d from King Henry the Firſt, the Barony of Brunne in Cambridgeſhire, which had been forfeited ^e to the Crown by Robert, the Son of Picot (commonly called Picot Vicecomes) for conſpiring the death of that King. Whereupon, procuring ^f a certain portion of Land, adjoyning to Cambridge, which extendeth from the Highway to the River, then known by the name of Barnwell (from the clear Springs there flowing) he amplificd ^g the Foundation of an Houſe , for Canons-Regular of S. Auguſtine, in ^h a certain place, where a ſmall Oratory built of Wood, had been begun ⁱ by the ſame Picot, near to the Caſtle of Cambridge, and dedicated ^k it to S. Andrew, in An. 1112. (13 Hen.1.) But, before he had fully perfected it. (it being, intended ^l for thirty Canons) he departed ^m this life at London: Whereupon his Corps was brought thither, and buried ⁿ before the High Altar.
a b Mon. Ang. Vol.2. 29 b. n 10
c Ibid. 30 b. n 50.

f g Ibid. n. 30 & 60.

h i k Ibid. 29 b. n.40.

l m n Ibid 30 a. n, 10 & 20.

I ſhall ſay nothing of the Monaſteries and Religious Houſes, ſince they were but of ſmall note, except it be Barnwell-Abby, which Sir Payne Peverell a famous Soldier and Standard bearer to Robert Duke of Normandy in the holy-war, in Henry the firſt’s reign, remov’d from St. Giles’s Church (the place of Picot the Sheriff’s Inſtitution of Secular Prieſts) to this place, and brought in 30 Monks, according to the years of his age at that time. If you pleaſe you may find the reaſon of its name in the private Hiſtory of this place. Payne Peverell obtain’d a grant of Henry I. for a ſpot of ground without the Burrough of Cambridge; in the midſt of it were extraordinary clear fountains or wells, in Engliſh call’d Barnwell, that is, the Wells of Children, or Barns, as they were then call’d, for young men and boys met once a year upon St. John’s Eve for wreſtling and the like youthful exerciſes, according to the cuſtoms of the land, and alſo to make merry togetber with ſinging and other muſick. Now by this means (the concourſe of boys and girls that met here for ſport) it grew a cuſtom for a great many buyers and ſellers to repair hither at the ſame time’.

But in proceſs of time king Henry I gave that barony to one of his favourites PAIN PEVEREL, a famous and a valiant ſoldier, who had been ſtandard-bearer in the Holy Land³ to Robert Curthoſe of Normandy, the eldeſt ſon of the Conqueror, and returning into England, upon Robert’s accommodating matters with his younger brother Henry then king, the ſaid king took a great liking to Peverel, and gave him the barony of Pycot, and the ſite where Barnwell priory was afterwards built, and confirmed it to the canons of St. Giles by charter, together with the church of St. Giles, and the church of Cumberſtone; and moreover gave to them the tythes of all his demeſnes in Cambridge.
Pain Peverel coming into thoſe parts, and ſeeing the houſe of St. Giles deſolate, and in a miſerable condition, ſaid, that as he ſucceeded to the poſſeſſions of Picot, ſo he would ſucceed him in finishing the work which he had left imperfect, and therefore reſolved to increaſe the number of canons to the number of the years of his own age, viz. 30⁴. But viewing the place where the preſent houſe was built, and finding it not ſufficient to contain apartments for all his intended canons, but eſpecially that they had not the conveniency of a ſpring, he obtained of the king a certain place without the town of Cambridge, a magna platea uſque in riveram Cantebrig’, a very pleasant ſituation, in the midſt of which piece of ground were the ſprings called Barnwell, that is, the Springs of the Children¹, from the reſort of children and young perſons thither yearly on the eve of St. John the Baptiſt to amuſe themſelves with wrestling matches, and other ſports, which concourſe in ſucceeding times gave riſe to the fair there held.
On this place, one Godilo, a man of great piety, leading a ſolitary life, had built a little oratory of wood, to the honour of St. Andrew the Apoſtle. But, being dead a little before, had left the place without inhabitant, and his oratory without a keeper².
The foreſaid Pain Peverel having reſolved upon the re-establishment of the priory aforeſaid, under Galfrid aforeſaid, gave them the following charter, not only confirming that of Picot, but alſo to make additional gifts of his own:
P. Peverel, omnibus hominibus et amicis Francis et Anglis, tam præfentibus quam futuris ſalutem. Sciatis me dediſſe et conceſſiſſe, et hac mea carta confirmaſſe, Canonicis meis de Cant’, pro amore Dei, et pro ſalute animæ meæ, omnes eccleſias et omnes decimas in Cantabrigeſhire quas Pycorus vicecomes eiſdem canonicis dedit, conceſſit, et ſua carta confirmavit, ſcilicet, ec’ S. Egidij de Cantab’ ubi domus eorum fundata eſt, ec’ de Mordon cum cap’ de Redderia, ec’ de Thadelaw, ec’ de Brunne cum cap’ caſtelli, et cum cap’ de Caldecote, ec’ de Combertone, ec’ de Madingele, ec’ de Ramion, ec’ de Harleſtone, ec’ de Hengſton, habend’ &c. as in Pycot’s charter.
Conceſſi ſimi iter jam dictis canonicis duas partes decimatum de omnibus dominiis omnium militum meo um in Cantabrigeſhire, ſcil. de Landbeche, de Waterbeche, de Queije, de Stow, de Middletone, de Impetone, de Hyſtone, de Grettone, de Hokitone, de Ramptone, de Cotenham, de Lollewerthe, de Trumpitone, de Haſlingfeld, de Harleſton, de Everſtone, de Toft, de Caldecote, de Kingſtone, de Wynepel, de Crawdene, de Hattele, de Pampſworth, de Aldewincle. Conceſſi ſimiliter eiſdem canonicis quendam locum jacentem in campis Cantebrig’ pro treſdecim acris circa fontes de Barnwelle quem, Henricus R. michi dedit, ad domum eorum ſtabinendam et fundandam Ad habend’ et tenend’ in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemoſitiam libere, quiete, integre, a magna platea uſque in riv’ de Cant’ in ſicco et in mariſco, ſecundum quod curia eorum in longum extenditur, et ſicut dñs rex michi et hæredibus meis illum locum dedit. Conceſſi ſimiliter eis in liberam elemeſinam unam hydam terræ de d’nio meo in Brunna et dimidiam virgatam terræ quam Radulphus de Mordone tenuit Hiis teſt’, &c.³.
Having things ſure on his own part, he alſo took care for their further ſecurity to get all the neceſſary charters of confirmation from the pope, the king of England, the archbiſhop of Canterbury, the biſhops of Lincoln and Ely¹.
King Henry the Firſt’s charter.
HENRICUS rex Angliæ Herveo epiſcopo de Ely, et Gilberto vicecomiti, et omnibus baronibus ſuis Francis et Anglis de Cantebrigeſchyre, ſalut’. Sciatis me dediſſe et conceſſiſſe ad preces Pagani Peverel, canonicis de Cantabrige, locum quendam in campis Cantebrige jacentem circa fontes de Bernwell, pro treſdecim acris terræ ad domum eorum ſtabiliendas et eccim ſuam fundandam habend’ et tenend’ in liberam et perpetuam elemoſinam libere, quiete, integre, in ſicco et mariſco a platea uſque in riveriam de Cantebrig’, ſecundum quod curia eorum in longum extenditur. Conceſſi eciam eis decimas de dominio meo de Cantebrigia, et eccleſiam Sancti Egidii, et eccleſiam de Cumbertone in perpetuam elemoſinam. Teſte Rogo epiſcopo Sarum, Willo ep̃o Exon Johe ep̃o Badue, Turſtano capellano, Hamone dapifero, apud Merlebrigam in Paſcha².
[Similar charters by the bishops of Lincoln, Ely and the archbishop of Canterbury]
Earl Picot founded his little canonry at St Giles’s church in Cambridge, as aforeſaid, in the year 1092; but Pain Peverel, ſo often mentioned, tranſlated them from thence to Barnwell, anno 1112, after they had continued at Cambridge 20 years. Upon this occaſion there was a vaſt concourſe both of clergy and laity, and of the burghers of Cambrige. Their new habitation was much more commodious than their old one⁴, and a church of wonderful beauty and ſolidity was begun in honour of St. Giles.
But before he had compleated his number of 30 canons, as he propoſed, or provided a ſufficient maintenance for them, he died of a fever in London, in the tenth year after the tranſlation of the canons to Barnwell. He was brought down to Barnwell, and buried on the north ſide of the great altar in an honourable manner¹.
Prior Gerard having obtained the conſent of Hervy biſhop of Ely, converted ſix churches which were vacant in his time, and which he might have taken away, if he would, and he alſo gave them one hyde of land in Brunne out of his own eſtate. At the ſame time, Pain Peverel provided his church of Barnwell with many eccleſiaſtical garments, and inriched it with very rich ornaments and real reliques, which he had collected in his expedition to Antioch with Robert Curthoſe, and which had been preſented to him by the patriarch, king, and nobles of that place. He would have given them alſo other neceſſary furniture, and finished the rest of the apartments in a very elegant manner, if God had ſpared his life².
His fon WILLIAM, who ſucceeded him, confirmed to the canons aforeſaid all the donations which they had received from his father, and moreover he gave them half a hyde of land of his own eſtate in Brunne by charter. Afterwards going to, and dying at Jeruſalem, he left no heir. His four ſiſters, daughters of Pain Peverel, divided the whole barony between them³. The eldeſt of thoſe ſiſters, MATILDA de Doure, died alſo without an heir, and then the inheritance came to the three ſurviving ſiſters. One of theſe whoſe name was ALICIA, was wife of HAMON PECHE the elder, and had by him both ſons and daughters. Hamon Peche’s eldest fon was named GILBERT Peche the firſt. The ſecond GALFRID Peche. This Galfrid Peche gave to the canons the church of Harlſtone to find them habits. Hamon, the son of Gilbert Peche aforeſaid, took to wife a foreigner, whoſe name was EVE, who brought him five ſons and daughters. His eldeſt ſon GILBERT Peche was the laſt patron of Barnwell Priory of that family.
Pain Peverell’s second daughter's name was ROYSIA. She was the mother of Albreda Harecourt, from whom ſprang Galfridus, Roger, Robert, William, and Richard Truſſebut. But theſe all dying without iſſue, there remained only three ſiſters, Royſia, Hillaria, and Agatha. The ſon of Royſia was Robert de Ros ſenior, and the ſon of Robert was William, and thoſe three, William, Hillaria, and Agatha, were joint heirs.
But the third ſiſter was named ASCELINA de Watervile, and ſhe had two daughters, Aſcelina de Watervile, and Matilda de Dive. Of Aſcelina ſprang Roger de Torpel, and of Matilda was born Hugh de Dive¹.
³ [Reg. Barnwell] F. 18. C. 34
⁴ F. 2. C. 9.
¹ Vide Dugdale, Mon. Angl. II.
² F. 2. C. 10.
³ F. 2. C. 12.
¹ F. 3. C. 13.
² F. 3. C. 14.
⁴ F. 4. C. 19.
¹ F. 5. C. 20.
² F. 5. C. 21.
³ See the pedigree.
¹ F. 5. C. 23

Trousbut, or Trossebot.
Albreda de Harcourt, the daughter of one of the two co-heirs of Pain Peverell, Baron of Brunne, and the heiress of the other, Maud de Dover, who had remained childless.

    21. De Willelmo filio Pagani Peuerel.
Defuncto Pagano Peuerel, Willelmus filius eius successit ei. Et ipse, sequens uestigia patris, confirmauit canonicis predictis omnes donaciones quas pater eius eis fecit, et insuper dimidiam hydam terre in Brunna eis contulit de dominio suo; et cartam suam ipsis canonicis liberauit. Postea iherosolimam adiit, et illic a seculo migrans, nullum ex se relinquens heredem, quatuor sorores dicti Pagani filias reliquit, que totam baroniam inter se diuiserunt.
    22.Qualiter ius patronatus Ecclesie de Bernewelle descendit ad Dominum Gilbertum Peccke jure hereditario.
Tota baronia Pagani Peuerel post mortem Willelmi Peuerel inter quatuor sorores fuit diuisa. Quarum primogenita uocabatur Matildis de Doure, et ipsa sine herede de se mortua est. Et sic hereditas ipsa ad tres sorores deuoluta est, et pars predicte Matildis inter ipsas diuisa. Quarum una fuit uxor Hamonis Peche senioris que uocabatur Aelicia. Et ex illa processerunt filij et filie. Primogenitus Hamonis uocabatur Gilbertus Pecche primus. Et secundus uocabatur Galfridus Pecche. Iste Galfridus dedit canonicis Ecclesiam de Harlestone ad vesturam. De Gilberto autem processit Hamon Pecche, qui accepit vxorem nomine Euam, de partibus transmarinis oriundam, que genuit ei quinque filios et filias. Primogenitus Gilbertus Pecche, qui fuit de isto stipite vltimus noster patronus. Secunda soror uocabatur Roysia; de illa processit Albreda de Harecurt. Ex illa Albreda processerunt Galfridus Trussebut, Rogerus, Robertus, Willelmus et Ricardus Trussebut. Hijs omnibus defunctis sine herede de se, tres sorores remanserunt: scilicet Roysia, Hyllaria et Agatha. Ex Roysia Robertus de Ros senior, de Roberto Willelmus de Ros, et isti tres, scilicet Willelmus, Hillaria, et Agatha heredes sunt in parte. Tercia uero soror uocabatur Ascelina de Wateruile. Ex illa nate sunt due filie, scilicet Ascelina de Wateruille, et Matildis de Diua. De Ascelina uenit Rogerus de Torpel, et de Matilde Hugo de Diua.
This roughly translates as:
    21. Of William, son of Pagan Peverel.
When Pagan Peverel died, his son William succeeded him. And he, following in his father's footsteps, confirmed to the aforesaid canons all the gifts which his father had made to them, and in addition he gave them half a hide of land in Brunna from his dominion; and he delivered his charter to the canons themselves. Afterwards he went to Jerusalem, and there, migrating from the world, leaving no heir of his own, he left four sisters, daughters of the said Pagan, who divided the whole barony among themselves.
    22. How the right of patronage of the Church of Bernewelle descended to Lord Gilbert Pecke by right of inheritance.
The whole barony of Pagan Peverel after the death of William Peverel was divided among four sisters. The eldest of whom was called Matilda de Doure, and she died without an heir of her own. And so the inheritance itself was divided among the three sisters, and the part of the aforesaid Matilda was divided among them. One of whom was the wife of Hamon Peche the elder, who was called Aecilia. And from her proceeded sons and daughters. The eldest son of Hamon was called Gilbert Peche the first. And the second was called Geoffrey Peche. This Geoffrey gave the church of Harlestone to the canons for vestry. From Gilbert, however, descended Hamon Peche, who took a wife named Eva, who came from overseas, who bore him five sons and daughters. The eldest son was Gilbert Peche, who was from this stock our last patron. The second sister was called Roysia; from her proceeded Albreda of Harecourt. From that Albreda proceeded Geoffrey Trussebut, Roger, Robert, William and Richard Trussebut. All of them having died without heirs, three sisters remained: namely Roysia, Hilaria and Agatha. From Roysia Robert de Ros senior, from Robert William de Ros, and these three, namely William, Hilaria and Agatha, are heirs in part. But the third sister was called Ascelina de Waterville. From her were born two daughters, namely Ascelina de Waterville, and Matilda de Diua. From Ascelina came Roger de Torpel, and from Matilda Hugh de Diua.

Trusbut.
This William took ^e to Wife Albreda, Daughter of . . . . . . Harecurt, one of the Coheirs to Maude de Dover (as the Deſcent here drawn doth ſhew) and had ^f part of her Inheritance:
e f Rot. Pip. 1 R. 1. Cantabr. & Hunt.

Pain Peverell’s second daughter's name was ROYSIA. She was the mother of Albreda Harecourt, from whom ſprang Galfridus, Roger, Robert, William, and Richard Truſſebut. But theſe all dying without iſſue, there remained only three ſiſters, Royſia, Hillaria, and Agatha.

Albreda de Harcurt, daughter of Royſia, one of the daughters and coheirs of Pain Peverell, ſtandard-bearer to Robert Curthoſe, the Conqueror’s eldeſt son, in the Holy Land.

Trousbut, or Trossebot.
Albreda de Harcourt, the daughter of one of the two co-heirs of Pain Peverell, Baron of Brunne, and the heiress of the other, Maud de Dover, who had remained childless.

Dum ista tali modo his in partibus gererentur, et rex in aliis sedandis discordiis, ad alia loca promoveretur, milites Roberti Glaornensis comitis, Willelmus scilicet de Dovre,¹ et sui, cujus crudelitatis modum paucis perstrinximus, persecutione incessabili in regales efferuntur, et nunc quidem adversus eos, quos rex in civitate Oxenefordiæ, ad patriæ tuitionem,reliquerat, tumultu,et rapinâ, igne, et gladio, infestissimè desævierunt; nunc contra illos, qui, vice regis, Malmesbiriæ præsidium observabant, sævissimos quàm sæpè impetus egerunt, numquam sine adjacentis provinciæ maximo detrimento, numquam sine utriusvis partis inrestaurabili damno; nec Willelmus ille ab assiduâ regalium impugnatione umquam cessavit, quousque captum tandem insidiis, Walterum, quem rex militiæ Malmesbiriensi primipilum præfecerat, virum constantem, et circa martios sudores probatissimum, comitissæ Andegavensi, et suo filio commisit, malorumque, et afflictionum, quæ in populo immiseranter exercuerat, pœnitens, sacra Hierusalem, pro peccatis expiandis, loca petiit, ibique, contra obstinaces fidei Christianæ adversarios viriliter multa, et gloriosè agens, feliciter tandem interfectus occubuit.
¹ Duchesne, ‘Doura.’
This roughly translates as:
While these things were being carried on in these parts in this manner, and the king was being advanced to other places in order to settle other discords, the soldiers of Robert Earl of Glastonbury, namely William of Dover, and his own, whose cruelty we have briefly outlined, were being brought out in ceaseless persecution against the royalists, and now indeed against those whom the king had left in the city of Oxford, to protect his country, they raged most fiercely with riot and plunder, fire and sword; now against those who, in the king's stead, were guarding the garrison of Malmesbury, they made the most savage attacks as often as possible, never without the greatest damage to the adjacent province, never without irreparable damage to either party; Nor did William ever cease from his constant attack on the royalists, until Walter, whom the king had made commander of the Malmesbury militia, was finally captured in an ambush., a steadfast man and most proven in the sweat of the Marches, was entrusted to the Countess of Anjou and her son. Repenting of the evils and afflictions which he had mercilessly inflicted on the people, he sought holy Jerusalem to atone for his sins, and there, having fought many brave battles and gloriously against the obstinate adversaries of the Christian faith, he finally died happily slain.

40. De Gerardo Priore.
Gerardus Prior successit ei, quem Paganus Peuerel multum dilexit, eo quod esset homo iucundus et hyllaris ualde. In diebus eius fiebant officine multe, terre adquisite, et uiriliter operabatur super ecclesiam, que erat incepta mire magnitudinis, et, ut dicitur, se extendebat usque ad magnam plateam per auxilium Pagani Peuerel, et fecit dormitorium. Sed mortuo Pagano Peuerel Willelmus Peuerel filius eius non ita feruens erat ad ipsius ecclesie erectionem sicut pater eius, sed in terram sanctam proficiscens, cito sublatus est de medio. Sicque remansit ipsa ecclesia infecta toto tempore Grerardi Prioris, et Ricardi Norel, et Hugonis Domesman successorum suorum.
This roughly translates as:
40. Of Gerard Prior.
Gerard Prior succeeded him, whom Paganus Peverel loved very much, because he was a very pleasant and cheerful man. In his days many works were done, lands were acquired, and he worked manfully on the church, which was a project of wonderful size, and, as is said, extended itself as far as the great street with the help of Paganus Peverel, and made a dormitory. But when Paganus Peverel died, his son William Peverel was not so zealous for the erection of the church as his father, but, setting out for the Holy Land, was quickly removed from the midst. And so the church itself remained uninhabited throughout the time of Paganus Peverel, Richard Norel, and Hugh Domesman, his successors.

Cartae ad Thorneyense Coenobium in agro Cantabrigiensi spectantes.
      NUM. VIII.
    In Comitatu Bedford.
[Ibid[Ex Registro Abbat. de Thorney, penes Comitem Westmorland, an. 1638], pars sexta, fol. 4, cap. j.]
WILLIELMUS PEVEREL de Brunne, Omnibus sanctæ Dei ecclesiæ filiis et omnibus hominibus suis, Francis et Anglis, amicis et vicinis suis salutem et dilectionem in Domino. Sciatis quod ego dedi in Wildene villa mea, in ea scilicet parte quæ vocatur Oddewic, Deo et sanctæ Mariæ Thorneiæ, et conventui monachorum qui ibidem Deo serviunt, duas virgatas terræ cum hominibus qui illas tenent, illam scilicet nominatim quam tenuit Ailerus, et aliam quam tenuit Herbertus et Paganus, Tedricus et Turgod Coc, ita liberè et tam quietè et honorificè, ut nec mihi nec cuiquam inde respondeant de aliqua exactione nisi de orationibus fratrum et beneficiis ecclesiæ pro anima avunculi mei Willielmi Peverel de Doure, et pro anima patris mei Rodberti Peverel, fratris sui, et Hamonis Peverel avunculi mei, et pro anima matris meæ Adeliciæ, et pro anima Henrici regis Angliæ, et pro animabus omnium benefactorum meorum, et pro salute vivorum et mortuorum. Hujus donationis sunt testes, &c.
This roughly translates as:
Charters relating to Thorney Abbey in the county of Cambridge.
    No. 8.
   In Bedfordshire.
[From the Register of the Abbot of Thorney, in the possession of the Earl of Westmorland, in the year 1638], part six, fol. 4, chap. 1.]
   WILLIAM PEVEREL of Brunne, To all the sons of the holy church of God and to all her men, French and English, to her friends and neighbors, greetings and love in the Lord. Know that I have given in my village of Wilden, namely in that part which is called Oddewic, to God and St. Mary of Thorne, and to the convent of monks who serve God there, two acres of land with the men who hold them, namely that which Ailerus held by name, and another which Herbert and Pagan, Tedricus and Turgod Coc held, so freely and so quietly and honorably, that they shall not answer to me or to any one there for any exaction except for the prayers of the brethren and the benefits of the church for the soul of my uncle William Peverel of Doure, and for the soul of my father Rodbert Peverel, his brother, and my uncle Hamon Peverel, and for the soul of my mother Adelicia, and for the soul of Henry, king of England, and for the souls of all my benefactors, and for the salvation of the living and the dead. The witnesses of this donation are, &c.
pp602-3
Cartae ad Thorneyense Coenobium in agro Cantabrigiensi spectantes.
      NUM. XXI.
    Copthorn.
[Ibid, fol. 32, cap. xxiiij. para ij]
WILLIELMUS Peverel de Duura, Hugoni de Lysures, et omnibus hominibus suis salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et confirmasse Deo et ecclesiæ sanctæ Mariæ Thornensi vij. acras terræ ad Copthorn et pratum ad eandem terram pertinens in Botulfbrigg, sicut Hugo de Luisurs eandem terram Thornensi ecclesiæ donavit et per cartam suam confirmavit. Et volo eandem terram esse liberam et quietam ab omni servitio tam à me quam ab omnibus hæredibus meis. Hujus concessionis testes sunt Alanus dapifer et Hugo frater ejus, Eustachius de Bauns et Robertus de Beche, &c.
This roughly translates as:
Charters relating to Thorney Abbey in the county of Cambridge.
    No. 21.
   Copthorn.
[From the Register of the Abbot of Thorney, in the possession of the Earl of Westmorland, in the year 1638], fol. 32, chap. 24. para 2]
WILLIAM Peverel of Dover, to Hugh de Lysures, and to all his men, greetings. Be it known that I have granted and confirmed to God and to the church of St. Mary of Thorney seven acres of land at Copthorne and a meadow belonging to the same land in Botulfbrigg, as Hugh de Lysures gave the same land to the church of Thorney and confirmed it by his charter. And I will that the same land be free and quiet from all service both from me and from all my heirs. The witnesses of this grant are Alan dapifer and Hugh his brother, Eustace de Bauns and Robert de Beche, &c.

Cartae ad Salopiense Coenobium in ejus Nominis Comitatu spectantes.
      NUM. XIII.
[Ibid[Ex Regist. Abbatiæ de Salopia penes Ric. Leveson de balneo militem ann. 1638.], Carta 25]
WILLIELMUS Peverellus de Douria omnibus fidelibus sanctæ Dei ecclesiæ salutem. Sciant omnes illi qui nunc sunt et qui venturi sunt, me concessisse plenariè totam illam terram quam Hamo Peverell patruus meus dedit Deo et ecclesiæ sancti Petri Salopesberiæ, scilicet, Wlurunton, Einardeseiam, Crugelton, pro salute animæ meæ, et pro animabus amicorum meorum. Et volo atque præcipio ut mei hæredes sicut ego concessi concedant. Hujus rei sunt testes Walchelinus Maminot, et Stephanus de la Leia, et Brientius de Valle Rodolli, et Alanus filius Teoldi, et Baldwinus de sancto Georgio, et Radulfus filius Teoldi, et Hamo filius Herfredi, et Willielmus de Musca, apud Marleberg.
This roughly translates as:
Charters relating to the Abbey of Shropshire in the County of that Name.
    No. 13.
[From the Register of the Abbey of Shropshire in the possession of Richard Leveson, a Knight of the Bath, in the year 1638.], Charter 25]
   WILLIAM Peverell of Doura to all the faithful of the holy church of God, greetings. Let all those who are now and who will come know that I have granted in full all that land which my uncle Hamo Peverell gave to God and the church of St. Peter of Shropshire, namely, Wlurunton, Einardeseia, Crugelton, for the salvation of my soul, and for the souls of my friends. And I will and command that my heirs grant as I have granted. To this are witnesses Walchelinus Maminot, and Stephen de la Leia, and Briantius de Valle Rodolli, and Alan son of Teold, and Baldwin of St. George, and Ralph son of Teold, and Hamo son of Herfred, and William de Musca, at Marleberg.

This earl of Gloucester, whose defection had been the cause of these serious disturbances, possessed, through the grants made him by his father. King Henry, great power in England, where he had at his command wealth, fortresses, and fierce vassals. He was keeper of the castles of Gloucester and Canterbury, and possessed himself the very strong fortresses of Bristol, Leeds, and Dover. Hence the revolt of his numerous partisans was a great injury to the king; and, excited to fury, they caused great disturbances in the neighbouring provinces, which they ravaged in all manner of ways.
First, Geoffrey, surnamed Talbot, seized the city of Hereford, and there assembling his guilty associates, raised the standard of rebellion against the king. Walkelin, surnamed Maminot, held Dover²; Robert, son of Alured de Lincoln, the castle of Wareham; Morgan, the Welshman, Usk; and William de Mohun, Dunster. The young William, surnamed Peverel, had four castles, namely, Bryn, Ellesmere, Overton and Geddington; and, elated at this, he augmented the force of the rebels.
² Walkeline Maminot belonged to a family settled in Kent, which had litigations with Archbishop Lanfranc concerning certain invasions of the property of that see. This Walkeline, as well as Gilbert Maminot, the bishop of Liseux so often mentioned by our author, must have been descendants of the famous knight, Roger de Courbépine. Walkeline figures in several acts in the time of King Stephen, one of which, in the Monastic. Anglican, ii, 522, proves that he was a nephew of William Peverell. Walkeline Maminot was another of the eight knights who held lands in castle guard for the defence of Dover castle.

Peverell of Brunne:
To whom ſucceeded William his Son, who ratifying, ^o his Fathers Grants, added thereto half an Hide of Land in Brunne, and gave ^p to the Monks of Thorney, two Yard Land in Wilden.
This William making title ^q to the Church of Bolehirſt, which the Monks of Thorney had long enjoyed, at length met ^r with the Abbot of Thorney, at Retelſtan, in the preſence. of David, Earl of Huntingdon; where the Abbot diſcourſing with him thereof, requeſted ^ſ him, That, for the good of his own Soul, and his anceſtors Souls, he would ſurceaſe his Claim. Whereupon he condiſcended ^t, and, in teſtimony thereof, delivered ^u a Wand, unto the Abbot; which friendly favor ſo much pleaſed Earl David, that he kiſſed ^x both their hands.
But, not long after, this William went ^y to Jerulalem, and there died ^z without iſſue: So that his four Siſters became his Heirs, betwixt whom his Barony was divided ^a. Of theſe. Maud de Dovor, the eldeſt, died ^b without iſſue; Alice married ^c to Hamon Peche; Roeſe to ^d . . . . Harecourt; and Aſceline to ^e . . . . Watervile.
o Ibid[Mon. Ang. Vol.2. 30 a.] n.30
p Mon. Angl. Vol.1. 245 b.

q r ſ t u x Ibid. 246 b. n 20. 30 & 40.
y z a b c Ibid. p 30 a. n 30.
d Ibid. n 40.
e Ibid. n. 50.

His ſon WILLIAM, who ſucceeded him, confirmed to the canons aforefaid all the donations which they had received from his father, and moreover he gave them half a hyde of land of his own eſtate in Brunne by charter. Afterwards going to, and dying at Jeruſalem, he left no heir. His four ſiſters, daughters of Pain Peverel, divided the whole barony between them.

In or about the year 1145, this Walter, having been left by Stephen as Governor of the garrison of Malmesbury, was distinguished for his fidelity to the Usurper, and his readiness in the field. Falling however into the hands of William Peverel de Dover, an equally zealous supporter of Matilda, he was given up to the latter. Neither persuasions nor threats would induce the captive to cooperate in a scheme which the Empress entertained of obtaining possession of Malmesbury-Castle through his agency. He would not and could not further her design, for Stephen, hearing of his captivity, came to Malmesbury himself and took measures for its future defence. The Empress, cruel in her disappointment, consigned Walter de Pinkney to chains and a dungeon.¹⁶.
¹⁶ Gesta Regis Stephani, pp. 111, 112.

As we have seen, William Peverel of Dover confirmed the grant of Crudginton which Hamo his Uncle (patruus) had made to Shrewsbury Abbey, and Walcheline Maminot stood first witness of the confirmation. Again we have seen that Maminot’s proposed bargain with the Abbey was with William Peverel’s sanction (concedente Willielmo Peverel) and attestation.
But the history of Ercall shows these Coheirs in yet another combination. To Ercall belonged two Mills, as Domesday has shown us. One of these was Bradford Mill, and the locality is the more interesting as that which afterwards gave a name to a Hundred and a title to an Earldom.—
This Mill Walcheline Maminoht and William Peverel agreed to bestow on the infant Monastery of Haughmond. Their Charters are preserved, one in substance, the other in reality.
These monuments of an age of terror belong to the interval between 1141 and 1148. I give them verbatim.—
Walkelinus Maminot omnibus hominibus Francis et Anglis et omnibus amicis suis, salutem. Notum sit vobis, tam futuris quam illis qui sunt, me dedisse pro Deo in elemosinam Ecclesiæ Sancti Johannis de Haghmon, pro animâ meâ, et patris mei, et meorum ancessorum, molendinum de Bradeforde, et quicquid ad molendinum pertinet, in aquâ et infra, et prato, et de bosco ad molendinum parandum si frangat. Testibus istis, Rogero filio Warini, et Fulcone fratre suo; Stephana de Haia, et Michaele fratre suo.¹
Willielmus Peverel de Dovera omnibus hominibus suis de Scropescira et amicis, necnon et omnibus Sanctæ Dei Ecclesiæ filiis, salutes in Christo. Notum vobis facio quod ego ex meâ parte do et concedo molendinum Bradefordiæ, quod pertinet Harchalouœ, Sancto Johanni et Canonicis de Haiman, sicut Dominus Walchelinus Maminot eis dedit pro amore Dei et pro animâ Rogeri de Haia. Similiter ego volo et concedo ut habeant illud molendinum in pace et liberè et ut melius eis poterimus tensare et custodire pro amore Dei et redemptione animarum nostrorum antecessorum, et amici nostri Rogeri de Haia. Testibus his, Hugone de Lisoris; Waltero filio Hugonis; Anselmo de Hwichintona; Stefano de Haia; Michaele de Haia; Matilla mea conjuge; et Matilla de Dovera mea sorore; et Acelina mea sorore; et Jordano de Hedleia; et Willielmo Clerico. Valete omnes in Deo.¹
Besides being associates in works of piety, Walcheline Maminoht and William Peverel (II.) stood side by side in the cause of the Empress. They joined the first outbreak against Stephen in 1138. William Peyerel raised his Vassals in Shropshire and Cambridgeshire, where he inherited, from his Father or Uncle, the great Honour of Brunne. Walcheline Maminoht took the field as Castellan of Dover. William Peverel’s operations belong to a future Chapter of our History, for it was at Whittington and Ellesmere that his chief influence lay. On July 25, 1241, when the Empress, then at Oxford, gave to Milo de Gloucester the Earldom of Hereford, William de Dovra (as William Peverel is called) and Walcheline Maminot were attesting witnesses.
After this, and in 1144 (as I suppose) William de Dovre appears in Wiltshire. The Author of the Gesta Stephani, a partisan of the Usurper, describes William de Dovre as a “man of military genius, crafty and fierce.” In the year supposed, he built a Castle at Cricklade, subdued the Country, north and south of the Thames, harassed Stephen’s partisans in every direction, especially those who occupied Oxford and Malmesbury.² Similar was William de Dovre’s work in the year 1145, when he caught the Castellan of Malmesbury, one of Stephen’s ablest Lieutenants, in an ambuscade, and handed him over a prisoner to the Countess of Anjou,³ as the Stephanite Chronicler calls the Empress.
At last, says the same Author, “repenting of the evils and miseries which he had ruthlessly worked upon folk, he sought the sacred precincts of Jerusalem, to expiate his sins, and there, performing many glorious deeds against the obstinate foes of Christianity, he was gloriously slain.”⁴
Here the crusade, which left England and France in 1147, must be alluded to. We may date the death of William Peverel (II.) of Dover as having taken place in 1148, the same year in which Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Lichfield, fought and died in the same enterprise.
Of Walcheline Maminoht, as claiming or holding anything in Shropshire, we shall hear no more. William Peverel died childless, and his Manor of Ercail, no less than his Barony of Brunne was now divided. He left four Sisters, his Coheirs. They were, (1) Matilda, wife of Hugh de Dover of Chilham, Kent; (2) Alice, wife of Hamo Peche; (3) Roisia, wife of Rollo de Harcourt; and (4) Ascelina, wife of GeoiFrey de Walterville
¹ Haughmond Chartulary, fo. 39, collated with Har. MS. 2188, fo. 123.
¹ The original Deed, late in possession of Mr. George Morris of Shrewsbury.
^{2 . 3 . 4} Gesta Siephani Regis (Edition 1846), pp. 106, 107, 111.

Peuerell.
I have said that Dugdale furnishes William Peverell with three legitimate half-brothers, Hamon, William of Dover, and Pain. Eyton, in his History of Shropshire, maintains that they were not his brothers, but “of unknown origin”; and on the authority of the Monasticon, adds a fourth to their number, Robert, the last born. All (except this rather problematical youngest brother, of whom we know nothing but the name) were richly endowed.
Hamon, the eldest, married a great Shropshire heiress, Sibil, daughter of Gerard de Tournai, and was one of the barons of Roger de Montgomery; but left no legitimate children; and at his death (before 1138) appointed his brother’s son, William Peverell the younger, and Walchelin Maminot his heirs, “though we have not,” says Eyton, “a hint as to his relationship with the latter.” He is conjectured to have been the son of his sister.
William of Dover was so named as castellan of the renowned fortress, always spoken of by old writers as “the lock and key of the kingdom.” He, too, according to Eyton, had no heir to his barony but the nephew already mentioned. Dugdale gives him a son of the same name, styled “of Essex”: but it is doubtful whether this was not the same person that he elsewhere enters as William Peverell of London, holding a separate barony.
Pain was a celebrated soldier, “highly famed for his martial enterprises,” who was standard-bearer to Robert Court-heuse in the Holy Land, and received from Henry I. the great Honour of Brunne in Cambridgeshire, that had been forfeited by Robert Fitz Picot for conspiring against the King’s life. His wife, it is said, was Robert’s sister; and he is generally believed to have been the father of the younger William Peverell (who became the heir of his two uncles), and of four daughters. But Eyton declares he was but another uncle, and that William and his sisters were the children of Robert Peverell, the youngest of the four brothers, and of his wife Adelicia (v. Mon. Angl., vol. ii. p. 601, No. viii.).
Whether son or nephew, on this fortunate heir, William, styled of Dover and of Brunne, centred all the possessions of the family, for in 1138 he held the three baronies of Hamon, William of Dover, and Pain. He is described as “a man of military genius, crafty and fierce,” and very powerful in Shropshire and the Marches. “He had,” says Ordericus, “four castles, namely Bryn, Ellesmere, Overton, and Geddington; and elated at this, he augmented the force of the rebels.” This was when he raised his vassals in Shropshire and Cambridgeshire, and joined the first outbreak against Stephen. “After this, and in 1144 (as I suppose), William de Dovre appears in Wiltshire. He built a castle at Cricklade, subdued the country north and south of the Thames; harassed Stephen’s partisans in every direction, especially those who occupied Oxford and Malmesbury. Similar was his work in the year 1145, when he caught the Castellan of Malmesbury, one of Stephen’s ablest Lieutenants, in an ambuscade, and handed him over a prisoner to the Countess of Anjou, as the Stephanite Chronicler calls the Empress.”—Eyton.
Two years after this, “sickened with civil war,” he took the cross, and after performing many glorious deeds in the Holy Land, there fell in battle against the Moslem. He left no children, and his inheritance was shared by his four sisters, Maud, wife of Hugh de Dovor of Chilham, Kent; Alice, wife of Hamo Peche; Roisia, wife of Rollo de Harcourt; and Ascelina, wife of Geoffrey de Walterville.

The Peverell Family

Alicia (Peverell) Peche

Ascelina (Peverell, de Waterville) de Quency

Matilda (Peverell) de Doura

Pain Peverell

Robert Peverell

Rosia (Peverell) de Harcourt

William Peverell