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P R E F A C E TIIE sections of the present volume illustrate in part thc redistribution which Henry I made of the Crown lands and of others which during the earlier part of his reign came into his hands by the expulsion and forfeiture of the successors of the Domesday tenants. He designed by the new grants both to consolidate his position as sovereign of England and to augment the feudal host at his command for the repression of disorders in Normandy. The following are the sections XI. The Fee of Brus . . . . . . . X I I I. The Fee of Bulmer . . . . . . XIV. The Archbishop of Canterburys Fee . . . XV, The Fee of Caux . . . . . . . XVI. The Chamberlains Fee . . . . . . XVII. The Fee of Chauncy . . . . ., XVIII. The Earl of Chesters Fee . . . XIX. The Bishop of Uurhams Fee . . . . XX. The Fee of Fossard . ., . XXI. The Fee of Cant . . . . . . . XXII. The Fee of Greystoke . . . . L The fee of Brus originated in the grant by Henry I, during the first decade of his reign, to Robert de Rrus of about eighty manors which had formed part of the Terra Regis at the Survey of 10x6. When William count of Mortain lost his English fee in I 104 some thirteen manors which had been held under Robert count of Mortain by Richard de Surdeval were probably included in the fee which Brus thereafter held directly of the Crown. Robert de Brus attested a charter of William count of hlortain to Rfarmoutier, made during the period r 103-1 106 he did so no doubt as a tenant of the fee of Mortain in Normandy, and possibly in England also. It seems probabIe likewise that Robert was enfeoffed by Richard earl of Chester of some of his Cleveland lands. A very interesting writ of Henry I, which may be assigned toWhitsuntide r 107, will be included in theappendix, having been found too late to be printed among the Brus charters in this volume. In it Henry notifies the shiremote of Yorkshire of an exchange of lands made with Robert de Rrus, who resigned 24 carucates in Collingham and Bardsey possibly Kound, Gal, of Dm., Fr arrrc, n. 1210, parcel of the fce of Mortain for 22 carucates which thc king gave him in other places in Yorkshire. This exchange had becn effected before thc account of the fee of Brus was enrollcd in Domesday Book at the end of the account of Yorkshire. The fee of Bulmer had its origin in a grant, for serviccs rendered, of lands belonging to the Crown in the neighbourhood of Easingwold. Ansketill, the first feoffee, was a tenant in Bulmer and the neighbourhood of Nigel Fossard, who held nearly half the fee of Mortain at the Survey. Suggestions as to thc origin of the fee of the archbishop of Canterbury will be found at p. 135. The fee of Caux comprised part of the fee of Geoffrey AIselin, who at the Suwey held lands in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln and York. The fee of the Chamberlain was probably a fcoffment from the Crown to Herbert Fitz-Aubrey, the chamberlain of William I1 and Henry 1 but it is possible that Osbert the sheriff was the first fcoffee and that it descended through Richard Turniant, son of Osbert, to his niece Milisent, daughter of Matilda, sister of Richard of Lincoln and of William Turniant...
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