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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Haultrey), assumed in one of the early Norman reigns the surname of De Haultrey de Alta Ripa, or Dawtrey. He was grandfather to Joscelin de Alta Ripa, who had two sons?I. William, who founded the Priory of Hardham or Hering- ham. His possessions descended in the female line to the family of Goring. 2. John, from whom lineally descended Andrew Dawtrey, whose second son, Edmund, was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1492. He was succeeded by his son, Sir John Hawtrey of Moor House, in Petworth, High Sheriff of Sussex in 1527. His youngest son Anthony had the estate of Worcot in Hampshire; the eldest was Sir John, High Sheriff in 1566. The last lineal descendant of the name was William Dawtrey, Esquire, of Moor House, Petworth, who, dying without issue in 1758, left his estates to his nephew Richard Luther, Esquire, whose daughters and co-heiresses married respectively Henry Fane, Esquire, and John Taylor, Esquire.1 CHAPTER IV HAWTREYS OF ALGARKIRK The following is copied from a manuscript book of my cousin, Laura Hawtrey, sister to the late Provost:? a.d. 1154. The name of Hawtrey, or Hauterive, occurs in the history of Ordericus Vitalis, who lived in the twelfth century, and was living in 1143, but how much longer is uncertain. The ancestor of the family of Hawtrey came to England in the army of William the Conqueror, and was present at the Battle of Hastings,2 and a tradition in the family represents him to have been the knight who struck down Harold . . . and seized the standard, for which exploit a fourth lion was added to the three in the armsstill borne by the family. It appears that lands were bestowed upon this valiant knight in the county of Lincoln, for about the year 1270 Sir William de Alta Ripa, alias Dawtrey, alias Hawtrey, of Algarkirk in the county of ...
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