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51	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 32-33. Appendices H1, H2: JOHN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON John Malet, the son of Baldwin and Mabilia, succeeded his father before the year 1286. He married Sibylla, the daughter of Sir Robert St. Cleere. In Sir A.M.'s MSS. there are eight notices, in two of which* he is styled "Johannes Malet Miles Dominus de Enemere filius et haeres Baldwini Malet Militis Ed. I." In another he styles himself "Johannes Malet miles filius et haeres Baldwini Malet Militis." The other entries are of no particular interest, except one, which appears to be an extract from the Devonshire post-mortem inquest dated 16 Edward I, A.D. 1288,** from which, besides the names of some of his possessions, we learn that his son and heir Baldwin was then of the age of four years. There existed a Thomas Malet of Deandon, Knight, son of John, who was, it is presumed, a younger brother of Baldwin, John Malet's son and heir. There was also a Thomas Malet, Knight the shire for Nottinghamshire, 4 and 5 Edward II, A.D. 1311-12, and 33 Edward III, A.D. 1366; I do not know if these persons are identical. * TO JOHN MALET, SON OF BALDWIN AND MATILDA. Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p. 16. Haec est finalis concordia inter Johannem Malet Dominum de Enemere et Galfridum Furneaux filium Ricardi de Furneaux, Test: Johanne de Valletorta, Will'o Trivet, Johanne filio Galfridi. Militibus, Rogero Gotehurst, Reymundo Malet. Dat: apud Somerton 8 Edward I [A.D. 1280]. Page 6.--Johannes filius Willielmi de parva Lutton sal: Nov: me concessisse Johanni filio Baldwini Malet tres acras terrae in Sutton Malet. Test: Will'o Trivet, Johanne filio Galfridi, Militibus, et aliis. Without date. Page 17.-- Johannes Malet, Miles, Dominus de Enemere, filius et haeres Baldwini Malet, Militis, Edward 1st. Without date. Page 46.-- Johannes Malet, Miles, filius et haeres Baldwini Malet, Militis, sal: Nov: me concessisse Will'o le Marshall de Cedon terram in Holwill habend: etc. Test: Will'o de Mortuomari, Constabulario Taunton, Gilberto de Wollavington, Rico Pike, Rob't Burey, et aliis. Without date. ** Johannes Malet tenuit 96 acras terrae, 14 ac'i prati, quoddam vastum 14s. 6d. redd: de liber: ten: et 37s. 6d. annui redd: villanorum in Deandon de haerede Almarici de S'to Amando p: soccag: reddendo inde dicto haerdi 15s. pro omni servito. Idem tenuit de Johanne de Grendon 5s. annui redd: in Grenedon p: soccag: reddendo inde 18s. pro omni serviito. Idem tenuit de Michaele de Slipwicke 2s. annui redd: de uno lib: ten: in Cadetrive et de reddit: annual: villanorum in Cadetrive et Sholeford 19s. de dicto Michaele p: serv: mil: reddendo, etc. Idem tenuit quasdam terras et ten: in Deandon de Abbatia de Buckfastlegh p: serv: mil: etc. Baldwinus est filius et haeres dicti Johannis Malet et aetat: 4 ann: 16mo Edward I. [A.D.1288.]	Family: F52
52	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 33-34, appendices I1, I2, I3: BALDWIN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. Baldwin Malet, the son of John Malet and Sibylla the daughter of Sir John St. Cleere, was born 12 Edward I, A.D. 1284; he married Hawise, or Avicia, daughter of Sir Simon Ralegh of Nettlecombe. The first mention of his name is a mere entry in Sir A.M.'s MSS., dated 1311, "Baldwin and Raymund Malet." The next entry of his name is in 1312,* an acknowledgement of homage due to and paid to Baldwin Malet by William Ridel. After this are in the same MS. many entries in which he is designated Baldwin Malet filius Johannis, Dominus de Durburgh, &c., and in the same MSS., vol. ii, p.5, "Baldwin possessed this estate [Deandon] and presented to the Church in the 3rd year of King Edward III, A.D. From Sir Wm. Pole's collections also we find that Baldwin paid homage for Enmore to the Beauchamp of the time, the lineal successor of Mabel, the daughter of the last Baron William Malet, thus showing that this possession had been held by Baldwin's ancestor Fichet from the barons Malet, the successors of Roger de Corcelle, the owner of it at the time of the survey. There is yet another entry,* the contract between Baldwin Malet and William de Whitfield and his wife Constance, that John the eldest son of Baldwin should marry their daughter. Baldwin,by his wife Hawise, or Avicia, had issue John and Baldwin. * BALDWIN MALET. Born 1284. Latest Date in Deeds, 1338. Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol.I, p. 16. Patent universis per praesentes me William Ridel, Militem, dedisse, etc., Baldwino Malet homagium fidelitatem redditus et servitia Rob'ti de Brent tenementis mei de omnibus terris et tenementis quae de me tenet in Cosington, Suth Brent, et Glaston: in Com: Som: etc.Test: Do'no Johanne de Bellocampo, Joh'e de Meriet, Mattheo de Forneaux, Ada de la Forde, Militibus; Mattheo de Clyvedon, Jon'e de la Fosse, et aliis. Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup.II, p. 43. Mon'r Baldwin Malet fit homage al Mon'r Johan de Beauchamp a` Enemere xi Edward III [A.D. 1333] en la presence de Mons'r Rauf Fitzours, Johan de Somerton, Johan de Mareys, et autres, et reconnust qu'il tient de luy cinque fees de Chivales en Enmere, Sutton, et Oke. Ex libro MS. deterris familiae de Beauchamp in Com: Som: in the Augmentation Office. * Sir A.M.'s MSS., Sup. II, p.6. Cette endenture test: que le jeody apres le feste du St. John Baptist l'an du regne Roy Edward III ii'mo entre Mons'r William de Whitfield et Madame Constance sa femme d'une part, et Mons'r Baldwin Malet d'autre part, etc.. Ceste a` scavoir que Joh le Filz ein, Mons'r Baldwin prenda a` femme la fille Mons'r Jean de Kingston et la dite Constance, etc. Test: Walter de Pavely, Rafe Fitzurse, Chivalers; John de Ralegh, Jean de Brent, John Durburgh, et Rob't Pavey.	Family: F50
53	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 34-35, appendix K: JOHN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. John, the son of Baldwin Malet and his wife Hawise the daughter of Sir Simon Ralegh, married, in fulfilment of his father Baldwin's engagement, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John de Kingston, Knight. As this covenant was made in 1338, and his father was born in 1284, Baldwin was fifty-four years old at the time. I have no information of the date when John Malet succeeded his father, but as we have a deed* in which he confirms to his brother Baldwin land granted to him by their mother which is dated 1346, it must have been between 1338 and that year. There is in Sir A.M.'s MSS., vol. i, sup. 2, p.22, an entry stating that Sir John Malet had George, son and heir of Robert Lovel, in ward, 21 Edward III, A.D. 1348. There are no later dates than this. By his wife Elizabeth he left a son and heir, Baldwin Malet. * Sir A.M.'s MSS.,Vol. I, Sup. II, p.27. Omnibus,etc. Johannes Malet, Dominus de Enemere, sal: Nov: me relaxasse Baldwino Malet frati meo et Johannae uxori ejus terram quam Hawisia mater mea eis concessit, etc. Dat: apud Enemere anno regni Ed:19'o. [A.D. 1346.]	Family: F47
54	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 35-36, appendices L1 - L9: BALDWIN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON.* Baldwin, the son of John Malet and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John de Kingston, was at his father's death, being under age, placed under the guardianship of Margaret Beauchamp. In Sir A.M.'s MSS. there are forty-seven extracts containing his name; most of these give the name only. Some few are of interest: one* shows that Baldwin's wife Elizabeth was living in 1373; another,+ dated 3 Richard II, 1380, is an engagement entered into by Baldwin and Elizabeth his wife with John Hull,++ that their son and heir apparent, John, should marry Joan Hull, and setting apart for their residence and maintenance the manor of St. Audries and lands in Exeter. Elizabeth, Baldwin's first wife, was the daughter of Sir Thos. Trivet; by her he had issue: 1. John Malet. 2. Eleanor = Sir William Hody, Chief Baron. of the Exchequer. Baldwin married for the second wife Amicia, daughter of Richard Lyffe of Corypole, by whom he had issue: 1. Hugh Malet. 2. Phillipa = Thomas Martin of Athelhampton, Dorset. There is an extract from a deed of Baldwin's, date 1375,+++ purporting to have made over to John Trivet for his life the manor of Oake, and providing that after his death it should go to William Coker and his heirs. It appears that by this time the overlordship of Enmore had passed from the Beauchamps to the ancient family of Gournay, for in 1399# we find that Baldwin does homage to Matthew Gurney for Enemore, Sutton, and Oke. And in 1401## he does homage to "my very noble dame Alice Stury for Hethcombe in Blacksoll." Baldwin Malet, as appears from the Council Book in Bib. Cotton, Cleopatra, F III, was one of the knights summoned to the Great Council, the next day after the assumption of our Lady, at Westminster, 2 Henry IV, A.D. 1401. The earliest mention of Amicia Lyffe as his wife is in 1402,### and in 1426 she as his widow,@ makes over to trustees the manor of Corypole. Amicia Malet and Johanna Tilly,@ were the coheiresses of Richard Lyffe, from whom the Malets obtained the estate of Corypole, and quartered the arms of Lyffe and Valetort. * From this period I have the benefit of the Rev. Frederic Brown's M.S. notes, chiefly extracts from papers in the Prerogative Court. Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p.2. Gilbertus de Edington die quo obiit tenuit hamletum de Edington de haerede Johannis Malet infra aetatem et in custodia Margaretae quae fuit uxor Johannis Beauchamp de Somerset pro 4'to parte 1'i feodi Mil: cujus feoda sunt in custodia D'ni Regis ratione mortis dictae Margaretae. 36 Edward III. [1363.] * Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p.18. Baldwin Malet, Miles, Elizabeth uxor 46 Edward III. [A.D. 1373.] + Sir A.M.'s MSS.,Vol I, Sup. II, p. 7. Cette endenture fait entre Mon'r Baldwin Malet et Elizabeth sa femme d'une part, et John Hull d'autre part, le Vendredi en la semaine de Pasch, etc: l'an du regne notre Seigneur le Roy Ric: II 3'o [A.D. 1380], testatur que le dit Mons'r Baldwin et Elizabeth et John sont finalement accordes que John Maet, fitz du Baldwin, et Elizabeth et heir apparent du dit Baldwin prendre a` femme Joane la file a` dit John Hulle, et que le dit Baldwin leva fin du manor de Cantokeshead [St. Audries] a` l'use du dit John et Joan, etc., et John Hull et Diony se safemme leva fin des terres en Exon. ++ Some authorities give "Hill" +++ Sir A.M.'s Mss., Vol. I, Sup. II. Omnibus, etc. Baldwinus Malet, Miles, sa'l. Cum Joh'ee Trivet Miles, tenet ad term: vitae maner: de Oke in Com: Som: ex concessione mea volo post mortem dicti Johannis manerium praedictum remanet Will'o Coker et haered: suis. Test: Ric'o de Acton, Hugone de Durburgh, Mattheo Stawel, Militibus, etc. Dat: apud Oke, 48 Edward III. [A.D. 1375.] # Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup. I, p. 20. Matthew Gurney, Chevaler, sal: Sachetz moy avoir recu, homage de Mons'r Bawlden Malet pour les manners de Enemer, Sutton, et Oke, deins le Compty de Somerset, q'il tenut de moy par le service Milit: Donn: 22 Ric: II. [A.D. 1399.] ## Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup., p. 54. A toutz, etc., Baldwin Malet, Chivaler, sa'l. Sachetz moy avoir fait homage a` ma tres noble Dame Alice Stury pour les terres que jeo tenust de ma dit tres noble dame in Hethcombe et Blacksole en la comte' de Somerset, par service de Chevaler. En teste jeo a mis mon seale. Donnee a` Wircestre, 2 Henry IV. [A.D. 1401.] ### Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup. I, p. 7. Ric: Dill, Roger Abin, et Walter Tholomer Cap'i, cum Baldwinus Malet, Miles, et Amisia uxor ejus, et Walterus Tilly et Johanna uxor ejus, per quosdam fines coram Justiciariis in Curia D'ni Hen. IV apud West'r, viz., praedicti Baldwin et Amisia pro una medietate, et Walterus et Johanna pro altera medietate manerii de Corypole in Com: Som: et manerii de Heyhampton in Com: Devon: et aliarum terrarum quae fuere Richardi Lyffe filii et haeredis Godfridi Lyffe, etc. Dat: an'o regni R. Hen. IV 3'tio. [A.D. 1402.] @ Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p. 21. Nov: etc., quod Ego Amisia quae fui uxor Baldwini Malet, Militis, una filiarum et haeredum Richardi Lyffe, confirmavi Johanni War, Johanni Tretheke, Will'o Paulet de Melcombe, et Hugoni Cary, Manerium de Corypole. Testibus, Hugone de Loterel, Thoma Stawel, Militibus; Johanni Ken, et Rogero Pim. Dat: apud Corypole, 4 Henry VI. [A.D. 1426.] @ Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p. 21. Amisia uxor Baldwini Malet, Militis, et Johanna uxor Walteri Tilly, sunt filiae et haeredes Ric'i Lyffe 7 Henry IV. [A.D. 1406.]	Family: F46
55	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 36-38, appendices M1 - M3, N1: JOHN MALET. John Malet, the son of Baldwin Malet and his wife Elizabeth, married in 1380* Joan, daughter of Sir John Hulle of Kyton in Holcombe Rogus, Devon, Knight, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, by his first wife, Dyonisia Durburgh. He was heir to a very considerable estate comprising Deandon, Durburgh, Enmore, E. Quantockshead (St. Audries), and their dependencies. But he never succeeded to the property, having predeceased his father. He left a daughter, Eleanor, the heiress of these large possessions; she married a person of the same name as her mother's father, John Hull, and was the mother of Edward Hull, concerning whom I find a notice in J. Anstis's introduction to the Register of the Knights of the Garter, p. 48, and vol. ii, p. 151, relating that "this noble and valiant knight commonly stiles himself the son of Alianor Hull, a great heiress, the daughter and heir of Malet of Enemer, whose arms he bore in his seals." His election is recorded in the second volume thus: "On the seventh day of May, after keeping of this feast of St. George, an election was made at Westminster in the King's bedchamber within the palace, where with the King's majesty" --[here follow the names of the six nominators, each of whom presented nine names; Edward Hull was named by each]. " The nomination being ended and delivered to the King, Sir Edward Hull was admitted in the stead of Lord Willoughby deceased." To this is appended a note stating that he "was doubtless elected in his absence while he accompanied the Earl of Shrewsbury in the expedition to Gascoigne, for this register informed us this Earl was at Burdeaux on 22nd April in the 31st year, and a record assures us that in the 30th year he was sent to sea with this most valiant Earl, Tran. 30, H 6, M 6, 27 Junii. This worthy knight was slain in battle very soon after his election, and the day is specified in priv. Sigill 12 Juyll 34, H 6 which orders an account to be made, as the words are, with our right well beloved Dame Alionore Hull modre and executrice of Edward Hull knight, late Constable of our castel of Bourdeaux &c., and to make paiement of all maner of wages of werre of men of armes and archers with the said Edward for the keeping and defense of our cite' of Burdeaux and other towns and places in our dutchie of Guienne at his proper expenses and wages in the company of th'erle of Shrewsbury, Lord Talbot which late was Lieutenant of our dutchie of Guienne aforesaid, beying from the xxii Octr. in the yeare of our Lord 1452 unto the xviii day of Juyl than next following which day the said Edward deceased." Sir Edward Hull dying without issue, his mother Eleanor's possessions reverted eventually to her grandfather Baldwin's next heir, Hugh Malet;* there are two entries in Sir William Pole's MSS.+ asserting her relationship to Baldwin Malet. John Malet's widow, Joan, was married to William Corna, and retained as her dower the manor of Deandon during her life, under the trusteeship of William Hastings.++ * MS. by the Rev. Frederic Brown. Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup., p. 18. Sir John Malet died in the lifetime of his father, but left issue by Jane, daughter of John Hill [this must be a mistake for Hull. I have followed the Rev. T. Brown] of Exeter, a daughter Eleanor, wife of John Hull, who had issue Sir Edward Hull, who died without issue. * Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, p. 6. Sir Edward Hull died without issue, and his estate (Deandon) reverted to Hugh Malet. + Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup. I, p. 15. Eleanora Hull, Domina de Enemere, sal: etc., cum Baldwinus Malet, avus meus, cujus haeres ego sum, concess: terras in Enemere. Dat: Henry VI, 13. [A.D. 1435.] Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p. 18. Alionora Hull, consanguinea et haeres Baldwini Malet, Militis, viz.: Filia et haeres Johannis Malet, Militis, filii et haeredis dict Baldwini. Dat: 17 Henry VI. [A.D. 1439.] ++ Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup. I, p. 8. Omnibus, etc. Will'm Hastings sal: cum Willu's Corma et Johanna uxor ejus, nuper uxor Johannis Malet, Militis, filii et haeredis Baldwini Malet, Militis, tenet manerium de Deandon in Com: Devon pro termino vitae dictae Johannae reman: mihi, etc. Nov: me dictum Willum Hastings concessisse dictum manerium Amiciae quae fuit uxor Baldwini Malet, Militis, pro termino vitae suae; reman: Hugoni Malet filio dictae Amiciae et haered: de corpore; reman: Thomae Malet frati Hugonis et haered: de corpore; reman: Philippae sorori dicti Thomae; reman: rectis haeredibus Baldwini Malet, Militis, annon Regni R. Henry VI 8'o. [A.D. 1430.]	Family: F91
56	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 61: "He was of the Middle Temple... issue all died young."	Family: F248
57	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, p 64 , appendix CC: WILLIAM MALET OF ST. AUDRIES. William Malet was the eldest son of Baldwin Malet and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir John Horner of Mells, Knight. He was baptised at St. Audries April 28th, 1680; his will was made in 1722, on the eve of his departure for the West Indies;* he married twice-- 1st . . . . Tourle. 2nd. Margaret Bayley. He had issue one daughter-- Anne Malet, who died a spinster. I do not find the date of death of his daughter Anne, but he was succeeded in his estate by his brother, Baldwin Malet. * [Boulton, 250.] William Malet, of the Middle Temple, Esq're, June 11th, 1722. I am going on a voyage to Barbardoes. All my estate, etc. to Gerard Martin, of East Pennard, Som't, Esq're, and Henry Rowe, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, in trust for my daughter and only child Ann Malet---My father Baldwin Malet, deceased, Nov'r 19, 1724.	Family: F253
58	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 1-17, appendix A1-A10: WILLIAM MALET. Early in the eleventh century, during the period in which Edward the Confessor was living in Normandy under the protection of the Duke, there existed an English family consisting of a brother and three sisters, Thorold, Godiva, and two other sisters whose names are unknown. (1) Thorold was Sheriff of Lincolnshire; Godiva married Leofric Earl of Mercia; of the other sisters, one married an English husband of high rank, the other married a Norman noble named Malet, who was by her father of two sons William and Durand; the former, one of the companions of Duke William and who is named as having fought at Hastings, the latter also presumably an actor in the same battle, and both named in Domesday Book as tenants in capite. I particularise the whole of the four members of this English family, as the history of each has its peculiar share in elucidating the mystery which has hitherto attached to the parentage of William Malet, who is described by Guy of Amiens as half Norman and half English; (2) the accumulation of evidence conclusively proving the existence of these two unrecorded sisters of Thorold and Godiva, and that William and Durand Malet were the sons of one of them. We know, on the undoubted authority of the charter granted by Henry the Second, at Devizes, in 1152, to William Randolph, Earl of Chester, (3) that Robert Malet, son of William and Alan of Lincoln were each of them avunculus to the Earl's mother, the Countess Lucy, who was the daughter of Ivo Taillebois Count of Angers, by Lucy, one of the daughters of Alfgar Earl of Mercia, the son of Leofric, by Godiva, the sister of Thorold. (4) Alan of Lincoln, (5) doubtless a kinsman of Alfred of Lincoln, I assume to have been his son; if so, or if he was a sister's son, he was equally the son of a nephew or a niece of Thorold. Mr. Freeman, on the English connection of W. Malet, says that Alan is more likely to have been Alfred's son than his brother, and it seems that it must have been so, otherwise he could not have borne the same relationship to the Countess Lucy as did Robert Malet; and, as the Devizes charter precludes doubt as to this relationship, Robert Malet must have had a similar descent to Alan of Lincoln. This must have been by his father having been a son of a sister of Thorold and Godiva, which alone could give him and Alan of Lincoln a similar relationship to the Countess Lucy. Additional proof of nearness of kin may be found in the summary of a grant (6) give in the thirty-fifth report by the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, by which William de Roumara gave to Robert, grandson (nepos) of the Countess Lucy, land which had been held under Lucy the Countess by Ivo and Colswegen, uncles of the said Robert. As by no possibility could the term uncle apply to Ivo Taillebois, who moreover would not have held land under his own daughter, and as Durand Malet, the brother of William Malet, and therefore of the sae descent, had a son named Ivo, who would bear to Robert de Roumara precisely the same relationship as did Colswegen, the son of Alfred of Lincoln, it follows that the Ivo alluded to must be not Ivo Taillebois but Ivo Malet. The relationship can now be clearly shown. (Chart) It will be observed that the near relationship of William Malet to Harold's Queen Aldgith (7) thus manifested accounts for the otherwise incomprehensible tradition that her mother Aelgifu was a sister of William Malet. It will also be seen that this pedigree brings into similar relationship to the countess Lucy, Colswegen, Alan of Lincoln, Robert Malet, and Ivo Malet, so that Colswegen and Ivo, who are, in the summary of the grant above mentioned, called each avunculus to her grandson Robert de Roumara, are in reality his kinsmen , each of a similar relationship, though not what we now should term uncle. Having accounted for William Malet's parentage, we may now consider how he came to be called by Guy of Amiens "Compater Heraldi," that is to say, having the ecclesiastical connection of standing at the baptismal font with Harold as a fellow sponsor for some child of sufficiently noble birth to be entitled to two such godfathers. The rivalry between the houses of Godwin and Leofric previous to Harold's marriage to Aldgith, which closed though it hardly healed the sore, militates against the supposition that the occasion could have been in England and it seems as if considerable weight may be attached to Mr. Planche's conjecture (8) that it may have been in Normandy, in 1062, during the enforced visit of Earl Godwin's son to Duke William, the year in which the Duke's daughter Adela was born. He adds, "Is it possible that Harold and William Malet were her godfathers? Guy of Amiens, Matilda's almoner, would certainly be cognizant of that fact." It may be thought that the politic Duke would hardly permit Harold to enter into intimate relations with any of his great Norman Barons; yet such a tie through his own child might be beneficial, and the conjoining with him in the holy ceremony of one who, besides being a distant connection by marriage, was an attached follower of his own, could be of no political disadvantage. I think I am warranted in thus designating William Malet, as the terms on which the Duke treated him in England fully warrant the inference that they were bound together by more than the common bond of Prince and Feudatory, even if the distant connection through his marriage with a Crispin be disregarded. William Malet married Hesilia Crispin, (9) who was through a female, descended in the fourth generation from Rollo I, Duke of Normandy, and therefore related to Duke William, the fifth in descent in the male line. Lanfranc states (10) that Hesilia, sister to the two Crispins (who fought at Hastings), was the mother of William Malet, a valiant soldier, who in old age became a monk in the Abbey of Bec for some years before he died. We know from the undoubted authority of Domesday (11) that William Malet died in the King's service during the campaign against Hereward before the completion of the Survey, and we know from equally undoubted authority, Robert Malet's charter to his Abbey at Eye, (12) that William Malet was his father and Hesilia his mother; it seems, therefore, that the Archbishop or his amanuensis must have fallen into some error which has been followed in the subsequent chronicles of Bec. By Hesilia Wiliam Malet had issue Robert, Gilbert, and Beatrice. As his eldest son Robert could hardly have been less than twenty-six years of age at this father's death in 1071, William's marriage may have been in about 1044, and as he possibly married at the age of twenty-five he will have been born about the year 1020, and was aged about fifty-one at the time of his death. Having endeavoured by the means at our disposal to account for William Malet's parentage, it would be desirable to trace the earlier position of his family in Normandy before the conquest of England, but I cannot find that there ware any early records in existence in which the name occurs. In L. Dacherii notae ad Lanfranci Archiepiscopi Cantuar, Epist. 35, p. 370, we find: "Clarissima apud Caletes familia Maletana unde et illud Gallicum proverbium, 'Les Malets et les Martauxs son les plus nobles de Caux.'" ["The most famous family Malets from which (comes) that Gallic proverb 'The Malets and the Martaux are the most noble of the Caux.'"] The name too is said to have arisen "Ob bellicam fortitudinem eo quod in praeliis hostes ut malleo contunderet." [From that battle courage with which he pounded the enemies in battles as if with a hammer.--translations by Irene W.] It seems probably as the name had passed into a proverb that it was in use in the early times of the Norman settlement in France, but this is merely a matter of conjecture. It is not even known whether the cognizance of the three fermalets or buckles was borne by the family at the time of the invasion of England, or whether it was, as were so many other distinguishing coats of arms, adopted at the time of the crusades, from which time till the present it has been borne by the various French branches of the family; it was also borne by the descendants of Durand Malet of Irby. Having elucidated the personality of William Malet in Normandy, it remains to collect the records of his life in England. The battle of Hastings, or Senlac, is the scene in which he first appears. Wace, in that portion of his Roman de Ron in which he recounts the deeds of the Normans, names first Roger de Belmont, and next after him William Malet, whose deeds he thus describes. His archaic French may perhaps excuse my placing an English translation by its side. Guillame ki l'en dit MalletWilliam whom they call Mallet Hardiement entrels se met;Boldly throws himself among them; Od l'espee ki resflambieWith his flashing sword As Engliez rent dure escremie; Against the English he makes furious onset; Maiz son escu si estroerent, But his shield they clove, E son cheval soz li toerent' And his horse benath him killed, Et il meisme eussent mort, And himself they would have slain, Quant vint le Sire de MonfortWhen came the Sire de Monfort Et Dam Willame de Vez-pont,And Lord William de Vez-Pont Od granz maisnies ke il ont, With the great fore which they had, Le rescotrent hardiement.Him they bravely rescued. Mult i perdirent de lor gent;There many of their men they lost; Mallet firent monter maneizMallet they remounted on the field Sor un destrier tot freiz.On a fresh war-horse. When King Harold's body was found after the battle, the Conqueror, refusing his mother, Gytha's offer to ransom it, entrusted it, as we are told by Guy of Amiens, William of Poitiers, Benoit de St. More, and Orderic Vital, (13) to William Malet for burial near the sea. There has been much discussion as to its delivery to William Malet and its place of burial, but it seems to have been fairly set at rest by Mr. Freeman, and there is no room to doubt that it was first buried by William Malet on the sea-shoe, possibly in a cairn on the cliff near Hastings, whence in more settled times it was by the King's permission removed, and, with such honors as the period allowed, buried in Harold's own Abbey of Waltham. The next mention we have of William Malet is after the submission of York to the King in 1068, when a castle was built there and left to the care of William Malet, who was made Sheriff, with large grants of land in the country, Robert Fitz-Richard, and William of Ghent, with five hundred picked knights. (14) They were not suffered long to hold it in peace. In January, 1069, the King sent Robert de Comines to take possession of the earldom which Gospatric had fled from; Robert de Comines' passage lay through Durham, where he was surprised and, with his whole force, slain. This led to an immediate revolt in Yorkshire: the citizens of York slew Robert Fitz-Richard, with many of his men; and the insurgents, headed by Edgar the Atheling, attacked the castle. The Sheriff sent for aid to the King, who speedily arrived and utterly routed the revolters; he then, in addition to the first, built a second castle, which he entrusted to William Fitz-Osborn, Earl of Hereford, and and left the north in order that he might keep the feast of Easter at Winchester. Shortly after his departure the English again rose, and attacked the castles at York, but were defeated and driven off by the Earl of Hereford, who after this success must have departed, as we hear nothing of him in the events in the north which subsequently occurred. The Sheriff, William Malet, and Gilbert of Ghent were now in command at York, with what was deemed a sufficient garrison, but they must have found some difficulty in providing food for their men, as otherwise we can hardly account for the seizure by the Sheriff of the provisions which were being brought into the city for the use of the Archbishop. The circumstances are so graphically illustrated by Mr. Freeman, in his History of the Norman Conquest, (15) that I shall be excused for transcribing them, as illustrating the overpowering sense of military necessity in the commander, and the politico-religious scrupulosity of the King. "Ealdred [the Archbishop] was present in his metropolitan city on one of the feasts of the Church, by which must be meant the Pentecost of the present year. A large stock of all manner of good things was being brought into the city from the episcopal lands in its neighbourhood. It chanced that the Sheriff -- William Malet must be meant -- was at that moment going out of York with a large company. At a short distance from the city he met the Archbishop's horses and waggons [sic] bringing in wheat and other meats for the feast. The Sheriff asked the drivers who they were, and for whom they were bringing those good things. They answered that they were the servants of the Archbishop, and were bringing in the things that were needful for his service. The Sheriff, caring little for the Archbishop or his servants, bade his own followers seize on the whole of the stores and carry them to the king's storehouse in the castle. When the news was brought to Ealdred, he sent messengers, clerks, and citizens to the Sheriff, and bade him restore the stolen property , and make good the loss to St. Peter, and to himself as his vicar; otherwise he would at once go on to wield his spiritual weapons against him. As no satisfaction was to be had, but as the Archbishop's servants were driven away with threats and insults, the high-spirited Primate made up his mind to go at once and lay his complaints in person before the King. He went to London, where William then was. His coming is said to have caused some stir in the city, and the Norman Bishop of London, William, with a crowd of clergy and people , came to meet him with all honour." Then follows the account of his interview with the King, after which "Ealdred went home in safety and honour, and one of the highest nobles in William's court was sent with letters, by virtue of which everything, even to the cords which tied the sacks of corn, was faithfully restored to the Archbishop. And from that day no man dared to wrong him any more." Some months after this more serious events occurred. The Danish fleet under Sweyn arrived on the coast of England, and William the King, who was then in Gloucestershire, warned his officers in York to stand firmly on their defence, and to call at once for his presence should it be needed. They, over-confident in their own strength, sent back word that they could hold out for a year without further aid. I cannot do better than transcribe from Mr. Freeman's work (16) the account of what followed. "The English and Danish fleets had already met in the Humber, but their banners had not yet been seen beneath the walls of York, when a tomb within the Minster of St. Peter closed on the body of the last Primate of Northumberland of the old stock (Ealdred died 11th September, 1069). Meanwhile the confederate fleets were in the Humber. . . . The fleet sailed on; we are not told at what point of the Ouse the troops disembarked, but it is plain that the easiest road to York from any convenient landing-place would lead them along the left bank of the river, over the former battle-ground of Fulford; this road would bring them at once upon the elder of the two castles. It was indeed guarded by the stream of the Foss, but even if the bridge was not yet there, the crossing of so small a stream was a hindrance which might easily be overcome. It is plain that the castles were the first object of attack, and if the fleet, or any part of it, did sail up to York , it would be the castles which they would first come upon as barring their course. Before the Danes reached the city the whole country poured forth to join their banners. Men went on with all joy, walking and riding. A host that could not be numbered, pressing on with one heart and one soul, came within sight of the warders of the Norman Castles. Their captains had boasted that they could defend themselves for a while year without help from William, but they found that such a boast was vain indeed. They looked for a siege, and their first thought was to hinder the besiegers from filling up the ditches of the castles, and so finding a more ready approach to the walls. Lest the houses near the castle should be used for this purpose, the Normans betook themselves to their favourite element. They set fire to the houses in their own immediate neighbourhood. The flames spread, the greater part of the city was destroyed; and the fire even seized upon the metropolitan church in the opposite quarter. Whether this sacrilege was designed or no, it was speedily avenged. Two days later, while it would seem that the flames were still blazing, but while the city was not yet wholly destroyed, the host drew nigh which was to save it from its foreign masters. The Earls Waltheof and Gospatric and the chief Thegns, who had joined the army led the way; the whole force of Denmark and Northumberland followed. The garrisons ventured on a sally, (17) and a fight followed within the walls of the burning city. And now it was that for one moment Waltheof, the son of Siward and Oethelfloed, stood forth as the hero of deeds which handed down his name in the warlike songs of the tongues of both his parents; we hear again the old ring of the lays of Brunanburh of Maldon and of Stamford bridge, as we listen to the tale which speaks of the giant form of the Northumbrian Earl, his mighty arms, his sinewy breast; how he stood by the gate as the enemy pressed forth, and how as each Norman drew nigh a head rolled on the earth beneath the unerring sweep of the Danish battle-axe. (18) Three thousand of the strangers died that day, a hundred of the chiefest in rank were said to have fallen among the flames by the hands of Waltheof himself; and the scalds of the north sang how the son of Siward gave the corpses of the Frenchmen as a choice banquet for the wolves of Northumberland. The tale stirs the blood like the tale of the last victory of Harold by the banks of Derwent. . . . For the moment all seemed triumphant; the Norman garrison of York was utterly cut off; of the men who had held city and shire in dread, a few only were saved alive as prisoners; among these were the two commanders, Gilbert of Ghent and William Malet, (19) together with William's wife and two children; the two castles were broken down. . . .Thus between friends and enemies, York had become a mass of ruins. Churches and houses had fallen before the flames kindled by the Normans; the Norman castles had fallen before the hammers and crowbars of liberated Englishmen. No attempt seems to have been made to occupy the city or to defend the Roman walls which had not utterly perished. The work of the moment had been done; the enemy had been swept from the earth; till another day of battle should come there seemed to be no work on hand, save to enjoy the plunder that had been won. The Danes went back to their ships with their booty: the men of Northumberland, following the common instinct of irregular troops after either victory or defeat, went away every man to his own home. (20) With the loss of the castle of York, and his captivity among the Danes, William Malet lost his Shrievalty, which was bestowed on Hugh the son of Baldric, who had large possessions in the shire. He seems also to have lost some of his lands: it may be that most of those he held in Yorkshire were attached to the office of Sheriff, but no doubt many were private property, as we find in Domesday Robert Malet claiming them as having belonged to his father. There is no account of William Malet's release from the Danes, but it is most probable that it was when Sweyn made his agreement with William to leave England, and return home to Denmark in the year 1069 or 1070. We have no other notice of William Malet until William's campaign in the Fenland against Hereward in 1071; but not withstanding his failure at York, we cannot suppose that a man of his reputation can, unless he was in captivity, have been left unemployed in times which called forth all the energies of the invaders. I have extracted in Appendix A 5 (11), a passage from the Norman Conquest from which we find that some of William Malet's lands had passed from him before his death, and showing conclusively that he died about 1071, during William the Conqueror's campaign against Hereward in the marshes in the east of England. Of the rank held by William Malet among the companions of the Conqueror, we find (21) in William's charter to St. Martin-le-Grand in London, next after the signatures of the Bishops, Abbots, and Earls, those of Richard the son of Gilbert and William Malet, and to each of their names and to no others the title of "Princeps" is attached. We also find (22) that William Malet, among the very few nobles privileged to build castles, had permission to construct one at Eye, where also he established a market. I cannot discover that he built any monastery or founded any abbey; the grant of Cunteville to the Abbey of Bec, often attributed to him, was the act of his grandson William, the son of Robert, and to him seems to be due the foundation of the Abbey of Graville. The stirring scenes in which William Malet was so prominent an actor may well be supposed to have left him little leisure for even such works as were in those days deemed almost necessary to salvation, and his death at the age of fifty-one may be called untimely, giving him no period of old age to be passed in the performance of religious duties. It is, however, to be observed that he does not seem to have scrupled to act in opposition to the ecclesiastics, when military exigencies as at York, or his own interests as in the market at the castle of Eye, were opposed to theirs. We have no account of his possessions in Normandy anterior to the invasion of England, but there is little doubt that he was the head of the family, and that his hereditary possession (23) was Graville, the Latinised form of which, Gerardivilla, distinguishes it from the very similar names of Grandville and Glanville which have at times been confounded with it. Neither is there any list of his possessions in England, which must have been very large, for we find in the Survey, which was not completed until about seven years after his death, many claims made by his son Robert on lands held by his father chiefly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, which had passed to other proprietors, besides the vast estate which apparently descended unquestioned to Robert as eldest son and heir. His widow Hesilia appears to have been amply dowered; she is recorded in Domesday many times as holding property under the invariable designation of "Mother of Robert Malet." We have no other historical notice of her subsequent to her husband's death. William Malet had issue by Hesilia two sons, Robert and Gilbert, and one daughter, Beatrice, married to William de Archis. I am quite unable to enter on the subject of the branches of this family by female descent, except to notice some of the names as they occur in the course of the narrative; but there is an entry in Dug. Bar. , vol i, under the head of Vere, which, from the singularity attending it, merits notice here; it is as follows: " Alberic the Third" [he was a successor of that Alberic de Vere who was made by Henry I Grand Chamberlain of England after the banishment of Robert Malet] "was made an Earl in King Stephen's time by Maud the Empress, as it seems, for by that name she granted him all the lands which his father, Alberic de Vere, held at the time of his death; and likewise the office of Great Chamberlain of England, to hold as fully as Alberic de Vere, or Robert Malet, or any of his ancestors, did, with all usages and liberties thereunto appertaining. Moreover, by the same charter she granted him all the land of William de Abrincis, with the whole inheritance which he claimed in right of his wife, as fully as William de Archis had held the same." From this it appears that the wife of Alberic de Vere III was descended from William Malet through his daughter Beatrice, who was the wife of William de Archis. (24) Their granddaughter Beatrice, Countess of Guines, married the third Alberic de Vere, and thus William Malet's descendant became the wife of the Great Chamberlain of England, the successor of her great-uncle, Robert Malet. It appears, however, that she was divorced without issue by Alberic, so that no portion of William Malet's blood flowed in the veins of subsequent De Veres. Appendices (1) Dug.Mon., vol iii, p 206. Thorold , Sheriff of Lincolnshire; called also Thorold of Buckenhale, the brother of the Countess Godiva.) (2) See Carmen de Hastingoe Proelio, in Michel's Chron. Anglo-Normandis, iii, p. 27, line 587 --""Quidam partim Normannus et Anglus." (3) Charter of Henry Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, dated at Devizes 1152 (A. R. Stephani, 17), granting to Ranulph Earl of Chester "totum honorem de Eia, sicut Robertus Malet avunculus matris suae melius et plenius unquam tenuit. . . . et feudam Alani de Lincolia ei dedi qui fuit avunculus matris suae." -- Orig. Chart in the Cottonian Collection. (4) I am chiefly indebted to Mr. Freeman's note PP, on p. 466, Norman Conquest, vol. iii, edition 1875, and to pp. 600-1, vol.ii, edition 1870, for the collected information which has enabled me to piece together the early notes of the family of Malet. William Malet, who fought at Hastings, and was by the Conqueror entrusted with the burial of Harold, who was also partim Normanus et Anglus, and Compater Heraldi, (a) has himself left nothing by which his lineage may be traced; but from historical sources we learn that his mother must have been an Englishwoman, that his wife's name was Hesilia, and that his children's names were Robert, Gilbert, and Beatrice (b). We also learn that his son, Robert Malet, was, in common with Alan of Lincoln, kinsman (the word is avunculus) to the mother of William Randolph Earl of Chester, the son of Randolph Earl of Chester, by his wife the Countess Lucy, (c) daughter of Ivo Taillebois, by his wife Lucy, who was the daughter of Alfgar Earl of Mercia (d). There is also recognised by Mr. Freeman "a notion of the pedigree-makers, whensoever it may have come, that Aelgifa, the wife of Alfgar, was a sister of William Malet" (e). It is also stated in the Crowland Chronicle already adverted to that the Sheriff Thorold was a brother of Godgifa, the wife of Leofric, and mother of Alfgar Earl of Mercia; and there are other evidences of connexion, (f) on which Mr. Freeman remarks, "None of these indications proves much by itself, still perhaps all of them put together may have some cumulative force. They all point to Thorold as a kind of centre. Let us suppose that he was the brother of Godgifa, that another sister, married, we must suppose, to a foreign husband, was the mother of William Malet, that Alfred of Lincoln was the son of another brother or sister. Let us suppose further that the nameless widow of William Malet [she is named Hesilia in Robert's charter, noted above], by the help of a dispensation if needed, married Alfred of Lincoln, and was the mother of Alan, and that the elder Lucy was her daughter by either of her husbands. There is no evidence for either of these suppositions, but there is nothing to contradict any of them, and they would explain all our facts. Alfred of Lincoln would be the nephew of Thorold, Alan and Robert would be, as they were, the uncles of the Countess Lucy, William Malet would be partim Normannus et Anglus, and we could see the origin of the statements, inaccurate as they are in the shape in which we have them, which connect both Lucy and William Malet with the house of Leofric." Following these remarks the pedigree would fall into the following shape:--(a chart) It will be seen that in this pedigree I have given the name Hesilia to the widow of William Malet, who by Mr. Freeman is assigned to Aluredus of Lincoln as his second wife. Robert Malet's charter to Eye (g) leaves no doubt as to his mother's name, and we know from her being entered in Domesday as Robert's mother that she survived her husband. I have also entered Lucy, the wife of Ivo Taillebois, as the daughter of "Aluredus nepos Turoldi" by a first wife, because as she was not William Malet's daughter and William Malet died in 1071, (h) and Ivo Taillebois was married to Lucy about 1073, (i) it was impossible that she could be a daughter of Hesilia by Aluredus. I have also, as suggested by Mr. Freeman in this note, entered Colswegen of Lincoln as a son of Aluredus by his first wife. I need hardly say that this pedigree is one to which Mr. Freeman is in no way committed. It is founded on what he has given merely as suppositions to account for certain acknowledged and supposed relationships, and as perhaps affording some casual hints (of which it will be seen I have made full use) to any one who might endeavour to trace out these genealogies. It seems to me that the cumulative evidence leaves no doubt as to the first line of the pedigree, and in adopting this we necessarily take Thorold's father as the source from which we derive in the generation after Thorold these three personages--Alfgar Earl of Mercia, Aluredus, or, to adopt the English name, Alfred of Lincoln, and William Malet, the three latter being all nephews of Thorold the Sheriff. Alfgar Earl of Mercia married Eadgifa.I presume she cannot be identified, for there is nothing extant to give even a colour of possibility to the notions of the pedigree-makers alluded to by Mr. Freeman that she was a sister of William Malet. Alfgar and Eadgifa had for children--Edwin, Morcar, and Ealdgyth, Harold's queen. Mr. Freeman (j) states, "Orderic Vital, 511 B, distinctly calls Ealdgyth the only daughter of Alfgar." Mr. Freeman, however, goes on to state: "His [Orderic's] account is very confused; he not only leaves out their son Burkhard, but he confounds Alfgar with his father Leofric, and makes Godgifa Alfgar's wife instead of his mother. His words are: 'Devoti Deo dignique religionis laude parentes elegantem et multa laude dignam ediderunt sobolem Edwinum Morcarem et unam filiam nomine Aldit qui primo nupsit Guitfrido regi Guallorum post cujus mortem sociata est Heraldo regi Anglorum.' But the genealogy of Leofric's family, which I have already spoken of , (k) gives Alfgar a daughter Lucy, who, though unknown to Domesday, inherited the lands of the family, (Obtinuit Lucia soror eorum terras paternas) and who was married first in the Conqueror's time to Ivo Taillebois." Mr. Freeman goes on to give her other attributed marriages, &c., which I do not quote as he rejects them as impossible, and the tradition of which is only to be accounted for by the mistake of mother for daughter, both bearing the same name Lucy. After reading Mr. Freeman's opinion of Orderic's account of the Earl of Mercia's family, I think I am justified in not attaching such importance to it as to reject other evidence, whereby we add another member to it in the person of Lucy, an additional daughter of Alfgar, and who married about 1071 or 1073 Ivo Taillebois, nephew of William the Conqueror and Count of Angers. I am not concerned to uphold the genuineness of the deeds, some said to have been forged in the name of Ingulfus, and other notices in the Peterborough Chronicles, from which I draw my conclusion that there was a Lucy, a daughter of Alfgar, who married Ivo Taillebois. All that I contend for is, that deeds, even though false as to the claim which they are forged for the purpose of establishing , may and probably do contain truth in the mention of incidental circumstances, especially when they affect personages of such exalted rank, that their history must be known at the time to all persons of intelligence more especially to those who would be judges of the claim, and any falsity concerning whom would at once discredit it. I may also state that there seems to be not only no record, but no tradition even, of any other parentage for Lucy, wife of Ivo Taillebois, wherefrom she might be supposed to have belonged to any other family than that of Alfgar; and in the absence of any other means for identification I necessarily claim to adopt those which come down from the most ancient period, even though denied to be contemporary. It is almost superfluous to observe that the wife of Ivo Taillebois must necessarily have been of noble birth and endowed with great possessions. As to any credibility to be attached to the facts mentioned by Ingulfus, the Quarterly reviewer (l) writes: "the pseudo-Ingulfus, if quoted, must be quoted only in those passages where relations not improbable in themselves are uncontradicted by surer authorities." This is precisely the course I wish to pursue. There appears to be no doubt that Lucy, who is styled the Countess, was the daughter of Ivo Taillebois and his wife Lucy. This seems to be admitted both by Mr. Freeman (m) and Mr. Nichols (n) as the only possible way of unravelling the enigma of "the long -lived and often-wedded Lucy of tradition." Mr. Freeman's supposition of the marriage of Alfred of Lincoln with the widow of William Malet is not based on any tradition, but on certain relationships which can be otherwise explained. We know from the charter of Beatrix, the daughter of William Malet, by which she granted the village of Radingfield to her brother's monastery at Eye, that she had but two brothers, Robert and Gilbert, and as she mentions only them and her parents it is evident that she had no sister. William Malet died in A.D. 1071 (o). Ivo Taillebois was married to Lucy about A.D. 1073, so that she could not have been the daughter of Alfred of Lincoln by William Malet's widow. She was not William Malet's daughter, and no legend or tradition hints at her being a daughter of Alfred of Lincoln by another wife. I see no reason to dissent from Mr. Freeman's supposition that Alan of Lincoln was a son of Alfred of Lincoln; but whether he was the son of Alfred, or of a brother or sister of his, he will hold the same relationship to the other personages with whom authentic documents show him to have been connected. In the charter to Randolph Earl of Chester, the son of the Countess Lucy, daughter of Ivo Taillebois, granted by Henry II before he was King, dated at Devizes in 1152, Robert Malet and Alan of Lincoln are each styled avunculus to Randolph's mother, Lucy the Countess (p). Now, whatever relationship avunculus may mean -- and it is probable that the term was used loosely -- it must be that each of these avunculi stood in equal relationship to the Countess Lucy; and had it been possible for the Countess's mother to have been the daughter of Alfred of Lincoln, they might possibly have been called her uncles if he had married Hesilia, whether Hesilia or a former wife had been the mother of Alfred's son Alan; but it has been shown he did not marry Hesilia, so that the connection through her did not exist. The little weight that can be attached to the assertion of Orderic Vital that Ealdgyth, Harold's queen, was the only daughter of Earl Alfgar and his wife Eadgifa, has been noticed above. And I think that the statements that Lucy was their daughter, (q) made in the Crowland Chronicle of Ingulfus and in the Peterborough Chronicle, must be considered to outweigh Orderic Vital's assertion. I do not maintain that the documents quoted are genuine, but I take the assertions therein made as the nearest that we have to the time when these personages were living. They affected great families whose history must have been known, if not to the public yet to the tribunals before which the documents containing them were to be produced; and it seems to me that we cannot escape the conclusion that Thorold the Sheriff was the brother of Godiva, the brother or brother-in-law of the father of Alfred of Lincoln and the brother-in -law of the father of William Malet, and that Lucy, the wife of Ivo Taillebois, was the daughter of Earl Alfgar, the son of Godiva. We come now to the relationship between the Countess Lucy and Robert Malet and Alan of Lincoln. Alfred of Lincoln was the nephew of Thorold, and therefore first cousin of Earl Alfgar and of William Malet. Alan of Lincoln was, it is assumed, either a son or nephew of Alfred of Lincoln. I take the nearer relationship as involving less confusion with equal relationship to the other designated parties. Lucy, wife of Ivo Taillebois, was daughter of Alfgar. Robert Malet was the son of William Malet. The Countess Lucy, daughter of Lucy, Ivo's wife, therefore stood in precisely the same relationship to Alan of Lincoln as to Robert Malet, each of whom is stated in the Devizes charter mentioned above to be avunculus to her. Now these two could not have been actually uncles by the mother's side, which is the first meaning we attach to avunculus, unless Lucy, Ivo Taillebois' wife, Alan of Lincoln, and Robert Malet had been all children of Hesilia; this, as shown by the dates of Ivo's marriage and Hesilia's widowhood, was impossible. But it is also shown that Lucy, Ivo's wife, Alan of Lincoln, and Robert Malet were all children of persons who were first cousins to each other. Whether under these circumstances either Alan or Robert could in strict right have been called avunculus to Lucy's daughter, the Countess, is, I must confess, problematical; but there seems no possibility of a nearer relationship, and I therefore must conclude that the term was laxly used. It may also be that, as Ivo Taillebois, Robert Malet, and Alan of Lincoln were near neighbours, and all personages of great consequence, their social relations might have been of that intimacy which would permit the use of terms of nearer connexion than the real degree of relationship would justify. It does, however, appear that the term avunculus was very laxly used, for Mr. Freeman (r) cites a summary of a document in the thirty-fifth report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records, "showing that William de Roumare, the son of the Countess Lucy by her first husband, granted to Robert, grandson (nepos) of the Countess, land of Ivo and Colsuenus, uncles of the said Robert, held of the said William's mother (Countess Lucy), but Colswegen, being a son of Alfred, was a brother of Alan, and Alan was called Countess Lucy's uncle; so that if her grandson (we have never heard of her having a brother or sister, and if he was her grandson he must have been William de Roumare's own son) can call his grandmother's uncle his uncle we have a use of the word which shows considerable laxity in its application. The Ivo coupled with Colswegen must have been the son of Durand Malet brother of William Malet, thus being of the same kin and generation as Robert Malet, Colswegen, Alan, and Ivo Taillebois' wife Lucy; for I find (s) that Durand Malet was tenant in capite in Lincolnshire, holding several manors, among them Irby on Humber and Rothewelle, and that in 1156 Hugh, son of Ivo Malet, with the consent of his mother Margaret, and of Ralph, his son and heir, gave two oxgangs in Rothewelle to Whitby Abbey, so that there is no doubt that Ivo was the son of Durand Malet. Under these circumstances I think we are justified in constructing the pedigree which is annexed. (Chart) Although the evidence for these relationships is partly drawn from controverted sources, those sources are the only ones that exist. They existed in times not far removed from the lifetime of the personages concerned, and if not from more exact knowledge were probably supplied by the traditions then current. May I, without infringing the respect due to a great name, adapt to my own conclusions the words I quoted from Mr. Freeman's Norman Conquest at the commencement? There seem to me "nothing to contradict any of them, and they would explain all our facts. Alfred of Lincoln would be the nephew of Thorold; Alan and Robert would be, as they were, uncles" [I would rather translate avunculi kinsmen] "of Lucy; William Malet would be partim Normannus et Anglus; and we could see the origin of the statements, inaccurate as they are in the shape in which we have them, which connect both Lucy and William Malet with the house of Leofric." (a) Freeman's Norman Conquest, vol.ii, 2nd edition, p. 512, et seq.; Will. Poict., 138; Wid. Amb., 582; Wid. Amb., 573 and 587; Guy of Amiens, 588; Benoit, 37627 (b) Dug. Mon., vol.iii, p. 401, et seq. Carta Roberti Malet, Fundatoris Ecclesiae conventualis de Eya, and Carta Beatricis sororsis Roberti Malet being a grant of the village of Radingfield to the same convent (c) Grant of Henry II, Devizes 1152 (d) Dug. Mon, vol.iii, p.215, No. I. Annales de Peterborough in Bib. Cott., and a Crowland Chronicle (e) Norman Conquest, vol.iii, 2nd edition, p. 778 (f) Dug Mon. vol. iii, p. 216. Charter of Ivo Taillebois "pro animabus sui ipsius et conjugis suae Luciae et antecessorum Toraldi scilicet uxoris ejus." In Domesday, 351, Turoldus appears as antecessor of Ivo Taillebois, and in 346b we have Turoldus vicecomes as a benefactor of Spalding Priory (g) Dug. Mon., vol.iii, p 401 (h) Norman Conquest, vol. iv, p.471, 2nd edition (i) According to a Crowland Chronicle before 1071; Arch. Inst. Proceedings, 1848, Lincoln, vol. - p. 254 (j) Norman Conquest, vol. ii, p. 660, 2nd edition (k) Norman Conquest, vol. i, p. 717. See also Ellis, vol. i, p. 490 (l) Vol. xxxiv, p. 296. I believe the paper is by Sir F. Palgrave (m) Norman Conquest, vol. iii, p. 778, appendix PP, 2nd edition (n) Topographer and Genealogist for 1843, vol. i, pp. 10, 11 (o) Norman Conquest, vol. iv, p. 204; Appendix W. p .787, 2nd edition (p) Totum honorem de Eia, sicut Robertus Malet avunculus matris suae melius et plenius unquam tenuit, et feudam Alani de Lincolia ei dedi qui fuit avunculus matris suae. (Orig. Chart. in Cottonian Collections) (q) Dug. Mon., vol. iii, p. 215, No. 1, Annales de Peterboroguh in Bib. Cott., anno MLII. Hoc tempore Thoroldus Vicecomes et frater germanius Godivae Comitessae Leycestriae. . . prioratum de Spalding inchoavit. . . . Anno MLXXIII Edwinus et Morcarus filii Algari filii Leofrici comitis Leicestriae saepius capti, sed semper miseratione regis et gratia suae nobilitatis impune demisi, postremo non vi nec dolo hostium sed suorum perfidia trucidati regem etiam ad lachrymas coegere, quorum sororem nomine Luciam cum onmibus terris eorum Yvoni Taylboys tunc Andegevensi comiti maritavit. . . Iste Yvo maritus Lucias filiae Algari comitis Leicestriae monachis Spaldingae dederet evidenter fecit confirmari. Ibid., No. 2. Thoroldus Luciae comitessae antecessor. . . .Cumque post modum Rex Willielmus adquisivisset regnum Angliae per conquestum mortuoque dicto Thoroldo relicta sibi haerede Lucia predicta, et Yvo Taylboys eandem Luciam duxerat in uxorem. Ibid., No. 5. Donum Yvonis Taleboys de Spalding cum una carucata terrae Ecclesiae S. Nicolai Andegaviae collatis. . . necnon pro sui ipsius et conjugis suae Luciae et antecessorum Toraldi scilicet uxoris ejus requie. Topographer and Genealogist, 1843, vol. i, pp. 10,11; Nichols. "That Turold was sheriff, that he gave the manor of Bukenhale to Crowland Abbey rests on the authority of Domesday Book, and it is all we know with certainty of him. But the frequent repetition of his name in the charters of the priory of Spalding in enumeration of former lords of that place, shows that he was regarded as its Saxon lord, and the fact that Earl Algar occurs in Domesday Book in the same position may be thought some corroboration of the assertion that the Countess Godiva, Earl Algar's mother, was the sister of Turold. (Note) Hist. Ingulfi, anno 1051; also pretended charter in History of Croyland commencing 'Ego Turoldus de Bukenhale coram nobilissimo domino meo Leofrico comite Leycestriae et nobilissima comitessa sua Godiva sorore mea.' In another charter of Spalding, Hugh Earl of Chester enumerates 'antecessores mei scilt. Torald vicecomes et Lucia comitessa,'" &c. Cole's Collections, MS. additions, 5844, p. 432, X : "In Spalding habebat comes Algar ix car., p. 12." Lucy, the daughter of Earl Algar, was married to Ivo Taillebois, according to the Crowland Chronicles, before the year 1071, the only issue being a daughter nobly espoused. Hist. Ingulfi: "Huic autem Yvoni Tailbois post necem duorum fratrum et comitum Edwini et Morcarii Luciam sororem eorum cum omnibus terris ad eosdem pertinentibus inclytus Rex Willielmus dederat in uxorem." In a subsequent passage the marriage is fixed in 1072. (r) Norman Conquest, vol. iii, Appendix PP (s) Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, 1875-6, vol. iv, p. 144; A.S. Ellis (5) Archaeological Institute Proceedings, 1848, Mr. Nichols, Lincoln, p. 255. "Alan of Lincoln, the other uncle, was doubtless a kinsman of Alured of Lincoln, who held an extensive fief in Lincolnshire at the Domesday Survey, and who probably was the same person who is designated, under the 'City of Lincoln,' in that record as Aluredus nepos Turoldi." (6) E.A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, Vol. III, note PP, p. 776, et seq. "In the thirty-fifth report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records there is a summary of another document which throws yet further light on the English kindred of the Countess Lucy, and as I think on that of William Malet; . . . this is a grant by William of Roumare, the son of the Countess by her first husband, to Robert, nephew or grandson (nepoti) of the Countess, of the land of Ivo and Colsuenus, uncles of the said Robert, held of the said William's mother. There is a certain risk in making inferences from a description of this kind without seeing the document itself, but we seem to have here a most important piece of evidence, which may connect all the person of whom we have just been speaking [the houses of Leofric Earl of Mercia, and William Malet] with another famous Englishman of Lincolnshire, of whom I have something to say in my fourth volume, Colswegen and Ivo, that is doubtless Ivo Taillebois, are spoken of as uncles of a nephew [nepos may be grandson] of the Countess Lucy. If we take uncle to mean great-uncle we might suppose Colswegen to have been a son of Alfred of Lincoln. He would thus be an uncle of Lucy and great-uncle of her nephew; but if by Ivo is meant Ivo Taillebois it is not easy to see how he could be the uncle or great-uncle of his daughter's nephew." Yorkshire Archaeological And Topographical Journal, 1875-6, Vol. IV, p. 144. "Biogrpahoical Notes by Alfred E. Ellis." "Durand Malet was tenant in capite in Lincolnshire, holding several manors, among them Irby (on Humber), Rothewelle, and Willingore. His descendants continued at Irby for many generations. In 1156 Hugh, son of Ivo Malet, with the consent of his mother Margaret , and Ralph, his son and heir, gave two oxgangs in Rothewelle to Whitby Abbey ." We have here another Ivo than Ivo Taillebois, and it seems that this Ivo, the son of Durand Malet, must be the one meant in the document alluded to. This obviates the difficulty about the relationship to the Countess Lucy alluded to by Mr. Freeman, whose whole paper PP, on the English connexions of William Malet, should be read. It is too long for me to insert here. This also determines the fact of Durand being the brother of William Malet. (7) Grithfridi quoque Regis Wallorum, postquam hostilis eum gladius peremit, pulchram conjugem Aldith praeclari Comitis Algard filiam sibi [Heraldus] junxit. --Willelmi Caluculi Gemmet. Mom. Hist. Mormannorum, lib. vii. (8) See his work, The Conqueror and his Companions, vol. ii, p .95. (9) A chart. (10) Lanfranci, Opera omnia Migue Patrologie, vol. 150, p. 737. "Iste Gislebertus, qui ut diximus Crispini cognomen primus est adeptus, accepit uxorem Senioris Fulconis de Alnov germanam nomine Gonnorem, de qua tres filios genuit, Gislebertum Crispinum pro quo scribere ita suscepimus, et Robertum, duasque filias, Emmam Petri de Cundeto genetricem, atque Esiliam matrem Willielmi Malet, qui miles strenuus in senectute factus est monachus Becci, et transactis aliquot annis honorifice in caenobiali observatione bono fine quievit... Willielmus Cripinus medius frater" (t). M. Gilles Andre' de la Roque, Histoire Genealogique de la Maison de Harcourt, Tom, 1er; a Paris, 1662, p. 826. "La Chronique du Bec nous apprend que Guillaume Mallet chevalier genereux estant parvenu a une belle vieillese ce fit moine en cette Abbaye; et qu'il estoit fils de Robert Mallet premier du nom Sire de Graville et Esile de Brionne, soeur de Richard sire de Bienfaite et de Claire, enfans de Gilbert Crespin, (u) Comte de Brionne (Tuteur de Guillaume, second Duc de Normandie), et de Gonnor, soeur Germaine de Fouques d'Annou, le dit Gilbert fils de Godefroy Comte d'Eu et de Brionne fils de Richard premier duc de Normandie." The first extract is from Lanfranc's account of the family of Crispin. The second from La Roque, who states that he gathers it from the chronicles of Bec. Both state that Esilia, the daughter of Gilbert Crispin, was the mother of a William Malet, the latter stating also that she was the wife of Robert Malet, who was banished by King Henry I in 1101, her son by him being the William Malet who was banished by King Henry I in 1109. Both these statements are supposed to be in accord with one another, but they are not reliable as confirmatory because they arise from the same source, Lanfranc having been of the Abbey; but they are mutually explanatory, showing that the William Malet who died at Bec was not the William Malet who fought at Hastings, and who died in England 1071. For as Lanfranc died in 1089, the William Malet who he states died an old man at Bec could not be the William Malet who was banished by Henry I in 1109. A similar objection shows that Lanfranc could not have mistaken the name of William for that of Robert, the son of Hesilia and William Malet, and who was banished by Henry I in 1101. We are, therefore reduced to the belief that the story is apocryphal, as it cannot be true of the William Malet the companion of the Conqueror, and no other William Malet historically existed of whom it could be said that he was the son of Hesilia Crispin and died a monk in Bec before the death of Lanfranc in 1089. All accounts agree that there existed an Hesilia Crispin, sister of the Crispins who fought at Hastings; all connect her with the Malet family, and no doubt has ever been thrown on the authenticity of Robert Malet's charter to the Monastery of Eye in which he expressly states that William Malet was his father and Hesilia was his mother. It seems to me that there is no alternative but to decide that she was the Crispin alluded to by Lanfranc, who by some error, either of Lanfranc or his amanuensis, was designated the mother of William Malet. It seems to me certain that Lanfranc's paper on the Crispin family was the early document, and that the circumstances were adapted by the chronicler to persons of a time subsequent to the death of Lanfranc. In impugning the value of such authorities we must not omit to note that the sister of the Crispins who fought at Hastings would be the contemporary of their comrade, William Malet, and as such might well be his wife, but by no possibility his mother. (t) The third brother. (u) Gilbert Crespin of Bec, and Gilbert Count of Brionne were of different families, as shown in the foregoing pedigree kindly furnished to me by Mr. Buckler, Deputy Somerset Herald (11) E.A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, Vol. IV, 2nd edition, p. 204, et seq., Notices of William Malet in Domesday. "It is from the second volume of Domesday that I am able to put together the evidence which leads me to believe (see vol. iv, p. 471) that William Malet was killed in the war with Hereward. That volume contains a crowd of references to the death of William Malet; at some time before the date of the Survey (see pp. 294, 273b, 334b, 380b, 407, 440b, 441, 442b. and 444. Most of these are cases in which the land had passed away from his son Robert to various owners, among them the East Anglian Bishopric; but these passages give us no hint as to the manner of his death. In three other entries things get more distinct. In 247 we read of land being held 'die quo pater R. Malet ivit in servitium Regis.' In 322b we read of land in Suffolk 'ex hoc erat seisitus Willielmus Malet quando ivit in servitium Regis ubi mortuus est.' Lastly, in 133b we find land in Norfolk claimed by Robert Malet, who 'dicit quod pater suus eam tenuit quando ivit in maresc, et hoc testatur hundret et tamen non tenebat ea die qua mortuus fuit.' This certainly looks to me as if William Malet had been killed in the campaign in the fenland." (12) Pro animabus patris mei Willielmi Malet et matris Meas Hesilias. (13) Carmen de Hastingae proeliio in Michel's Chron. Anglo-Normandis, Vol. III, p. 27, l. 587, Guy of Amiens:-- "Ex templo quidam partim Normannus et Anglus Compater Heroldi jussu libenter agit Corpus enim Regis cito sustulit etsepelivit, Imponons lapidem scripsit et in titulo Per mandata Ducis Rex hic Heralde quiescis It custos maneas littoris et pelagi." William of Poitiers, 128:-- "Enim non decere tali commercio aurum accipi, dictum est illudendo opportere situm esse coustodem litoris et pelagi, quae cum armis ante vesanus insedit, Gulielmo agnomine Maletto concessit." Benoit de St. More writes:-- "Le Reis Heralut fut sevelizMais a` un Guillaume Malet, Et si me retrait li escriz,Qui n'est losel pas ne valet, Que sa me`re pour lui aveir, Maiz chevaliers durs et vaillanz. Vout au Duc doner grant aveir;Icist l'en fut depreianz, Mais n'en vout unques doner prendre,Qu'il le dona a enfoir, Ne pour rien nule le cors rendre;La ou li veudreit a plaisir." Orderic Vital writes, "ad tumulandum prope litus maris, quod diu cum armis servaverat Gulielmo agnomine Malleto victoris jussu traditus est." (14) E.A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, Vol. IV, p. 202. "The submission of York was accepted, but William put little trust in the promises which were made to him, and he determined to take every means to secure the city, which was his greatest conquest since the submission of London," . . . . . "After the erection of the castle five hundred picked knights were set to guard the fortress, under the command of at least three trusty captains. One of them, Robert Fitz Richard, we know only from his fate next year; of the others one was the Flemish adventurer Gilbert of Ghent: the other man was a man whose name must always awaken a certain sympathy in English hearts, William Malet, who had borne the body of Harold to its first hasty burial on the rocks at Hastings. He received the office of Sheriff, and was at once rewarded with large gifts of land in the shire." (15) Vol. iv,p 257; 2nd Edition. (16) Norman Conquest , vol iv, p. 264. (17) Ord. Vit, 513 D. "Castellani obviam eis inconsultius exeunt, et intra urbis maenia infeliciter confligunt. Non valentes resistere multitudini omnesinterimuntur aut capiuntur. (18) Will. Malms., u. 8 Flor. Wig., 1069 (19) "In Florence and Simeon we get the names; Willelmo Malet (qui tunc vice-comitatem gerebat. Sim.) cum sua conjuge et duobus liberis et Gileberto de Gant (Sim.), aliisque perpaucis viatae reservatis." (20) Simeon's Expansion of Florence, 85. (21) Dug. Mon., Vol. VI, Part 2, 1324, Ecclesia Collegi Sti. Martini le Grand infra civitatem London, carta Regis Willelmi Conquestoris de prima fundatione ejusdem. After the signatures of the ecclesiastics and earls there follow: "Ego Ricardus, filius Gilberti Princeps; Ego Willielmus Malet, Princeps."No other names have this title attached to them. Sir H. Ellis' Introduction to Domesday Book, Vol. I. p. 252:-- "Under Hoxana" [the Hundred of Hoxana, in which Eye and Dunwich are situate] "we have a curious entry, which seems to show that the Norman tenants in capite had sometimes the power to establish a market to their own advantage: "In hoc manerio erat unum mercatum T.R.E. paulo post Willelmus Rex advenit. Sedebat in Sabbato et W'us. Malet fecit suum castellum ad Eiam. Eadem die qua erat mercatum in manerio Episcopi Willus Malet fecit alium mercatum in suo castello, et ex hoc ita pejoratum est mercatum Episcopi ut parum valeat et modo sedet die Veneris Mercatum aut de Heia sedet die Sabbati modo tenet Robertus de dono Regis.'" (22) Dug. Mon., Vol.III, p. 401, note. "Eya olim nobile castellum habebat paludibus adjacens cujus nunc tantum specula et murorum in aliquot locis runae extant hoc castellum vi Gulielmi Normanni (ut oppidani praedicunt) dirutum fuit quod ejus violentum imperium non admisivit." (23) Neustria pia, p. 864,"Abbatia de Graville fundatur ab illustri heroe Gulielmo Malet, cujus charta ibi recitatur, vocatur Dominus Gerardi Villae (i.e., Graville) in Normanina, et donat omnes suas ecclesias in Normannia et Anglia." I can find no absolute proof that Graville was the property of the family of Malet previous to the invasion of England. That there were members of a family of that name before that time seems certain, as, if there were any foundation for Lanfranc's assertion that a valiant soldier of that name became a monk and died in a good old age at Bec, it was most probably before that time, and that they possessed Graville is also probable from the saying attributed to them by Wulson de la Colombiare: "Ceux de cette maison, dit il, pretendent que Jules Cesar leur donna la qualite de Sires; d'out est venu le vaudeville conserva dans la famille: 'Il ya plutot un Sire de Gravile qu'un Roi en France.'" Now, although there may have been Sires de Graville long before the time of the Normans, for a town on a river near its mouth was important in ancient days, and its name Gerardivilla may be of great antiquity, and although there may have been Sires de Graville of other names than Malet before the times of the Normans, the family of Malet would hardly have adopted the saying if they had not believed their name to have existed in a period anterior to so comparatively modern a period as that of William, the seventh Duke of Normandy. (24) Diary of Sir Symonds d'Ewes, Harl. MSS. 646, p. 102.	Family: F68
59	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 18-22, appendix B1-B4: ROBERT MALET. Robert Malet was the son of William Malet, by his wife Hesilia Crispin. We hear but little of him during the life of his father, but his names appears as a witness in a charter of William, Count of the Normans, to the Abbey of Jumieges, between September, 1060, and February, 1066,* so that, if he were twenty-one years of age at the latter date (for the Duke would hardly have admitted a child as a witness), he would have been twenty-six years old at the time of his father's death in 1071. When William Malet was sent into Yorkshire as Sheriff, Robert was probably left in charge of the Suffolk possessions; for we know that only two of William's children, presumably Gilbert and Beatrice, were with their father and mother when the castle of York was captured by the united forces of the English and Danes in 1069. Be this as it may, he on the death of William Malet succeeded him in his honours and possessions. William the Conqueror confirmed to him the honour of Eye, with its castle and market, built and established by his father, and he appears in Domesday (I follow Sir Wm. Dugdale) as the owner of the following Lordships: in Yorkshire thirty-two, in Essex three, in Hampshire one, in Nottinghamshire two, in Lincolnshire eight, and in Suffolk two hundred and twenty one , or the greatest part of so many , whereof Eye was chief. Here Robert made a park, and built and amply endowed a monastery of Benedictine Monks; and it is from his charter of endowment, and from his sister Beatrice's grant in aid of the little village of Radingfield, that we learn so much of the family as to invest the names of its members at its commencement in England with a degree of certainty not very common in matters relating to such a distant period. It is this value, besides the picture that they afford us of the manners of the time, which has induced me to transcribe these charters in the Appendix. There is no doubt that Robert Malet, in common with all the tenants in chief in King William's time , had full occupation in keeping the peace of the country; though I only know of one special notice of his employment, which is contained in Lanfranc's report to the King, then in Normandy, of the capture of Norwich Castle from the rebels and its re-occupation by Bishop Godfrey, William de Warenne, Robert Malet, and a sufficient garrison. The report* is a pattern for brevity. In the King's grant of the manor of Fracenham to Archbishop Lanfranc,+ Robert Malet is styled Vicecomes, or Sheriff, presumably of Suffolk; in the same deed, Picot, who it is supposed must be Robert's cousin, a son of Alfred of Lincoln, bears a similar title. I find no other mention of him during the Conqueror's reign, nor in that of William Rufus, but he appears at the commencement of the reign of Henry I as Grand Chamberlain of England, and one of the great nobles of the realm.++ For his fall Hume's account will suffice: "The great fame which he [Duke Robert of Normandy, who as elder brother laid claim to the Crown of England] had acquired in the East forwarded his pretensions, and the Norman Barons, sensible of the consequences, expressed the same discontent at the separation of the Duchy and Kingdom which had appeared at the accession of William. Robert de Belesme Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel, William de Warenne Earl of Surrey, Arnulf de Montgomery, Walter Giffard, Robert de Pontefract, Robert de Malet, Yvo de Grantmesnil, and many others of the principal nobility, invited Robert to make an attempt on England, and promised on his landing to join him with all their forces." The failure of Duke Robert's enterprise, and its bloodless close in the agreement between the brothers at Alresford, was disastrous to his English adherents; for, notwithstanding the stipulation in the treaty that they should not suffer for joining Robert, we find (I again follow Hume) that "Robert de Belesme Earl of Shrewsbury , and his two brothers, Arnulf de Montgomery and Roger Earl of Lancaster, had their estates confiscated and were themselves banished. Soon after followed the prosecution and condemnation of Robert de Pontefract and Robert de Malet, who had distinguished themselves among Robert's adherents. William de Warenne was the next victim; even William Earl of Cornwall, son of the Earl of Mortaigne, the King's uncle, lost all the vast acquisitions of his family in England. . . . Men easily saw that the chief part of their guilt was not the injustice or illegality of their conduct." Some of these banished men made their peace and returned. Not so Robert; we find no hint of his ever again being in England his estates were confiscated to the Crown, and afterwards, "the King, still imagining that he strengthened the interests of his family by the aggrandisement of Stephen, son of the Count de Blois, took pleasure in enriching him by the grant of new possessions, and conferred on him the great estate forfeited by Robert Malet in England." Some writers have supposed that this Robert, the son of William, was the first possessor of the Somerset estates, and that they escaped confiscation, but there was no foundation for this but the similarity of the names of the possessors; there is the certainty+++ that while the King's policy was to treat his Norman Barons mildly, he enforced entire confiscation in England for rebellion, whether on Norman or English soil. All Robert's possessions were confiscated: the Somerset property, which we find afterwards in the possession of his brother Gilbert's sons was never attached. It is probable that Robert Malet was the first Great Chamberlain of England after the Conquest, for on his banishment it was bestowed on Alberic de Vere,# "who, being in high esteem with King Henry I, was by him made Great Chamberlain of all England, to hold the same office in fee to himself and his heirs, with all dignities and liberties thereto belonging , as honourably as Robert Malet, Lord of the honour of Eye in Suffolk, or any other before or after him, held the same, and with such liveries and lodgings of his Court as belonged to that officer." Here no other name is mentioned, and there is no reason to believe that under the Norman dynasty Robert had ever a predecessor. Robert Malet thus vanishes from the English scene, an exile of about sixty years of age, banished by Henry I for his adherence to Robert Curthose, who, whatever his demerits as a ruler when compared with his youngest brother, must, apart from political expediency, have been deemed the more rightful claimant to the Crown of England. It is stated in the Revue Historique de la Noblesse, that "he took refuge on the continent, where he espoused, following the chronicle of Bec, Elisee de Brionne, daughter of the Count de Brionne, and great granddaughter of Richard, first Duke of Normandy, and had a son William." There remains in this record, however, the difficulty that Robert's son , William had, before his father's banishment from England and refuge on the continent, accompanied Robert Curthose in the crusade; so that if this Elisee de Brionne was his mother, she must have been the wife of Robert long antecedent to his banishment. Be this as it may there can be no doubt that the William banished in 1109 was his son, and the French authorities acknowledge him as such. Robert is supposed to have been slain the battle of Tinche braie, on the 23rd September, 1106, after which he is no more heard of. Appendices * D. Gurney, History of the House of Gournay, Vol. I, p. 203, a note concerning Gerard Fleitel; a charter of William Duke of Normandy, containing a grant of certain tithe to the Abbey, under the invocation of St. Peter at Jumieges. The charter has the following signatures attached, with a cross to each:-- +Signum Willelmi Comitis Normannorum + Anschetel + Rodberti Mauretonii +Willelmi filii Osberni + Godchildis + Ricardi Comitis + Balruivii + Walteri Giffard pater + Walteri filius ejus + Johannis Episcopi Abrincatensis + Hugonis Munfort +Mathildis uxoris ejus + Hugonis de Grentevilla + Rogerii de Monte Gomerico + Rodulfi Camararii + Espicopi Willelmi Ebroicensis + Gerardi Pincerne + Rayenulfi Camerarii + Willelmi Mallet + Rodberti filii ejus. CHARTER OF THE MONASTERY OF EYE. Carta Roberti Malet, fundatoris Ecclesiae Conventualis de Eya. [Ex registro de Eya penes Thomam Deye generosum. An. 1630. Fol. 58.] Cum pro animarum suarum salute multa bona opera fideles vivi ac Deo devoti operentur; hoc praecipium estimatur quod in constructione et edificatione sanctae matris ecclesiae impenditur. Nam in sancta ecclesia virorum religiosorum precibus illorum peccata qui eam edificant, Dei misericordia dilicuntur, pauperes elemosinis sive aliis beneficiis sustentantur, ceteraque caritatis officia cum tempus exigit humilitate ministrantur: et quia Dei misericordiam per opus simile spero ego Robertus Malet assensu domini mei Willelmi regis Angliae pro anima ipsius et uxoris ejus Matildi reginae pro memet ipso et pro animabus patris mei Willelmi Malet et matris meae Hesiliae, et pro animabus omnium antecessorum et parentum meorum ad usus Monachorum apud Eyam, monasterium construo et monachorumm conventum in eo pono. Et ut ipsi Deo libere et quiete servire possint, eidem monasterio de meis propriis ecclesiis et decimis ad eorum sustentamentum confero, praesentis scripti attestione confirmo. Imprimis ecclesiam Eye quae in honore sancti Petri fundata est concedo cum omnibus terris et decimis eidem pertinentibus. Do eis etiam partem de burgagio meo in Eya cum vivario uno. Do etiam eis decimam fori Eye, et omnes ecclesias de Dunwico quae factae sunt aut faciendae; necnon et decimam totius villae, tam in denariis quam in allecibus, et unam feriam ad festum sancti Leonardi per tres dies, scolas etiam ejusdem villae. Do eis insuper ecclesiam de Laxfeud cum omnibus terris et decimis eidem ecclesiae pertinentibus; et ecclesiasm de Badinham cum terris et decimis et pertinentiis, et in eadem villa do eis unam carucatam terrae; preterea ecclesiam de Benseya do eis eum omnibus terris et decimis sive aliis possessionibus eidem pertinentibus; ecclesiam de Benehale cum terris et decimis et pertinentiis; ecclesiam de Bergebi cum capellis et terris et decimis ad eam pertinentibus sive aliis possessionibus; ecclesiam de Sekebroc cum capellis et decimis et pertinentiis; ecclesiam de Welleburne cum capellis et decimis et pertinentiis; et de terris meis do eis villam, quae dicitur Stoke, cum omni integritate sua, scilicet ecclesiam cum terris et decimis sive aliis possessionibus cum omni tenemento quod Benedictus capellanus meus de meo tenuit. Et petitione Osberti de Cuncteville do eis totam terram quam habebat in Accolte. Do eis etiam ecclesiam de Thorendona cum omnibus terris decimis et pertinentiis. Et assenu Walteri filii Grip do eis totam terram quam habuit in Frasingefeld cum molendino; et decimam de Playforde, et ecclesiam ejusdem villae cum terris decimis et pertinentiis; et Alfricum de Fen cum tota terra sua; et decimam Oyn Campayn de Ilstede. Confirmo eis donum Walteri Arbalesterii qui dedit eis duas partes decimae suae de Halegestowe et de Gosewelde et ecclesiam Sanctae Margaretae cum terra quae ei pertinet. Do eis ecclesiam de Helegleya cum terris et decimis sive aliis possessionibus eis pertinentibus; et ecclesiam de Denetune cum terris et decimis et omnibus pertinentiis Ecclesiam de Burendyo; et ecclesiam de Thatingetune cum terris et decimis et possessionibus, ecclesiam de Suttune cum pertinentiis; ecclesiam de Stradbroc, et ecclesiam de Wyngefeild cum terris et decimis et pertinentiis. Do etiam eis piscarias omnes de Welles et in Elyn; et totam decimam de omnibus silvis meis, de pasnagio tam in denariis quam in porcis, tam in garbis, quam in agris vel vitulis, sive in omnium forestarum decimis et de omnibus essartis in caseis, in velleribus, et in omnibus aliis decimis, et de dominio meo horum maneriorum meorum do eis decimis; totam decimam de dominio Eye et de Stradebur, et de Redelingfeud, et de Dinnenetune, et de Thahtingetune, de Badingham, de Keletune, de Helesteya, de Leestune, de Laxfeud, de Bergebi, de Seckebroc, de Weleburne, de Orburne, de Cava. Quare volo concedo et firmiter praecipio ut teneant libere et quiete omnia sua ab omni exactione; habeantque socam et sacham, et toll et theam, et infangenetheof in Eya, in Donewyco, sive in aliis locis ubicunque terras habuerunt. Habeant que omnes alias libertates quas Dominus meus Willielmus rex Angliae mihi concessit quando Honorem mihi dedit. Do eis etiam ecclesiam de Pelecoth cum terris et pertinentiis suis, Ecclesiam de Thornham et ecclesiam de Melles cum terris et decimis et omnibus pertinentiis suis. Praeteria donationes quas Barones et milites mei, me annuente, eis fecerunt praefato Monasterio concedo et confimo. Quorum nomina haec sunt. Rog. de Huntingfeud dedit eis ij partes decimae suae de dominio de Huntingfeud et de Linestede et de Benges. Ric. Honel dedit eis duas partes decimae suae in Winerdestune. Willielmus Gulafre dedit duas partes decimae suae in Hukenholle. Ogerus dedit duas partes decimae suae de Bedingfeud et de terra sua quae habuit in Framlingham. Ernaldus filius Rogeri dedit duas partes decimae suae de Wytingeham et de Wasketona. Radulphus Grossus dedit eis duas partes decimae suae de Cratinges et ecclesiam sancti Botulphi de Yea cum appendiciis, quam Willielmus de Roville dedit, et duas partes decimae suae de Clakestorpe et de Glemham, et sokemannum quendam in Petlegh. Hugo de Avilers dedit duas partes decimae suae de Brom, et Selfhangre, et hoc quod Alwinus presbyter tenuit de eodem Hugone in Beria et ecclesiam ejusdem villae cum terris et decimis sive allis possessionibus et decimam de triginta acris terrae de feodo Comitis Britaniae. Odo de Charune dedit eis duas partes decimae suae de Giselingham et Reydona. Godardus de Giselingham et uxor ejus dederunt Deo et sancto Petro dimidiam ecclesiam de Giselingham et terram et omnia quae 108. ad eandem pertinent mediatatem. Hubertus de Rikinghale dedit duas partes deimae suae de Rikinghale. Hubertus de Montecaniso dedit Deo et sancto Petro suam terram apud Jakesleiam scilicet hospitium suum cum tenura ejus. Ranulphus de Glanvillis optulit super altare Sancti Petri hospitium quod habuit in Jakesleia. Robertus Malus nepos dedit Deo et sancto Petro decimam suam de Huntingfeud. Joselinus de Heleseia dedit decimam c. acrarum in Huntingfeud ecclesiase sancti Petri. Galfridus de Briseworda dedit Deo et sancto Petro ecclesiam de Briseworda cum libera terra ejus et cum propria decima domus suae. Fulcredus de Pesenhale dedit duas partes decimae suae in eadem villa et decimam Unfridi filii Unney. Do monachis de Eya ecclesiam de Jakesleia cum omnibus pertinentiis suis. Jurdanus dedit eis decimae suae duas partes in Wikebegge, et ecclesiam ejusdem villae cum terris et decimis eidem ecclesiae pertinentibus. Do eis omnes ecclesias et omnes decimas pro- priorum maneriorum castello Eye pertinentium, et aliis viris militibus sokemannis meae jurisdictionis concedo et praecipio ut monasterios meo et conventua de Eya de beneficiis benefaciant pro facultatibus suis. Volo etiam et firmiter praecipio ut quaedam feria quam monachis meis dedi quatuor diebus teneatur Ka: Augusti et ut venientes et redientes in his quatuor diebus pacem meam et protectionem domini mei Regis Willielmi habeant; ne aliquis eos disturbet nec eis injuriam vel malum faciat super forisfacturum decem librarum. Hujus donationis et confirmationis meae testes sunt Hubertus de Montekenesi, Rogerus filius Walteri de Huntingfeud, Willielmus de Rovillis, Willielmus Gulafre, Robertus filius Walteri, Robertus filius Erfredi, Odo de Charimer, Herveus de Glanville, Osbertus de Cunteville, Benedictus Capellanus, Galfridus filius Urselli, Arnulphus de Wydeville, Walterus de Cornoville, Egger praepositus, Fulcredus de Pesen' hale, Hubertus Malus nepos, Robertus Roiator, Godebertus de Witsand, Walterus Arbalesterius. Haec omnia illis concedentibus testimonio Dei et sancti Petri super altare Sancti Petri Eye ego Robertus Malet optuli ecclesiase monachorum meorum; et haec carta mea in perpetuum confirmavi. Carta Beatricis sororis Roberti Malet. [Ex registro de Eya penes Thoma Deye generosum. An. 1630. Fol. 59.] Ego Beatrix soror Roberti Malet concedo Deo et sancto Petro Apostolo de Eya et monachis ejusdem loci villulam quandam Radingefeldiam nominatam quietam et liberam ab omnibus querelis et calumpniis contra omnes homines sicut meum dominium scilicet pro redemptione amimae meae et patris et matris mei, necon et fratrum meorum Roberti Maleth et Gilberti Malet, aliorumque amicorum vivorum et defunctorum. Testibus Francisgenis et Anglis, Roberto Presbitero, Rogero Diacono, Radulpho de Bellicia, Alfredo de Combia, Mayno de Sandeclaro, Edrico, Alfrico coc, Ansgodo de Cantuar, et Gaufrido coco. * Gloriosissimo domino suo Anglorum Reg Willelmo fidelis suus Lanfrancus, fidele servitium cum orationibus. Gloria in excelsis Deo, cujus misericordia regnum vestrum purgatum est spurcitia Britonum. Castrum Norwich redditum est: et Britones, qui in eo erant et terras in Anglica terra habebant, concessa eis vita cum membris, juraverunt quod intra quadraginta dies de regno vestro exirent, et amplius sine vestra licentia in illud non introirent. Qui vero Rodolfo traditori et sociis ejus sine terra pro solidis servierunt ad hoc faciendum unius mensis spatium multis precibus impetraverunt. In ipso castro remanserunt Episcopus Gaudfridus, Willelmus de Varenna, Robertus Malet, et trecenti loricate cum eis, cum ballistariis et artificibus machinarum multis. Omnis strepitus bellorum miserante Deo in Anglica terra quievit Omnipotens Dominus vos benedicat. + H. Wharton, Angliae Sacra, Vol. I, p. 336. Willelmus gratia Dei Rex Anglorum, Episcopo Erfasti, Baldwino Abbati, Picoto et Rodberto Malet, vicecomitibus, et caeteris fidelibus meis salutem. Sciatis quod ego concessi Archiepiscopo Lanfranco manerium qui vocatur Fracenham sicuti Heroldus tenebat ea die quando mare transivi et sicuti Turbertus et Gotinus ab ipso Heroldo tenebant in omnibus terris, patris, paschuis, sylvis, rusticis, et sochemannis et caeteris omnibus. ++ Dug. Bar. , tom. i, p.110, et seq. +++ Stubbs' Constitutional History of England, vol. i, cap. x, p. 309. # Dug. Bar. , tom. i, p.190.	Family: F70
60	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 38-40, appendices N1-N3: HUGH MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. Hugh was the second son of Baldwin Malet, but his first by his second wife, Amicia, the daughter of Richard Lyffe, of Corypole, and coheiress with her sister Johanna, the wife of Walter Tilly. In Sir A.M.'s MSS. there are seventeen extracts in which his name occurs, ranging from A.D. 1430 to 1485. He married Joan, the daughter of John Ronyon, of Bickfold, in the parish of Compton Martyn, in Somerset, by whom he had issue: 1. Thomas, his eldest son and heir. 2. William, from whom, I am told, the present family of Mallock, of Cockington, Com. Devon, claim descent,stating that he settled at Axmouth and married Agnes, the daughter of . . Pyne of that place. 3. Margaret, married John Crewkerne. 4. Joan, married Robert Brent of Cossington. The deed of 1430* is executed by William Hastings (who must have been the trustee), securing to Hugh Malet and others the reversion of the manor of Deandon after the demise of the widow of his half-brother John, and of his father Baldwin. A deed of 1466 appears to be a portion of the Somerset inquest after his death. There is a deed of A.D. 1461* by which Hugh vests in John Wadham the elder, William Ronyon, and others, for six years, on account of the marriage of one of his daughters, and after that time in seven other names, his manor of Lydiard Punchardon, in trust for Johanna, daughter of John Wadham, and wife of his son Thomas. The last entry of 1485 is "Johanna nuper uxor Hugonis Malet, 1mo Henry VII. There are other entries in which Hugh is styled Lord of Sutton Malet, Lord of Corypole, and Lord of Deandon, and as possessing the manor of Oke and property in the hundred of Cannington. His seal, Sir W. Pole writes, "has only a single escallop, as several others of the Malets had." * Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, Sup. I, p. 8. Omnibus, etc. Will'm Hastings sal: cum Willu's Corma et Johanna uxor ejus, nuper uxor Johannis Malet, Militis, filii et haeredis Baldwini Malet, Militis, tenet manerium de Deandon in Com: Devon pro termino vitae dictae Johannae reman: mihi, etc. Nov: me dictum Willum Hastings concessisse dictum manerium Amiciae quae fuit uxor Baldwini Malet, Militis, pro termino vitae suae; reman: Hugoni Malet filio dictae Amiciae et haered: de corpore; reman: Thomae Malet frati Hugonis et haered: de corpore; reman: Philippae sorori dicti Thomae; reman: rectis haeredibus Baldwini Malet, Militis, annon Regni R. Henry VI 8'o. [A.D. 1430.] Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 2 and 3. Hugo Malet tenuit die quo obiit manerium de Enemere et advocat: Ecclae: de Enemere de Humfrido Stafford, D'no de South Wyke, ut de manerio suo de Compton, donne p: serv: mil: et manerium de Corypole et advocationem Ecclesiae de Cherlinch de dicto Humfrido, ut de manerio suo praedicto p. serv: mil: et tenuit 9. Ten. 200 acr: terrae: 60 acr: prati, et 10 acr: pasturae in Coryple, Cherlinch, Chelton juxta Pouldon: Hardington juxta Yevel, et Burcombe d'o Georgio Dubbe, p: fidel: et p: serv: 1 rosae pro omnibus servitiis; et tenuit manerium de Sutton Malet de dicto Humfrido, ut de manerio suo praed: p: serv: mil: Thomas Malet est filius et haeres dicti Hugonis. 5'o Edward IV. [A.D. 1430.] *Ibid., Vol. I, p.8. Hugo Malet, Arm: filius Baldwini Malet, Militis, et Amiciae uxoris ejus, filiae et unius haeredum Richardi Lyffe, Arm: sal Noveritis me dedisse etc. Johanni Wadham Seniori Arm: Willo: Ronyon Arm: et aliis, manerium meum de Lydiard Punchardon in Com: Som pro term: sex annorum ad maritandum unam filiarum meorum, etc., et post terminum praed: conced: manerium prae- dictum Johanni Wadham, Militi, Waltero Bluet, Will'o Montague de Henleghe, Gilberto Yard, Alexandro Newton, Willo: Wadham, et Johanni Moor, Mil: ad terminum vitae Johannae filiae Wadham sen., uxoris Thomae Malet, filii et haeredis mei. Dat a'o I'o Edward IV. [A.D. 1461.]	Family: F5
61	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 39: "William, from whom, I am told, the present family of Mallock, of Cockington, Com. Devon, claim descent, stating that he settled at Axmouth and married Agnes, the daughter of . . Pyne of that place." The Devon Record Office holds many documents pertaining to this "Mallock of Cockington" family. One of the manors that they evidently held was "Widecombe in the Moor", which in ancient times contained the manor of Deandon, still held by the Malet family in this William's lifetime. Perhaps it was granted to him or his heirs at some point.	Family: F179
62	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 40-41, appendices O1-O4: THOMAS MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. Thomas Malet, the son and heir of Hugh Malet, by his wife Joan, the daughter of John Ronyon. The first entry that I find in Sir William Pole's collection concerning Thomas Malet is a portion of a deed executed by him in 1467,* which must have been near the time of his marriage to the mother of his eldest son, who was more than thirty years old at Thomas's death in 1501. Thomas Malet married three wives: 1st. Joan, daughter of Sir William Wadham. 2nd. Elizabeth. 3rd. Isabella, daughter of Sir William Courtney. I do not find any information as to which of the wives the issue is to be attributed, but from the age of William I presume that he must have been the son of the first wife; the children were: 1. William Malet. 2. Baldwin Malet, of St. Audries, Somerset (West Quantockshead). 3. Margaret. 4. Hawise, married to John Coker, of Powderham. 5. Elizabeth, married firstly to John Ashley, secondly to Hugh Trow. The settlement on her first marriage is extant,* and a copy of an extract from it from Sir William Pole's MS. is appended. Thomas Malet's will was dated August 28th, 1500. The Rev. F. Brown's extract from it is appended,+ by it, among his other bequests, he leaves the manor of West Quantockshead to his son Baldwin, so that from this time the families of Enmore and St. Audries separate; William Malet taking the former, and Baldwin Malet the latter. The inquest post-mortem was held at Bridgwater in 1502;++ it notes that Thomas Malet died on 9th July, 1502, and that his son William was then more than thirty years old, so that he was born towards the end of 1471 or at the beginning of 1472. * Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p. 13-14. Omnibus, etc. Thomas Malet filius Hugonis, Armiger, sal: cum Robertus Stawell et Robertus Ronyon, Armigeri, et Willu's Bovez demiserunt, etc. Johannae Malet matri meae, nuper uxori Hugonis Malet, maneria mea de Sutton Malet, etc. Tes't Reginaldo Stourton, Milite, Rich: Warre, Nich: Francis, John Sidenham de Orchard, Jacobo Fitzjames et Philippo Pim. Dat: a'o 6'to Edward Iv. [A.D. 1467.] In Mr. Chisholm Batten's paper on Henry VII in Somersetshire, in the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings relative to Perkin Warbeck, he writes: "In October, 1498, some bonds were taken for good behaviour from persons in various counties who were not fined; among them is one from William Heron of Ford Castle, in Northumberland. In Somerset are such bonds taken from Thomas Malet of Enmore, Gentleman; Alex. Pym of Cannington, Gentleman; and John St. Abyn of Cannington, Esq., by three bonds; each of these three are made surety for the others. Their signatures are Thomas Malet, Alex. Pym, John Seynt Abyn. The documents are in the Record Office, Miscell. 916/14" * Sir Wm Pole's MSS., Vol. I, Sup. II, p. 20. 20 Edward IV [A.D. 1481]. Indenture of covenants between Thomas Malet, Esq., of the one part, and Edmund Ashley, Esq., of the other part. That is to say, that Thomas Ashley, son and heir of the said Edmund, shall marry before the Feast of the Nativity Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the said Thomas Malet. And the said Edmund shall assure twenty marks of yearly rents in Ashley, Sidbury, Trobridge, Bradford, and Salisbury, in the county of Wilts. And that the said Thomas Malet shall pay £100, with divers other covenants. + Thomas Malett, Aug. 28, 1500 [Blamyn.]-- To be buried in the Church of St. Michael Enmore, Som't--My son Wm Malet to have the manor of Corypool--Isabel my wife-- My son Baldwyn Malet to have the Manor of West Quantockshead--William Malet to find a priest at Enmore to pray for me and for the souls of Sir Baldwin Malet and Dame Avise his wife, of Hugh Malet and Johanna his wife, of Thomas Malet and Jone, Elizabeth, and Isabel, his wives, in perpetuity-- Isabel my wife to have Sutton Malet for her life-- She to be executrix-- My daughter Margaret-- and Jesus have mercy of my soul-- July 24, 1501. ++ Inq: post-mortem at Bridgwater, Nov. 12, 17 Henry VII [A.D. 1502.] Thomas Malet held land in Enmer and some of Eleanor Strangwysh, etc.--Isabella his wife survived his husband-- Advowson of Charlinch, Manor of Sutton Malet, Lydeard Malet alias Punchardon, of West Quantockshead, and of Corypool and Charlinch--Charta quoted--Baldwin is a yougner son of the said Thomas-- Thomas Malet died July 9 last-- William his son aged 30 and more.	Family: F2
63	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 41-43: WILLIAM MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. William Malet, the eldest son of Thomas Malet, probably by his first wife, Joan, the daughter of Sir William Wadham, inherited Enmore and the chief part of his father's property, West Quantockshead (St. Audries) having been left by will to his younger brother Baldwin. He was born about 1470; his latest deed extant is dated in 1506, when as lord of the manor of North Wraxall, Wilts, in rights of his wife, he presented to a Chauntry there.* The inquest post-mortem, according to Collinson,** was held at Bridgwater on the 26th October, 2 Henry VIII (A.D. 1511). He married Alice, the daughter of Thomas and Alice Young, of Easton, in Gordano, Somerset, by whom he had six children: 1. Thomas Malet, o.s.p. 2. Hugh Malet, his heir. 3. Richard. 4. William. 5. Joan, married to John Verney. 6. Jane, married to Thomas Warre of Hestercombe, who by her, as stated by Collinson, had issue Richard, John, William, Henry, Thomas, Edward; Johanna, married to Thomas Michell of Cannington; Mary, married to George Sydenham of Chilworthy. William Malet's wife, Alice, died in 1505. There are five entries in Sir W. Pole's MSS., but none of particular interest, except, perhaps, for the names of the trustees, to whom at different times he made over his manors of Oke and Lydeard Malet or Punchardon. They are John Boucher, Lord Fitzwarren, Amyas Paulet, Nicholas Wadham, Giles Hill, John Brent, John Fitzjames, John Brook, Baldwin Malet, Richard Warre, William Hody, Thomas Henning; with witnesses, John Trevilian, John Sydenham of Brimpton, and John Sydenham of Orchard. Collinson states that it was found at the inquest held on the 26th October, 1511, 2 Henry VIII, that he held the manor of Sutton Malet of Sir Giles Strangways. He died on the 7th September in that year. * The Rev. F. Brown's MS. ** Collinson, vol. iii, p. 273.	Family: F8
64	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 43-44, appendices P1-P2: HUGH MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. Hugh Malet, the second son of William Malet and his wife Alice, in consequence of the death of his elder brother Thomas, succeeded his father in the estates. He married Isabel, daughter of Thomas Michell of Gurney Street, Cannington, and his wife Isabel. In Sir William Pole's collections there are three entries of his name in 1527 and 1537, but nothing of interest. By Isabel he had issue nine children; he died in 1541: 1. Thomas Malet, died in 1541, before his father. 2. Richard Malet, born in 1523. 3. William Malet. 4. Barnabas Malet. 5. Joan, married to John Danvers. 6. Mary, married to . . . Sturges. 7. Elizabeth, married to Thomas Ivy of West Kingston, Wilts. 8. Agatha, married to John Payne of Hutton, Somerset. 9. Dorothy, married to Robert Maye of Charter House Mendip, had nine children. The inquest post-mortem on Hugh Malet, held 32 and 33 Henry VIII, A.D. 1541-2,* states that Thomas Malet, his son, died November 30th, 1541; that Hugh Malet died in 1541, and that his son and heir, Richard, was aged eighteen at the time of his father's death. Isabel Malet's mother, Isabel Michell, married for her second husband John Fitzjames of Redlynch, Somerset, the father by . . . . Bluet of Sir John Fitzjames, Chief Justice of the King's Bench; we are indebted to the Rev. F. Brown for the extracts from her will.** * 32 and 33 Henry VIII. Inq. p.m.-- Hugh Malet, Manors of Enmore, Corypole, etc.--Thomas Malet his son, Nov. 30, 1541. Hugh Malet died 1541--His son and heir Richard aged 18. ** [Porch, 24.]Isabella Fitzjames, widow, within the diocese of Bath and Wells, Feb. 22, 1526- 7-- My daughter Lady Fitzjames--My son Hugh Malet of Corypool a goblet of gilte, bearing arms of liberds head-- To my godson Thomas Malet a goblet gilte with the arms of portcullis and the rose and six silver spoongs--My daughter Isabel Malet a nutte gilte, with cover to the same, and a Mary Mawdelyn box with a cover, six pair of fine sheets, and six of yeomen sheets-- My son Thomas Michell, my daughter Jane Michell his wife, etc. Residue to Hugh Malet and Thomas Michell, executors.	Family: F12
65	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 44-45, appendices Q1-Q3: RICHARD MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. Richard Malet was the second son of Hugh Malet and his wife Isabel, daughter of Thomas Michell of Gurney Street, Cannington; his age was eighteen years at the time of his father's death in 1541. In consequence of the death of his elder brother, Thomas, Richard succeeded to the estates. He married, first, Joan, whose father's name is not mentioned, but the marriage is known from an extract from the patent rolls, * made by the Rev. F. Brown. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell, by whom he had issue one son - Thomas Mallett. Richard Malet died at Corypole, July 27th; his will is dated March 3rd, 1552/3, and administration was granted in 1584 to George Speke, Esq., of Dowlish, by his mother, Elizabeth, the widow and executrix of Richard Malet, who had married Sir George Speke,* of White Lackington, Somerset. * Patent Rolls, Edward VI, 1547- 8, Feb. 8. License of alienation in consideration of 45s. 9 1/2 d. respecting the conveyance from Richard Malet and Joan his wife to Richard Morgan of the third part of the Manor of Eston in Gordano, of 12 messuages, 12 cottages, 1 water-mill, 24 gardens, 24 orchards, 140 acres arable lands, rent L. 4 12 s. 6 1/2 d., 2 lbs. of pepper, and 1 clove in St. George's and Eston in Gordano, which are held in capite. Richard Malet of Corypool, in Charlinch, Somerset, Esq., July 25, I Edward VI, 1547. Manors of Shirehampton, Laurence, Weston, and lands in Henbury, Westbury, Almesbury, and Fytton, Gloucestershire; of Charlinch and Corsely, Somerset, of Wraxhall, Wilts--Elizabeth my wife--Dame Margaret Luttrell, widow-- Sir John Wyndham, Knight, Richard Rogers, Thomas Luttrell, John Payne, Bartholomew Combe, Robert May, trustees. Money to poor of Enmore and Charlinch--My sisters Mary, Johan, and Elizabeth Malett, and my son Thomas Malett, etc. March 3, 1552-3. * Adm'n July 2, 1584, Richard Malet, deceased. Adm'n granted to George Speke, of Dowlish, Somerset, Esq., of the goods of Richard Malet Esq., of Corypool in Charlinch, Somerset, by Elizabeth Speke, alias Malet, mother of the said George Speke, and executrix of Richard Malet.	Family: F127
66	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 45, appendices R1-3: THOMAS MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. Thomas Malet, son and heir of Richard Malet and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell. Thomas Malet succeeded his father, who died in 1552. As his father's first wife was alive in 1547-8, his son Thomas must have been very young at the time of his father's decease. Thomas Malet was Sheriff of Somerset in 1576; he married* Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Colles of Barton and his wife Elizabeth; they had four children: 1. John Malet, afterwards knighted. 2. George Malet. 3. Dorothy, married first to Sir Thomas Palmer, who died in Spain, second to Sir Ralph Gray. 4. Mary, married Arthur Hatch, who, born in 1557, died June 7th , 1625. George Malet received a license, 42 Elizabeth, A.D. 1600, to alienate lands in East Pennard, Ditcheat, and Wotton, Somerset, to William Malet and Edward White, gents. As Thomas Malet's will,* in which he enumerates many of his manors, was proved in 1580-1, he could not have been more than thirty years of age at his death. * From the Rev. F. Brown's Extracts. Humphry Colles of Barton, Somerset, June 10, 1565.[Crynaer, 24.] My wife Elisabth--My son John Colles--My daughter Philippa--marriage had between Thomas Malet, Esq. and Elisabeth Colles my daughter--My daughter Jane, etc.--My sons Amos Poulett and Thomas Malet, etc. May 3, 1571. Sir Thomas Palmer of Fairfield, Somerset, deceased, 1605-6. Feb. 8. Administration granted to Lady Dorothy Palmer relict. He died in partibus ultra maribus. * [Darcy, 4.] To my son John Malet my chayne of gold and all my household stuffe; my wife to have the occupation of them during her life; she to be under obligation of £500 to leave the same and the value to him--To my wife L1,000 and jewels and plate, and the tenement called Quantock in the parish of Spaxton--To everie of my two daughters 1,000 marks at 18 or marriage. If they die, then to my son John Malet -- 500 marks to my son George -- £20 to the poor -- My son John executor, my father-in-law Sir John Speke, Knight [who had married his mother] -- My brother John Colles, Esq., my brother Pymme, Esq., and George Dodington of Dodington, overseers -- To my son George Malet my house and demaine of Shirehampton, he paying to my heirs £4 yearly, and lands in Pennard -- to my wife my house and Demayne of Corypoole and lands called Swingdon and Padnaller during her widowhood. Until my son John Malet come to 21 my overseers shall receive rents, etc., of my Manors of Aysserberte, Oke, Lydeard, Shirehampton, Laurence Weston, Wraxhall, Pennard, Charlinch, Dowdon, and Coursely, and after the death of my wife of the Manors of Enmore, Sutton, etc., until my eldest son is 21. Witness, Alexander Pym, etc. Proved by John Coles, Alexander Pym, and George Dodington, overseers, during the minority of John Malet. Feb. 1, 1580-1.	Family: F130
67	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 46, appendix S: SIR JOHN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON, KNIGHT OF THE BATH. John Malet, the eldest son and heir of Thomas Malet and Elizabeth the daughter of Humphrey Colles of Barton, was a minor at the time when his father's will was proved by the executors in 1580-1. Sir John Malet married Mary, daughter of Sir John Popham, Chief Justice of England, by whom he had seven children: 1. John Malet. 2. Francis Malet. 3. Thomas Malet, late of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire, died a bachelor; administration granted to John Malet, Esq., nephew and next-of-kin to deceased, October 7th, 1651. 4. Ann, married Charles Trevanion, of Curryhanger, Com. Cornwall. 5. Elizabeth, married Peter Specott, son of Sir John Specott of Thornbury, Devon, Knight, by Elizabeth Edgcumbe; he was at Exeter Coll., Oxon, 1613, and was buried at Thornbury, April 19th, 1655; in his will he bequeaths L.500 to his wife Elizabeth. 6. Mary. 7. Winifred. At the coronation of King James I, on the 25th July, 1603, there were made sixty-two Knights of the Bath; of them Sir John Malet stands No. 41 on Mr. Anstis's list. His will is dated in 1616.* His eldest son John succeeded him. * Sir John Malet, Knight of Enmore, Som/t, June 9th 13th James [1616.] To be buried there--My uncle Sir George Speke, my brother-in-law Sir Francis Popham--Edward Rogers--Arthur Hatch, Esq'res.-My son-in-law Charles Trevanion--my nephew William Palmer, overseers--Manors of Enmore, Corypole, Sutton Malet,etc.--To Elizabeth Malet L 1,800, to Marie Malet L 1,400, to my son Francis Malet, L 700 to Winifred Malet L1,400--Manors, etc., to John Malet my eldest son and heir, manors of Laurence Weston and Shirehampton, Gl: --My daughter Ann Trevanion--My brother George Malet-- my sister Lady Grey--My sister Hatch--My cousin Thomas Malet, of the Middle Temple--My servant John Malet, etc. Feby: 9th, 1615-16.	Family: F1
68	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 47-48, appendices T1-T2: JOHN MALET OF ENMORE AND DEANDON. John Malet was the son of Sir John Malet, Knight of the Bath, and Mary, the daughter of Chief Justice Popham. He succeeded his father in 1614, and died in April, 1644; he married (it is singular that I find at so late a date no mention of her Christian name) the daughter of Sir John Tracy, by whom he had issue: 1. John Malet. 2. Mary. 3. Jane, married to Charles White, Esq., of Fifield, Berks; he died 1662.* 4. Elizabeth. 5. Ann, married as his first wife to Roger Bourne of Gothelney, Somerset; she died May 1st, 1670, and was buried at Charlinch. "Roger Bourne of Gothelney, Esq., February 1st, 1671-2,L.4,000 on mortgage of Enmore and Charlinch made by John Malet, deceased, due to me; I devise them to trustees, named." (Pye, 15.) John Malet was a Member of Parliament in 1623-4 for Bath, where there is a monumental inscription to him, April 10th, 1644. In a window in the north aisle of the Abbey Church were the Malet arms with the motto "Malet Meliora," but these have been removed. He was Sheriff for Somerset in 1638-9, and seems to have had considerable trouble in satisfying the demands of the Government for ship-money. He is said by Sir W. Pole to have sold the manor of Deandon.* The precis of his will+ is from the Rev. F. Brown's MS. * Berks Visitation, vol. vi of Miscellanea Gen. and Herald, p. 107. State Papers, Ch.i, 1638-9, Feb. 2.--John Malet, late Sheriff of Somerset, to Secy. Nicholas. "I have received sundry letters from the Council commanding Henry Hodges, my predecessor, and myself, to collect the ship moneys which were in arrears in his time; and having many times desired him to continue his endeavour towards the more speedy dispatch of this important affair, I have reaped no other fruit than peremptory refusals. Hodges was Sheriff about one year and a half, and I succeeded him, and was in office little above half the year. His account was so imperfect, as will appear by the false and injurious returns he made to me of what was behind in several Hundreds, that during my time he never perfected it, and, more, the Hundreds were so grieved at his rate that many complained to the Council for relief; and I being made a referee with the Bishop of Bath and Wells for the discovery of the inequalities of Hodge's [sic] proceedings, gave my attendance continually in the service, by which means the time I should have employed in the collection was for the most part spent in hearing the complaints of the country and certifying them to the Council." Seal with arms. Feb. 2, Deposition of Robert Rich, Under Sheriff, to John Malet, Sheriff of Somerset. Several letters have been sent from the Council to Henry Hodges, of Somerset, in 1625, and to John Malet, his successor; to collect the arrears of ship money imposed by Hodges; in obedience whereunto Malet and the deponent have collected and paid to Sir Wm Russel L2,200. Notwithstanding that Hodges was acquainted with the said letters, yet he has not paid in one penny of the said arrears, and has utterly refused to receive them or join in collecting them. * Sir A.M.'s MSS., vol. ii, p.18. + To my wife L500, my son John Malet--My brother and kinsman Sir Robert Tracy, Sir John Hele, my friend Mr. Hugh Halswell, my brother Thomas Malet, my friend and neighbour John Bourne, of Durleigh, and Mr. John Cridland, trustees of my estate--L 2,000 to my daughter Mary, L1,500 to my daughter Jane, L1,500 to Ann and Elizabeth--My servant Tho's Malet-- Overseers, Mr. Hugh Halswell, Mr. John Bourne of Durleigh, and Mr. John Cridland. Feb. 15th, 1646.	Family: F132
69	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 48-49, appendices V1-V3: JOHN MALET OF ENMORE. John Malet, son of John Malet and the daughter of Sir John Tracy, married Untia Hawley,* daughter of Francis Lord Hawley; by her he had one child, his heiress-- he died in 1656: 1. Elizabeth Malet, married John Wilmot Earl of Rochester. She was the subject of an outrage which is thus related: Charing Cross in the time of Charles II was the scene of the forcible abduction of Elizabeth Malet (celebrated as the triste Heritiere of De Grammont) by the Earl of Rochester. She was the daughter of John Malet of Enmore, Somerset, and was possessed of a fortune of L.2,500 a year. One evening she had been supping at Whitehall with the beautiful Miss Stewart, afterwards Duchess of Richmond, and was returning home with her grandfather Lord Hawley, when their coach was suddenly arrested at Charing Cross; they were surrounded by a number of men, who seized and carried Miss Malet to another coach drawn by six horses with two females inside: it drove rapidly off, but was pursued, and Rochester was found near Uxbridge skulking by himself: he was committed to the Tower but, pardoned by King Charles, he afterwards married Elizabeth Malet, and had issue by her: 1. Charles Wilmot, third Earl of Rochester, died s. p., November 12th, 1681, buried at Spelsbury. 2. Ann Wilmot, married first to Henry Bayntun, 1685; he died at Adderbury, Oxon, September 1st, 1691. Married second to Francis, son of Fulke Greville Lord Brooke. She died in 1703. 3. Elizabeth Wilmot, married Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich; he died October 20th, 1729, aged fifty-seven; she died July 2nd, 1757. 4. Malet Wilmot, married John Vaughan, created first Viscount Lisburn, June 29th, 1695; he died 1721; she died August, 1716. Elizabeth Lady Rochester died in 1681.* Marginalia: The Enmore line of Malet closes. * Untia Malet married as her second husband Sir John Warre, and by her had issue Sir Francis Warre, Bart., of Hestercombe. Henry Bayntun by his wife Ann Wilmot had one daughter, his heir, who was married to Edward Rolt, of Sacombe, Com: Hertsly, who had issue by her Edward Bayntun Rolt, who represented the borough of Chippenham in Parliament in the second and third Parliaments of King George II, and, by virtue of an Act made in the fifteenth year of that King, sold the manor of Enmore with other estates to James Smyth of St. Audries, from whom it was conveyed to the Earl of Egmont. Bayntun, of Spye Park, Wilts, Esq/re, buried at Bremhill, June 19, 1691. To my son John Bayntun, all my manors, etc. My daughter Ann Bayntun on her marriage with Edward Henry Bayntun, son of my sister Lucy Bayntun. * Hatton Family Correspondence, Camden Society, Vol. II, p. __ Letter to the Countess of Manchester, August 2nd, 1681."The young [the Dowager was living] Lady Rochester is dead suddenly of an apoplexie." *** Bishop Burnet's Lives and Characters, etc., Jebb's edition, 1883, p. 245. The Bishop is writing of Lord Rochester's last days:--"He told me that he had thereupon received the Sacrament with great satisfaction, and that was increased by the pleasure he had in his Lady's partaking it with him, who had been for some years misled into the Communion of the Church of Rome; and he himself had been not a little instrumental in procuring it, as he freely acknowledged; so that it was one of the joyfullest things which befell him in his sickness, that he had seen that mischief removed in which he had so great a hand. And during his whole sickness he expressed so much tenderness and true kindness to his lady that, as it easily defaced the remembrance of every thing wherein he had been in fault formerly, so it drew from her the most passionate care and concern for him that was possible, which indeed deserves a higher character than is decent to give to a person yet alive." In each of the five letters which Burnet prints from the Dowager Countess to her sister Lady St. John, Lady Rochester is mentioned. In the P.S. to Letter III, the words are: "Before I sealed this I received yours and two waters for my son Ro; he and his Lady give you thanks and present their service to you."	Family: F134
70	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 49-51, appendix W1: BALDWIN MALET OF ST. AUDRIES. Baldwin Malet was the second son of Thomas Malet of Enmore, by his wife Joan, the daughter of Sir William Wadham. Under the will of his father he inherited Quantockshead, commonly called St. Audries, and was the progenitor of the branches of the families of Malet who severally held that place, Ullegh or Wolley in Devonshire and Poyntington in Somerset. He was solicitor to King Henry VIII.* Baldwin Malet married twice; his first wife was Joan, the daughter and heiress of John Tacle of Honiton, whom Sir William Pole designates "a man well learned in the law, and through whom he had a manor lying in the parish of Giddesham Com. Devon;" by his first wife he had issue his son and heir: 1. Michael Malet, born 1511. He married, secondly, Anne, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Hache of Ullegh, and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir John Basset, by whom he had issue: 2. John Malet of Ullegh. He was progenitor of the Poyntington Malets, from whom came the Malets who succeeded to St. Audries after the failure of direct heirs of Michael Malet. 3. Thomas Malet of Currey Heys, Cornwall; he married Isabel Browne. 4. Adam Malet of South Ockenden, Essex. 5. Elizabeth, married John Trethrup. 6. Anne, married John Vivian of Trelewaren, Cornwall.* Baldwin Malet died in 1533; he was succeeded in the St. Audries estate by his eldest son Michael, and in the Ullegh property by his second son John, whose mother was the heiress of Thomas Hache of Ullegh, and with whom seven quarterings were added to the Malet coat of arms.* * Inquest held at Bridgwater, Som/t., Dec. 16th, 1533, on death of Baldwin Malet, son of Thomas Malet. His wife Anne Malet--Manor of West Quantockshead--Will quoted--Baldwin Malet died Aug/t 25th last. Michael Malet, his son and heir, aged 22 and more. Baldwin Malet, Esq/re., July 12, 1533--Manor of West Quantockshead, Somerset--Anne my wife--Michael, John, Thomas, Adam, my sons, and Hugh Malet [his nephew, son and heir of William Malet, of Enmore, his brother] in reversion, North Swanage, in the isle of Purbeck. Manor of Bensted---Popham, Hants--If Thomas or Adam my sons will be a priest or professed in any religion, then L 20 a year until presented to a benefice. Three hundred marks to my daughters Ann and Elizabeth. Residue to my wife. Ex'x--Proved by Anne Malet, relict, Aug't 9th, 1533. Swanwich, Dorset. Carrants Court Manor, 25 Henry VIII, 1533. William Carent and Elizabeth his wife conveyed the Manor of Swanwick to Baldwin Malet, of St. Audries, Som't, Solicitor to Henry VIII, who by his will devised it to his sons-- The manor then held of William Earl of Arundel--3rd Phi'l and Mary, 1556 Tho's Malet of Curreyheys, Cornwall, Gen't, and Adam Malet, of South Ockenden, Essex, sons of Baldwin Malet, sold Swanage Manor to Humphrey Walrond, of Lea, Somerset. Sir A. Malet's MSS., vol ii, p. 14. "Leigh in the parish of Tiverton. Anno. 19 Edward III, Thomas Hache of Wolley married Mabel, daughter of Thomas de Leigh, and this land continued in the name of Hache until the reign of Henry VIII, and then it came unto Baldwin Malet by the marriage of Hache's heir, and is now the inheritance of the Lady Vincent, daughter and heir of Robert Malet of Wolley." * Sir A. Malet's MSS., vol. ii, p. 8. "John Vivian died July 24th, 1577, and was buried at Mawgan,in Menheniot, Cornwall. His son and heir Hannibal Vivian."	Family: F9
71	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 52-54: RICHARD MALET OF ST. AUDRIES. Richard Malet was the son of Michael Malet and his wife Joan Stawell. We learn from Rev. F. Brown's MSS. that he was born in 1541, succeeded his father in 1547, and died in April, 1614. He married Joan, daughter of Richard Warre of Hestercombe, and by her had issue: 1. Arthur Malet, baptised January 18th, 1564. 2. Michael Malet, baptised January 22nd, 1570. 3. Gawen Malet, baptised last day of January, 1571. Richard Malet's wife, Joan, was buried at St. Audries January 29th, 1609; he was buried at St. Audries April 12th, 1614, aged about sixty-three. The Rev. F. Brown could find no will or administration in the Prerogative Court. It will be seen that Arthur the heir lived to the age of eighty, surviving both his brothers and their male heirs. I enter these junior members and their families in this place to show this fact, which affected the succession of the estate of St. Audries. Michael Malet married Katharine, daughter of Henry Aly of Guissage St. Andrew, Dorset, by whom he had issue: 1. Richard Malet, born 1618, died s.p. 1630. 2. Joan, married to Thomas Fulford (license dated August 24th, 1621); who died in 1652. "Thomas Fulford of Thorne St. Margaret Somerset April 9th 1652 my four daughters Ursula Ethelreda Katherine and Jane L. 50 each--my eldest son Thomas Fulford--my wife Joan Fulford. May 22nd 1652"(Bowyer, 111). Gawen Malet married Cicely, sister of his brother Michael's wife, by whom he had issue two children--he died before 1642: 1. Alic Malet, baptised January 9th, 1604; he married Mary, daughter of Arthur Bluet of Holcombe Rogus, Devon, and died s.p. 1639.* 2. Elizabeth, married to Henry Powlett, one of the sons of Sir Anthony Powlett of Hinton St. George, Com. Somerset, by Catherine Norreys and brother of John, first Lord Powlett; Henry Powlett's sister, Elizabeth Powlett, married Sir Henry Hawley; Henry Powlett died 1640. "Henry Powlett Esq. Jany. 15th 1636 to my wife Elizabeth L200 a year out of the rectory of Crewkern, my sons Anthony and Henry, my daughter Elizabeth Mr. John Coventry Mr Walter Raleigh Mr. John Symes Mr. John Mansfield Lady Elizabeth Hawley and my wife to be overseers, my son Henry Powlett Ex/or." (Coventry, 115.) Elizabeth Powlett died 1647, aged fifty. Their children: 1. Henry Powlett the younger, late of Lydeard St. Laurence, bachelor, deceased; administration to Elizabeth Powlett, widow, his mother, June 25th, 1642. 2. Malet Powlett, of Preston Torches, Somerset. "My brother Anthony Powlet Ex/or. Feby. 21, 1671." (Taunton Archdeaconry Court.) 3. Anthony Powlett of Preston Fontnell, Somerset. "April 27th, 1674. 2 farms to John Lord Powlett of Dame and Gussage Dorset--my kinsman Robert Hawley Esq--my sister Cutts, --my parsonage of Crewkerne manor--to be buried in the vault at Hinton. Feby. 5, 1674-5." (Dycer, 18.) 4. Susan Powlett of Milveton, spinster. "My brother Malet Powlett--and Anthony Powlett--Decr. 14th 1654" (Alchin, 416.) 5. Elizabeth Powlett, married Richard Cutts * Rev. F. Brown's MS. "Alic Malet of Milverton, Somerset, February 17th, 1638-9 (nuncupation), to his father, Gawen Malet, all his goods, lands, &c.; pr'd. May 18th, 1639. March 26th, 1642, adm/n granted to Elizabeth Powlett, sister of Alic Malet, dec/d. --Gawen Malet father of dec/d, having died" (Harvey, 95).	Family: F209
72	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 54-55: ARTHUR MALET OF ST. AUDRIES. Arthur Malet was the son of Richard Malet and his wife Joan, the daughter of Richard Warre of Hestercombe. He was baptised January 18th, 1564, and was buried at St. Audries, October 16th, 1644, aged eighty. He married on the 8th October, 1583, Mary Coffin, by whom he had issue one child: Arthur Malet, who died s.p., and was buried at St. Audries, October 16th, 1634. Arthur Malet married secondly, Joan, whose surname I do not find mentioned; by her he had no issue, and from the terms of the will it would seem not improbable that she was not during his lifetime acknowledged as his wife. He survived his own son, who died in 1634, and his brother Michael, who died in 1630. His brother Gawen also died before him, as his daughter, Elizabeth Powlett, administered to her brother Alic Malet's will in 1642, in consequence of the previous decease of Gawen Malet. The Ref. F. Brown thus summarises Arthur Malet's will;--"Joan whom I acknowledge as my lawful wife to enjoy all my lands mansions &c. for her life. At her death to go to my Cousins of Poyntington--my cousin John Malet &c. to be overseers" (Twisse, 63.) The will is dated September 15th, 1644, a month before his burial. Administration May 8th, 1646. At this time Sir Thomas Malet of Poyntington was alive, so that he had the reversion of St. Audries after the death of Joan, Arthur's widow. He lived till 1665, but as I find no record of the date of Joan's death I do not know if he ever entered into possession; and as he lived on at Poyntington and was buried there, and in his will made no specific mention of St. Audries, I presume that Joan survived him, and that Arthur's bequest devolved on Sir Thomas's son John, who was the grandson of Malachias, who was the grandson of Baldwin, the first possessor of St. Audries separately from Enmore. It is not necessary to revert to John Malet of Wolley, the second son of this Baldwin, and through whom the descent comes.	Family: F213
73	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 56-57, appendices Y1-Y3: JOHN MALET OF ULLEGH, DEVON. Sir A.M.'s MSS. and the Rev. F. Brown's give us all the information that is necessary to trace the descent and family of John Malet of Ullegh (the more modern spelling seems to be Wolley). He was the second son of Baldwin Malet of St. Audries, the eldest of his issue by his second wife, Anne, the daughter of Thomas Hache and his wife Alice Basset; he inherited his mother's Wolley property. John Malet married Margaret, the daughter of Humphrey Moncke of Powdridge, Devon; by her he had issue eight children: 1. Robert Malet, of Wolley, Devon. He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Rolle of Stevenston, by whom he had issue: 1. John, o.s.p. 2. Elizabeth, married Sir Arthur Acland; their son, Sir John Acland, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, knight and baronet, who died 1647. Robert Malet sold Fulford to William Peryan, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. 2. Francis Malet, o.s.p. 3. Malachi Malet, heir. 4. Michael Malet.* 5. Elizabeth. 6. Zenobia, married to John St. Aubyn of St. Clewance, Cornwall (see Cornwall Visitation). 7. Mary. 8. Dorothy, married August 22nd, 1568, to John Wood, gent. The two sisters seem also to have married, as John Malet in his will names " my son-in-law, John Davell," and Michael Malet names in his will " my nephew and godson, Richard Ferrars, and my niece, Eleanor Halfe," so that all of them appear to have married, one of them twice. The Rev. F. Brown has summarised his will thus:-- "John Malet of Ullegh, in Beaford, Devon, Esq., no date. My sons Malachias and Michael, my three daughters Elizabeth, Mary, Dorothy, --my son-in-law, John Davell-- overseers, Sir Robert Denys, Kt., Thomas Moncke, and Thomas Malet. By Malachi Malet, Nov. 14, 1570." From the same source I take the summaries of two other wills;** they are of this period, but I cannot identify the persons named. * Michael Malet, Nov'r 29, 1636. Lands in Black Torrington, Sutcombe, and East Verworth, Devon, conveyed to my late brother Malachi Malet and his heirs; for the full assurance thereof I devise these lands to my nephew Thomas Malet, Serg't -at -law, he being the son and heir of my said late brother Malachi. To my nephew and godson Richard Ferrars £100. To my niece Eleanor Halfe £10. To my nephew and executor Thomas Malet all my goods, etc. To poor of Poyntingotn 40s. By Thomas Malet, March 21, 1650 - 1. [Capell, 82.] Married at Bridgwater, October 22, 1571, Thomas Shercombe and Christian Holworthy. Christian Shercombe, widow, of Bridgwater, May 2, 1613. To my cousin Francis Malet £30. To Dorothy Malet, daughter of Francis Malet, £5. May 12, 1613. William Malet, Esq., West Quantockshead, 1644. Hugh Malet, of Sampford Arundel, April 14, 1673. April 12, 1673. My wife Mary--my sons Francis and John Malet; my daughter Elisabeth. Tenement in Moorlinch proved April 19, 1674.	Family: F224
74	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 57-58, appendix Y1: MALACHI MALET OF POYNTINGTON. Malachi Malet was the third son of John Malet of Ullegh, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Moncke of Powdridge, Devon. His elder brother, Robert, left no male issue, and Francis, the next son, was not more fortunate. His younger brother, Michael, was not married, and made a will* leaving all his property to Malachi, who, however, predeceased him, on which it was left to Malachi's son Thomas. Poyntington was evidently his residence, from the gift left by will to the poor of that place. Malachi Malet married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Trevanion of Cornwall. He died before 1636, the date of the will of his brother Michael. By his wife, Elizabeth, he had issue two children: 1. Ann, married to . . . . Garrett. 2. Thomas Malet, his heir. * Michael Malet, Nov'r 29, 1636. Lands in Black Torrington, Sutcombe, and East Verworth, Devon, conveyed to my late brother Malachi Malet and his heirs; for the full assurance thereof I devise these lands to my nephew Thomas Malet, Serg't -at -law, he being the son and heir of my said late brother Malachi. To my nephew and godson Richard Ferrars L 100. To my niece Eleanor Halfe L 10. To my nephew and executor Thomas Malet all my goods, etc. To poor of Poyntingotn 40s. By Thomas Malet, March 21, 1650 - 1.	Family: F231
75	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 60-62, appendix AA1-AA3: SIR JOHN MALET OF POYNTINGTON AND ST. AUDRIES. John Malet, eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Malet of Poyntington, inherited also the estate of St. Audries, under the will of his cousin, Arthur Malet, who died in 1644. But Sir John, in his will,* date November 9th, 1678, styles himself of Poyntington, and his relict, Dame Florentia Malet, in her will, date October 25th, 1693, also designated him as late of Poyntington. But as his daughter Anne was buried at St. Audries in 1655, it is probable that his cousin Arthur's widow predeceased him, and that he had possession of his cousin Arthur's bequest. Sir John Malet was knighted at Whitehall, February 20th, 1666; he married Florentia, the daughter of John Wyndham of Orchard Portman, by whom he had issue nine children-- 1. Baldwin Malet, heir. 2. William Malet, died at Smyrna a bachelor, after 1673. 3. Anne Malet, buried at St. Audries, 1655. 4. Elizabeth Malet, born 1656, married Philip Rose after 1693, both living in 1714 5. Anne Malet, born March 19th, 1657 6. Katherine Malet, baptised April 19th, 1658. 7. John Malet, born August 1st, 1659. He was of the Middle Temple. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn, Bart., issue all died young.* 8. Zenobia Malet, married Daniel Hough, merchant of London. 9. Jane Malet, born may 24th, 1664, died November 12th, 1666. Sir John Malet was Recorder of the Borough of Bridgwater from 1669 to 1685, when he was succeeded by Sir Francis Warre. He represented that town in Parliament; and from memoranda in Sir Alexander Malet's hands appears to have been inclined to Whig principles. Among these records are a printed discourse by him advocating greater indulgence to Nonconformists, and papers showing that he took his share of Committee work in Parliament. There is an entry in the burial register of St. Andrew, Holborn, showing that Sir John Malet was buried there on April 8th, 1686. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Baldwin. * Sir John Malet of Pointington, Somerset, Knight. November 9, 1678. Marriage of my eldest son Baldwin Malet, settlement confirmed-- My wife Dame Florentia Malet-- My younger children-- To my son John Malet all my books; he to be brought up to the study of the law--My daughter Elisabeth--Marriage of my daughter Zenobia with Mr. Daniel Hough, merchant, of London, L 1,600; to her husband L 5 for plate. Cod., November 10th, 1681. This legacy revoked July 15th, 1687. Dame Florentia Malet, relict of Sir John Malet, late of Poyntington, Somerset, Knight, October 25th, 1693. To my daughter Elisabeth Malet, Barne, closes of land, etc., called St. Nicholas; mills, meadows, hereditaments, of my late dear husband, in the parish of St. David's without the north gate of Exeter, demised to Michael Harvey, of Clifton, Dorset, Esq're, and Henry Bull, of Shapwick, Esq're, by indenture dated January 16th, 1667. In trust for my daughter Elisabeth; she to pay L 180 to the three sons of Michael Malet, Esq're, brother of my husband. To my son Baldwin Malet, my pendulum clock. To my son John Malet, L 5 for mourning. To my daughter Zenobia How, L 100, and my large silver salver. My daughter Elisabeth ex'x; to her all my plate, jewels, etc. My nephew Sir Edward Wyndham, overseer. Witnesses Edward and John Chamberlayne and Thomas Malet. By Elisabeth Malet, June 5, 1694. * Sir Samuel Morland, Bart., who died Jany., 1696, aged 82; buried in a vault in Hammersmith Church, bequeathed the whole of his property to Mrs. Zenobia Hough.	Family: F238
76	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 62-64, appendix BB1-BB4: BALDWIN MALET OF ST. AUDRIES. Baldwin was the eldest son of Sir John Malet and his wife Florentia, daughter of John Wyndham of Orchard Portman. He married, firstly, Anne, the daughter of Sir John Horner, Knight, of Mells, Somerset, by his wife Ann, the daughter of Sir Henry Poole of Saperton. She died August 1st, 1689; by her he has issue-- 1. William Malet, baptised at St. Audries, April 28th, 1680.* 2. Ann Malet, baptised April 25th, 1681, buried at St. Audries, May 26th, 1683. 3. George Malet, baptised June 23rd, 1682, buried November 24th, 1682 4. Baldwin Malet, baptised July 30th, 1683. He was in holy orders, and was presented to the rectory of Street, Somerset, by Thomas Lord Thynne, May 31st, 1718; he was Rector of Doulting; he married thrice, o.s.p. 5. Thomas Malet, baptised September 21st, 1685. buried August 7th, 1693. Baldwin married, as his second wife, Anne, the daughter of George Harbin of London; they were married on the 22nd March, 1695-6, at Kingston near Taunton, Somerset; she died in 1725; by her he had issue-- 6. John Malet, baptised January 20th, 21696- 7, o.s.p., 1732.* 7. Anne Malet, baptised January 7th, 1697-8.+ 8. Francis Malet, baptised November 7th, 1698. 9. Jane Malet, baptised March 27th, 1700. 10. Alexander Malet, baptised November 2nd, 1704. In 1702 Baldwin Malet was appointed Receiver-General for Somerset and Bristol, and with his son William gave sureties to Queen Anne for the following sums:--October 20th L.40,000; December 8th, L. 10,000; April 20th, 1703, L.45,000. About Lady Day, 1705, Baldwin lent to Richard Veale of Exeter, fuller, a large sum. Veale became bankrupt, and Baldwin Malet and his son were unable to fulfil their engagement to the Crown. They obtained an Act of Parliament to enable them to raise money on mortgage of their estates, St. Audries, West Quantockshead, Brompton Ralph, Tollond, Laurence Lydeard, Preston Bowyer, Gittesham, Awlscombe, Bucknell, Honiton. The trustees appointed were Sir John Trevelyan, John Malet, and William Clayton; they in 1709 paid in L. 4,768 17s., but there was still due L. 1,614. Baldwin and William Malet petitioned Parliament for leave to compromise, which was granted. Baldwin was succeeded by his eldest son, William Malet. * George Horner, of Mells, Som't, in his will, Jany. 28th, 1797-8, makes his nephew William Malet one of his Trustees. [Barrett, 87.] George Horner, Esq'r, of Mells, Jany. 28th, 1707-8, bequeaths "to my nephew Baldwin Malet L 100." * John Malet, of Ham, in the parish of Kingston, Surrey, Esq're, [Bedford, 113.] Aug't 22, 1731, to Rev'd Baldwin Malet, for the term of years yet to come. My house in East Street, in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, which I bought of E. Buckingham Mason for 40 years and upwards. My great house and ground of Ham to Thomas Hall, of London, joiner. My dwelling house near the walke gate at Ham, with all my household goods, to Thomas Hall and Sarah his wife. To Ann Wright, sister of Thomas Hall, L 40. My chamber in Elms Court, in the Middle Temple, to be sold to pay debts, legacies, funeral, etc. By Tho's Hall and Nichol's Fry. April 21, 1732. He died 1732. s.p. + [Plymouth,10] Ann Malet, of St. Martin in the Fields, Midd'z, widow of Baldwin Malet, Esq're, to my daughter Ann Malet, all my wearing clothes and everything I die possessed of, she to pay my just debts. By Ann Malet, spinster. Jany. 5th, 1725-6.	Family: F245
77	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 73-74, appendix GG, HH1, HH2: WILLIAM MALET. Robert Malet of whom we have record up to 1150 was succeeded by his son William Malet, and who, sometime in the reign of Stephen ( I cannot fix the precise date), between the years 1135 and 1154, was one of the witnesses to that King's Charter to the Church of St. Benedict of Ramsey.* In the second year of Henry II, A.D. 1156 he paid the sum of L. 25 for Danegeld in the county of Somerset, and in the 12th year of Henry II, A. D. 1166, he certified for the assessment of the aid for marrying the King's daughter to upwards of twenty-two knights' fees of the old feoffment, and upwards of two knights' fees on the new.* For all these in 14 Henry II, A.D. 1168, he paid the sum of L.15 12s. 10d. Reckoning in addition to these the fees he held of the Abbey of Glastonbury+ in number twelve, he held thirty-four knights' fees in Somerset, the Honour in Kent, and four knights' fees in Sussex. The Rev. R.W. Eyton in his Somerset Domesday Studies calls William Malet the steward and favourite of Henry II. He was one of the recognitors of the Constitutions of Clarendon, one of thirty-eight nobles whose names are attached to that remarkable document, the provisions of which (though ten of the sixteen clauses were disallowed by the Pope) are, in the words of Mr. Stubbs, "no mere engine of tyranny or secular spire against a churchman; they are really a part of a great scheme of administrative reforms, by which the debateable ground between the spiritual and temporal powers can be brought within the reach of common justice, and the lawlessness arising from professional jealousies abolished. That they were really this, and not an occasional weapon of controversy, may be further inferred from the rapidity with which they were drawn up, the completeness of their form, and the fact that notwithstanding the storm that followed they formed the groundwork of the later customary practices in all such matters." I find in Sir A. M.'s MSS. an entry that William Malet married Maud, a daughter of Robert Mortimer, but there is no reference to any source from which to trace any further particulars. He left a son Gilbert, who succeeded to the barony. * Dug. Bar., Vol.I, p.3. In charta Stephani Regis Angliae Ecclesiae Sancti Benedicti de Ramseia, etc. Test: Maud Regina. R: Epo: Sarum. A: Epo: Lincoln. R: Epo: Exon. H. Epo: Ely. R: Comite Warwick. Will'm Martin Milone de Glouc: Wm Malet. Apud Oxenford. Ex excerptis MSS. Ric: St George. Collinson, vol. i, p. 31. * To William Malet, the son of Robert Malet, of Curry and Shepton. Charta Willielmi Malet, 12 R. Hen. II [A.D. 1166.] de Militibus suis in Com. Som: Ex Libro Nigro Schaccarii. Isti sunt milites de veteri feoffamento Willielmi Malet de feodo quod tenet in capite de Rege. Willielmus filius Reginaldi 7 milites et 3m partem militis. Baldwinus Malet 2 milites et 3m partem. Tho's de Halsway 1 mil: Osbert de Eston 3 mil: Roger Arundel 1 mil: Robert de Woda 1 mil: Serlo de Braicot I mil: Jordan de Cnolla 1 mil: Walter de St'o Quintino 1 mil: Jordan de Stafford 1 mil: Radulphus Hosatus dimid mil: Isti sunt de verteri feoffamento, et tot debet Regi. Robert Malherbe 1 mil: et 4 partes mil: Helias de Meigs 4m partem mil. Joh'es Belet et Henry de Lopene 1 mil: PHilip Buzar 5m parem mil. Willielmus Hostiarius 20 part mil. De novo feoffamento isti subscripti. Robertus filius Bernardi 1 mil: Osbert de Bamville 10m partem mil: Malgerious 5m partem. Will'us de Northfolc 10m partem mil: Ipse Willielmus debet Regi in Kent de Honore quem ei dedit dimi: mil: These knights' fees in Somerset of the old and new feoffment which this Baron William Malet held of King Henry II in capite in the twelfth year of his reign, were in number twenty-two entire fees, besides the parts of fees. + Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol. II, pp. 1 and 2. Return made by Abbot of Glastonbury, 12th Henry II, A.D. 1166. Milites qui tenuerunt tempote Regis Henrici (primi) et modo tenet de Abbatia de Glaston. Robertus Malet tenuit feod: x milit: et Hubertus de Sancta Susanna tenuit de eodem ii milit: et modo Will'us Malet tenet totum tenementum pro xii militibus.	Family: F67
78	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 75-76, appendix II1-II5: GILBERT MALET OF CURRY AND SHEPTON, THE SON OF WILLIAM THE SON OF ROBERT, AND COMMONLY CALLED THE SENESCHAL. Gilbert Malet succeeded William Malet, of whom the last recorded date is 1168. Gilbert's first recorded date is 1174, when, with the designation of Seneschal, he was one the witnesses to the treaty of Henry II with William King of the Scots.* There is extant a deed of Gilbert de Northfolk without date, but of much interest; it is a deed of gift to the Monastery of the Holy Saviour, Saint Peter and Saint Athelrim of Atheling for the benefit of his own soul and his wife's, and that of " his Lord William Malet." "His Lord Gilbert Malet" (of whom he held his land in Curry in fee). for himself and for his heirs, confirming and sealing it, and "William the son of Gilbert Malet" witnessing it. Thus we have in one deed the names of three consecutive Barons. I am indebted to Canon Jackson for an extract from the proceedings of the Roxburgh Club,* showing that Gilbert did homage to Henry de Sully, Abbot of Glastonbury, A.D.1139, for lands held in the fee of that Abbey. We have in the time of Henry II, but without date Gilbert Malet the Seneschal a witness to a deed concerning the Danegeld and other liberties of the Church of Christ at Canterbury;+ and the next is an excerpt of Sir William Pole's,++ in which Gilbert names "William Malet my heir, Robert and Ralph his brothers, William Malet my grandson." Thus we are not left in ignorance as to his family, but have more than usual evidence of the relationship of the three last Barons of this branch. Gilbert was succeeded by his eldest son William Malet. * Liber Niger Scaccarii, T. Hearne, p. 36. "Carta conventionis et finis facti inter Henricum Regem Anglorum, filium Matilldis Imperatricis, et Willelmum Regem Scotorum." Among numerous witnesses, Gislebert Malet, Senescallo. This treaty was first made in 1174, and confirmed at York in 1175, Gilbert Malet being an attested witness both times. Sciant praes. et fut. q'd ego Gillebertus de Northfolk divinae pietatis intuitu et pro anima Domini mei Willielmi Malet et pro salute animae meae et uxoris meae; necnon et omnium antecessorum meorum et successorum dedi Deo et Monasterio S. Salvatoris et S. Petri sanctique Athelwini de Athelingen et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus Robertum Vele de Huntham rusticum meum cum dimi. virgat. terrae et v acris et communa morae et toto tenemento suo in pur. et perpet. elemos., etc., et licebit eis ponere praed'm Robertum de Hunteham rusticum suum et totum tenementum suum utrum maluerint ad operationem vel ad denarios; quia in tali conditione fuit ipse Robertus Vele et tenementum suum quando Dominus Rex dedit illud una cum alio tenemento quod habeo apud Cory in excambium pro terra mea de Witteham quam fratribus de Chartuge tenendum dedit. Et ideo volo et charta meo et sigillo meo confirmo, concedente etiam hoc ex parte sua et omnium haeredum suorum Dno. meo Gilleberto Malet et sigillo suo confirmante; de cujus feodo praedictam terram teneo quod ipsi praed. tenementum una cum supradicto Roberto rustico et cum omnibus pertinen't suis et consuetudinibus in liberta't in mora, etc., ab omni saeculari servitio de me et haered. meis liberum et quietum in pur. et perpe't eleemo's omnibus diebus saeculi habeant. Hujus testibus, Adelardo Presbytero, Willielmo filio Gilberti Malet, et aliis. This deed is without date, but from its tenor it may be assumed to be after the death of Willaim Malet the father of Gilbert the Seneschal. * Liber Henrici de Soliaco Abbatis Glaston: et vocatur A. Anno millesimo centesimo octogesimo nono ad Festum Sancti Michaelis fuit Henricus de Soliaco electus et receptus Abbas Glastoniae. Dominica die proxima ante Festum Sancti Dionisii suscepit benedictionem in die Jovis proxima post idem festum recepit hominia de hominibus suis. AMONG THEM-- Iste tenet in rotulo xiiGilbertus Malet fecit homagium feoda et in novo libro x,et fidelitatiem, idem tenet. sed negat duo [in a later hand] Summa xxxvi feoda militum ij hidae et dimidia vii virgate terrae. [In a later hand.] Iste tenet in rotulo feodum, et in novo libro i feodum et dimidium. Preface, p. vii, H. de Soliaco, died A.D. 1196. Old Glastonbury Record, date 1189, last of Ric. I and first of John, edited by Canon Jackson, and presented to the Roxburgh Club by the Marquis of Bath. + Rymer's Foedera, Vol. I, p. 43, temp: Henry II. Carta de Danegeld et aliis libertatibus Ecclesiae Christi Cantuar: Witnesses after the Ecclesiastics--Ricardo de Lucy, Com: de Strigol, Willelmo filio Aldel Dapifero, Gilberto Malet Dapifero, Randolph de Glanville, Philippo de Hastinge. ++ Sir A.M.'s MSS., Vol.I, Sup. I, p. 34. Gilbertus Malet omnibus hominibus suis Francis et Anglicis sa'l, etc. Tes't: Willo: Malet, haerede meo, Roberto et Radulpho fratibus ejus, Will'o Malet nepote meo.	Family: F96
79	Excerpt from "Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family", by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 77-83, appendix KK1-KK9: WILLIAM MALET OF CURRY MALET AND SHEPTON MALET. William, the last of the Barons Malet of Somerset, succeeded his father Gilbert some time after 1189. The exact date is not known, but he must have been in possession 1196, for we learn from Sir A.M.'s MSS., vol. i, sup., p. 36, that he was in Normandy with King Richard in 1195, and that in the ensuing year he paid L. 100 for livery of his inheritance, probably not very long after the death of his father. He married Alicia, the daughter of Thomas Lord Basset,* of whose family we learn that "in subordination to Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, Henry [the First] raised up a set of novi homines, many of whom were, in nobility of blood, below the ideal standard of the ruling race, but who, though not among the tenants in chief of Domesday, were of good Norman descent; of these Geoffrey de Clinton and Ralph Basset were two of Henry's principal justices; the latter founded a great legal family." With his wife he received as her dower the Manor of Coliton in Devon. A deed of gifts* by her to the religious house of Bradley in Wilts, bears a seal consisting of a circle in which are two seals with the ends opposite to one another; the upper shield has the arms of Malet, viz., ermine, a lion passant; the second is barry wavy for Basset; round the seal is inscribed "Sigillum Aliciae Malet, filiae Thomae Basset." By his wife William Malet had two daughters, his co-heiresses, Mabel and Helewise. Mabel, one of his co-heiresses, married Hugh de Vivonia, and was by him an ancestress of the Beauchamps, for+ their son William de Vivonia, called "de Fortibus," married Matilda de Kymedaughter of one of the heirs of Sibylla de Ferrariis, one of the daughters, heirs of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.++ Their eldest daughter married Reginald Fitzpeter, son of Mathew, Lord of Wolverton. Their second daughter Cecilia, the eventual heiress, married John de Bellecampo of Somerset. It is from the deed of recognition of her service due to the Abbot of Glastonbury+++ as inheriting the possessions of William Baron Malet, that we learn what service had been done to the Abbey from the barons of that name. . . . From this union, three generations intervening, came Cicely, one of the coheiresses of John Beauchamp, Lord of Hache. Of her marriage with Sir Roger Seymour sprang, after six generations, Jane Seymour,# Queen of Henry VIII, the mother of Edward VI, and her brother, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England. Helewise, the other daughter and co-heiress of William, married Hugh Poyntz; and secondly, Robert Mucegros. From the first marriage descended the rest of the distinguished family of that name. In the Malet pedigree drawn up in the Herald's College, in the next three generations the representative of the Poyntz family is styled Lord of Cory Malet. This leads to the supposition that Helewise must have been William Lord Malet's eldest daughter, as Cory Malet being held of the King in capite must have been the principal holding, and would naturally have descended to the senior co-heiress. The public life of William Lord Malet was very distinguished. It may be that he as Willus: Malet de Gerarville was one of the twenty-eight nobles who swore to the observance of the treaty between Richard I and the Count of Flanders in 1197.## But M. Andre' Borle' d'Hauterive in the Revue Historique' de la Noblesse### claims this signature as that of William the son of Ernest Malet; but as he claims this son of Ernest to be also the signatory to the Magna Carta, I hardly know what authority to attribute to him. I learn nothing more of William Malet in the reign of Richard, but in 4 John, A.D. 1204,% he paid to the King one hundred shillings for liberty to sue Wm. de Evermue for the Lordship of Swinton. In 1211 he was made Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, which office he held for nearly four years. To this period the acknowledgment of service due to the Priory of Bruton by Henry de Careville must belong.%% In 15 John, A.D. 1214, he served the King with ten knights and twenty soldiers in discharge of some pecuniary liability to the Crown, which however was not fully defrayed, for we find an order in the 3rd year of Henry III%%% directing that payment of 2,000 marks be required from Hugh de Vivonia and Robert Mucegros his sons-in-law, but allowing a deduction of L.50 for the services of the aforesaid knights and soldiers. In 1215 William Malet was one of the twenty-five Barons names as guarantors for the due observance by King John of the Magna Carta.^ Then followed the war with the King, the calling in of aid from France, and the termination of the dissensions by the death of John in his march northwards. William Malet's estates had been confiscated, and he himself, with thirty other nobles, was personally excommunicate by the Pope.^^ I know not if he recovered all of his confiscated possessions during his lifetime, which must have closed at the beginning of the reign of Henry III, but there is an extract from a deed of this Baron by which he gives for the good of his soul land in Cumpton and Baddekera to the convent of Athelwine, in which he designates himself as William Malet son of Gilbert Malet; and among the witnesses are his two brothers Robert and Ralph.%% It is not improbable that this deed was executed shortly before his death, and if so he must have been in possession. In Sir A.M.'s MSS.^^^ there is an entry of Sir Wm. Pole's, but I do not know on what authority that "Baron W. Malet being in arms against K. John, much of his lands in Somerset, Dorset, and Surrey were given to Hugh de Vivonia; and Dadington, com: Oxon: to Thos. Basset, whose daughter Alice he had married having with her that Lordship; but having afterwards made his peace, 9 Henry II [A.D. 1225], his lands were given to the husbands of his daughters after his death." I cannot reconcile this date with that in KK 7 (%%), which gives the date 3 Henry III, A.D. 1219, to the requisition on the sons-in-law to pay the debt owed by William Malet to the Crown, a demand which could not have been made until they had come into possession of the property after the death of their father-in-law. Collinson$ informs us that Curry Malet, where they had a castle, was the principal residence of the Barons Malet. Curry Malet was held in capite of the King, and Shepton Malet of the Abbot of Glastonbury. Roger de Corcelle had made the two manors of the former into one, so that it was a place of some importance. There is an altar tomb at Curry Malet, of which Collinson writes: "In the north aisle of the church [of St. James] is a large tomb, in which are deposited the remains of one of the family of Malet, but the inscriptions are quite illegible. About 60 years since on opening this tomb the corpse was found entire, with one of the legs drawn up, which corresponds with the tradition that the person interred therein had a contracted leg." It seems to me that this tradition may have arisen from a previous examination of the tomb at some former removal. In company with my brother O. Warre Malet, at the invitation of the Rev. Leigh Pemberton, we inspected the tomb; it was in a very inconvenient place between the pulpit and the next pillar, to which (as evident from the cuttings which had been made to fit some prior site) it had not formerly belonged; it was said to have been in the churchyard previously to its removal into this situation; it was therefore probably at first in the church, then in the churchyard, and then in the church again. It has now been again moved to a place in the north aisle near the east window, but with a space all round so that it can be examined on all sides; no trace even of inscription is now visible. At Shepton Malet in the church are two effigies of knights in complete armour; they are in the north aisle, one on the cill [sic] of the east, the other on the cill of the west window; they are rather narrow, and it is supposed were originally placed in canopied recesses in the wall of the church. Mr. Farbrother in his History of Shepton Mallet, page 64, thus describes them as then existing; excepting as to the site the description is perfectly accurate at the present day; at page 64 he writes: "The mutilated effigies of two knights traditionally reported to be two of the Malet family, who were engaged in the crusade to the Holy Land in the time of Henry II, are all that remain of monuments of archaeological interest; they are coeval with the earlier portions of the church, and exhibit fine specimens of sculpture of the period. The figure in the north aisle is clad in chain mail and surcoat; the right arm is extended and rests upon a long heater-shaped shield, which, suspended by a guige or strap, is borne upon the left arm; the legs are crossed, and the scabbard of the sword is visible between the broken feet. The figure in the south aisle has similar accoutrements, the legs crossed, and the feet rest upon a lion; a naked sword with the point upwards lies on the right side. "According to the rules of heraldry, those who died in battle of the victorious party were represented with their swords naked, the points upward on the right side, and their shields on their left, with their helmets on their heads." I see no reason to call in question the truth of the tradition that the tomb and the effigies were of members of the Malet family; both towns were the property of the Malets for four generations after Gilbert Malet the contemporary of William the Conqueror; they were men of great rank and possessions, and would naturally bestow such honour as was customary on their relatives who died in the Holy Land; and their own tombs would also be of more than common magnificence. Their successors also were men of rank and consequence; so that if these effigies at Shepton and the tomb at Curry belonged to them, it seems certain that their names instead of the Malets would have traditionally attached to them. This branch of the family had brief but brilliant existence: the three last in the male line being one William, a recognitor of the Constitutions of Clarendon; the next Gilbert the Seneschal; the last, William one of the guarantors of Magna Carta; whose two heiresses at its close became ancestresses of the families of Beauchamp and Poyntz. Of the former came Jane Seymour, the Queen of Henry VIII, her son, King Edward VI, and the Duke of Somerset the Lord Protector. * She married Thomas Sanford, and thirdly Thomas Biset. Stubbs' Constitutional History of England, vol.i, cap. x, p. 313. * Sciant, etc., quod Ego Alicia Basset in ligea viduitate mea pro salute animae meae D'ni Johannis Biset et antecessorum meorum dedi religiosae domui de Bradleghe, etc., septem homines in manerio meo de Whitford in cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum appomi. Test: D'no Wymundo de Raleghe, D'no Ada Muscell, D'no Roberto de Shiel, D'no Will'o de Widworthy. The attached seal is described in the text. + Sir A.M.'s MSS., vol. i, sup. 2, p. 40. ++ This Matilda had for her first husband Simon de Kyme, and after the death of William de Fortibus married as her third husband Emericus de Rupe Cavardi. +++ From Sir. A.M.'s MSS., from a portion copied from Sir Wm. Pole's MS. In nostris excerptis ex registro Glaston. Recognitio D'nae Celciliae de Bellocampo de servito decem magnorum feodorum debet Eccl'ae Glaston. Anno Regni Regis Edwardi [primi] 15'o, [A.D. 1287] mense Decembri, convenit inter Johannem Abbatem Glaston, et ejusdem loci conventum ex parte una, et D'na Cecilia de Bellocampo Dominam de Dunden, unam haeredum D'ni Willelmi de Fortibus, et altera. Scilicet, q'd cum praedictus Abbas peteret a praedicta Cecilia servitium 10 feodorum militum de magnis feodis de manerio suo de Dunden membris et pertinentiis suis quae tenet nomine Purpartis suae de praedicto Abbate et monasterio suo Glaston de haereditate praedicta. Eadem Cecilia regonovit pro se et haered. suis se tenere praedictum manerium cum membris et appendiciis suis de praedicto Abbate et conventu et monasterio suo Glaston, pro octo magnis feodis militum tantum. Et praedicta Cecilia benevult et concedit pro se et haered. suis q'd praedictus Abbas et Conventus et successores sui appropriare sibi possent in servito ut in dominico medietatem--1-- feodi militis in Ayeshcote de uno feodo militis quod Richardus de Chelton de ea tenuit in eadem villa et alibi quiete, absque jure, clameo, vel demando, dictae Ceciliae et haeredum suorum in perpetuum. Et ulterius ipsa Cecilia et haeredes sui tenent praed. manerium de Dunden cum membris et appendiciis suis pro octo magnis feodis militum tantum in perpetuum. Et praedictus Ricardus de Chelton et haeredes sui de caetero respondeant et intendant eidem Ceciliae et haeredibus suis de medietate unius feodi militis in Chelton, et alibi praeter Ayeshcote ut in wardis, homagiis, relevis, scutagiis, auxiliis, et aliis servitiis inde debitis et consuetis. Nec propter hoc excludatur praed. Abbas et Conventus vel successores sui qui possunt distringere in praedicto dominico feodo sicut in aliis feodis praedictis pro releviis auxiliis scutagis et aliis servitiis si quae sibi a retro fuerint de dicta Cecilia vel haeredibus suis. De alio vero medietate, scilicet in Ayeshcote eisdem Abbati et Conventui dictus Ricardus et haeredes sui de caetero sunt respondentes, ut praedictum est. Tenentes vero Manerii de Shepton Malet cum membris et appendiciis suis praeter praedicta octo feoda in Dunden eidem Abbati et Monasterio suo praedicto respondeant de servitio duorum magnorum feodorum militum tantum sicut prius consuevereunt. Nec intelligendum est q'd octo feoda militum in Corscumbe aut alia feoda vel tenementa alibi quae Dominus Hugo Poynz tenet de haereditate Willielmi Malet de praedicto Abbate sint de haereditate praedicti Willielmi de Fortibus, licet quondam Willielmus Malet aliquando ea tenuit ut dicitur. Et hoc idem praedicta Cecilia per praesentem scripturam pro se et haeredibus suis recognescens testatur. Et sciendum est quod praedictus Abbas et Conventus et successores sui de caetero clamere non possunt de praedicta Cecilia vel haeredibus suis nisi servitia decem magnorum feodorum militum de tota haereditate praedicti Willielmi de Fortibus, scilicet de Dunden membri et appendiciis suis servitia octo magnorum feodorum militum: et de Shepton Malet membris et appendiciis suis servitia duorum magnorum feodroum militum. In cujs rei testimonium huic scripto in modum chirographicon facto tam praedictus Abbas et Conventus quam praedicta Cecilia sigilla sua alternatim apposuere. Hujus testibus: Dominius Johanne de Columbariis, Humfredo de Kael, Gilberto de Cnouile, Simone de Forney, Galfrido de Stawel, Militibus; Will'o Cricket, Will'o de Faveler, Ric'o Pyke, Alexandro de la Lynde, Will'o le Border, Rogero le Blunt, et aliis. # Froude's History of England, Vol. III, p. 260. "A worse misfortune could scarcely have befallen the King (unless the loss of the child had been added to that of the mother) than the death of Jane Seymour. Although she makes no figure in history, though she took no part in state questions, and we know little either of her sympathies or opinions, her name is mentioned by both Protestant and Catholic with unreserved respect. She married the King under circumstances peculiarly agitating, without preparation, without attachment either on her part or on his, but under the pressure of a sudden and tragical necessity. Her uprightness of character and sweetness of disposition had earned her husband's esteem, and with his esteem an affection deeper than he had perhaps anticipated. At her side, at his own death, he desired that his body might be laid." ## Rymer's Foedera, Vol. I, p. 68, A.D. 1197, 8 Richard I. Confederatio facta inter Ricardum Regem Angliae et Baldwynum, Comitem Flandriae de auxilio hinc inde contra Regem Franciae praestando imperpetuam inter eos et inter haeredes eorum. . . qui juraverunt in praesentia dicti Regis Angliae et dicti Comitis Flandriae. Among twenty-eight names occurs Willielmus Malet de Geravill. ### Revue Historique de la Noblesse, Andre Borel d'Hauterive, Tom. I, p. 375. Ernest Malet, Sire de Graville, etant fils de Guillaume II; il eut pour femme Adele, de la race des Comtes de Glocester, Sires de Thorigny. [Here he names other Malets as then existing.] Le Pere Anselme quoiqu'il mentionne le nom Guillaume II pere d'Ernest qu'a` partir de ce degre'. Ernest eut entre autres enfans-- I'o Robert Malet, Sire de Gravile, qui suit. 2'o Guillaume Malet de Gerardivilla ou Graville, qui signa en 1197, avec Guillaume de Mortemar, Le Comte Meulan, et autres seigneurs, la confederation formee par Richard Roi d'Angleterre et Baudoin Comte de Flandres contre Philippe Auguste. C'est a lui sans doute qu'il faut rapporter la donation faite par Guillaume Malet de Graville a l'Eglise de St. Honorine rapportee en entier dans le Neustria Pia, p. 864, commencee ainsi, "omnibus ad quos presens carta perveniret Guillelmus Malet de Gerardivilla." Elle fut confermee par l'Archeveque de Rouen en 1203. En 1214 il fut avec les grands feudatoires de Normandie et d'Angleterre garant pour le Roi Jean de la paix juree entree ce Prince et le Roi de France. L'annee suivante il est au nombre des Barons signataires de la Grande Charte d'Angleterre, et se retrouva dans la bulle d'excommunication lancee par le Pape Innocent contre ces Seigneurs pour avoir tente de deposer leur Roi ce que n'appartient qu'a l'Eglise Romaine. % Sir A.M.'s MSS., vol. i, sup. i, p. 38 %% Extracts from a copy of Sir Wm Pole's Collection re Family of Malet. Quae sequuntur Chartae de Familia Maletorum descriptae sunt ex registro MS. Prioratus de Bruton in agro Somerset. P. 19 in nostris excerptis ex isto registro. Omnibus, etc., Henricus de Careville, sal. Noverit universitas vestra me in pleno comitatu de Yvelcester recognovisse quod ego et omnes homines mei debemus sequi Hundredum de Bruton quod est Canonicorum ejusdem loci sicut antecessores mei fecerunt et sicut omnes milites et liberi tenentes ad jam dictum Hundredum pertinentes facimus vel facere debent hanc autum recognitionem feci Dei et B. Mariae et Canonicis ejusdem loci Willielmo Malet tuch existente Vicecomte et Rogero de Reynes subvicecomite. Hujus testibus: W. de Montacuto, Ricardo Rivello, Waltero de Asselegh, H. Lupello, Gervas de Sparkford, Will'o Godemanston, H. de Campoflorido, Johanne filio Ricardi, Will'o de Dreycot, et Waltero de Legh. Without date. %%% Rex baronibus Scaccarii salutem. Sciatis quod protestatum est coram nobis et consilio nostro quod Will'us Malet habuit cum Domino Johanne Rege patri nostro in exercitu suo, cum ultimo fuisset in Pictavia a die Purificationis Beatae Mariae Virginis usque ad Festum Beati Dionisii utraque die computata, decem milites quorum cujuslibet liberatio computanda est per diem ad duos solidos; et habuit idem Will'us in eodem exercitu per idem tempus viginti servientes, quorum cujuslibet liberatio computanda est per idem ad vij'd unde summa est quingentae librae, et ideo vobis mandamus quatenus in demand: duorum millium marcarum de debito ejusdem Will'i id exigatur ad opus nostrum de Hugone de Vivonia et Rob't de Mucegros, qui duas filias et haeredes ipsius Will'i habent in uxores, eisdem Hugoni et Roberto praedict: quingentas libras computetis. Ita quod praedicti Hugo et Robetus de Illis 500 li: sint quieti. Teste meipso apud Wes'm 22 Oc't anno praedicto. ^ After Magna Carta we find-- De xxv Baronibus qui constituti sunt a rege emendatores legum praedictarum. Cum autem pro Deo et ad emendationem regni nostri et ad melius sopiendam discordiam inter nos et barones nostros [ortam] haec omnia concesserimus, volentes ea integra et firma stabilitate gaudere facimus et concedimus eis securitatem subscriptam: videlicet, quod Barones eligant viginta quinque barones de regno nostro quos voluerint, qui debeant pro totis viribus suis observare tenere et facere observari pacem et libertates quas eis concessimus, et hac praesenti carta nostra confirmavimus; ita scilicet quodsi nos vel justiciarii nostri [vel ballivi nostri] erga aliquem in aliquo deliquerimus; vel aliquem articulorum pacis et securitatis transgressi fuerimus, et delictum fuerit ostensum quatuor baronibus de viginti quinque baronibus, illi quatuor barones accedent ad nos vel ad justiciarium nostrum, si fuerimus extra regnum, proponentes nobis excessum petent ut sine dilatione faciamus emendari, et si nos excessum non emendaverimus, vel justicarius noster si fuerimus extra regnum infra tempus quadraginta dierum computandum a tempore quo monstratum fuerit nobis, praedicti quatuor barones cum communa totius terrae distringent et gravabunt nos modis omnibus quibus poterunt; scilicet per captionem castrorum terrarum possessionum et aliis modis quibus poterunt, donec fuerit emendatum secundum arbitrium eorum ; salva persona nostra et reginae nostrae et liberorum nosttorum. Et cum fuerit emendatum intendent nobis sicut prius fecerunt. [Here follow the provisions for a majority of the twenty-five to act, the four castles to be given up to them, aliens to be removed, etc.] Data per manum nostram in prato quod vocatur Runningemade, intra Stanes et Windleshore, decima quinta die Junii anno regni nostri decimo septimo. Isti sunt xxv barones electi:-- Comes de Clare, Comes Albemarle, Comes Gloverniae, Comes Wintoniae, Comes Herefordiae, Comes Rogerus [Bigod], Comes Robertus [de Vere], Comes Marescallus junior, Robertus filius Walteri, Gilebertus de Clare, Eustachius de Vesci, Hugo Bigod, Willelmus de Munbrai, Major de Londoniis [Wm Hardel], Wil- lelmus de Lanval, Robertus de Ros, Constabularius Cestriae, Ricardus de Perci, Johannes filius Roberti, Willelmus Malet, Galfridus de Say, Rogerus de Munbrai, Willelmus de Huntinge- feld, Ricardus de Muntfichet, Willelmus de Albineto. Isti viginti quinque barones juraverunt in animabus suis, rege hoc disponente quod omni instantia haec obsequerentur et regem cogerent si forte resipisci vellet hoc tenere. _______________ ^^ EXCOMMUNICATIO SPECIALIS IN BARONES ANGLIAE. Rymer's Foedera, Vol.I, Part I, p. 139. A.D. 1215, A'o 17 Johan. Innocentius Episcopus et Abbati de Albendune, Archidiacono Pictaviensi, et Magistro Roberto Officiali Norwicensis Ecclesiae, salutem. Ad vestram volumus pervenire notitiam quod nos nuper in generali concilio constituti excommunicavimus et anathemisavimus ex parte Omnipotentis Dei Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti authoritate quoque beati Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus, ac nostra, Barones Angliae cum adjutoribus et fautoribus suis, qui Johannem illustrem Regem Anglorum cruce signatum et vassallum Romanae Ecclesiae persequuntur; molientes ei regnum auferre quod ad Romam Ecclesiam dignoscitur pertinere. Insuper excommunicamus et anathematisamus omnes illos qui ad occupandum vel invadendum regnum ipsum aut impediendum euntes in ejusdem regis succursum operam vel opem impenderunt. Et terras eorundem Baronum Ecclesiastico subjicimus interdicto. Aggravamus etiam in eosdem fortius manus nostras si nec sic a suo destiterint iniquo proposito cum in hac parte pejores sint Saracenis, decernentes si quis clericus cujuscunque dignitatis aut ordinis praedictas excommunicationis aut interdicti sententias violare praesumpserit anathematis se sciat mucrone percussum et non quantocius praesipuerit ab omni officio et beneficio deponendum. Quo circa discretione vestra per Apostolico scripta praecipiendo mandamus, quatenus per totam Angliam publicare faciatis praescripta, eademque faciatis authoritate nostra, sublato cujuslibet conditionis et appellationis obstaculo inviolabiliter observari. Volumus etiam nihilominus et mandamus ut quosdam barones Angliae quos venerabilis pater noster Wintoniensis Episcopus et dilecti filii Abbas de Reding et Magister Pandulphus Subdiaconus et familiaris noster deligati a nobis excommunicatos personaliter nominaverunt quia ipsos in praescriptis culpabiles invenerunt videlicet cives illos Londinenses qui fuerunt principales praenominatae perversitatis auctores. Robertum filium Walteri, S. Comitem Winton, R. filium ejus, G. de Mandavilla et Will'm fratrem ejus; Com. de Clare, G. filium ejus, H. Com. de Hereford, R. de Percy, E. de Vesci, I. Constabularium Cestriae, Will'm de Mumbray, Will'm de Albineto , W. filium ejus, R. do Ros et W. filium ejus, P. de Brus, R. de Cresci, Johannem filium ejus, Ranulphum filium Roberti, R. Com. Bigod, H. filium ejus , R. de Ver, Fulconem filium Warini, W. Malet, W. de Monte acuto, W. filium Marescalli, W. de Bellocampo, S. de Kime, R. de Monte Begonis, Nicolaum de Stutevilla. Necnon et alios in praedictorum judicum sententia nominatim expressos cum complicibus et fautoribus eorundem auctoritate apostolica ex- communicatos per totam Angliam publice denuntiari faciatis: et ab omnibus arctius evitari singulis diebus Dominicis et festivis solenniter innovari hujusmodi sententiam facientes ac denuntiantes inviolabitier observari: civitatemque Londinensem ecclesiastico suppositam interdicto; contradictores per censuram ecclesiasticam appellatione postposita compescendo. Magistrum etiam Gervasium Londinensem Cancellarium qui sicut a judicibus praefatis accepimus dicti regis et suorum mani- festissimus exstitit persecutor excommunicatum publice denunciatis ac suspensum graviori etiam poena nisi congrue satisfecerit puniendum. Quodsi vos omnes, etc. Datum Laterani decimo septimo Calendas Januarii, Pontificatus nostri anno decimo octavo. ^^^ Vol. i, sup. i, p. 39. $ Vol. iii, p. 462.	Family: F98
80	Family Bible.	Family: F128
81	Flores is now (2006) a part of Buenos Aires, but at the time of Mary's marriage it was mainly composed of country houses from the wealthy people of the City. Her father's occupation was given as British Consul, though he had died 2 years previous. Peter Blaney and Georgina Mallet were witnesses.	Family: F166
82	Franks' occupation was still Draper, and he was an employer. There were no more children listed than in 1891, so it seems a safe bet that they had only the two. They had several boarders living with them, all involved in the Draper's trade, one of whom was George Heywood, Frank's cousin, 17 years old born in Kilkhampton, Cornwall. There also have 2 visitors, Rose Matthews, 24, from Bristol, and Vera M Penwarden, 26, from Newent, Gloucester. Both ladies were single.	Family: F364
83	Franks' occupatrion was draper, Mary had no occupation in 1891. George is 2 months old, Olive 1 year.	Family: F364
84	Fred gave his "age at first marriage" as 20 in the 1930 census, which gives a marriage year of 1893.	Family: F136
85	Frederick was a Farmer employing one farm worker.	Family: F360
86	Frederick's occupation is Retail Ironmonger.	Family: F437
87	Frederick, Annie, and Archibald are all gone from home, but Bertram is still there. Frederick and Archibald both have families of their own in 1901, not sure about Annie. A granddaughter "Eloner", daughter of Archibald, is with them.	Family: F165
88	from Manitoba to Vancouver, British Columbia	Family: F119
89	From Prince Edward Island to South Dakota. According to both the 1920 and the 1930 census, they immigrated to the US in 1915. They may have lived somewhere other than South Dakota initially, but Pollock, South Dakota is where they were in both 1920 and 1930.	Family: F202
90	George age 24 bachelor labouror of Bromley. father John, deceased (housepainter) Mary age 25 spinster of 35 St John Penge. father John Isaac (platelayer)	Family: F28
91	George was then a Hotel / Pub Proprietor with several employees, one of whom was Sarah Smale, 20, apparently no relation.	Family: F359
92	George's occupation was "Hosier Hab" (Haberdasher), and he was an employer. George and Mary were married less than one year, and there were no children. Their street number is given as 334 & 336, and there are two households enumerated under this address. The second household consists of Ann Crumley and her children. She was 61 and born in Leitrim, Ireland.	Family: F365
93	GRO Registry entry - June 1/4 of 1845, Bideford 10, 75. As per certificate MXA743618 from the General Register Office, England prepared January 3rd, 2001. 1845. Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Alwington in the County of Devon. No. 15 When married: April 17 Name and Surname: William Mallett and Elizabeth Glover Age: both of "full age" Condition: Bachelor and Spinster Rank or Profession: Labourer (William), nothing for Elizabeth Residence at the Time of Marriage: both show Ford Father's Name and Surname: William Mallett John Glover Rank or Profession of Father: William Mallett - Laborer John Glover - Laborer Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Cermonies of the Established Church, after Banns by me, Robt H. ?, Officiating Minister. This Marriage was solemnized between us, + (his mark) William Mallett + (her mark) Elizabeth Glover in the Presence of us, John Barman? Chas ?	Family: F3
94	Guessing year - this would make her 15.	Family: F15
95	Gyles' and Elizabeth's marriage was recorded in the Iddesleigh parish register, as was the birth of their daughter Jane. The 3 sons were mentioned in Gyles' brother Hugh's will, written in 1688, but not his own written 1697/8, 10 years later. The daughter Jane was mentioned in Gyles' will, but only in relation to a "renunciation", whatever that meant. It is possible that the sons were dead, but that doesn't seem likely. All of Gyles' possessions were given to his wife, so that could explain why the sons were not mentioned. Jane didn't receive anything, and she was clearly alive.	Family: F107
96	Had children.	Family: F390
97	He was "of Temple Hill, East Budleigh", and was the Rector of Monk Okehampton when they married.	Family: F114
98	He was 48 and a bachelor when he married. She was 36 and a spinster. He is described as a farmer in Wilmot Twp. Her parents lived in New Hamburg.	Family: F66
99	He was a Farmer of 240 acres employing 2 Labs and 2 Serv. Lewis' brother Richard Banbury, an Annuitant, age 40, lives with them. Rather young to be an annuitant. Perhaps there was something wrong with him, but it doesn't say so in the census. There are no children listed.	Family: F448
100	He was a farmer. They had one general domestic servant living with them.	Family: F358

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