98 SOME ANCIENT DOCUMENTS. 
table will be useful in showing the connection between the Holme 
family and the Welwicks :— 
Thomas de Holme, of 
Paul Holme in Holder- 
ness, co. York, and of 
Holmesfield in the par. 
of Dronfield, co. Derby.= 
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John Holme of=  Ancoretta Ralph de Welwick of = 
Paul Holme and | dau. of Peter Barnetby (Barnby-on- 
Holmesfield. - de la Twyer, Don?) and of Dore in 
Living about | Esq. (Poulson.) parish of Dronfield and 
1280, co. of Derby, knight. 
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other children Ursula = Ralphde Emma de = John, nephew & 
(Poulson) (Poulson) Welwick of Welwick heir of Henry 
Barnetby and married All de Preston, who 
Dore, Lord of Souls’ Day, held lands at 
the Manor of 1280. Waxham in 
Dore. (Calendarium Holderness. 
Living 1325. Genealogicum) (Cal. Gen.) 
It will be evident from what has been said above that the family 
of Holme or Del Holme gave their name to the village of Holmes- 
field, and that as Holmesfield is mentioned in the Domesday 
Book, the family had possessions there at that early period. The 
word fo/m means a river-island, and it is evident that the Holme 
family acquired their name through dwelling near the Humber. 
Attached to the Holme charters (the two are fastened together) 
are the remains of a seal. What the seal was cannot be ascer- 
tained. It is contained in a highly-ornamented quatre-feuille, and 
around it are a few letters of a legend which cannot now be read. 
The chief-rent reserved by Charter II. is a rose, to be given to 
the lord once a year, on the 24th of June, or Midsummer Day. 
It is, however, coupled with an ungracious condition—obliging 
the lord to fetch it. This is something like our modern, though 
less elegant, nominal rent of ‘‘a peppercorn if demanded.” In 
Charters VII. and IX. the tenants are to take as much wood as 
they require for fencing, for repairs of their houses, and for 
making their ploughs and the wheels of their wagons. This had 
been usual in past times. 
