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presence and with the assent of the aforesaid Robert Fitz Robert, 
William de Curzun, Robert [defaced], Robert Hare, Roger Fitz 
William, Eudo the butler, and Geoffrey de Edelingehale, who did 
acknowledge their services.* 
1208. Derby. Saturday next after the Feast of S. Martin, 10 John. 
November 15. Between Stephen Fitz Henry, Plaintiff, and Richard, Prior 
of Reppedone, Zezant. 
Release, on an assize of mort d’ancestor, by Plaintiff, in considera- 
tion of 10s., to Tenant, in perpetuity, of 2 oxgangs of land in 
Tikenhal. 
November 15. Derby. Same date. 
Between Cristiana, daughter of Robert, Plazntff; and Alan de 
Sumerville, Zenant. 
Release, on an assize of mort d’ancestor, by Plaintiff, in considera- 
tion of 2 marks, to Tenant, in fee, of 5 virgates of land, and the 
third part of 2 virgates of land in Wivelesle (Willesley) and 
Pakinton claimed by Plaintiff as her reasonable portion of her 
sister’s inheritance. 
November 15. Derby. Same date. 
Between Henry de Herthull and Hawisia his wife, Plaintiffs, and 
Henry de Hotot, Zenant. 
Release, on an assize of mort d’ancestor, by Plaintiffs to Tenant, 
in fee, of an oxgang of land, and the fourth part of a mill in 
Hyolegrave.+ 
November 16. [Derby.] Sunday next after the Feast ot S. Martin, 10 John. 
Between Robert de Al...el, Plaintiff, and Hugh de Findern, 
Tenant. 
Release, on a recognizance of great assize, by Plaintiff, in 
* Robert de Curzon, by his wife Alice, had three sons, Richard, Thomas, 
and Robert. From Richard, the eldest son, descended the Curzons of 
Croxall, Edingale, and Twyford. Robert, the third son, became a celebrated 
Cardinal. From Thomas, the second son, descended the Curzons of Kedleston, 
the manor being left him by his father. But Thomas died young, leaving an 
infant son, Thomas, to the guardianship of his uncle Richard. Alice, widow of 
Robert de Curzon, meanwhile married a Somerville, and on her grandson 
coming of age claimed Kedleston as part of her dower. Thereupon arose an 
intricate and interesting, though unnatural, lawsuit of some years’ duration. 
Plea Rolls, John 7-9.—Ussher’s ‘* History of Croxall Parish,” pp. 4, 5 3 Cox’s 
“ Churches of Derbyshire,” vol. iii. pp. 172, 3.—Eb. 
+ Harthill, a small township of the Parish of Bakewell (where there used to 
be an ancient chapel, and the large manor house of the Harthill family), adjoins 
the Parish of Youlgreave. The Harthills held much land in the Parish of 
Youlgreave up to 1390, when it passed by marriage to the Cokaynes, with 
whom it remained for two centuries, when it was purchased by Sir John 
_ Manners.—Ep. 
