20 CODNOR CASTLE, AND ITS ANCIENT OWNERS. 



I think the following table may help to solve the difficulty :- 



" Warner " of Domesday held Codn'OR, = 

 Shirland, Upton, &c. I 



" Robert Jitz Warner " held lands in Toton, 

 Benefactor to Lenton. 



William de = 

 CODNOR I 



I 



"Robert fil William de Codenhour,' held 

 \ a fee in Radcliffe. 



isolda, heiress of Codnor, — Henry de Grey. 



Toton, | 



Radcliff. V 



The first mention of Henry de Grey that I can find occurs 

 on the Pipe Roll of 7 Ri. I., a.d. 1196, when he was excused 

 payment of iocs, scutage for the redemption of the king, because 

 he was with the army in Normandy. He was certainly married to 

 the heiress of Codnor before the year 1208, as appears from an 

 ancient deed among the muniments preserved at Haddon Hall. 

 This document is so valuable and so interesting that with your 

 permission I will read it.* It is without date, but as Sampson de 

 Strelley, one of the witnesses named in it, died in 1208, I am 

 justified in saying that the marriage took place before that year. 



{Translatio7i). 



" Know ye, as well present as future, that I, Henry de Grey and 

 Ysoud, my wife, concede, give, and by this our charter, have 

 confirmed to William, the son of Robert, and his heirs, a certain 

 angular space of our park of Shirland, as much as Robert, his 

 father, held beyond the water which is called " Grivel," as a 

 boundary between our park aforesaid, and his park of Alfreton, 

 holding of us and our heirs to himself and his heirs freely and 

 quietly for ever, according to a certain territory which he granted 



* Tliis paper was read at Co inor Castle before the Society at the last annual 

 excursion. 



