194 THE VERNONS OF HADDON HALL. 



forfeited his estates in that county in 6 & 7 Rich. I., and he adds 

 that he obtained the king's favour, and that his estates were 

 afterwards restored to him : and certainly Derbyshire Pipe Rolls 

 show that he was assessed down to 16 John, though his name 

 may have been kept up after his death, as was often the case in 

 subsidies. We have no proof in English records of his death, 

 from the fact that he selected a Norman domicile on the 

 separation of Normandy from England, as the Quo Warranto 

 Rolls for the Channel Islands cited by General Wrottesley prove, 

 and probably his son William retired to Normandy on his death, 

 though we have no proof of it. 



Again, we fail to find any record of the deaths of the three sons 

 of Wm. fil Richard de Vernon ; probably, however, they all retired 

 to Normandy Richard, the eldest, is lost to us after the latter 

 part of Henry III.'s reign, although Staffordshire Plea Rolls 

 show that he was alive in 4 Ed. I. Haddon, and the Derbyshire 

 estates, had then for some time been in the hands of Gilbert le 

 Fraunceis. 



Amongst the Haddon charters there is one dated 46 H. HI., 

 proving that Gilbert le Franceis was then dealing with the Baslow 

 property, possibly only as a trustee. He, with Reginald Huscota, 

 granted to Hugo de Edinshaile a lease of the quarries of Baslow 

 for 10 years. By another charter, sans date, at Belvoir, Gilbert le 

 Franceys, Kt., granted to Richard de Bassilow the bovate which 

 Adam Bond held in Bobenhill. Witnesses: Robt. de Herthill, 

 Walter de Kent, Rd. le Ragged, Hy. de Tadington, Hy. Foljambe, 

 and others. 



No doubt Yorkshire records, as well as those of Cumberland, 

 would give a complete history of the Frances family, but the 

 historians of those counties are so careless of their historical 

 documents, that none are accessible, and the only historian worthy 

 of the name— the late General Harrison — had devoted himself to 

 only a small portion of the county. From his work we learn that 

 in 2 Rich. I., Roald le Franceys gave land in Dalton to Warin 

 Travers of Dalton Travers. 



23 H. III., John Franceys, probably a grandson of Roald, 



