1 8 ANNALS OF HORESTON AND HORSLEY. 



" Hugo de Buron, son of Ralph, considering out of the reason- 

 ing given him of God, that the life of this transitory age was short 

 and troublesome, and that he that giveth to the poor of Christ 

 lendeth unto God, on the day when the lady Albreda, his wife, 

 was buried, for her soul and the souls of his sons and daughters, 

 and all his ancestors, by the consent of his sons Hugh and Roger, 

 gave to the church of the Holy Trinity at Lenton, his land at 

 Almeton, which gift he and his beloved sons laid on the greater 

 altar, in the presence of Humphrey the Prior and the whole 

 convent of brethren." 



This Hugh de Buron had two sons, Hugh the elder, and Roger. 

 It appears that the elder son became a monk during his father's 

 lifetime, and that the estates were inherited by Roger the younger, 

 who succeeded his father in 1156, when he paid 40 marks into the 

 exchequer for his fine or "relief," 



" Hugo de Buron, the elder brother of Roger, gave his body to 

 God and the church of Holy Trinity at Lenton, and there took 

 the habit and religion of the Cluniac monks, that God might 

 avert the scourge of his wrath, due for the very great multitude 

 of his sins, and for the soul of his lord, Richard I., and others, 

 gave and granted to God and the said church of Lenton, and 

 to the monks, the whole town of Ossington with all its 

 appendages." 



It appears that he had previously given Ossington to the 

 Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, which subsequently 

 was the cause of litigation between the monks of Lenton and the 

 Knights Hospitallers. 



We now come to Roger, the younger son, who succeeded his 

 father Hugh in n 56. In the Red Book of the Exchequer we 

 find his certificate or carta of his estates as follows : — "To Henry 

 the King of England, Duke of Normandy, &c, Roger de Buron — 

 health — concerning my knights who held land in the time of 

 Henry I. know that they are 



(a) William de Heriz, who holds 2 fees. 



(b) Roger de Cotingstock holds in Cotingstock and Rempston 



2 fees. 



