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NOTES. 



(n) There are several Alureds mentioned in Domesday Book, but we know 

 nothing of their history. Of the Alured in the text we only know that he was 

 not lord of Marlborough, in Wilts, the castle and manor so called being a royal 

 demesne— that is an estate kept in the king's own hands— from the Conquest 

 down to the time of Henry VIII. 



(b) I read "eni.," as a contraction of enim ; Plautus has eiiim me nominat. 



(c) The word is not very clear in the original, but it may be intended for 

 mannum, an ambling nag, or palfrey, and the whole sentsnce would thus imply 

 that the king gave the lands referred to in consideration of the gift of a palfrey. 

 Such tenures were common in feudal times. 



(d) The two concluding words of this paragraph are not wholly legible, part of 

 the first letter of " uacs" being effaced, and the latter word being doubtful. I take 

 it for pertinentes, unusually contracted to fit the space, as it comes at the end of 

 the line. F. E. 



Leland described the extent of the Lordship of the Castle in more understand- 

 able terms as " a myle in breadth wher it is narrowest, and most in length two 

 myles. It hath good come and grasse and woode." (Itin. vol. viii., p. 83.) 



How Alured de Marleborough became possessed of the Castle of Ewyas 

 the Survey tells. It was King Harold's property granted by William. The 

 same Alured also received the grant from William of the following 

 manors, which it is distinctly stated in the Sui-vey " Herald tenuit," viz. : Hope, 

 Manetune, Brochevrdie, Edtune, Penebrvge, Burgelle, Stratford, and Cvvre. How 

 he lost Bwias Harold, history sayeth not. He may possibly have sold or had to 

 resign it to the particular Harold who rebuilt the castle at the end of the century. 

 Supposing this to have been King Harold's son restored to his father's possession, 

 the origin of the name would be clear enoagh. Leland writes (1530) "greate 

 parte of Map-Herald Castell is yet standynge, and a Chapelle of Seint Nicholas 

 in it. Ther was sumetyme a Parke by the Castell. The Castell stondythe on a 

 mene hill, " Nothing remains of it now but the mound and the fossa. 



From Harold, the histoi-y becomes much better known, and can be traced 

 down with much greater certainty. Mr. Fowle's paper gives all these details ; I 

 will only add in Leland's words, "Ther is a village by the Castell cauUyd Ewis 

 Haralde, in the whiche was a Priorie, or ceU of Blake Monks, translatyd from 

 Dulesse village, a myle and upper on the broke. Dules village longed to Harold. 

 Filius Haraldi foundyd this at Dules : Robertus Tregoz translatyd it from Dules 

 to Mapheralt : It was a cell to Gloucester." (Itin. vol. viii. p. 84). This monastry 

 is supposed to have been removed to Ewias Harold about the year 1100, and 

 remained there until the year 1358, when it was reunited to Gloucester. There 

 are no remains of the Priory, and "its very site," says Mr. Fowle, "cannot now 

 be identified." The Cartulary of the Priory, extending through the whole of its 

 existence is stiU extant, and for a sketch of it, and for many other interesting 

 particulars relating to Ewyas Harold I must refer you once again to Mr, Fowle's 



