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my father Stephen who died near the road to Jerusalem (in peinety 
wie jerosolimitane) . . . ‘my mill of Erlestokes with the ad- 
jacent land and the man of the mill with all his progeny and the 
grinding of my men of the same town at the same mill.” ! 
There were two mills at Erlestoke at this period or a little later. One 
called Marsh Mill (Pat. Roll, 117, 26 Edw. I., m. 30), must, to judge from 
its name, be that which stood until comparatively recent times, in the park 
opposite the first house in ‘t Lower Street,” and the other, the subject of this 
charter, that which tradition states to have been situated by the ‘‘Island” 
Pond of the present day. The history of this mill can be traced for many 
years. In 1534-5 it was still in the possession of Montacute Priory, and its 
annual rent was 20s. (Valor Ecclesiasticus). After the suppression of the 
monasteries William Brown, collector of rents, accounted to the Exchequer 
for 20s., the amount of rent of a mill in Erlestoke, lately the property of the 
priory, of which Robert Newman was the tenant (Exch. Min. Acc., 30—381 
Hen. VIII., Wiltshire, No. 128, m. 33), and in 1559-60 the water-mill in 
Erlestoke, then or lately in the tenure of Robert Newman or his assigns and 
parcel of the possession of Montacute Priory, was sold to Robert Davye, and 
Henry Dynne (Pat. Roll 949, 2 Eliz., part 2, m. 8). : 
This grant is confirmed by the King for the first time in the 
first charter of Henry II. 2 the date of which is considered by a 
high authority to be 1155.3 In this year, also, died Karl Baldwin 
de Redvers, with whom Stephen de Mandeville’s journey to 
Jerusalem was made.® The statement by Leland is that these 
two, from motives of piety, made a journey over sea, on which 
journey Stephen died while Baldwin got home with difficulty 
(agre domum reversus est), and it may be concluded that Baldwin’s 
death followed soon after his return, while the reference to the 
journey seems rather to suggest a private pilgrimage than a 
participation in the Crusade of 1147. 
Of the bearers of the name “de Mandeville” there were in 
England two families that may be distinguished as of the East and 
of the West of England. Whether or no the two were descended 
from a common ancestor it seems impossible to state positively. 
Mr. Stapleton, in his observations on the Norman Exchequer, 
connects the Erlestoke with the Essex family, and derives them 
1 MS. 85, Trin. Coll., Oxon., fols. 75 and 76. 
2 MS. 85, Trin. Coll., Oxon., fols. 7 and 8. 
3 Somerset Record Society, vol. 8, p. 247. 
4 Dugdale, Baronage, I., 255. 
5 Leland, Collectanea, I., 446. 
