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€rlestoIie mxb xb ^nnor '§oxh. 



By John Watson-Taylor. 

 (Continved from vol. xxxiii., p. 383 J 



The second period of Eiiestoke history begins, as has been 

 shown, with the thirteenth century, when the only surviving 

 heiress of this branch of the De Mandeville family married 

 Matthew Fitz-Herbert and brought Erlestoke to him as part of her 

 inheritance. The family to which Matthew belonged is generally 

 known now by the name of Fitz-Herbert, though as a matter of fact 

 it had no fixed surname but created a new one in each generation 

 out of the Christian name of the father. Thus Herbert, Peter, 

 and John, the sons of Matthew, were called Fitz-Matthew, and 

 his grandson and successor Fitz-John, while the descendants of his 

 brother Peter were successively called Fitz-Peter, Fitz-Reginald, 

 Fitz-John, and Fitz-Herbert. The name of Fitz-Herbert has 

 become associated with the family because the Christian name of 

 Herbert was borne by three successive heads of one branch, and 

 their existence is recorded in the Eed Book of the Exchequer ^ 

 under the return made by the Bishop of Winchester of his fees in 

 Hampshire in 1166: — "Herbert the son of Herbert the elder 

 chamberlain held two knights' fees and now Herbert his son holds 

 [them]." 



The eldest of these Herberts was a royal chamberlain in the 

 reign of Henry I., and perhaps in earlier reigns, for in 1085 there 

 was a Herbertus Camerarius who held Subberton and Larode of 

 the King in Hampshire ^ and a descendant of our Herbert held 

 Subberton of the Abbey of Hyde in the thirteenth century.^ 



' Ed. Hubert Hall, p. 205. 



■ D. B., i., 496. 



s T. de N., p. 2326. 



