Erlestoke and its Manor Lords. 43 



Between 1108 and 1114, that is, while Thomas (11.) was Arch- 

 bishop of York, he granted to Herbert the Chamberlain and his 

 son two manors in Yorkshire and other parcels of land in that 

 county and in Gloucestershire, to be held of him for three and a 

 half knights' fees.^ The charter gives in the testing clause the 

 name of the son as Herbert, but offers no other information as to 

 the family or its connection with the Archbishop, who was the 

 son of Samson, Bishop of Worcester, before he took orders, and 

 grandson of Osbert and Muriel, " who were of noble lineage."^ The 

 two Yorkshire manors that thus came to the father and son were 

 Londesbrough with Towthorpe, and Weaverthorpe with Helper- 

 thorpe and two free holdings in Thirkelby,^ and the advowsons of 

 their churches were by them granted to another son, William, 

 together with " the church of Clere, with its chapels and appurte- 

 nances, and the church of Stanton with lands and all tithes and 

 things belonging to them."* About the year 1127 Herbert the 

 father died, for it must have been after that event that the two 

 sons Herbert and William granted the church of Weaverthorpe to 

 the Priory of Nostel,^ and Eichard, Bishop of Hereford, who is a 

 witness to their charter, died in that year.*^ In the Pipe EoU of 

 1130 Herbert, the son of Herbert the Chamberlain, renders account 

 of 353 marks due for the land of his father and pays a second small 

 instalment of the debt which, though entered under Hampshire, 

 no doubt was due for the holdings in Yorkshire and Gloucestershire 

 as well. From the contents of this famous record it is evident 

 that there had been two chamberlains of the name of Herbert, of 

 whom one was still living, for under Bedfordshire Herbert the 

 Chamberlain is excused 20s. Dane-geld, and under Warwickshire 

 andNorthumberlandGivardus,the man of Herbert the Chamberlain, 



' Dug. Mon., viii., 1196, No. CIX. 



-' D. N. B. 

 ^ The other places mentioned are Sherburn, Birdsall, Mowthorpe, Ugthorpe, 

 Groyon, Cowlam, the church and land in Beverley, a house in York, and the 

 church of St. John in Ugleford. 



< Dug. Mon., viii., 1196, No. CX. 



'" lb., vi., 92, No. II.; Rot. Chart., p. 215. 



" Roger of Wendover, Bohn, i., 477. 



