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two knights' fees, and later evidence suggests that this increase 

 was caused by the addition of Manningford Bruce to Stanton.^ 

 Herbert had evidently obtained possession of some part at least of 

 his mother's inheritance at this time also, and it was probably 

 during the period of his disinheritance that the causes arose of the 

 several lawsuits in which he now became involved. In 1199 

 Philip de Stapilton and Emma, his wife, recovered from him certain 

 lands in Dormiton and Bricwarestre (Herefordshire), and Herbert 

 " the Baron " was fined six and eightpence ; ^ in Shropshire the 

 same parties claimed land at Boycott, near Pontesbury, as an in- 

 heritance of the wife that had been wrongfully detained,^ and two 

 years later Herbert sued the De Stapiltons for two carucates of 

 land in Osioanlstr' and Erminton, but was non-suited because the 

 defendants were able to show that they hold no land at all in the 

 former place.* In Wiltshire, also, at an earlier date he was involved 

 with Fulk de Alno, who is elsewhere identified with Eushall, but 

 the details of the printed record refer only to the excuses of wit- 

 nesses for their absence ; ^ and in Sussex a long-standing quarrel 

 with the Abbot of Westminster about lands inPerham and Masleforcl 

 was revived, and continuing during Herbert's lifetime, was still 

 before the court in 1212. In the later reports it is shown that 

 Henry I. had decided the case against Herbert Fitz-Herbert (I.), 

 and yet that after his death his widow, Sybil Corbet, had held the 

 lands as of her dower, but the abbot's last word was that that lady 

 had intruded herself in time of war as many others did, but when 



^ cf. T. Je N., "p. 145. On this page of the Book of Fees separate references 

 to the three Manningfords occur. The name Bruce dates from 1275-6, when 

 this manor was given by a descendant of Herbert's, Keginald Fiz-Peter, to 

 William de Braose as part consideration for his renunciation of all claim on 

 some Welsh property that had long been a subject of dispute (Abb. Plac, 

 p. 1886), while the name Bohune dates from the time when Humphrey of 

 that name having acquired Weston juxta Salisbury by marriage with Matilda, 

 the daughter of Edward of Salisbury, exchanged it for Manningford and 

 Wilsford (Dug. Mon., vi., 134). 



- Abb. Plac, p. 246 ; Palgrave, Bot. Cur. Regis, II., 87. 



•■' lb., p. 166. 



< Abb. Plac, p. 34. 



* Palgrave, ut supra, i., 115. 



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