52 Erlestokc aiul its Manor Lords. 



peace came the King (? Hen. II.) restored the land to the Abbey 

 in this case, as in other cases in Gloucestershire, Essex, and else- 

 where^ In 1203, in the account of a suit brought against him by 

 Eeyner de Acton and Agnes his wife, for half a hide in Haica 

 (Shropshire), the case was adjourned sine die because the defendant 

 was abroad in the service of the King^ who was at that time engaged 

 in losing his " transmarine " possessions to the French King, but 

 before the end of the year Herbert had returned to England, for 

 during the Michaelmas term he executed a convention before 

 Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, and others, 

 by which he made over to his son, Peter, all his property in York - 

 shire as a dower for Peter's wife, Alice, the daughter of Robert 

 Fitz-Roger.^ In the following year Peter the son paid twenty 

 marks to have seisin of half the manor of Alcester (Warwickshire), 

 which his father had held,* and in 1205 he was pardoned the twenty 

 marks still owing on that account besides the relief which he owed 

 for other lands which were his father's and twenty marks advanced 

 to him by the King in Aquitaine.'' The conclusion, therefore is 

 reasonable that Herbert Fitz-Herbert (II.) had died in the early part 

 of 1204, so that a record of a suit against Herbert Fitz-Herbert 

 printed in Abbreviatio Placitorum under the date of Michaelmas, 

 1208, must either be wrongly dated or must refer to another person 

 of the same name. For when Samuel Mucum and Muriel Judea put 

 forward a bond for £300, the value of goods supplied to Herbert 

 Fitz-Herbert, he appeared in court and produced his ivory seal 

 and several documents sealed therewith, by which he proved that 

 the bond was a forgery (p. 62). Lucy de Hereford survived her 

 husband some twelve years, for in 1210-12, as the Eed Book of 

 the Exchequer records, she held a third part of the manor of 

 Chirton, which passed at her death to her son, Peter, and later to 



' Ibid, i., 275, ii., 40, 241 ; Ahh. Plac, pp. 80, 84, 85. 



* Eyton, Antiq. of Shropshire, x., 61. 



3 Ahh. Plac, p. 44. 



^ Rot. de Fin., p. 200. 



5 Rot. Litt. Claus., p. 39. 



