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Inquest of Knights of 1166 do not include the fees of Baldwin's 

 son, Kichard, so that it cannot be asserted as a fact what seems 

 probable, that Stokenhani came to the De Mandevilles of Erlestoke 

 from Baldwin or his father, one of whom granted Coker, in 

 Somerset, to their Dorsetshire relations. The Red Book shows 

 that Baldwin's son paid scutage in Devonshire in 1161-1162 (p. 

 31), but in 1167-1168 liis name is absent and £59 6s. M. was paid 

 on his fees by Eeginald, Earl of Cornwall (p. 43), under whom 

 Eoger de Mandeville held three knights' fees at this time (pp. 

 262, 635). In a former chapter the suggestion was made that 

 Erlestoke may have been once owned by this Earl Eeginald and 

 alienated by him to the De Mandevilles, but tlie above facts (which 

 had escaped observation) and the close connection — social, political, 

 and territorial — between Baldwin de Eedvers and Stephen de 

 Mandeville make it more probable that the Earl of Devon was the 

 first feudal owner and the alienator of Erlestoke, and that it was 

 from him that its prefix Erie was obtained. In the Hundred Eolls 

 there is this entry, which seems to connect Erlestoke with Stoken- 

 hani : — Item heredes Join filii Mathie tenent unu feod. milit' in 

 maneria de Erlestok' de dno. Eeg.' i cap' . . . baroniam suam 

 de Stok' in Hamme (p. 264) — for it is not unlikely that the hiatus 

 is caused by the erasure of words that signified that the manor of 

 Erlestoke belonged to his barony of Stokenhani, although the 

 further error involved in the description of Stokenhani as his 

 barony was allowed to remain. ^ 



Herbert's residence at the Court continued until 1240,- but in 

 that year the King sent him to Wales to act as an arbitrator be- 

 tween David, son of Llewellyn, and the Lords-marchers in some of 

 their many disputes,^ while in 1242 he was sent to Louis IX. with 

 other commissioners for the purpose of renouncing the truce till 

 then existing between England and France,* and at the battle of 

 Saintonge, which followed soon afterwards, he was one of those 



' Vide Feudal Aids, i., 331. 



- Cal. Chart. Bolls, pp. 241, 248. 



^ Rymer's Faedera, i., 241. 



* Ihid, p. 245. 



