Note on the name of Drew. 175 
To return, however, to England; in Doomsday, Drogo, the son of 
Ponz, is named as holding Seagry and other places, with half a 
messuage in Malmesbury. Drogo or Drugo de Buerer, a Fleming, 
married a niece of William the Conqueror; he was the first Earl 
of Holderness, and is said to have built the Castle of Skipsea. In 
the following century, we find mention of another Drogo, the cham- 
berlain of the Empress Matilda, who was possibly the father of 
that “Drogo the Younger,” from whom the Montacutes, four of 
whom were Earls of Salisbury, are said to have descended. Risdon, 
in his survey of Devon, “writing of Drew’s Teignton, says expressly 
that in its name it “honours” that of “its ancient landlord Drogo 
de Teign, by time’s continuance mollified into Drew. In the 
reign of Richard the First, Drogo granted one farthing of land to 
Parisius Arlecheston.”! Collinson, speaking of Stanton Drew, says 
that at the time of Doomsday, and some time later, this place in 
great part belonged to a family who derived their name from it, 
among whom he instances Roger, William and Hugh de Stanton, 
and a Geffrey de Stanton, as late as the time of Henry the Third. 
One of this family, he says, bore the appellation of Drogo or Drew 
de Stanton, and gave the place his name, by way of distinction 
from other Stantons in the neighbourhood. The descendants of 
this family, as he states, were chiefly settled here and at Littleton 
Drew in Wiltshire. He goes on to say that, 12 Edward III., 
Walter Drew was certified to hold half a knight’s fee in Stanton, 
which William de Stanton formerly held ; and that, 10 Henry IV., 
the same moiety, late the property of Roger Drew, was held by 
John de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury. Collinson adds that these 
Drews were closely allied to the Dinhams of Buckland and Corton.” 
Aubrey, in his collections for North Wilts, as we have shewn, (ante 
p- 168), has preserved a deed probably of the 12th century, to which 
“Walterus Drew dominus de Littletone” is the principal party. 
We have had no opportunity of tracing the documentary evidence, 
on which the statements of Risdon, as regards Drew’s Teignton, 
and those of Collinson, with respect to Stanton Drew, rest ; but 
the argument which derives the name of the places from that of the 
+ Survey of Devon,” ed. 1811, p. 127, 
2 Collinson’s ‘‘ Somerset,” vol. II., p. 432, 
