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supplied (from Holingshead’s Chronicles) 
a copy of the Battle Abbey Roll, or list 
of the natties of those eminent persons 
who came over with the Conqueror. 
For the more easy comprehension and 
information of the reader, the work has 
been divided into two volumes; the first, 
as relating principally to the barons by 
tenure, prior to the establishment of titu- 
lar honours; and to those who, after the 
introduction of that form, had summons 
to parliament, but with whom the ho- 
nour terminated; or who, or their poste- 
rity, although existing, did not continue 
to receive the like summons. The se- 
cond, as treating of those titles which 
have been allowed and considered as he- 
reditary, and are now presumed to be 
either dormant, in abeyance, or abso- 
lutely extinct. 
A third volume is announced as pre- 
paring, containing an account of such 
persons as were, by letters patent, or 
charter of creation, constituted peers of 
the realm. 
. As a specimen, we shall take the ac- 
count of D’Oyxey, from the first volume, 
“ D'OYLEY. 
* Arms. O. two Bendlets Az. 
“This family is of very great antiquity, 
both in England and in France, from 
‘whence they first cane with William the 
Conqueror. 
“ Robert D'Oyley,* the King’s consta- 
ble, eldest son of the Lord de Olgii, in 
Normandy, was made Baron of Hoke- 
norton,t in Oxfordshire, by the said King. 
He married Algitha, daughter and heir of 
Wygot, or Wygod, a noble Saxon, lord 
of Wallingford, by whom he had Maud, 
his daughter and heir, married first to 
* This Robert D’Oyley, and Roger de 
Yvery, were fast friends, by mutual oaths, to 
be joint-sharers of the fortunes which might 
fall to the lot of either in their adventure 
with William duke of Normandy in his expe- 
dition into England. Wherefore, in conse- 
quence of this agreement, the said Robert 
having obtained from the Conqueror two great 
baronies, he resigned one of them to his com- 
panion and sworn brother, Roger de Yvery ; 
which honour was thenceforth called the ba- 
ony of Yvery, of which Beckley, in the 
county of Oxford, was the chief seat. But 
this barony being at length forfeited, was 
givento Guy St. Walerie, to which name it 
then became changed. 
+ The inhabitants of this place were for- 
™erly such clowns and churls, that it be- 
€ame a proverb to say of a rude and ill-bred 
fellow, ‘He was born, or came, from Hogs 
Norton,” 
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Retrospect of Domestic Literature History.» 
Miles Crispin, and afterwards to Brian 
Fitz-Count, lord of Bergavenny; and, 
dying without male issue, bis brother 
«Nigel succeeded to the Barony of 
Hokenorton, and was the King’s consta- 
ble. He came in with his two brothers, 
Robert, before named, his elder, and 
Gilbert, his younger.* Nigel, by his 
wife, the lady Agnes, had two sons, Ro- 
bert, and Foulk, who was buried at Er- 
sham in 1126. 
“ Robert succeeded his father as lord 
high constable, and in the said barony; 
and by Editha, daughter of Forne, son 
of Sigewolke, lord of Greystock, a 
lady highly esteened by Henry I. (having 
been his concubine) by whose procure- 
ment this lord married her, had two sons, 
Henry and Gilbert, and a daughter, 
Editha. 
“ Henry was successor to his father, 
and by Maud, or Margery, daughter of 
Ilumphrey Bohun, earl of Hereford, 
had five children; Henry and Robert ; 
Margery, at length heir to her brother 
Robert ; another daughter, Alicia, mar- 
ried to Maurice de Gaunt, from whom 
were descended the Gaunts, earls of Lin- 
coln; and a third, Joanna, to Thomas 
lord of Daventry. Of the sons, the eldest, 
“ Henry, was the next high constable 
and baron, after his father’s death; but 
he had issue an only daughter, Maud, 
who died young and unmarried, where- 
fore his brother 
“ Robert succeeded, who dying with- 
out issue, Margery, his eldest sister, by 
the King’s favour, succeeded as heir, and 
married Henry de Newburgh, earl of 
Warwick. From Gilbert, second son of 
Robert, eldest son of Nigel, is lineally 
descended the baronet’s family of 
D’Oyley, now extant.” 
It may be enough probably to mention 
the title only of Mr. Epe’s work, “ An- 
nals of Europe, exhibiting the Origin, 
Progress, Decline, and Fall, of every 
Kingdom and State, from the Dismember- 
ment of the Roman Empire to the Peace of 
Tilsit, in 1807, comprehending a View of 
Italy and the Church, France, Germany, 
Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, 
Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, 
Russia, Prussia, and Turkey; also an 
Account of the Monastic Life, and a List 
of the Popes: and contajning a Life of 
Napoleon Buonuparte, with Strictures on 
his Merits as a Soldier, a Sovereign, and 
a Man: towhich are added, all the Trea- 
* He had also lands given him in Oxford 
shire by tht Conqueror. : 
tises 
