A78 Armorial Bearing of 
On this division, the share which fell to 
Roger of Poictiers, one of William’s soldiers, 
commonly styled in the Domesday survey, 
Rogerus Pictavensis, afterwards Earl of 
Lancaster, was immense. The whole of the 
lands lying between the rivers Ribble and 
Mersey, with the hundreds of Amounderness, 
Furness, and Lonsdale, in this county, were 
given him, to be held of the King in capite, 
and not less than fifty manors in the county 
of York, thirty-two in the county of Lincoln, 
five in Derbyshire, and three in the county 
of Nottingham, with many other grants, by 
which he obtained vassals, borders, villains, 
and sokemen, with oxen for plough and 
draught, mills, fisheries, woods, meadows, 
&e. 
Roger’s associates in the war were, in like 
manner, paid for their services under his 
banner by re-grants of these manors, to be 
held of him by different tenures, mostly, 
however, by knight-service, and that of find- 
ing troops for his and the King’s use. 
Among these I observe one ALBERT 
GRESLET, who was rewarded by Pictavensis 
with lands in the counties of Norfolk, (a) 
(a) Spikesuuard ten. Albt. quam ten. Suart. lib, hom. sub Heraldo, 
Lis. DomeEsp. for NonFoLK. 
