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the Founder of Huln Abbey, €c. 55 
The sword on the monument seems to indicate, 
that the person interred was of the degree of a 
knight ;* and as to the horn, may it not denote the 
barony or honour of Alnwick?—possibly many of 
the lands within the honour of Alnwick were held 
by cornage; for, by that service, lands were fre- 
quently holden on the borders of England; or, 
possibly the horn may have a relation to the Fitz- 
nigels, of which family the Lords of Alnwick inhe- 
rited all the privileges, &c.T 
Now, Dugdale in his Baronage thus speaks of 
William de Vescy, the son of Eustace ;—* Which 
William being in the tuition of the earl of Salis- 
bury, with purpose that he should marry Isabel his 
daughter, as he did, in 10 Hen. 111. obtained li- 
very of all his lands (the earl of Salisbury being then 
the king gave the earl’s estate to his second son Edmund.” 
Archzologia, vol. 111, p. 7. Ferrers preceeds the coat of 
Lancaster; and they are in two separate escutcheons in the 
church window of Merevale, Warwickshire. Dugd. 
Warw. p. 783. , 
* Compare it with the sword on the tomb-stone of 
Urian de St. Pere, Archzologia, vol. v, sh 2, Gent, Mag, 
vol, xxxv, p. 73, and plate there. 
+ Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. 1, p. 91. 
Nigel, in the reign of King Edward the eakiaess held 
the custody of the Forest of Bernwood, fer unum cornu, , 
quod est charta pradicte forest ; and his successors, by the 
name of Fitznigel, did bear for arms, argent, a fess gules 
between two crescents, and a horn vert, 
