EPONYMOUS FAMILIES OF DORSET. 139 



Hutchins says the De Boseos held under the De Lincolns, 

 but this does not seem to be borne out by his further statement 

 that Robert De Boseo gave to the Abbey of Abbotsbury 55. from 

 the fee of Alured de Lincoln, which surely must mean that De 

 Boseo paid that sum out of rent received from De Lincoln. 

 This grant was made in 1239, the 25th of Hen. III., and it 

 would be interesting to know how long this payment continued 

 to be made to the abbots and to their successors in the title. 



Twice in the following reign, 1278 and 1281, the De Boseos 

 come again into view as landholders in Dorset in the Manor of 

 Chilfrome one under the Mohuns, Lords of Dunster ; and it is 

 not unlikely that they also retained their holding at Chaldon, 

 though on this point we are without information. 



The De Boseos, or Du Bois, were a widely-distributed family, 

 if indeed there was any tie of kinship between them, which the 

 variation of their shields makes one doubt. One of the name is 

 mentioned in "Glover's Roll of Arms" of Henry III.'s reign, 

 and three in that of Edward II., and their bearings, though 

 differing from one another, are all dissimilar from those given by 

 Hutchins as borne by the Boys of Chaldon, viz., Argent a 

 chevron gules between three leaves vert. 



BRYAN OF HASELBURY. 



What brought the Bryans into this county is not quite clear, 

 but it is probable that a marriage with a Dorset heiress was the 

 cause of their changing their residence from their isolated, 

 beleaguered castle in Wales to the peaceful agricultural estate of 

 Haselbury. 



The records relating to this manor are vague and confused, 

 owing to there being another Haselbury in Somerset and to the 

 two counties of Dorset and Somerset being under one sheriff, 

 and being, to a great extent, regarded as one county, so that facts 

 related of one place have been erroneously attributed to the 

 other, with the consequence that the history of both is disjointed 

 and contradictory. Subject to correction, however, it seems 

 that a certain Roger Speke left two daughters co-heiresses. One 



