l6o TARRANT GUXVILLE. 



The lands held by the King had primarily been granted to 

 Queen Matilda for her life, and she had granted or leased them 

 to Hugh fitz Grip, the pre-Domesday Sheriff of Dorset ; on her 

 death in 1083 these lands reverted to the King, not only as 

 Reversioner of the Queen, but also by his right of escheat on the 

 death, without issue, of the tenant Hugh fitz Grip. 



Of Radulphus of Cranborne, francus, we know nothing, 

 though he may perhaps be identified with others of the same 

 name. 



Aiulfus Camerarius, or the Chamberlain, was the Sheriff of 

 Dorset at the time of Domesday, and, although we do not know 

 for certain the intermediate generations, he was doubtless the 

 ancestor of the family of the Tollards, and through them of the 

 Lucys who held much property here and in other parts of Dorset 

 and Wilts. 



William de Ow is a very important and highly interesting 

 individual. Until Mr. Eyton wrote his " Key to the Domesday 

 of Dorset " in 1878 it had not been suspected by any one that he 

 was a different person to William de Ow, Count of Ow (or E\v), 

 the great landowner in Sussex. Even such an eminent authority 

 as the late Mr. E. A. Freeman did not perceive that he must be 

 altogether another individual. It would take up too much time 

 here to go into the proofs, but from further evidence collected by 

 Mr. Edmond Chester Waters printed in the Yorkshire Archaeo- 

 logical Journal and others, it must suffice to say that William 

 de Ow was the heir of Ralph de Limesi, Chastellan of Strigoil 

 (or Chepstow) before 1086, that he married Helisendis, sister of 

 Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and that in 1096 he was involved 

 in the rebellion against William II. (Rufus). At an adjourned 

 meeting of the Gemot at Salisbury on i3th January, 1097, a 

 wager of battle was fought between Geoffray de Baynard and 

 William de Ow, and the latter was overthrown. By the laws of 

 the combat his defeat was full evidence of his guilt and the 

 punishment decreed was confiscation of his property and bodily 

 mutilation. Whether he died then or later is not recorded, but 

 his lands here in Tarrant Gunville and elsewhere in the county, 



