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the King [commended to the promoters of the 

 fraternal "ceorls"]; (p. 231) 39 Hen. III. a free 

 hundred of the Bp. of Salisbury's belonging to 

 the church from ancient feoffment of Offa the 

 King ; (p. 337) 7 Ed. I. the Abbot of St. Albans 

 holding of the King and adjoining Barony by 

 service of 6 Knights for 40 days, likewise enfeoffed 

 by Offa ; (p. 337) another socage tenure from the 

 time of the Conquest ; (p. 637) 7 Ed. I. the Manor 

 of Overton Waterville given to Wm. Olifareli at 

 the time of the Conquest for |- fee, who after long 

 holding, committed a felony (seems to have been 

 held by the Sheriff D. B. 1086), whence forfeited 

 till King John, etc., and on same page another 

 Manor in same place of whose service the pre- 

 decessors of the Abbot of Peterboro' were enfeoffed 

 in the time of King Edward before the Conquest, 

 and it is f- of a Fee. Now it may justly be remarked 

 that these statements have little more than tradi- 

 tionary value, and that the service of Hen. III. 

 Their and Ed. I. is quietly assumed to have been that 



authority. of Wm> L . the same ^ think j applies to !J ke 



passages in the Testa de N. (pp. 295-6, Feudal 

 England}, which however can be surpassed (see 

 pp. 314-5, T. de N.) where " from the conquest " 

 is the usual form of the Jurors of Jerdeburg 

 Wap., /. Hen. III. Of course in the^iresent age, 

 with much less probability, a like statement* is not 

 unusual, but it seems scarcely critical to accept 

 the literal sense of records Hen. II. Ed. I. as to 

 the nth century, and to confront King Offa's 

 Knights' fees is somewhat of a problem : in the 

 T. de N. a pedigree may appear from the Con- 



* Vide, works on Genealogy, County and Family Histories, 

 etc. 



