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quest (p. 87, Ric. Cheven* who would answer well 

 enough to Richard the hunter in D. B.), and the 

 evidence in it and similar records is good to prove 

 the general belief in those days of the antiquity of 

 enfeoffment. Roger de Moubrai's charter (1166), 

 informs of 88 old fees, and nf new, and 2 8 of the 

 old had Nigel de Albigni enfeoffed " de dominio 

 suo ": this Nigel (his father), was one of those 

 great men aggrandized by Hen. I., and the 60 fees 

 (88 less 28) would seem to include parts of the 

 estates of Robt. de Moubrai, and Robt. de Stute- 

 ville, escheats of Wm. II. and Hen. I. Dugdale 

 quoting Vitalis states that Nigel de Albini married 

 a second time in June 1 1 1 8, and that his heir 

 Roger de Moubrai was within his age 1138, 

 3 Step., (citing Ailredus Rieval.); the Pipe Roll 

 passing for 31 Hen. I. makes it clear the said 

 Nigel f was then deceased, hence all the 88 fees 



* In D. B., i. 250^, the name Chenvin occurs as a tenant 

 T. R. E., and 1086. 



t In 1086, a Nigel de Albini's principal estates were in Nigel 

 Beds he also held in Bucks, Leic. and Warw., and had held d'Au&igni 

 in Berks (D. B. 59^) ; Hen. de Albeyni of Cainho would R g er <j e 

 appear to have succeeded to all or parts of the above in Beds, Moubrai. 

 Bucks, and Leic., whose son and heir (Dugdale) Ro. in 1 1 66 

 returns under Beds a carta of 25 fees of his Barony. In the 

 Baronage of England the above Henry is stated to have been 

 a younger son of Nigel (of the text), and a grantor (with the 

 Lady Cicely, his wife) /. Hen, I. ; this however can scarcely 

 be correct, as Rog. de Moubrai (his presumed elder brother) 

 is allowed by Dugdale to have been a minor at the Battle o.f 

 the Standard [j Stepk.~\ ; errors of course are inevitable in a 

 so vast a work, whose author's painstaking labour would truly 

 reflect the greatest credit on any age. Rog. de Moubrai in 

 1 1 66, returned as under Yorks, 88 old fees, and n| new ones, 



comprising 



