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129. Befide thefe, the Kings of England had feveral other 

 feats within this County (not to mention again that Wcodjlockwus 

 one, or that old Alcesler was the feat of Aleclut) fuch as Beau- 

 mont, juft without the fuburbs of Oxford, the Birth-place of the 

 valiant King Richard the Firft. Langley, upon the edge of the 

 ForeftofWbichwood, a feat, as Tradition has deliver'd it down 

 to us, of the unhappy King John, who perhaps during the time 

 of his Refidence here, might indeed build the Caftle of Bampton, 

 which alfo Tradition informs us was ot his foundation. And 

 Evpelm, built indeed by William De la Pool Duke of Suffolk-, who 

 marrying Alice the daughter and heir of Thomas Chaucer, had a 

 fair Eftate hereabout ; but after, upon the attaindure of John 

 Earl of Lincoln, and Edmund his brother, Grand-children to the 

 Duke, it came to the Crown in the days of King Henr. 7. and was 

 afterward made an Honor, bylayingunto it the Manor of WaU 

 lengford, and feveral others, by King Hen. 8. All which houfes are 

 mark'd out in the Map, by the addition of a fmall Imperial Crown 

 placed fomwhere near them. 



130. As all places that gave title to ancient Barons, moft of 

 whofe Families long fince have been extinguifh'd,are mark'd with 

 a Coronet \ fuch are, 1. The Baronies by ancient Tenure, which 

 were certain Territories held of the King, who ftill referved the 

 Tenurein chief to himfelf : whereof the ancienteft in this Coun- 

 ty were rhofeof Oxford and St. Valeric, the head of the latter be- 

 ing the Town of Hok?-Norton % both given by the Conqueror to 

 Robert WOyly who accompanied him out of Normandy*. 2. The 

 Barony of Arfic, belonging to Manafer Arfic, who florifh'd An. 

 1103. 3 Hen. 1. the head of which Barony was Coggs near Witney, 

 Summerton and Hardmck in this County, being other members of 

 it. 3. The Barony of Hedindon, now Heddington, given the 

 25 of Henr. 2. to Thomas Baffet in Fee-farm, whofe Son Gilbert 

 the Founder of Bifeter Priory, in the firft year of Richard the 

 Firft, was one of the Barons that attended at the Coronation. And 

 thefe are all the Baronies of ancient Tenure that were heretofore 

 in Oxford- /hire. 



131. In the beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Firft, 

 there were feveral other able w7efummon'd as Barons to Parlia- 

 ment, that had not fuch Lands of ancient Tenure, as thole above 



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Yy had, 



