354. The Natural Hi/lory 



had, which were therefore ftiled Barons by W> its of Summons to 

 Parliament. The firft of thefe in Oxford-Jhire was William de 

 Huntercomb (whofe feat ftill remains by the fame name in the Pa-, 

 rifh of Tujfield) who was fummoned to Parliament by the Kings 

 Writ, bearing date the 23 of Edw. 1. The fecond, I find, was 

 Joh. Gray of Rotherfield, whofe Anceflors being of a younger 

 Houfeof Walter Grey Arch-Biftiop of Tork, had Rotherfield given 

 them, befide many other poffefftons by the faid Arch-Biftiop : He 

 was fummoned firft to Parliament the 25 of Edrv. 1. 



132* Andfo was thirdly, his next Neighbor Ralph Pipard of 

 the other Rotherfield, in the fame year of the fame King, their 

 feats having now almoft quite changed their names, forthofe of 

 their owners ; one of them feidom being called otherwife than 

 Pipard or Pepper , and the other Grays. Alfo fourthly, John 

 Baron Lovel, of Minfter-Lovel, whofe anceflors though Barons by 

 tenure many years before, as feifed of the Barony of Caflle-Cary in 

 Somerfet-Jhire, yet dif-pofleft of that I know not by what means, 

 received fummons to Parliament whil'ft feated here at Minier, 

 25 of Edrv. 1* 



133. The fifth of thefe Barons was Hen. le lyes, who having a 

 grant of Sherbourn here in Oxford-Jhire from Richard Earl of Corn- 

 wall, temp. Henr. 3. which Sherbourn had formerly been a part of 

 the Barony of Robert deDruis, was fummoned to Parliament the 

 28 of Edw. 1 . And fo was fixthly, John de la Mare of Garfmg* 

 ion, the very fame year. To which fhould be added, the Barons 

 by Letters Patents of Creation, fo firft made about the 11 of Rich. 2. 

 But of thefe, whofe Barony is now vacant, there is only, feventh- 

 ly, the Lord Williams, folemnly created Lord Williams of Thame 

 the firft of April, 1 MarU, who had alfo fummons the fame time 

 to the Parliament then fitting, but his Patent it feems was never 

 enrolled. 



134. For this account of thefe Baronies, I acknowledge my 

 felf beholding to that Learned Antiquary, William Dugdale Efq; 

 Norroy King at Arms, in whofe elaborate Volumes of the Baronage 

 of England, the Reader may receive more fatisfa&ion concerning 

 them. Yet befide thefe, as the people will have it, the Manor of 

 Wilcot was the head of a Barony, one of the Barons whereof, as 

 tradition tells them, lies buryed under a fair Monument in North- 

 Leigh Church: But the Writings of the prefent Proprietor, my 



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