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date, is clearly the Gilbert who held at ' Clopeham,' or Clapham, in 

 1086 ; and possibly Morin de Sancto Andrea, who occurs in a charter 

 of 1093, may be the Morin who is found at Thakeham and Muntham. 



In Lewes ' Ralph,' by his grant of Brighton church to Lewes 

 Priory, and by the descent of his manors of Saddlescombe, Street, and 

 ' Hame ' to the de Says, is shown to be Ralph ' de Caisned ' or Chesney/ 

 William de Wateville, who held lands in Brighton, Perching and 

 Keymer, is noticeable from the appearance of his wife as tenant of 

 Clayton in her own name ; and Mr. Round observes that ' Tosardus,' 

 who held land in 1086 at Iford, gave it to Lewes Priory on becoming 

 a monk there.^ 



Under the Count of Mortain one of the most important tenants 

 was William de Cahannes, or Keynes, who occurs by name at Bevring- 

 ton, Tilton, and Sherington, and can be discerned, with the help of the 

 charters of Lewes Priory, to which his family were considerable bene- 

 factors, in the 'William' mentioned at Selmeston, ' Remecinges,' Langley, 

 ' Litelforde,' Horsted (-Keynes) and Bunchgrove. Another man of 

 wide estates was Ralph, who took the surname of de Dene from his 

 manor of West Dean : a certain amount of light is thrown upon his fee 

 by the charters of Otham Abbey, which was founded by his grandson 

 and further endowed by the latter's heir, Ela de Sakeville ; the bulk of 

 his lands passed eventually to Isabel de la Haye, one of the co-heiresses 

 of ' Catherine de Monte Acuto.' With Ralph de Dene must be taken 

 Ansfrid, whose long list of manors is almost entirely reproduced in the 

 fee of Ralph's descendants, and who was therefore evidently connected 

 in some way with Ralph.^ Of the other men of the count, Boselin, 

 who occurs under Pevensey, was Boselin de Dives, and his son William, 

 who held of the archbishop in South Mailing, is shown by the Lewes 

 charters to be the William who held in Alfriston, and was probably also 

 the William who was tenant at Eastbourne, Hailsham, and Bowley ; 

 Rannulf, who appears at Ratton, Horsted, Alfriston, and elsewhere may 

 be Rannulf the seneschal of the Count of Mortain, father of Robert de 

 Haia, as a branch of the family of Haye was early settled in this neigh- 

 bourhood ; and Alvred, of Eastbourne, Pevensey, and Claverham, is 

 certainly the ' Alvred the butler ' who held largely of the count in 

 Somerset, Northants, and elsewhere, and was apparently the founder of 

 the house of Montague, one branch of which continued in this part of 

 Sussex until near the close of the thirteenth century. 



In the rape of Hastings precedence must be given to Reinbert ' the 

 sheriff,' not only by reason of his official position and extensive possessions, 

 which included Salehurst, Mountfield, Ninfield, Udimore, Whatlington, 

 Cortesley, and other estates, but from his having been the founder of the 

 influential house of Etchingham, of which name the first was Simon son 

 of Dru, which Dru was ' the heir of Reinbert,' as he is styled in a deed 

 of about 1 100, which also refers to Reinbert's two nephews, Richard 



• Mr. Round, in Suss. Arch. Coll. xliv. 141, and Genealogist, July, 1901. 

 a Suss. Arch. Coll. xxix. 144. a Ibid. xl. 68. 



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