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3. Thomas de Middleton. — 10 knights' fees of the Honor of 

 Middleton. 



This seems to have been the same property which was held 

 in 1165 by Geoffrey Fitz-Baldwin, and in 1196 by Nicholas 

 Fitz-Geoffrey. The heiress of Thomas Fitz-Nieholas de Middleton 

 is supposed to have been married to Sir Richard de Grenvill who 

 died about 1217. The name of Grenvile first occurs in Cornish 

 records 40 Henry III (1256), and Eichard de Grenvile then 

 appears as the largest landholder, being returned as holding 50 

 librates of land. 



4. William de Botterill. — 12 knights' fees. 



This is, probably, "William (III) de Botreaux, whose father 

 was sheriff of Cornwall 1206-8, and died in 1211. It was not, 

 however, until 1220, that he obtained livery of his lands, and he 

 died in 1243, sine prole, when Reginald, his brother, succeeded 

 him. 



5. Richard Fitz- Walter. — 11 knights' fees of the fees of 

 Richard de Lusti (Lucy) his uncle, (or grandfather) {avunculus). 



At the death of Geoffrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester, 

 on 4th September, 1204, his nephew, Robert Fitz-Walter, had 

 livery of his lands. Richard de Lucy was a Chief Justice of 



England from 1154 to 1179; by his wife, Rohais he had 



issue — Geoffrey, Maude, and Rohais. Geoffrey was Bishop of 

 Winton. Maude's first husband, Walter Fitz-Roberfc, had with 

 her the lordship of Disce, in Norfolk. He died in 1198, leaving 

 a son, the above-named Robert Fitz-Walter. This eminent 

 feudal baron after the battle of Lincoln, went to the Holy Land, 

 and assisted at the great siege of Damietta, where he died in 

 1234. 



6. Robert de Peverel. — 9 knights' fees of the same fee {i.e. of 

 the fee of Richard de Lucy). 



Lysons remarks — that R Peverel held these fees as a 

 trustee for Rohesia de Lucy, the other daughter and co-heiress 

 of Richard de Lucy ; assigning as a ground for this supposition, 

 that one of the co-heiresses of Pain Peverel of Cambridgeshire, 

 was the mother of Rohesia's husband, Fulbert de Dover. 



Pain, or Pagan Peverel, had a great fief in Cambridge- 

 shire by grant of Henry I. He was founder of Barnwell 



