156 THE ORIGIN OF THE SHIRLEYS AND OF THE GRESLEYS. 



(1166), appearing as the first witness to a charter of Bernard, 

 abbot of Burton.* He also attests, with his brother Henry, 

 another charter of abbot Bernard,! and one of Sir Robert 

 Gresley's charters at Drakelowe.J We again find him on the 

 Pipe Roll of 1 1 75 (21 Hen. II.),§ on which his brother Henry 

 also appears.|| 



Lastly, this Sewal, son of Fulcher, was a benefactor to 

 Darley Abbeyll and to Tutbury Priory, both of them Ferrers 

 foundations, a charter of his to the latter affording decisive 

 evidence of his identity : — 



. . Sawlus filius Fulcheri salutem in Domino. Sciatis me 

 dedisse, etc. . . . virgultum meum quod est sub castello Tutesbirise, 

 illud scilicet quod fuit Henrici filii Sawali patrui mei. . . concessione 

 et assensu domini mei W illelmi comitis de Ferrariis et Henrici fratis mei 

 de quo suscepi haereditatem nostram.** 



The relationship, therefore, we see, was this : — 



Sewal 

 ( " Saswalo " ) 



Henry Fulcher 



(' Patruus' of the 

 younger Sewal) 



Henry Sewal, 



the heir in 1 166. 



Thus it was that the carta of it 66 returns Sewal as then the 



heir of both (his father) Fulcher and (his uncle) Henry (" heres 



utrorumque "). Mr. Yeatman's amazing statement (based on 



his mis-translation of that carta) that the name of the heir 



is unmentioned, is, as I have said, his sole ground for impugning 



the pedigree of the Shirleys, who, as a fact, descend from 



Sewal " heres utrorumque." 



* " Hiis testibus Sewallo filio Fulcheri," etc. (Burton Cartulary, 

 Ed. Wrottesley, p. 38.) 



f " Hiis testibus Sewalle filio Fulcheri, Henrico fratre ejus," etc." (Ibid.) 



% The Gresley Charters (Ed. Jeayes, p. 3). 



§ Sewal[us] filius Fulcher[i] reddit compotum de x. marcis pro habenda 

 assisa" (Ed. Pipe Roll Society, p. 31). 



|| Ibid., p. 33. 



If See Henry II. 's charter of confirmation in Monasiicon, vi., 359. 

 ** Ibid., iii. 395. The actual agreement between this Sewal and his 

 brother Henry as to the inheritance, is printed in the appendix to 

 Stemmata Shirleiana, together with other documents relating to Sewal. 



