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volume, however, so largely devoted to exposing my own " crass 

 ignorance," we read of Catton that " 20 Edward I. Almaric 

 de St. Amand held it (Kirkby's Quest) "* ; while on p. 132 

 the date becomes " Kirby, Quest 20-5 Edward I." So the 

 date of this important return was, we learn, 1291-2 at earliest; 

 that is, at least half a century later than the date he had 

 himself deliberately assigned to it ! Whether Mr. Yeatman 

 would attach or not any weight to the verdict of the Public 

 Record Office on the subject, my readers will probably be 

 inclined to do so, and may, therefore, be interested to learn 

 that this Quest is there assigned to 1284-6.! 



But there is worse to come. Owing to Mr. Yeatman's 

 inability to understand the record, he has actually omitted 

 altogether, in the translation he gives of it, the Gresleys' tenure 

 of Gresley ! This assertion does not rest on any reading of 

 my own : it is based on the reading of the text by the officers 

 of the Public Record Office. I here place on the left 

 Mr. Yeatman's own translation, and on the right the actual 

 Latin text " prepared under the superintendence of the 

 Deputy Keeper of the Records " : — 



MR. YEATMAN. OFFICIAL TEXT. 



Cotes.— Nich de Segrave held Nicholaus de Segrave tenet 



Cotes for one fee for the service Cotes pro uno f[eodo] et pro uno 

 of one bow (Berselet) with a string berselet cum uno ligamine. de 

 of the king. Galfry de Gresley rege. 



held -the same of the said Edmund. Galfridus de Greseley tenet 



(Nic. de Segrave succeeded to this eandem {scil. Greseley) de pre- 

 inheritance 22 Hy. 111.).+ dicto Edmundo, et idem Edmundus 



de rege i.e. sed non dicunt, etc.§ 



Here, it will be seen, two entries are rolled by Mr. Yeatman 

 into one, the whole of which is referred by him to the Segrave 

 fee of " Cotes " | (i.e., Coton in Lullington), because he is 



* Sec. vii., p. iog. f See Feudal Aids, i., 246-249, and passim. 



t Sec. ii., p. 462. %Feudal Aids, i., 248. 



|| The reader may be amused to learn, of this Derbyshire manor, that 

 the words which Mr. Yeatman here renders, " one bow (Berselet) with a 

 string," really mean " a hound in leash " ! The hound due from this 

 manor was sometimes described as a "berselet" (Calendar, of Inquisi- 

 tions: Henry III., vol. i., p. 89; Feudal Aids, vol. i., p. 248)5 and 

 sometimes (Red Book of the Exchequer , p. 566 ; Testa de Nevill, pp. 

 18, 20; Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. i., p. 81) as a " brachet " 

 (bracheium). Oddly enough, in this same volume (p. 401) Mr. Yeatman 

 describes the render for this same manor as " one fleet hound (Brachetum) 

 with leash (ligamie [.rzV]),' 1 while on yet another .page (p. 388) its tenant 

 is entered as " rendering one armlet (bracketum) " ! 



