174 THE ORIGIN OF THE SHIRLEYS AND OF THE GRESLEYS. 



Nigel Nigel 



I I 



Henry William 



of Cainhoe held 4 fees of 



temp. Hen. I. Ferrers temp. Hen. I. 



I I 



Robert Robert 



of Cainhoe held 4 fees of 



in 1 166.* Ferrers in Ii66.f 



And here is Mr. Yeatman's own admission of the difficulty 

 with which he is confronted — a difficulty created solely by his 

 own attempt to confuse two distinct families : — 



There is probably some error in the generally received pedigree of the 

 Albinis of Cainhoe,+ for it has to be explained how% the older branch of 

 the family came to inherit this, if William fil Nigel was the younger 

 brother of Henry, etc., etc.|| 



Just so; and that is precisely what he can only explain by 

 throwing over his own pedigree, to which " the learned reader " 

 is referred. 



So insuperable, indeed, is Mr. Yeatman's difficulty that in 

 his latest volume (Sec. vii.) he is actually driven to set forth, 

 unconsciously, no doubt, both versions of the pedigree. On 

 p. 173 we have the "generally received" version, in which 

 Nigel is succeeded at Cainhoe by his son Henry, and Henry 

 by Robert; but on p. 125 we read of Henry: — ■ 



He had a brother William, as well as a son of that name, and the son 

 of William^ was Robert, who died 1190,** holding Nigel Albini's barony 

 of Cainho as well as these Derbyshire manors. 



That this latter version is the wrong one is proved to 



demonstration by evidence with which Mr. Yeatman is 



acquainted, tt namely, the Abingdon Cartulary, the charters in 



which show that Robert de Albini succeeded at Cainhoe (as 



in the " generally received version "), to a father Henry, not 



to a father William. 



* This is Mr. Yeatman's own version in the History of the House of 

 Arundel. 



f See p. 165. 



+ Which is also Mr. Yeatman's own. 



§ The italics are mine ; they call attention to his difficulty. 



|| Sec. ii., p. 281. 



•jf The italics are mine. 



* * Compare Mr. Yeatman's own chart pedigree given above. 



ft See Sec. ii., p. 281. 



