NOTES FROM THE PIPE ROLLS OF KING HENRY THE SECOND. I 37 



Gislebti, ios. 5<1 for the Haiar of Stanley, 5s. for Lecher, 60s. id. 

 for Essex, 59s. 6d. for Shirlet, ios. 7d. for Ernestreu, and ^8 7s. 9d. 

 for Cumberland. 



In 12 Henry II. there is a curious list of the names of those who 

 perished by the ordeal of water, the Sheriff accounting for their 

 goods and chattels, the same producing no less than ^37 6s. iod., 

 the aggregate amount of the goods of thirty unhappy persons who 

 met their death in these two counties this year. Amongst them is 

 recorded the name of Godfrey de Hetcota, whose goods fetched 

 16s. 



In the following year the men of Hulmo paid 10 marks for false 

 judgment ; some one disputing the verdict of a jury, got a new 

 trial and reversed it, and so the unhappy jurors were fined heavily. 

 Geoffrey Torchard, of the Hucknal Torchard family, was this year 

 fined four marks for not appearing before the Justices of the Exche- 

 quer, two marks of which he paid the following year. In 8 Richard I. 

 he paid 100 shillings for having a writ of right against Will Pitie 

 for two knights' fees in Hucknal (Huggenhale) and Lambcote. 

 Avice, the widow of Roger de Makefield, owed 20 marks for 

 having the chattels and debts of her husband, who had been 

 killed. 



William de Stanley paid half a mark for some default in 15 

 Henry II. He was of the family of Stanley Park, upon which, 

 according to the chronicle of Thomas de Musca, in King John's 

 reign was founded the Abbey of Dale, or Depedale, by Galfry de 

 Salicosa Mara and Matilda his wife, who purchased it of Nicholas 

 fr William Child of Trowell. Possibly this William Child was the 

 last of the Stanley family who held it, or he may have succeeded 

 them. The word Child here, no doubt, is simply the younger. 

 At Domesday it was Cilt, or Chidde, when it had the same meaning, 

 although Mr. E. A. Freeman doubts it. Warner de Stanley was 

 an outlaw, it appears, in 17 Henry II., when the Sheriff realised 

 the sum of 2s. for his goods. William Francis was also a fugitive 

 at the same date, and his goods realized ios. The Sheriffs 

 also accounted for 7s. realized for honey from the lands of William 

 de Heriz. 



