Tro'pPMell Memoranda. 575 



It may l)e added that the rarity in England of the name Courtenay 

 at this comparatively early date is of great assistance in following 

 up the parcels of the titz Urse inheritance. Thus, on the Pipe Roll 

 for 1174-1175 it is Robert de Curtenai who brings the king's 

 writ of quittance of arrears of an aid and a scutage long due hy 

 Eeynold. Again, there is an entry on a ])lea roll for Somerset 

 assigned to July, 3 John (IjJOl), which relates that Uoh(3it de 

 Curtenay had the wardship of one William fitz ilanio for land in 

 Candel (co. Dorset) and assigned it to William Jjeivin, whence w(.' 

 learn that the fee in Candel given by Henry Engayne to Worspring 

 Priory, at the same time that he gave them tlie fee in Chalficld, 

 was, like the fee in ChaUield, derived from his share of the Curten.iy 

 inheritance, which is tantamount to saying of the fitz Urse in- 

 heritance, for it does not appear that Eobert Courtenay possessed 

 any lands or fees whatever in England apart from the portion of 

 his (two) wives. 



Here we part from the families of fitz Urse, Curtenay, and 



Engaine. The over lordship of (West) Chalfield is definitely settled 



in tlie house of Worspring and there is no further change, exce})t 



as prior to prior succeeds. It would, perhaps, have been better 



could we have tracked Urse to his lair, but this does not seem to 



be presently possible. The only hint is supplied by M. Leopold 



Delislo in his last work. He cites the gift by Reynold fitz Urse 



i to the Templars of the service of a half-knight at Sandouville near 



1 le Havre in the diocese of Eouen — (Hesdin, seemingly, is near 



I Calais) — a further gift which supplements Keynold's endowmeni. 



i of the same order in Engla.nd — traditionally supposed to bt» in 



I expiation of his crime — with half his demesne of WillidMi (co. 



Somerset) — a further fraction of the I'^aleise iidieritance. The 



residue of Williton K(\ynold gave, by charter extani, at lUon. to 



Robert litz Urse, his l)i oilier (a gift ratified by lu.bcrl de CuMenai, 



1 by charter, sinnlaiiy extant, nieiitidninu- his wife. ]\Iaud — ) who 



'left posterity; but it is (dear, since the tdaim of X'iol ICngavne, 



descended from Reynold's sister, was allowed, that thisl{nl)ert, 



brother of Re\nold, was t'illier a ba>taid, or ni(>re probably of the 



hall blood. 



