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the Queen-Mother. Here our patient antiquary will turn to his 

 law-books to discover whether such pardon carried with it restitution 

 to goods and lands, or extended only to personal immunity from 

 the consequences of the act. All that we can definitely state, at 

 present, is that not long subsequently the whole of the lands which 

 can be traced as having formed part of the Foliot inheritance are 

 found in the possession of Henry le Tyes. Did they come to him 

 by descent, in .right of any wife, or by grant from the Crown ? 

 Not, apparently, by his wife, for we find them subsequently in his 

 son's possession not in his widow's ; if by royal grant, we have 

 failed to find it ; not by descent, for we have never seen the arms 

 of Foliot quartered by any of the descendants and representatives 

 of Henry le Tyes. Next to nothing is known, or at any rate printed, 

 that we are aware of, touching the services and descent of Henry le 

 Tyes. In the " Complete Peerage" (1896) he is even described as 

 " de Tyes," a misnomer left uncorrected in the " Corrigenda " 

 (1898), and yet the substitution of one letter for another tends to 

 conceal what may prove to be the most interesting fact about him. 

 And here a whole field of fact is open for the painful antiquary to 

 explore. We have all heard of " Henry the Almain," the King's 

 cousin, and of " merchants of Almain " galore. What were the 

 precise geographical limits of "Almain"? And when a man is 

 called " Teutonicus " in a Latin record what place of origin does it 

 indicate, and what, strictly, is it the Latin for ? Le Tyes ? 

 Certainly. The same man is called indifferently "Teutonicus" 

 and "le Tyes." Part of Lydiard Tregoze was called " Lydiard 

 Tyes." Follow out its history and you will find it was Foliot land 

 and that it came to "le Tyes." But what was "le Tyes"? Is 

 the word French, or English, or Low Dutch, for where ? But let 

 us leave the question to the antiquary and pass on to Henry le Tyes 

 himself. He was summoned to Parliament, and, as a baron, sealed 

 the letter to the Pope. Was the letter to the Pope ever sent, and if 

 it was, why are there two copies of it in Fetter Lane and none in the 

 Vatican ? But again leaving this question, in that letter le Tyes 

 described himself as " dominus de Chilton." This of course was 

 Chilton Folyat. If you turn to the " Cartulary of the Monastery 



