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also gave to Montebourg the advowson of the Church at the same 

 place to be held free and undisturbed as Eoger the priest held it 

 " of the gift of Stephen my father." 1 Among the witnesses to this 

 last charter are " Ealph Patric and Eoger, my uncles," who also 

 appear (as " Eoger de Mandeville and Ealph Patric, my uncles ") 

 in the testing clause of the Montacute charter. 



The family of Patric had considerable possessions in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Caen, where the parish and chateau of Le Mesnil 

 Patry 2 still bear witness to their importance. The cartulary of 

 St. Vincent de Caen also supplies a short pedigree of the family of 

 William Patric, 3 the brother of a Ealph Patric, 4 and perhaps the 

 uncle of Mabilia Patric, who also married into the Erlestoke family. 



We now come to Eoger de Mandeville (IIP), who succeeded his 

 father, Stephen, in his possessions in England and Normandy, and 

 is the first recorded tenant of the manor of Erlestoke. Whether 

 he succeeded his father in this possession also is uncertain but 

 highly probable. 



Seend seems to have been granted as a separate manor for the 

 first time by Henry III., 5 but from the contents of a Curia Eegis 

 Eoll of the same King's time it appears that Erlestoke had been 

 granted away by Henry I. 6 



The roll referred to is the record of a suit for the manor against 

 the tenant of that time, made by the King on the ground that it 

 was ancient demesne of the crown, of which Henry I. had seisin 

 and which had been wrongfully alienated in that King's time. It 

 has been shown above that Eoger de Mandeville held the manor 

 of the King in chief in 1155, so that it may be presumed that the 

 plea of wrongful alienation was merely a legal form, and that the 



1 MS., Latin, 10087, No. 263. 



2 MS., Latin, 5445, p. 95. 



3 MS., Latin, 5444, p. 649. 



4 MS., Latin, 5445, p. 97. 



5 Aubrey and Jackson, Wiltshire, p. 302, n. 

 6 No. 151, 37 and 38 Hen. III., m. 16. 



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