Of 0 XFO%T>^S H1%E. 353 
129. Befide thefe^ the Kings of England had feveral other 
feats within this County (not to mention again that WoodJlock.\vzs 
one, or that old AlcefJer was the feat of Ak^u^) fuch as BeaU" 
mont^ juft without the fuburbs of Oxford^ the Birth-place of the 
valiant King Richard the Firft. Langley^ upon the edge of the 
forefio^Whichvpooi^ a feat, as Tradition has delivered it down 
to us, of the unhappy King John^ who perhaps during the time 
of his Refidence here, might indeed build the Caftle of Bampon^ 
which alfo Tradition informs us was ot his foundation. And 
Evpelm^ built indeed by William Ve la Pool Duke of Suffolk.-, who 
marrying Alice the daughter and heir of Thomas Chaucer^ had a 
fair Eftate hereabout ; but after, upon the attaindure of John 
Earl of Lincoln^ and £^JOT«/z<i his brother, Grand-children to the 
Duke, it came to the Cyovqu in the days of KingFewr. 7. and was 
afterward made an /Tbwor, by laying unto it the Manor of WaU 
lengford^ and feveral others, by King Hen. 8. All which houfes are 
mark'd out in the Map^ by the addition of a fmall Imperial Crovpn 
placed fomwhere near them. 
130. As all places that gave title to ancient Barons, moft of 
whofe Families long fince have been extinguifli'd,are mark'd with 
2i Coronet; fuch are, i. The Baronies by zncient Tenure, which 
were certain Territories held of the King, who ftill referved the 
Tenure in chief to himfelf : whereof the ancienteft in this Coun- 
ty were thofe of Oxford and St. Valeric^ the head of the latter be- 
ing the Town of Hoh-Norton ^, both given by the Conqueror to 
Robert VOyly who accompanied him out of Normandy ^. 2. The 
Barony of Arfic^ belonging to Manaffer Arfic, who floriCh'd An, 
1103. 3 Hen. I. the head of which Barony was Coggs near Witney^ 
Summerton and Hardwick in this County^ being other members of 
it. 3. The Barony of Hedindon, now Heddington^ given the 
25 of Henr. 2. to Thomas Baf/et in Fee-farm, whofe Son Gilbert 
the Founder of Bifeter Priory, in the firft year of Richard the 
Firft, was one of the Barons that attended at the Coronation. And 
thefe are all the Baronies of ancient Tenure that were heretofore 
in Oxford'fiire. 
131. In the beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Firft, 
there were feveral other able men fummon'd as Barons to Parlia- 
ment^ that had not fuch Lands of ancient Tenure^ as thole above 
« Camd> Britan. in Com. Oxon. * Monafiicon. Angl. vol, 2 p: 
Yy had. 
