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had, which were therefore ftiled Barons hy Writs of Summons to 
Parliament. The firft of thefe in Oxford-Jhire was William de 
Huntercomb (whofe feat ftill remains by the fame name in the Pa- 
ridi of Tuffield^ who was fummoned to Parliament by the Eings 
Writ^ bearing date the 23 of Edw, i. The fecond, I find, was 
J oh. Gray of Rotherfield^ whofe Anceftors being of a younger 
Houfeof Walter Grey Arch-BiQiop of Tbr^, had Rotherfield given 
them, befide many other pofe/fwns by the faid Arch-Bidiop : He 
was fummoned firft to Parliament the 25 of Edw, i. 
132. And fo was thirdly, his next Neighbor Ralph Pipard of 
the other Rotherfield^ in the fame year of the fame King^ their 
feats having now almoft quite changed their names^ forthofe of 
their owners ; one of them feldom being called otherwife than 
Pipard or Pepper , and the other Grays, Alfo fourthly, ^chn 
BarOn Lovely of Minfter-Lovel^ whofe ancefi or s thow^ Barons by 
tenure many years before, as feifed of the Barony of Cajlle-Cary in 
Somerfet'Jhire^ yet dif-poffeft of that I know not by what means, 
received fummons to Parliament whiPft feated here at Min^ler^ 
25 of Edw, I, 
133. The fifth of thefe Barons w2ls Hen, le Tyes^ who having a 
grant of Sherbournhexe in Oxfor d-flAr e^xom Richard Earl of Corn^ 
wall^ temp, Henr, 3. which Sherbourn had formerly been a part of 
the Barony Robert deDruis^ was fummoned to Parliament the 
28 of Edw, I . And fo was fixthly, John de la Mare of Garfing- 
ton^ the very fame year. To which fliould be added, the Barons 
by Letters Patents of Creation^ fo firft made about the 11 of Rich, 2. 
But of thefe, whofe Barony is now vacant, there is only, fevench- 
ly, the Lord Williams^ folemnly created Lord Williams o{ Thame 
the firft of Aprils i Mari^e^ who had alfo fummons the fame time 
tothe Parliament then fitting, hwth\s Patent it feems was never 
enrolled. 
134. For this account of thefe Baronies, I acknowledge my 
felf beholding to that Learned Antiquary^ William DugdaleEfq; 
Norroy King at Arms^ in whofe elaborate Volumes of the Baronage 
of England^ the Reader may receive more fatisfaftion concerning 
them. Yet befide thefe, as the people will have it, the Manor of 
Wilcot was the head of a Barony ^ one of the Barons whereof, as 
tradition tells them, lies buryed under a fair Monument in Norths 
Z^ei^Z) Church: But the Writings of the ^te^ent Proprietor^ my 
worthy 
