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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. n,
pEarl Leofric (995),=
d. 31 Aug., 1057.
pGodiva (1040),
sister of
Thorold, sheriff
of Lincoln.
Thorold, sheriff
of Lincoln,
dead 1086.
Robert Malet,
uncle of
Lucy.
Alan of Lincoln,=f
uncle of Lucy
Earl Algar,=j
(1000),
d. 1059.
i '
Earl E Edwin Mo d-1063.
= Ivon Tailbois (l),=i
? dead 1094.
a countess
1119,
d. about 1141;
if so, set. 84.
(2) Roger fitz
Gerold de Roumare, d. c. 1094.
p[3) Ranulf Meschin,
Earl of Chester
1119,
d. 1129.
7 1
arl Algytha, = rkar. wife of King Harold.
r Ribald, lord=
of
Middleham
1086.
^Beatrix William de Ranulf, Ea
(1075). Roumare Chestei
(1094), (1095),
Earl of d. 17 Kal. J
Lincoln. 1153.
. _ 1
Alfred,
nepos
Toroldi,, 1086.
Radulf fitz Ribald
of Middleham,
v. 1154.
Gilbert son of=pGodith
Ketel, (Godiva).
son of Eldred.
-K
and the latter to Ranulf Meschin. Rufus
seems to have made it a condition that they
should give the churches to St. Mary's Abbey
at York, in which he was taking great interest
at that time, and this they both did.
It was not until 1092 that the King with a large army got to Carlisle, repaired the city and the castle, and left a garrison under the command of Ranulf. This is the last we hear of Ivon, as the romance of ' Ingulph,' written two centuries after, cannot be trusted. He was either declared a traitor and managed to escape abroad or, more likely, died, because very shortly after Lucy is found to be already the wife of Ranulf Meschin at Carlisle. Yet in this short interval she had married and lost her second husband, Roger fitzGerold, by whom she had a son, afterwards Earl of Lincoln. At last, in 1119, she herself became a Countess, her husband having succeeded to the Earldom of Chester.
Ivon left by Lucy a daughter and heiress, Beatrix, whose heirs for several generations held the barony of Kendal. Ribald of Middleham, her husband, it is stated in a contemporary document, " gave the church of ' Optone ' to Spalding fifteen years before he gave the manor with his daughter to Gilbert." This was undoubtedly Gilbert, the son of Ketel, son of Eldred. Yet the Cartulary of St. Mary's at York made a strange error by making Eldred the son of Ivon ! This was copied into another Cartu- lary, and adopted by the historians of Westmorland, even the last, Mr. Ferguson.
"Chetel," son of Eldred, was the most
influential thane in Cumberland, and we
find him soon after giving the churches of
Workington and Corby to St. Mary's Abbey,,
with lands in both places.
We learn from a charter of Gilbert that his wife was named Godith, so after her great- grandmother. Godith was the Norman for Godgifu, as Edith was for Eadgifu, but very rarely occurs.
The Coventry legend is called by the late Prof. Freeman (' Old English History," p. 278) " a silly story," but as Godiva is always called " Lady," not " Countess " a title unknown before Norman times this fact is suggestive of the story being much, older than is suspected. A. S. ELLIS.
Westminster.
JOHN CTJRWEN. The centenary of the
birth of John Curwen, founder of the Tonic
Sol-Fa Association, will be fittingly celebrated
this year, so it may not be out of place to
record a few words concerning this notable
man in ' X. & Q.'
John Curwen was born at Heckmondwike r Yorkshire, Nov. 14, 1816. He was educated at Coward College and fniversity College, London. In 1 838 he became an Independent minister, and soon afterwards his attention was drawn to the subject of teaching singing to children in his Sunday school. He visited Miss Glover's School at Norwich in 1841, and, having tried her system, he devoted the remainder of his life to its
