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764 APPENDIX I foeudum Ernisii de Burun sicut suam hereditatem et foeudum Hugonis de Scoteineio ei dedi ubicunque sit et foeudum Robert! de Chalz ubicunque sit et totum foeudum Rad'i filii Odonis et totum foeudum Normanni de Verd' et foeudum Roberti de Staf ubicunque sit Et triginta libratas terre quas habui in Grimesbeia ei dedi Et Notingeham castellum et burgum et quicquid habui in Notingeham in foeudo et hereditate sibi et heredibus suis dedi et totum foeudum Willelmi Peverelli ubicunque sit nisi poterit se dirationare in mea curia de scelere et tradicione Excepts Hecham' Et si Engelramus de AlbaMarl' non voluerit se capere mecum neque Comes Simon et illud vi capere potero predictam Hecham reddo Comiti Ronnulfosi earn habere voluerit Et Torchesiam et Oswardebec' wapentac et Derbeiam cum omnibus pertinentiis et Mammesfeld' cum socha et Roelay cum socha et Stanleiam juxta Coventreiam cum socha et de Belvario tenebo ei rectum quam cicius potero sicut de sua hereditate Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terre dabo de his que mihi ex hostibus meis adquisita acciderint de me tenendas et omnibus parentibus suis suam reddo hereditatem unde potens sum et de hoc unde ad presens poteiis non sum rectum plenarium tenebo ex quo potens ero T'. Willelmo Cancellario R'. Comite Cornub' R'. Comite Herf Patricio Comite Sarisb' Umfrido de Buh' dapifero J. filio Gileberti R'.de Hum' Constabulario Guarino filio Ger' Roberto de Curcey dapifero Manassero Biset dapifero Philippo de Columb' Ex parte Comitis Ran' Willelmtts Comite Lincol' Hugone Wac' G. Castellano de Fines Simone filio Willelmi Turstano de Montef ' Gaufrido de Costentin Willelmo de Verd' Ricardo Pincerna Rogero Wac' Simone filio Osberti Apud Divisas. [Cotton Charters, xvii, no. 2). It ought to be unnecessary to have to state that these extensive grants never took efFect.(*) Nine months afterwards, in Dec. 11 53, the Earl died, poisoned, as men said, by William Peverel. H53. Rannulfus eciam nobilis ille et famosus Comes Cestrie, vir admodum militaris per quendam Willelmum Peverellum, ut fama fuit, veneno infectus, post (*) " But in truth the promises of Devizes, none of them resulted in estates of inheritance " (Eyton). It should be observed that the lands between Ribble and Mersey, parcel of Count Roger's honour of Lancaster, were actually possessed by Randolf, Earl of Chester, and on the partition of his property in 1232 fell to the wife of the Earl of Derby. See p. ig6 of this volume. But these lands were not granted to Earl Randolf till as late as 18 Oct. 1229 [Charter Roll, 13 Hen. Ill, p. i, m. 2): writ of livery to the sheriff of Lancaster, 19 Oct. [Close Roll, m. 2). Planch^ [The Conqueror and his Companions, vol. ii, p. 72) argued that " Hugh [Earl of Chester] . . . had a daughter named Agnes, who became the wife of William, Earl of Ferrers and Derby, and thus it is clearly evident [«V] how that Earl made himself heir of Peverel, and intruded himself into that inheritance . . . claiming heirship to the estates of Peverel, in right of his wife Agnes, sister and coheir of Ranulph Blondeville, Earl of Chester, the grandson of the grantee, and not through any marriage with this phantom Margaret Peverel." How the Earl of Derby could, in 11 99, claim "heir- ship to the estates of Peverel [then possessed, as Planch^ supposed, by the Earl of Chester, as heir of " the grantee "] in right of his wife Agnes," who possessed no " right" whatever till 1232, when she became coheir to her brother, that very same Earl of Chester, whom her husband is supposed (by Planch^) to have been claiming against, in her name, 33 years before. Planch^ does not explain, nor is it, indeed, useful to speculate.