[712] _Rot. Pip._, 1 Ric. I. The "Ernald de Magneville" who was among the Crusaders that reached Acre in June, 1191, may have been a younger son of the disinherited Ernald, if the latter was then dead. An Ernulf de Mandeville is found among the witnesses to a star of Abraham fitz Muriel (1214), granting a house in Westcheap to Geoffrey "de Mandeville," Earl of Essex and Gloucester. [713] _Rot. Pip._, 3 John. [714] _Testa_, p. 142 _b_. [715] See, for the exceptionally heavy alienations in this county (some £440 a year), the Pipe-Roll of 2 Henry II., p. 57. [716] _Dugdale MS._, 15 (H) fol. 129. [717] "Feod[um] Rad[ulfi] de Nuers iiii. milites" (_Liber Niger_). [718] Compare them with the preceding charter of Earl Geoffrey. [719] _Dugdale MS._, _ut supra_. [720] William's succession to Otwel suggests that they were somehow related to William fitz Otuel (p. 169). [721] With this charter of Earl William may be compared another (_Cart. Cott._, x. 1), in which he confirms to Westminster Abbey the church of Sawbridgeworth. The witnesses are "Willielmo de Ver, Asculfo Capellano, Ricardo de Vercorol, Willelmo de Lisoris, David de Jarpouilla, Symone fratre eius, Osberto filio Ricardi, Osberto de sancto Claro, Willelmo de Norhala, Johanne de Rochella, Eustachio Camerario, Rogero et Simone clericis Abbatis West'." The second and third witnesses are also found attesting the earl's charter to the nuns of Greenfield (see p. 169). Compare further "A charter of William, Earl of Essex" (_Eng. Hist. Review_, April, 1891). "Asculfus (or Hasculfus) Capellanus" was the hero of the adventure, on the earl's death, thus related by Dugdale: "A chaplain of the earl's, called Hasculf, took out his best saddle-horse in the night, and rode to Chicksand, where the Countess Rohese then resided," etc., etc. [722] This is a good instance of the custom, so constantly met with in Domesday, by which a house in a county town was attached to a manor. [723] _Dugdale MS._, _ut supra_. [724] _Dodsworth MS._, vii. fol. 299. [725] _Ibid._ [726] _Ibid._, xxx. fol. 104. [727] "Alano de Matem" is among them (cf. p. 89). [728] "Willelmus de Mandevill tenet in Kaingham feodum unius militis de feod[o] Comitis Hereford[ie]" (_Testa_, pp. 102 _a_, 106 _a_). [729] _Lansdowne MS._, 865, fol. 118 _dors._; _Harl. MS._, 154, fol. 45. [730] _Lansdowne MS._, 229, fol. 123 _b_. This note is followed by one of the charter by which the Empress confirmed Humfrey de Bohun in his post of _Dapifer_, and of which the original is still extant among the Duchy of Lancaster Royal Charters (Pipe-Roll Society: _Ancient Charters_, p. 45). [731] See Appendix BB. [732] It was, I believe, duly entered in the lost volume of the Great Coucher. [733] "Sui" omitted in Rawlinson MS. [734] "Dabrichteswordam" (Rawlinson). [735] _R. Diceto_, p. 531.