[895] The curious form "Hupcornhill" should, of course, be noted. I have met with a similar form at Colchester, where the name "Opethewalle," which has been supposed to have been connected with the town wall, occurs earlier (under Edward I.) as "Opethehelle," _i.e._ up the hill. The idiom still survives in such forms as "up town" and "up the street." It probably accounts for the strange name, "Hoppeoverhumber," _i.e._ a man who came from "up beyond the Humber" (cf. for aspirate "Huppelanda de Berchamstede"). [896] _Ninth Report Hist. MSS._, i. 61 _b_. [897] _Ibid._, p. 66 _a_. [898] _Ibid._, p. 31 _b_. It is certainly earlier than 1120, when Otuel fitz Count (the leading witness) was drowned, and probably earlier than the spring of 1116. [899] Pipe-Roll Society: _Ancient Charters_, p. 26 (Eadwardus de Corhulle). [900] Royal Charters, No. 3. This charter must belong to the years 1116-1120. [901] _Ibid._, No. 8 (see p. 305). [902] This has a curious bearing on the legend that Gilbert Becket, the primate's father, had journeyed to Palestine, as showing that this was actually done by a contemporary City magnate. [903] This name should be Andrew Buccuinte (Bucca uncta). [904] Strype's _Stow_, ii. 4. [905] _Ramsey Cartulary_, i. 130. The date there assigned is 1114-1130, but Hugh de Bocland appears to have died several years before 1130. [906] _Rot. Pip._, 31 Hen. I, p. 149. [907] _Ninth Report Hist. MSS._, App. i. pp. 20 _a_, 64 _a_. [908] The form of this surname should be noted as illustrating the practice of abbreviation. The name of Ælfgar's father must have been Colswegen, or some other compound of "Col—" [909] See Pipe-Roll of 1130. [910] This involves a double supposition: (_a_) that "Ingenolda," who is proved to have been the widow of Roger, was the mother of his son Gervase; (_b_) that Ralph fitz Herlwin was brother to the mother, not the father, of Gervase. These assumptions seem tolerably certain, but, at present, they can only be provisionally accepted. [911] For this descent see Stapleton's preface to the _Liber de Antiquis Legibus_ (Cam. Soc.). [912] From a MS. note of Dugdale (L. 41, dors.). [913] _Ninth Report Hist. MSS._, i. 52 _b_. [914] This, it must be well understood, is thrown out merely as a suggestion. [915] _Ninth Report Hist. MSS._, i. 64 _a_. [916] _Ibid._, 66 _b_. [917] _Ibid._, 20 _a_. [918] "Cujus jurisdictioni Cantia subjiciebatur, plus besses et centesimas usuras quam bonum et æquum attendens" (_Becket Memorials_, iii. 100).