{25} Before these names the sentence which precedes that of Richard de Sudburie is to be understood. It will be noticed that Richard de Sudburi was the name of an Abbot of Westminster, who died in the eighth year of this reign. But whether these lands were acquired by him and inserted here to render that grant a legal holding, or whether it was the grant of some Richard de Sudbueri then living I cannot say. {27} _Maitland’s London_, _by Entick_, vol. i. p. 190. {28} Now called Kensington. {29} _Lysons_, p. 514, vol. iv.—Second edition. {30a} _Faulkner’s Kensington_, p. 90. {30b} From the _Domboc_, we learn that this land was held by Alberic, or Aubrey, de Vere of the Bishop Constance, the Chief Justiciary of England; and we are informed by _Lysons_ and _Faulkner_ that the second Aubrey was in so much favour with the first Henry, that he was not only appointed to this office, Lord Chief Justice of England, but created Lord Great Chamberlain, “which office” says Faulkner, “was made hereditary in his family, with the tenure of several manors;” and _Lysons_ tells us this manor was so held. _Mr. Faulkner’s_ more recent investigations have brought out several facts respecting this manor, and its subsequent division into separate manors, which did not appear very plain in the account given by _Lysons_, although his account is exceedingly interesting and contains a great number of facts and references. {31} _Faulkner’s History and Antiquities of Kensington_, p. 73–4. Each 15 Edw. IV. m. 12. See also _Lysons’ Kensington_. Both _Lysons_ and _Faulkner_ state that Richard had a grant of these manors; but the statements in the Inquisition and the Act of Parliament, point out a mode of acquisition not quite so creditable to a King. {32} _Valor Ecclesiasticus_ (published by the Record Commission) vol. i. p. 411. This Ecclesiastical valuation, taken in 1535, superseded the one ordered to be taken by the Pope in 1291. {33a} Sir Reginald has the credit of having designed Henry the seventh’s chapel, in Westminster Abbey. {33b} Vide _Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum_, p. 287; and Pat 35, Henry VIII. p. 6. m. 18 (19). _Lysons_, and _Smith_ (who appears to have copied what Lysons said), only “_suppose_” this sale to have taken place. {34} I find by a note to the printed copy of the Countess’s will, that _John_ Roper was her first Cambridge reader. {35a} As I make no pretention to be a black-letter lawyer, and as I thought my readers would prefer to read such documents as these in their own language, I have in almost every instance where I have found it necessary to quote ancient Latin documents, given the translation: referring to the original to be consulted by those who should think it necessary to do so.