Gervase, who had just succeeded his father, a former sheriff of London, was afterwards eminent as Gervase “of Cornhill” (as son-in-law of Edward of Cornhill, of the Cnihtengild), Justiciar of London and sheriff.[297] Fulk pays for his release from imprisonment on the London pipe roll of 1130;[298] John occurs on the same roll,[299] and was closely associated with Gervase.[300] Hugh Cordel, in 1130, accounts for his release from imprisonment;[301] Ralf of Oxford is one of his pledges.[302] The Bucherells were a great City family, whose name is said to be preserved in Bucklersbury, and who were doubtless of Italian origin.[303] The second of these charters, from its many points of interest, fairly deserves to be given _in extenso_: Fulquius vicecomes nepos Gisleberti de Surreia concedit Hugoni filio Ulgeri et heredibus suis conventiones de terra de Alfladewicha et de Hischentuna sicut convencio est inter Bernardum filium Rumoldi et Hugonem filium Ulgeri et sicut cirographum quod factum est inter eos testatur per iiij marcas argenti quas dedit mihi Hugo. Et hoc est requisitione Milonis de Gloecestria et Fulcredi camerarii Lund[onie] et Osberti VIII denarii et Andree Buccuinte et Anschetilli. Et istud concessum fuit factum ante Willelmum abbatem de Certesia, et Ricardum Basset, et Albericum de Ver, et Meinfeninum Britonem, et Robertum de Talewurda, et Rodbertum dapiferum abbatis de Certesia, et Walterum clericum, et Radulfum Bloie.[304] We may safely recognise in the grantor that “Fulcoius qui fuit vicecomes” of the 1130 Pipe Roll[305] (p. 44), who had, in 1129, preceded Richard Basset and Aubrey de Ver as sheriff of Surrey, Cambridgeshire, and Hunts. A church was quitclaimed to the abbot of Colchester before him as “Fulcquio vicecomite de Surreia,” not later, it would seem, than 1126.[306] It is probable that the “de Surreia” of the above clumsily-drawn charter refers to his sheriffwick rather than to Gilbert, of whom, we here learn, he was the ‘nepos.’ This statement enables us to connect him directly with Gilbert, a previous sheriff of Hunts, and, it seems, of Surrey. For a charter witnessed by this Gilbert, as sheriff, is also witnessed by “Fulcuinus nepos vicecomitis.”[307] Fulkoin must have been sheriff of Hunts in 1127, for a charter of May 22, in that year, is witnessed by him.[308] He further witnessed, as ‘Fulcoinus vicecomes,’ a transaction of which the date seems not quite certain.[309] Gilbert, his uncle, was sheriff as early as 1110,[310] and in 1114 (or 1116),[311] and occurs as “Gilbertus vicecomes de Suthereia” in a charter of 1114–1119.[312] From this it would seem that he was sheriff, like his nephew, of Surrey as well as Hunts (including, doubtless, Cambridgeshire). He was also no other than the founder of Merton Priory, whose Austin canons were the teachers of Becket.