Whitey's Sunday Horse. E-book. Formato PDF Glen Rounds   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

On this day, as they rode along, they came on some thing that interested them both. In a grassy hollow at the head of a dry coulee they saw a little brown mustang mare and a brand new colt. The colt was an awkward-looking scamp as he stood with his trem bling legs braced wide apart, catching his breath after the effort of getting up. His body was close knit and compact, and his back was strong and flat, but his legs were so long and slender he appeared to be walking on stilts.

Geoffrey De Mandeville: A Study of the Anarchy. E-book. Formato PDF John H. Round   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Among the subjects on which I shall endeavour to throw some fresh light are problems of constitutional and institu tional interest, such as the title to the English Crown, the origin and character of earldoms (especially the earldom of Arundel), the development of the fiscal system, and the early administration of London. I would also invite attention to such points as the appeal of the Empress to Rome in 1136, her intended coronation at Westminster in 1141, the unknown Oxford intrigue of 1142, the new theory on Norman castles suggested by Geoffrey's charters, and the genealogical discoveries in the Appendix on Gervase de Cornhill. The prominent part that the Earl of Gloucester played in the events of which I write may justify the inclusion of an essay on the creation of his historic earldom, which has, in the main, already appeared in another quarter.

Studies in Peerage and Family History. E-book. Formato PDF J. Horace Round   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Page 13. The Irish earldom of LlandafF (1797)is now similarly assumed, if not the barony of Cahir.Pages 126-7. Too late for insertion in the text I discovered that Jordan Fitz Alan (Fitz Flaald) and his son Alan Fitz Jordan were lords of Tuxford, etc., in Notts, and that Alan was succeeded there, as in Norfolk, by his daughter and heiress Olive. Further, Olive is there found to be identical with that Olive who was wife (i) of Robert de St. John, of St. Jean-le-Thomas (sec my paper on "The Families of St. John and of Port" in Genealogist N. S., Xvi. 45), and(2) of Roger de Monbegon, who gave 500 marcs for her and her inheritance in i John. This completes the pedigree of the line.Their Nottinghamshire estate consisted of Tuxford, with lands in Walesby and Kirton, together with West Markham and Warsop, all of which had formed part of the escheated fief of Roger de Busli (see Thoroton's Notts III. 213, 214, 219, 220, 227, 354, 369), and must have been bestowed by Henry I. on this favoured family. It was as holding the 6 carucates at which these lands were assessed that Jordan had his 12 sh. of danegeld remitted in 1130. Alan Fitz Jordan enfeoflFed GcoflFrey de Ie Fremunt at Walesby and Kirton, and his daughter Olive (who occurs in the Ruflford Cartulary) kept her court at Tuxford.This discovery enables us to identify two of the churches given to the abbey of Tiron by Alan Fitz Jordan as "seneschal of Dol." In my Calendar of Documents preserved in France they occur as 'Tophor' and 'Garsop' (p. 358); but they were clearly Tuxford and Warsop. The scattered character of tenures in this obscure period is illustrated by this seneschal of Dol holding land independently in the counties of Lincoln, of Norfolk, and of Notts.