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tenement which the said Adam held in the said vill, one penny
being reserved to the said Wm. for annual service. (Dug. Mon.
v. 548.) This is probably the Wm. grandson of Peter above.
This gift by a descendant of Essolf of property in Kiddall, in
conjunction with the preceding facts, strongly points to the
identity of the j k. f. held by Elias in 1166, with the manor of
Kiddall. If so, how and when came it into the family of
Elys ?
This inquiry is of considerable interest, and promises a satis-
factory result. The Domesday Survey does not state whether
the Tenants are minors or of full age. Many were doubtless
minors. That the Domesday Asulf was the father of the nu-
merous " sons of Asolf " we shall presently have occasion to
believe. The Adam fitz Peter fitz Essulf of 12 Hen. II. might
well be a grandson of a Domesday tenant. With his father
and his br. Tho. we have seen he was a witness before 1135.
Richard fil. Essulf was witness to a charter of Cecilia de Rumeli
(mother of Avicia wife of Wm. Paynel) to Bolton Priory circ.
1 150. Now in another part of England we meet with a Richard
fil. Osulfi, who is probably the same person. According to the
Liber Niger he held one k. f. in Cornwall of Earl Reginald, \
k. f. in Devon of the Bp. of Exeter, and \ k. f. in Dorset, of
Alured de Lincoln. The only possessions held at the Domes-
day Survey in these counties by Osulf were in Devon, where
he held of Robert de Albemarle the manors of Wide and Whit-
legh.* But as the entries are numerous under the name of
Osulf for Devon and Cornwall during the time of the Confessor,
it is probable that some of his dispossessed lands were restored
to him or his son, or that he acquired others. f In the Testa de
Nevill it is said that Robert Helyon holds \ k. f. in Whitlegh
of the Honour of Plymton ; and Robert de Albemarle in Stokes
[Stoke-Damarell] Whitlegh and Wythy [Wide] 3| k. f., but
service was due in respect only of 2| fees. And in the Inquis.
on the death of Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 1 Rich. II.
these three manors are said to be held of the Castle of Plymton
begins with Tho. Kiddall de Barton, who had a s. " Adam of Fereby, co. Line."
This was probably the "Adam de Kiddall de Barton" who had free warren granted
to him " in omnibus terris suis de Barton, Feriby, and North Burgh co. Line. 11
Edw. II. (Lans. MSS. 207 B f. 203). In 1311 John de Kydale held of the Duke
of Lancaster 1 k. f. in Middleton co. Lane, which Kobert de M. held. (Gregson,
Fragments of Lancashire, p. xlviii.)
* Of the first it is said " Terra est 4 caruc. . . et valet x sol." and of the second
" Terra est 3 car. et valet x sol." and " Huic manerio [Wide] addita est Witelie."
Wadelo held both manors temp. Reg. Edw.
t Osulf is also mentioned temp. Edward as having lands in Hants. Wilts. Bucks.
Northamp. Yorks. (frequently ; in one case, fo. 316 b, the same land, i.e. in Holant
in Staiucross Wapentake, he held at the Survey as under tenant of Ilbert de Laci)
and Suffolk. At the Survey, he had lands in Sussex. Yorks. Devon. Glouc. Skrops.
and Suff. ; but there was probably more than one Osulf.