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for 3^ k. f. From the above we glean that Wyde was reckoned
as £ k. f. and the tenant not being named, it was probably in
the hands of the superior lord, during the minority of the heir.
In No. 2 p. 66, we have seen that "Wyde"* passed in the
1 4th century from the family of Elys by marriage into that of
Fleming. This fact will now lead us to the very probable con-
jecture that the Osulf who had Wide in 1086 was the same
person as the father of Elias fil. Essolf, that the latter inhe-
rited Wide and Kiddall, and that both passed by the marriage
of probably the granddaughter and heiress of Elias to Wm.
Alis of Allington temp. Hen. II.
Many circumstances indicate a connection between the
Alises, and Devon and Cornwall at an early period. In an
agreement of partition between Wm. de Braose and Oliver de
Tracy, 7 Ric. I. ; three ferlings of land in Brendewurd are men-
tioned as held by Elias cles Alez (Madox, Formulare Anglicanum,
p. 76). Robert Helyon the owner of Whitlegh was probably
progenitor of Robert Helyon who mar. the coh. of the last
Wm. Alis of Allington, and perhaps obtained it by marriage
previously with an Alis ; or possibly his ancestor with a coh. of
Elias fil. Essulf. Tho. Aliz was M.P. for Liskeard, 1313.
Tho. Aliz of Hants, was associated in 1256 with Walter de Ra-
legh (of Devon) as Sureties. And hereafter, in discussing the
origin of the arms, the cross and crescents, it will be attempted
to be shown that they were derived from the Devonshire family
of St. Aubin. But independently of all this, the fact of the
ownership of Wide by an Elys in the 14th century is " confir-
mation strong " of the conclusion just now adopted.
We have seen that Wm. Alis presumed s. of Roger living
1161, had a br. Lucas, and that Philip Alisf of 1166 was
probably another br. There is an " Elyas fil. Roger" men-
tioned in the Pipe Roll for Hants, 17 Hen. II. as owing
' e xl bizantios pro recto de GTatebridge quod nondum habuit,"
who perhaps may be added to the number. If the traditional
Crusader, Sir Archibald Elys, were a real personage and of the
* Robert de Wida occurs as witness to a charter to the Abbey of Fiu-ness,
temp. Hen. II. or Ric. I. (Journ. Archaeological Assoc, vi. 424). By Inquis. on
the death of Patrick de Chaworth (11 Edw. I.) it was found that John de la Wyde
held in Dikenisse and Hudesdon in Cornwall \ k. f. worth 7 marcs per ann. 38
Hen. III. John Wyd occurs in Hants (Abb. Plac. p. 135). The "manor of
Elys " as well as Wide seems to have passed with the heiress of Elys to Fleming. In
the Ordnance map of Cornwall, " White Allis " and " Lower White Allis "
are found between Helston and Penryn ; perhaps originally the manor in question.
+ It is not improbable that some of his descendants settled in Ireland. Temp.
John this entry occurs in the Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibiis : " Hibern. Philip fil.
Elie dat Domino Regi 66 marcs 2*. 3d. * * * * pro licencia * * * morte patris
sui" (p. 66). The Prior of the Hospital of St. John, Waterford, "quae nunc
est cella Prioratus Bathonia?" enfeoffed Sir Richard fitz Elys of \ car. terra? in
the manor of Kylian. 7 Edw. 1. (Calendarium Genealogicum, 1865, p. 288.)