HEC SUNT NO'IA LIBROR' EXISTEN' IN LIBRARIA GERALDI COMIT' KILDARIE.

Hugo de Vienna sup' iiijor Evang'listas; Tria volumia Cronice Anthonini; Tria volumia op'is Sc'i Anthonij cũ gloa; Quatuor p'tes Nich'i de Lyra; Hugo de Vienna sup' spalteriu; Jacobi Locher op'a poete laureati ; Opus Cornelij Vitelli poete; Virgilius cū iiijTM cōment'; Tabula utilissima sup' Lyra; Juvenalis cù glosa; Theodulus cū cōmento; Dyalagus S'ci Georgij; Boecius de Consolacōe Ph'ie; Virgilius cu glosa; Therencius; Fasciculus tp'um; Liber Cronice in p'gameno; De div'sitate anime; Psalteriu de auratu in p'gamēo; Accidens Portiform'; Lib. Alex'i de auratus; Ordinale; The cronicles of England in frenche; A frenche boke in p'chment; The trye of battails; Parte of the Bible in french; The cronicles of Fraunce in french; Maundvile in French; Lalas d'Amo' de viegne; La brevier dez nobles, le quatre choses toutz cestz au vn lyv'; La tryumph de Damez; A boke of Farss' in French.

ENGLISH.-The Polycronicon; Bocaas the fall of princes; Athur; The siedge of Thebes; The Cronicles of England; The feettis of Armes of chyvalry made by Xp'yn de Pyce; Camb'ens.

IRISH.-Saltir Casshill; Saint Beraghans boke; Anothir boke wherein is the begynnyng of the cronicles of Irland; The birth of Criste; Saint Kateryns lif; Saint Jacob is passion; Saint George is passion; The spech of Oyncheaghis; Saint Feghyn is lif; Saint Fynyan is lif; Brislagh my Moregh'; Coucullyns act'; The monk of Egipt lif; Foilfylm'ey, 'The vij sag'; The declaracōn of Gospellis; Saint Bernard' passion; The history of Clanelyre; The leching of Kene is legg; Camb'ens.

THE OBYTIS OF DYV'CE LORDYS AND GENTYLLMEN OF THE

GERALDYS.

OBITUS Maricij filii Geraldi q'm prim' venit in Hib'n' nullus post se in Hib'n' constancia fide firmore relingquens Anno Dñi мo. co. lxxxo. Obijt Geraldus filius eiusdem Maricij Just' Hib'n' Anno Dñi мo.

cco. v°.

Obitus Mauricius filius eiusdem Geraldi Just' Hib'n qui fuit fret' minoris ac prim' fundat" fr'm minor' de geoghill' qui' fuit Just' Hib'n' et const'uxit castrum de Sliggagh & monest'iu ibidem Anno Dñi мo. cc. lvijo.

Obijt Thom's filius dicti Maricij xxviij° die mens' Maij Anno Dñi.

Obierut felicis recordacionis Dñs Johanes filius Thom'e fundat cōvent.. Predicator' de Traly; et Dñs Mauricius filius eiusdem Thome in loco... vocat callyn Desmonie Anno Dni м°. cc. lx". et sepulti sut in boriali p'te monasterij de Traly.

Obijt Thomas filius dicti Mauricij Anno Dñi мo. cc. lxxxixo.

Obijt Mauricius filius Thome p'dicti prim' Comes Desmonie et Just' Hib'n' Anno Dñi мo. ccclvo.

Rycardus de Burgo comes Ulton' fuit capt' p' Joh'em filiū Thome filij Mauricij filij Maurici Anno Dni м°. cc. lxxxxiiij°.

Obit' dni Mauricij filij p'dicti Maricij sc'de Comit' Desmonie A° Dni...

Obijt Geraldus filij primi Maurici t'cius Comes Desmonie Ao dni м°. C. . . . .

Obijt Johanes filius Geraldi quartus Comes Desmonie iu Aqua de shure... mersus Anno Dñi мo. ccccjo.

Obijt dūs Thomas filius eiusdem Johānis quinti Comes Desmonie

Obijt Jacob' filius sup'dicti Geraldi vjo Comes Desmonie Anno Dñi.

Obijt Thom's filius p'dicti Jacobi vij Comes Desmonie et Just' Hib'n' in crastino s'cti Valentini apud de Drogheda p' Joh'em vigmo Just' de collat' Anno Dni мo. cccco lxvijo. et sepult' ap" fratrü p'dicator' de Tah ....

Obijt Jacobi filij dicti Thome octav' Comes Desmonie int' fect' apud Rathgely p'q'sda suos famulatores felo" Anno Dñi мo. cccc. lxxviijo.

GENEALOGY.

THE Correction of, or addition to, pedigrees of noble or other distinguished families, is a subject to which some attention will be given; and a small portion of each number will accordingly be devoted to that object. In all cases these statements will be supported by evidence: hence, they will, it is hoped, be valuable memoranda to those who interest themselves in genealogical studies.

Few houses equal, in antiquity or rank, the illustrious family of Vere, Earls of Oxford; but, as in others of far less importance, errors of some consequence occur in the histories given of it both by Dugdale and Collins. The former writer informs us, in his "Baronage," on the authority of the Pipe Rolls, 2 Ric. I., that Alberic, the third Earl, "paid a fine to the king in the 2nd Ric. I. of D marks, for the sister of Walter de Bolebec, to make a wife for his son; and that Robert, his second son, the third Earl, married Isabel, the daughter of Hugh, and sister and heiress of Walter de Bolebec, Rot. Pip. 9 John; that she survived her husband; and in the 6th Hen. III. paid a fine to the king, and afterwards re-married Henry de Novant, and died on the morrow of the Purification of our Lady, 29 Hen. III. i. e. 1st February, 1245." When treating of the family of Bolebec, he says, that Isabel, daughter and heiress of Walter de Bolebec, was nine years old in 1186; that, in the 9th John, 1207, "Robert de Vere, son of Earl Alberic, afterwards Earl of Oxford, gave the king cc marks and three palfreys, for leave to marry her; and in the same year she gave ccc pounds and three palfreys, that she might not be compelled to marry, and that she might enjoy what was in arrear of her own and her sister's

inheritance, namely, the wife of Elias de Beauchamp, Rot. Pip. 9 John;" though a few lines before he calls Isabel" the daughter and heir" of her father. Sir William does not say who Alberic, second Earl of Oxford, elder brother of Robert, just mentioned, married; but states that he died s. P. in the 16th John, 1214. Collins, following Leland, asserts however, that his wife was Adeliza, daughter of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and that he had by her a daughter and heiress, Margaret, who married Hugh, Earl of Chester'. That some of those statements are erroneous, is manifest from the following charter, which has been copied from the original in the British Museum, as it appears from it that Alberic de Vere, the second Earl, married Isabel, the daughter of Walter de Bolebec. Whether she afterwards married her husband's brother and heir, Robert, the third Earl, has not been ascertained. The Earls of Oxford always styled themselves Lords of Bolebec, and enjoyed the lands of that family; but it is possible that though Earl Alberic left no issue, some part, if not the whole, of his wife's lands devolved on his heir. The charter is without date; nor can the period in which it was written be ascertained from the names of the witnesses.

"Albericus de Ver filius Alberici comitis et femina sua Isabel filia Walteri de Bolebech: Omnibus hominibus suis Gallicis et Anglicis. Salutem. Sciatis omnes quod ego et Ysabel de Bolebech uxor mea concessimus Willielmo filio Derinch et heredibus suis terram de hoqe rug' quam predictus Willielmus tenuit de Waltero de Bol' et xv. acras terre," &c. . Hij sunt testes. Stephanus de Monthamsie; Johannes le Manant; Willielmas fil' Fulc'; Gaufr' Guernon; Guido de Boleb'; Rob. de Seffreiwast; Tosten' Basset; Petro decano de Huch'che; et filio eius; Rad' de Wesdon'; Rad' de Chardrug'; Hug' de la Hauqfert; Willielmus de Heston'; Azon'; Ernald' de Hertrug'; et multi alij "."

SIR LEWIS CLIFFORD, K. G.-Dugdale, and every other genealogical writer, has stated that this distinguished individual was a younger son of Roger Lord Clifford, who died in the 13th Rich. II. 1389-90, by Maud, the daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; but this could not have been the case. In November, 31 Edw. III. 1357, a Lewis Clifford, who there can be no doubt was the same individual, Donald Asebrig, and Walter Mere, were commanded, under the penalty of for

' Historical Collections, p. 221.

* Sealed on white wax, which is surrounded by a bed of red wax. The impression is imperfect; sufficient remains, however, to show that it was the effigy of a man on horseback, holding a shield, but the charge on it cannot be made out. Ancient Charters in the British Museum, marked 57. C. 3.

feiting all their goods, to deliver to Thomas, de Holland the fortress and town of Cruz, in Normandy1; hence, Clifford must have been then at least twenty-one years old, and which calculation presumes that he was born in 1336. Thomas de Clifford, the eldest son of the said Roger Lord Clifford, and Maud de Beauchamp, was found to be twenty-six years old, according to Dugdale; but twenty-four, agreeable to a MS. note of the inquisition on Roger Lord Clifford's death, in 1389-90. Thus, the person who has always been considered Sir Lewis's eldest brother, was born in 1363 or 1365, at least twenty-seven years after him. Sir Lewis Clifford was possibly a younger son of Robert Lord Clifford, who died in 18 Edw. III. 1344, though there does not appear to be the least proof of the fact; whilst there is one circumstance which, so far as it goes, must be considered as presumptive evidence to the contrary-namely, that in the inquisition on the death of the said Robert, in the 18th Edw. III., three sons are mentioned: Robert, the eldest, who was then sixteen years old, Roger, and Thomas; but no notice is taken of any other son. The arms attributed to Sir Lewis were, the coat of the Barons Clifford, checky Or, and Azure, with a bend Gules; and he is said to have been the ancestor of the Cliffords of Kent, from whom those of Wiltshire, and the Lords Clifford of Chudleigh, are descended, though the pedigree has been variously deduced. It is presumed, that no positive evidence is extant to connect Sir Lewis Clifford with the baronial line of that name, or to establish the descent of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, from him; but both points are exceedingly likely. Sir Lewis is stated, by most writers, to have married Eleanor, daughter of John Lord la Warr, and to have had a son William, and a daughter, who became the wife of Sir Philip la Vache, Knight. No inquisition is recorded to have been held on his decease; but his will, which is dated on the 17th September, 1404, and was proved on the 5th of December following, is still preserved. In that document he mentions no other relation, than his daughter and her husband, Sir Philip la Vache, Knight, of whom he thus speaks. "Now first I bequethe to Sire Phylype la Vache Knight, my masse booke and my porhoos; and my book of tribulacion to my daughter hys wyf." He appointed the said la Vache, Sir John Cheyne, and Sir Thomas Clanrow, surveyors of his will, and bequeathed to them the residue of his goods; and nominated John Andrew, John Carleton, Walter Gaytone, and Thomas Barbowe, his executors; and it is most extraordinary, if he had a son then living, or any descendants of a son, that he should have been entirely silent respecting them.

It is, however, certain, that Sir Lewis Clifford had a son called Lewis, who was living in June, 15 Ric. II. 1390; for among some collections for the pedigree of Clifford, in the Harleian MS. 6111, f. 8. apparently in the hand of Augustine Vincent, Windsor Herald, is the following extract:

Originalia, Ao. 15 Ric. II. rot. 14. Lodovicus de Clifford, Chevalier et Lodovicus filius ejus-30 die Junij."

Besides the statements in every pedigree of the family of Clifford of Kent, that it sprung from Sir Lewis Clifford, there are three circumstances which render it extremely probable:

First, the fact that Sir Lewis was connected with Kent; this appears from the following extract, which occurs in the Harleian MS. just cited:

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Originalia, Ao. 9 Ric. II. rot. 17. Rex concessit Lodovico de Clifford Militi terciam partem m' de Meere in Com. Kanc' ad terminam vite, 18 Sep'."

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Secondly, The use of the baptismal name of Lewis. Among the Ancient Charters," in the British Museum', is one of Alexander Clifford, son of Lewis Clifford," relative to the. manor of Shorne in Kent, dated on Monday next after the feast of the octaves of the Epiphany, 30 Henry VI., i. e. 17 January, 1452, from which it is manifest that there must have been a Lewis Clifford in that family within five years, if not at the very time of Sir Lewis Clifford's decease; and who, it is possible was the knight's son or grandson. The Alexander Clifford who granted the deed which has been just mentioned, died in 1494, and by his will gave several manors to his son Lewis. He moreover notices a relation, apparently a nephew, who bore the same baptismal name, Lewis Blewet 2.

Thirdly, The resemblance between the arms of the families. The seal to the charter which has been cited, contains, Checky within a bordure; impaling, six lions rampant, the arms of the said Alexander's grandmother, Elizabeth, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Arnold Savage.

HERALDRY.

To this interesting subject several pages of each number of this work will be devoted; and we hope to present our readers from time to time with some valuable information upon the early usage of armorial bearings, supporters, crests, quarterings, and badges, &c. On this occasion, however, we shall

1 Marked 48 C. 36.

2 Testamenta Vetusta, p. 418-9.