How he rewarded his followers.:
THough he hath had the name of Conquerour, yet he used not the King∣dome as gotten by Conquest, for he tooke no mans living from him, nor di∣spossessed any of their goods, but such onely, whose demerit made unworthy to hold them; as appeares by his Act to one Warren a Norman, to whom he had gi∣ven the Castle of Sherborne in Norfolke; for when Sherborne, who was owner of it, acquainted the King, that the Castle was his; and that he had never borne Armes against him; he presently commanded Warren, to deliver it quietly up unto him•• Onely vacancies of Offices, and filling up the places of those who were slaine or fled, were the present meanes he made use of, for preferring his Followers. One speciall preferment we cannot omit, that where one Herlowyn a Nobleman in Nor∣mandy, had marryed his Mother Arlette, and had by her a Sonne named Hugh Lu∣pus, he gave to the said Hugh, the Earledome of Chester, to hold of him as freely by his sword, as himselfe held England by his Crowne, by vertue of which Grant, the said Hugh ordained under him foure Barons, Nigell he made Baron of Halton: Malbanke, Baron of Nantwich: Eustace Baron of Mawpase; and Vernon, Baron of Shipbrooke: Such an Honour, as no Subject before or since, ever enjoyed the like.