The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities / by William Dugdale ...

Buisli.

ROger de Busli,* 1.1 being possesseda 1.2 of divers Lordships in the Conquerors time; viz. one in ••evonshire, eight in Der∣byshire, five in Leicestershire, forty nine in Yorkshire, and fourscore and six in Noting∣hamshire, had his principal residence at Tik∣hill Castle in Yorkshire: And at Blythe (near Tikhill) on the confi••es of Notingham∣shire, where he also hadb 1.3 another Castle, in 2 Will. Rufi, foundedc 1.4 a Priory for Benedictine Monks, which he annexedd 1.5 as a Cell to the Abby of St. Catherines on the Mount near Ro∣an, in Normandy.

This Roger gavee 1.6 also to the Monks of St. Peters at Gloucester, his Lordship of Clif∣ford: and surviving King Henry the first, stood firmf 1.7 to his Daughter Maud the Empress: for which respect King Stephen seizedg 1.8 upon his Castle of Tickhill, and the whole Honor of Blithe; and gaveh 1.9 them to Ranulph then Earl of Chester.

To Roger succeededi 1.10 Richard de Builli* 1.11 (Son to Roger I presume) who in Anno 1147. (12 Steph.) founded Roche Abby, in Yorkshire; and with the consentl 1.12 of Emme his Wife, gavem 1.13 to the Monks of Kirkestede, in Lincolnshire, a certain place lying within the territory of Kym∣berworth, for the making of two Furnaces, to melt Iron: and two Forges for making it into Bars; as also all his dead Wood in the Woods of Rymberworth, to make Charcoal for those Furnasses and Forges: And left issuen 1.14 three Sons, William, Richard, and Iohn.

Which Richard, in 11 Hen. 2. answeredo 1.15 for six Knights Fees upon paiment of his relief for Tickhill; and left issue Iohn his Son, who took to Wife* 1.16 ... one of the two Daughters and Heirs to Roesia, Daughter of Ralph Fitz-Gilbert, Widow of William de Bussei: and con∣firmed p 1.17 to the Monks of Roche-Abby, what∣soever his Father had formerly given them: but dying without issue male, left Idonea his Daugh∣ter q 1.18, Heir to his whole estate; which Idonea became the Wifer 1.19 of Robert de Vipount (a great Baron in the North) who had leverys 1.20 of her Lands in 15 Ioh.

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  Rot. Pip. 20 Hen. 3. Ebor.
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  Rot. Pip. 20 Hen. 3. Ebor.
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  Claus. 1••. Joh. m. 5.