[565] It is headed "Pro Comite Oxoniæ Carta Matildæ Imperatricis confirmata," and it confirms the grants made by her "prout per cartam illam (i.e. Matildæ) plenius liquet."
[566] See Appendix V, on "William of Arques."
[567] i.e. escambio.
[568] Of Helions in Bumsted Helion, Essex, the other portion of the parish, viz. Bumsted Hall, being, at and from the Survey, a portion of the De Vere fief. These his ten fees duly figure in the Liber Niger.
[569] Dedham, Essex.
[570] They were named, I presume, from the castle of Rames, adjoining the forest of Lillebonne.
[571] This would seem to imply that Roger de Ramis had married a sister of Aubrey de Vere. See Appendix X: "Roger de Ramis."
[572] Grey's Thurrock, in South Essex, being that portion of it which had been held by William Peverel at the Survey.
[573] Query, the "Salamon clericus de Sudwic" (Northants) of the Pipe-Roll of 31 Hen. I. (p. 85)?
[574] This was not Tilbury on the Thames, but Tilbury (Essex) near Clare, as is proved by Liber Niger (p. 393), where this land of Salamon proves to be part of the honour of Boulogne, held as a fifth of a knight's fee.