[905] Ramsey Cartulary, i. 130. The date there assigned is 1114-1130, but Hugh de Bocland appears to have died several years before 1130.
[906] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I, p. 149.
[907] Ninth Report Hist. MSS., App. i. pp. 20 a, 64 a.
[908] The form of this surname should be noted as illustrating the practice of abbreviation. The name of Ælfgar's father must have been Colswegen, or some other compound of "Col—"
[909] See Pipe-Roll of 1130.
[910] This involves a double supposition: (a) that "Ingenolda," who is proved to have been the widow of Roger, was the mother of his son Gervase; (b) that Ralph fitz Herlwin was brother to the mother, not the father, of Gervase. These assumptions seem tolerably certain, but, at present, they can only be provisionally accepted.
[911] For this descent see Stapleton's preface to the Liber de Antiquis Legibus (Cam. Soc.).
[912] From a MS. note of Dugdale (L. 41, dors.).
[913] Ninth Report Hist. MSS., i. 52 b.
[914] This, it must be well understood, is thrown out merely as a suggestion.