[1257] Notes and Queries, 6th series, i. 6.
[1258] Athenæum, Dec. 19, 1885.
[1259] Duchy of Lancaster: Royal Charters, No. 5.
[1260] Cartæ Antiquæ, R. 5.
[1261] It is dated 1121, and in the twenty-second year of the reign.
[1262] That is, if Archbishop Thurstan was yet restored to favour.
[1263] The chancellor, for instance, instead of attesting after the bishops and before the laity, actually follows immediately after the archbishops, and precedes the whole "bench of bishops." I have been amazed to find antiquaries who thought nothing of this matter of precedence.
[1264] Robert and Richard are the two of Henry's natural sons, who are mentioned as with him in Normandy, and fighting beneath his standard at Noyon (1119).
[1265] If, as suggested by the narrative in the Monasticon of the foundation of Osney Abbey, her father's name was "Forne," one is tempted to ask if the bearer of so uncommon a name was identical with the Forn Ligulfson ("Forne filius Ligulfi"), who is mentioned by Simeon of Durham, in 1121, as one of the magnates of Northumbria, and if so, whether the latter was son of the wealthy but ill-fated Ligulf, murdered near Durham in 1080. Should both these queries be answered in the affirmative, Edith would have been named after her grandmother "Eadgyth," the highly born wife of Ligulf. Writing at a distance from works of reference I cannot tell whether such a descent has been suggested before, but it would certainly, could it be proved, be of quite exceptional interest. Edith, as is tolerably well known, was first the mistress of Henry, and then the wife of Robert D'Oilli. Thus her son by the former, Robert fitz Edith (see p. 94, n. 4), was (half)-brother to Henry D'Oilli, and is so described by the latter in one of his grants to Osney (Dugdale's Baronage, i. 460). It should be added that an "Ivo fil' Forn" appears in the Pipe-Roll of 1130 (p. 25). Was he brother to Edith?
[1266] Charter to the church of Durham, printed in Rymer's Fœdera (Record edition), i. 13, and assigned by Sir T. D. Hardy (Syllabus) to "1134." It was, in any case, subsequent to Flambard's death (September 5, 1128).