A picturesque and topographical account of Cheltenham and its vicinity : To which are added contributions towards the medical topography, including the medical history of the waters / By John Fosbroke.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A picturesque and topographical account of Cheltenham and its vicinity : To which are added contributions towards the medical topography, including the medical history of the waters / By John Fosbroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IS The descent of the Manor lies in a small compass. It was farmed under the crown by de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who exchanged it with the Conqueror, for other lands. [It is a misquotation of Sir Robert Atkins, who says King John, not the Con- queror.] The Conqueror died in 1086, and the record refers to John, the Conqueror’s great grandson. It merely states, that Henry de Bohun released to King John all his right in the lands which were Bernard de Newmarch’s, in Newnham, the Forest of Deane, Minsterworth, Aure, Dymock, and Chilterne, which certainly was not Chel- tenham.—Cart. 1 Joh. Pars II. *2. The second account says, that in 1*219, [3 Henr. 1II.J this Manor and Hundred were granted to William Long Espee, natural son of Henry II. bv fair Rosa- mond. He, dying in the tenth year of that Monarch’s Reign, bequeathed it to his son, who, leaving the realm without consulting the King, incurred his displeasure, and his manorial estates were seized, and given in dower to Queen Eleanor. Thus, were the same lands, by a singular train of events, granted to the offspring of his paramour, and his lawful wife. This is a transcript of Sir R. Atkins, as far as the words “ Queen Eleanor.” His authority, by his naming dying seized,” is an inquisition p. mort. But in the “ Bundellus, Ann. Incert. H. Ill,” there is no such record, and no regular series. The latter does not commence till *20 Henr. III., and it does not occur there. The Manor, 10 Henry HI. was let to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29290351_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
