THE SINCLAIRS OF ENGLAND

Ballantyne Press
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

CONTENTS

Note about the present edition
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION

1. AT THE NORMAN CONQUEST
2. BEFORE THE CONQUEST
3. FRENCH ANTECEDENTS
4. THE NORMAN CIVILISATION
5. WALDERNE'S SONS AND DAUGHTER
6. TENURES OF LAND
7. EUDO, FILIUS HUBERTI
8. EUDO DAPIFER'S CONQUEST
9. THE SENESCHAL AS LORD OF COLCHESTER
10. EUDO THE FOUNDER OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES
11. THE DAPIFER'S LATTER YEARS
12. EUDO'S LINEAGE
13. THE LANDS OF EUDO SINCLAIR
14. JOHN, COMES ESSEXLE
15. MARGARET SINCLAIR, COUNTESS OF ESSEX
16. THE YOUNGER HUBERT'S LINE
17. THE EARL OF NOTTINGHAM
18. WHO WAS SIMON OF SENLIS ?
19. SIMON'S SONS AND DAUGHTER
20. SIMON SINCLAIR, THIRD AND LAST
21. RELATIONS
22. THE COUNTESS OF GLOUCESTER
23. WILLIAM DE SANCTO CLARO
24. THE KNIGHT OF RYE
25. HAMO DAPIFER
26. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
27. THE EARLS OF CORBEIL
28. THE VISCOUNT AND FEE-FARMER OF COLCHESTER
29. THE HERO OF BRIDGENORTH
30. THE TWO WILLIAMS OF LONGVALE
31. COMMISSIONER OF DOMESDAY BOOK
32. HUGO DE ST.CLARE
33. DESCENT OF THE BARON OF AESLINGHAM
34. TWO WALTERS OF MEDWAY
35. KING'S CHAMBERLAIN
36. RICHARD OF EAST ANGLIA
37. GEREBERD, VISCOUNT OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK
38. TWO JOHNS
39. VICECOMES AND ESCHEATOR
40. COUSINS
41. THE ALDAM SINCLAIRS
42. THREE JOHNS IN SUCCESSION
43. SIR PHILIP, THOMAS, AND PHILIP
44. SIR PHILIP OF BURSTOW AND HIS SONS
45. MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS
46. WILLIAM, SON OF HUGO PINCERNA
47. GOVERNORS OF ROCHESTER CASTLE
48. ROBERT, NICOLAS, AND JOHN
49. CORONER OF KENT
50. THE ESSEX MEN
51. WOLSEY'S APPRECIATOR-GENERAL AND OTHERS
52. THE SOUTH-WEST
53. THE SOMERSET FAMILY
54. THE DEVONSHIRE HOUSE
55. THE SINCLAIRS OF CORNWALL