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"Ego Gulihelmus cognomine Bastardus, do & concedo tibi nepoti
meo Alano Britanni? comiti, & h?redibus tuis in perpetuum, omnes
illas villas & terras, qu? nuper fuerunt comitis Eadwini in
Eborashira, cum feodis militum & alijs libertatibus &
consuetudinibus, ita liber? & honorific? sicut idem Eadwinus ea
tenuit. Dat. in obsidione coram ciuitate Eboraci:" that is, "I
William surnamed Bastard, doo giue and grant to thee my nephue
Alane earle of Britaine, and to thine heires for euer, all those
townes and lands that latelie were earle Eadwines in Yorkeshire,
with the knights fees and other liberties and customes, so
freelie and honourablie as the said Eadwine held the same. Giuen
in our seege before the citie of Yorke."
The earle of Britaine, being a man of a stout stomach, and meaning to
defend that which was thus giuen to him, [Sidenote: Castell of
Richmont.] built a strong castell neere to his manor of Gillingham,
and named it Richmont. The first originall line of the earles of
Richmont [2]that bare their title of honor of this castell and towne
of Richmont (as Leland hath set downe the same) is this: Eudo earle of
Britaine, the sonne of Geffrey, begat three sonnes, Alane le Rous,
otherwise Fregaunte, Alane the blacke, and Stephan.
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