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P. 43. The family of D'Alloue flourished four centuries amongst the Noblesse of Poitou. "Jean Hélie, dit d'Alloue" is mentioned 1470. (Filleau, Dict. des Familles de Poitou, 184054, i. 37.)

In the Saturday Review of May 29, 1858, there is a review of a recent no. of the Revue des deux Mondes containing an article by the Duc D'Aumale on Cæsar's Commentaries, wherein he considers the Alisi mentioned by him, to be Alisi in Burgundy, and not Alais in Languedoc.

P. 46. According to the Armorial de la Noblesse de France (3 vols. 4to, 1855; ii. 15) Geoffry Hélie, Seigneur of Ségur 1179, was great grandson of Gausbert de Laurière, living 1050, Seigneur of Laurière.

Addenda.

JOHN ELYS was one of the 20 Lances in the retinue of Lord Talbot, A.D. 1415. YON ELYS was one of the 16 Lances in the retinue of the Earl of Huntingdon. (Nicolas's "Battle of Agincourt" pp. 337 and 345.) RICHARD ELYS took the place of John Fitz Piers, amongst the Esquires, in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel at Agincourt. (Sussex Archæol. Coll. xv. 129.) BERNARD ELLIS was Lieut. in the Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot 1687 (Army List, Harl. MSS. 4847 p. 18.) Geo. Parbury Esq. mar. Mary Ann Joanna only child of Edward Ellis Esq. of the Priory, Hertford, several times Mayor of that town, (Burke's Heraldic Illustrations) who died 1834 æt. 62, and his d. Joanna 1845, æt. 34 (M. I. Kensal Green Cemetery. Arms and crest, Ellis of Kiddall.) See pp. 124 and 131.

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On an altar tomb at the east end in Knebworth Church co. Herts. Rev. Mr. Peter Ellice, B.D. Rector of this par. died 24 Jan. 1788 æt. 76 (Clutterbuck's Herts. ii. 384) ind. 17 Mch. 1749 to Letchworth (p. 387) and to Knebworth 21 Jan. 1760 (p. 380).

M. I. in St. Peter's Church Worcester :-Mrs. Sarah Ellis ob. Feb. 28, 1770 æt. 40. William Ellis gent. ob. 3 Dec. 1773 æt. 73. [? of Claines.]

P. 123. Lord Mendip mar. Elizabeth d. of John Rudge Esq. of London, M.P. for Evesham, 18 Nov. 1747. (Ped. of Rudge, Burke's Commoners iv. 198.)

PP. 63 and 149. Sir Wm. Ellis ob. Dec. 19, 1636, æt. suæ 83 (Peck's Desid. Cur. p. 319).

P. 61. John Ellis, s. & h. of Bernard Ellis, Barrister of Gray's Inn, etc. inherited the manor of Kilnhurst in the par. of Rawmarsh from his maternal grandfather, which he or his successor sold in 1662. (Hunter's South York. ii. 50.)

1684. William Ellis was "Master Cutler" of Sheffield; and 1718, Tobias Ellis. The following M. I. is in the church porch of St. Peter's Sheffield:-William Ellis 40 years clerk of the church, ob. Sep. 11, 1743, æt .69. His wife Elizabeth ob. May 3, 1743, æt. 75; they had 3 children. His s. a clergyman erected the monument. (Hunter's S. Yorks.)

2 Nov. 20 Jac. I. an Inquis. was taken at East Greenwich, on the death of THOMAS ELLYS, s. p. 30 June 16 Jac. I., who died seized of 9 a. Land, called Longmeade, of which 3 a. are in Bexley, the rest in Foots Cray, held of the King as of the Honour of Crevequer, by mil. service, RICHARD ELLYS being his br. & heir, and 50 years of age and upwards.

RICHARD ELLES was Mayor of New Romney, 1735-7-9-42-58-51-3: JOHN ELLES, 1763-6-70-5-81-4. Richard Ellis of New Romney gent. was mar. by licence 14 Jan. 1718-9 to Martha Cruttenden of Winchelsea. (Registry at Lewes.)

Subsequent investigation necessitates a modification of the speculations at pp. 178-9, and of a statement at p. 164. The Subsidy Roll for Kent, 1 Edw. III., contains about 15 entries of the name of Elys, many of which are doubtless the same persons having property in different parishes. This document indirectly contradicts the assertion of Philipot at p. 79 that Stoneacre was owned by John Elys as early as temp. Edw. II., and that Burton came to the family at the end of that reign. In the Rolls of 1, 6, 8, 12, 21, and 25 Edw. III. the Elyses are numerously mentioned in the Hund. of Langbridge, which comprises Kennington and Willesborough, but it is not till anno 31 that the family is assessed at a sum that doubtless included the estate of Burton; this was in the person of Wm. Elys, who, if the Att. Gen., must have been then quite a young man, and probably got the estate by marriage. The roll of 1 Edw. III. under the hund. of Eyehorne (which includes Otham) mentions no Elys, but Gilbert de Stoneacre occurs as one of the highest rated; as also in 6, 8, and 12 Edw. III. : anno 21, John Stonekare occurs; annis 22 and 25, Peter Elys occurs, but no Stoneacre, and rated at about one third; though his name does not seem to belong to the par. of Otham: but a Barth. Chalker occurs about the same place, and with the same sum as Gilbert de S. Anno 46, part of the hund. of Eyehorne is gone or defaced. Philipot's statement may be true if we suppose the family of Elys to have taken the local name, but if so, that would probably have been continued. Gilbert is a name that appears in several generations of the family of De Helles, and the conjecture hazarded at p. 179 seems now feasible, viz. that one of this family acquired Stoneacre. 53 & 56 Hen. III., Gilbert fil. Elie* and Margaret his wife occur in Fines of land in Chatham etc. He is no doubt the Gilbert Elys of Rochester in the Hund. Rolls. 3 Edw. I. Gilbert Elis is rated high in the roll of 1 Edw. III. for lands in Lesnes. There can be little doubt these persons are of the De Helles family, and that at

* In Exc. E. Rot. Fin. (i. 18) 1218, is a notice of a dispute between Hen. de Geldeneton, and Alice fil. Elie, and her sons, Alan, Wm., and Hugh, concerning a tenement in G. co. Kent. This is the manor of Goldstanton in the par. of Ash, where the De Helles, for some generations, possessed Hells Court. This notice must be taken as conclusive of the identity of fil. Elie, Elys, and Helles.

this early period, as afterwards, the name was written both ways, so that any attempt at tracing the genealogy of the Elyses of Kent necessarily involves that of the De Helles. [On this account it is hoped to give in No. 4 considerable Notices of this Family.] Indeed, but for the arms of Ellis of Kiddall being borne, and so early, by the most ancient and known Kentish Elyses, but one origin need be sought for them all. It is not however impracticable, except in special cases, to distinguish between the two great Kentish branches of the parent stem, viz. the early offset of the De Helles, and the later one of the Elyses; as the original habitat of the former seems to have been in the western, and that of the latter, in the eastern part of the county, and both races to have had some distinguishing Christian names.

This original habitat must be shifted apparently from Kennington to Dymchurch. The hund. of Worth contains five small parishes, of which this is one. The roll for this hund. 1 Edw. III. contains the names of John Elys sen. and Wm. Elys, the former very highly rated, the latter about one third; this high rating. under different names, continues in every roll, until that of anno 46, when the name disappears. The manor of Burmarsh, a par. in the hund. of Worth, belonged to the Abbot of St. Augustine's, and it was probably chiefly in this par. that the lands of the Elyses were situated. 7 Edw. I. Thomas fil. Elie deD ymchurch was Pl. in a Fine of Lands in D. This description was doubtless equivalent to Thomas Elys, as in the case of Gilbert E., and it is probable he was the Commissioner 18 Edw. I., and John Elys sen. of the Roll, the John Elys appointed 1326 with others "to blockade the sea coast between Hythe and Romney and from Milton to Rochester." Further speculation as to the relationship of these with other early Elyses would, without more facts, be premature.

The entries in detail of the Elyses in the early Subsidy Rolls will be given in No. 4. The Elyses and De Helles of Kent were so numerous at an early period, and therefore so many Ellises of the present day must be descended from them, that full particulars must be important, and interesting to a large class.

Notice.

No. 4 (which will probably be issued in 1865) will be sent to those recipients only of No. 3 who acknowledge its receipt, and express a wish to have No. 4. No. 4 will contain inter alia,

Additional Early Notices of the Ellises.

Descent of Families bearing goat's heads, of presumed cognate origin with the Alises.

Additions and Corrections; Notices of the Ellises from Deeds, Wills, etc., and M. I. from Churches and Churchyards are solicited. Communications are requested to be sent to the Author, addressed

"Hydecroft,
Charlwood,

Surrey."

Notices of the Ellises.

BY WILLIAM SMITH ELLIS, ESQ.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.

Families bearing Goat's Heads.

In No. 1, p. 10, it was remarked that the goat's head, a frequent crest of the Ellises, was also the crest of the family of Kiddall, and three times repeated, was the charge of the Ferbys, an offshoot of the Kiddalls. And at p. 52, it was conjectured that the Norman family of Capreville was the source of this heraldic bearing. Although the Visitation of Yorkshire of 1584, in giving the crest of Ellis of Lepton (No. 2, p. 60.) viz. On a goat's head erased, a pale charged with 3 crescents (which in the form here given is evidently a grant or an assumption, founded on the coat) remarks that "the naked mayden was the more auntient crest," yet the very fact of its adoption by the Kiddalls and Ferbys as above, shows it to have been in use by the Ellises as early as the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, when the Kiddalls must have taken that name, and originated a distinct family. And that this device was probably derived from Robert fitz Hoelis de Chevreville, living 1053, it will be the object of the following remarks to show, by tracing it as borne by other families of presumed cognate origin with him.

There can be very little doubt that Hoelis is a clerical or typographical error for Haelis; for, although Hoel was a name in Brittany, yet it was of extremely rare occurrence in Normandy, and Alis is also written Aeliz and Halis; besides, the facts about to be presented clearly establish the misreading supposed. The above Robert in the words of his charter "concedit beneficium Sancti Michaelis in monte Rotomagi, et ecclesiam Chevrevilla." By another charter, viz. of Ansfridus s. of Osbern de Ou, vicecomitis, we learn that the family of Fitz Osborn, the feudal chiefs of the Alises, were lords of Capreville. Warulphus de Chevreville signs a charter in 1043.

Robert de Ales in 1116 was witness to a charter of the Earl of Guisnos. Geffry de Ales occurs 1153. Sir Alulf de [MARCH, 1866.

No.4.]

[Not Published.]

Ales, Knt. was father of Sir Robert de Ales Knt. and other sons. The latter by his wife Margaret had issue William and Matilda. Sir Robert in a charter dated 1222, mentions his "tithes of Ales." Ales is in the parish of Salquele in Picardy (Hozier, Armorial de France, art. Ales). This family would appear to be a branch of Alis, to have called their fief by their name, and hence to have written themselves "De Ales." Here we have the Christian name, Alulf, of which Warulphus was doubtless another form. This name of Alulfus, and also Asculfus, probably another form, seems to have been prevalent in Picardy. Will. fil. Alulfi held 2 knight's fees in Kent, 1166, of Hugh de Dovor (Liber Niger). Boughton-Alulf in that county, was at the Domesday Survey held in chief by Eustace Earl of Boulogne. Alulfus de Boughton was owner temp. John. Elias de B. was his s. and h. who also held Boughton Court in Boughton under the Blean, of the Honour of Boulogne. This family continued, though not in the elder branch, to the time of Sir Edw. Boughton, temp. Hen. VIII. or later, and bore a fess between three goat's heads erased.

It is not unlikely that this family was a branch of the Comtes de Hesdin. Alulfus Comte de Hesdin, living 1000, was succeeded by Walter his s. and h. living 1065. (L'Art de Vérifier les Dates.) Ernulfus de Hesding was the Domesday owner of Chelsfield in Kent. Ernulphus de C. in a charter dated 1143 mentions his son Elyas, and it was witnessed int. al. by Adalulfus miles, who might have been father of the Will. fil. Alulfi of 1166. (Thorp's Regist. Roffense, p. 653).

Asculfus de Piqueny (in Picardy) Sheriff of Surrey, was succeeded by his s. William, who at the Domesday Survey was tenant in chief of "Englefelle." According to the Baronetage, Hasculfus de Englefield in the 11th century purchased a hide of land in E. of Hasculf de Pinkney, which purchase was witnessed by Elias s. of Hasculf de E., and an Elias de E. was living temp. Wm. Rufus.

According to the Liber Niger, Will. and Ric. fil. Anculfi were mesne tenants of Warin de Aula of lands in Devonshire. The family of Aula bore Sa. 3 goat's heads arg. (Ped. in Wiffen's Memoirs of the House of Russell, i. 123.)

Hasculfus Musard was a large proprietor at the Domesday Survey. William, his descendant, temp. Hen. II., was named De Rubra Spatha, afterwards Roper. This family bore goat's heads or stag's heads for arms.

From all this, it would be a fair inference that Asculfus and Alulfus were identical names, and that the above families bearing them, originating from Picardy, were of common origin; that the goat's heads some of them bore were derived from a common source, and it is probable they were also borne by the

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