Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... ward IV. For the most part Gale has apparently only here brought forward the names of the heirs of the family property, or first-born sons. In this same valuable Registrum of Gale, under the heading--"Observationes in genealogiam comitum Richemondise" (page 247, Appendix), we find the following note: ["P. 70. 1. 5. Dominus Ranulphus filius Radulphi] Filius erat Ranulphus hie Radulphi, filii natu tertii Roberti Domini de Middleham & Helewisiae de Glanville, propatrui Mariae Dominae de Middleham, quae maximam patrimonii partem secum marito suo Roberto de Neville advexit: Prius autem Radulphus filius Roberti terras has Subtus in Registro enumeratas a patre suo obtinuerat, quas & Ranulpho filio demisit. Sedem suam apud Spennythorn fixerunt, unde & prosapia eorum locupleti satis haereditate donata, nomine Fitz Randolphorum de Spennythorn multis ibi inclaruit annis, donee tandem deficiente masculina prole, cum filiabus ad alios bona abierunt." The following is a fairly careful rendering from the formal Latin to the English of our day: "Lord Ranulph Fitz Radulph--This Ranulph was the son of Radulph, third son of Robert, Lord of Middleham and of Helewisa de Glanville who [Radulph] was uncle of Mary, Countess of Middleham, who brought the largest part of her inheritance with her to her husband Robert de Neville. Before this, moreover, Radulph, son of Robert, had obtained from his father the lands enumerated in the register, which he handed down to his son Ranulph. They fixed their seat at Spennithorne, from which, under the name of the Fitz Randolphs of Spennithorne, their family, endowed with an inheritance of considerable wealth, increased in importance there for many years, until finally, through the death of male heirs, the property went with...
