A history of the Church of St Giles, Northampton . JUDICAL COMBAT temp. HEN. III. (See next page.) From a fragment of an Assize Roll preserved at the Public Record Office. Reproducedby kind permission of Mr. W. Shoosmith. Richard Gobion died in or before 1185, in which year, hiswidow, Beatrice, was in the Kings gift, and was certified asholding 18 librates of land [Higham Gobion] in the Hundred * Cartulary of St. Andrew, Cotton MS., Vesp. E. XVII., f. 274 ; alsof. 92. t Harl. Charters, 50 H., n. THE GOBION FAMILY. 263 of Flete, co. Bedford, of Simon de Beauchamp. She was thenforty years old an


A history of the Church of St Giles, Northampton . JUDICAL COMBAT temp. HEN. III. (See next page.) From a fragment of an Assize Roll preserved at the Public Record Office. Reproducedby kind permission of Mr. W. Shoosmith. Richard Gobion died in or before 1185, in which year, hiswidow, Beatrice, was in the Kings gift, and was certified asholding 18 librates of land [Higham Gobion] in the Hundred * Cartulary of St. Andrew, Cotton MS., Vesp. E. XVII., f. 274 ; alsof. 92. t Harl. Charters, 50 H., n. THE GOBION FAMILY. 263 of Flete, co. Bedford, of Simon de Beauchamp. She was thenforty years old and more, and had seven sons and six daughters.* Of these sons, Hugh, the eldest, appears to have died beforehis father; Richard, the second son, was his heir ; Henrywas the ancestor of the Gobions of Yardley Gobion (of whomhereafter) ; and Ralph was a Benedictine Monk. Ralph Gobion was Prior of Binham in 1199, and Prior ofTynemouth, a daughter house of St. Albans, in 1208. Atlength worn out by age, he was anxious to resign his office, butwas dissu


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