. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. bearingout this view, Johnstone has furnished in hisvarious narratives the succession of conquestsand of conquerors from Rolf, or Rollo, to thedukes of Normandy and the ultimate victoryof William the Conqueror, 1066, and afterhim to the time of Theobald, son of HarveyWalter, who was received into the royal fav-or and taken by his monarch with the title ofChief Butler into Ireland, where by thebounty of his sovereign and his own valor hebecame eminent and acquired gre
. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. bearingout this view, Johnstone has furnished in hisvarious narratives the succession of conquestsand of conquerors from Rolf, or Rollo, to thedukes of Normandy and the ultimate victoryof William the Conqueror, 1066, and afterhim to the time of Theobald, son of HarveyWalter, who was received into the royal fav-or and taken by his monarch with the title ofChief Butler into Ireland, where by thebounty of his sovereign and his own valor hebecame eminent and acquired great posses-sions. According to Burkes Peerage and Baron-etage, the history of the illustrious house ofButler, of Ormonde is in point of fact thehistory of Ireland from the time of the An-glo-Norman invasion; and from the sameauthority it is learned that the surname Butleris derived from the chief butlerage of Ire-land, conferred by Henry II, upon the first ofthe family who settled in that Fitz Walter (Theobald, son of Wal-ter), who accompanied Henry II into Ireland,and was created Chief Butler, 1177, became. ^jhcoO /$* <7 OyLArOQj MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 697 possessed of the baronies of Upper Ormonde,Lower Ormonde, and numerous other pos-sessions. Other antiquarians have held that the sur-name Butler is derived from Robert, sup-posed to have been butler to William theConqueror, and who in Domesday Book iscalled Robertus Pincerua. This Robertus,with two others of the same name, calledHugo Pincerua and Richard Pincerua, heldeach of them, from the king, several towns inEngland. Such then is the ancient lineage of the But-ler families who have been seated in NewEngland more than two centuries, and whilechroniclers have traced the ancestry in Eng-land and Ireland, they have taken little ac-count of the Scotch branches of the Butlers,who were families of distinction in that coun-try for several centuries and finally were driv-en out because of their Presbyterian belief,a
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