. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. 12 NOTES ON OLD SUSSEX mandy for a place resembling this name, but it probably existsin some part of France; for, as Master Wace truly observes,the Conqueror had soldiers from many lands, who came,some for land and some for money, for great was the hostand great the enterprise. Mr. Shirley, who dislikes con-jecture, and sticks to proven facts, points tothe reign of Henry IV., for the first well-established facts relating to this noble house. John, son of John Gage, he says, livingin the ninth
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. 12 NOTES ON OLD SUSSEX mandy for a place resembling this name, but it probably existsin some part of France; for, as Master Wace truly observes,the Conqueror had soldiers from many lands, who came,some for land and some for money, for great was the hostand great the enterprise. Mr. Shirley, who dislikes con-jecture, and sticks to proven facts, points tothe reign of Henry IV., for the first well-established facts relating to this noble house. John, son of John Gage, he says, livingin the ninth of Henry IV., had issue by Joan,heiress of John Sudgrove, of Sudgrove, inGloucestershire, Sir John Gage, an adherentof the House of York, who was knighted byEdward IV., and died in 1475. This per-sonage married Elianor, second daughter of Thomas St. Clere,of Heighton St. Clere, in Sussex, and thus acquired severalmanors in this county, as well as others in Surrey, Kent,Northamptonshire, and Buckinghamshire. The present family,seated at Firle, now represented by Henry Hall Gage, fourthViscount Gage, descend from his eld
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