NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. Page v. Harley, family of.-The family of Harley is of very ancient descent; it is still Abriidged ePromge a question whether it be Roman, Saxon, or Norman, but certainly it was settled in Shrop- o£ England, vole shire before the Norman Conquest, at which time Sir John de Harley was Lord of Harley dP1766 andd Castle. In the obit or leger book of Pershore abbey there is a commemoration of one of MS. Pedigree in- the Harleys who defeated the Danes at Goodluck Hill, near that place, about the year ley's collect ons. 1013. Sir John de Harley, of Harley Castle, married Alice, daughter of Sir Titus de Leighton (by Letitia his wife, daughter of Hugh le Brune), and left issue Sir William de Sirr William de Harley, who accompanied Godfrey de Bulloigne to the Holy Land, 1098, and in honour of which he was made a Knight of St. Sepulchre. He married Katharine, daughter of Sir Jasper Croft, a knight of that order. He was buried in the abbey at Pershore, where there is a monument to him, of which it is to be observed," that the shield on his effigies is plain, withoutany arms, according to the customof most ancient times. "-Collins. In the seventh descent from Sir William (24 Edw. I.) the King granted to Malcolm de Harley, Malcolm de liar- his chaplain and beloved clerk, the marriage of his ward, Margaret, daughter and co -heir ley. of Bryan de Brampton, for his nephew, Robert de Harleigh. The descent of the Bryans Brriande de Bt aep is traced from and beyond Maud, daughter of Sir William de Breos, Lord of Brecon, and Harleih widow of Roger Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. The issue of this marriage was Robert, WRoger MerBmer Bryan, Walter, and Joan. Robert and Bryan married two sisters, Joan and Eleanor, oert. daughters of Sir Roger Corbet, of Morton, knight, and dividing the inheritance, the only daughter of Robert carried the Castle of Harley and other Shropshire property into the family of Grendon. Joan married Gilbert de Lacy, Lord of Castle Frome, co. Hereford. Brampton, Bucton, Byton, and other lands in Wiggesmoreland, fell to the lot of the second son, Bryan, who distinguished himself in the French wars, andwas there knighted, and was Bryan (1). recommended by the Black Prince to his father to be one of the Knightsof the Garter, but died before the election. By his marriage he left a son Bryan, and a daughter Eleanor, married to Sir John Bromwich, of Bromwich Castle. This Bryan (2) was governor of Bryan (2). Montgomery and Dolveren Castles, which he successfully defended against Owen Glen- dower; in memory of which his crest was changed from a buck's head proper to a lion rampant gules, issuing out of a tower triple-towered proper. He married Isolda, daugh- ter of Sir Ralph Lyngen, of Stoke Edith, in the county of Hereford, knight, and left two Richar , b. s. p. sons, Richard and Jeffery : the former died unmarried, but Jeffery, by his first marriage with Johan ap Harry, had a daughter, Margaret, who married Hugh Wolley, and by his f CAMD. SOC.
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