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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
I was very glad to receive two years ago permission from the Hon. Mrs. Abel Henry Smith and Major Edward P. Smith to calendar the mass of deeds relating to the Woodhall Park estate, at Watton-at-Stone, Herts. These deeds range from the twelfth down to the eighteenth century and cover the villages and hamlets of Watton-at-Stone, Aston, Stapleford, Sacombe, Wempstead, and Waterford, so far as concerns the manors of Aston, Bardolfs, Waterford Hall, Patchendon, Woodhall, Gobions and Lanvars, and Sele.
Of the two earliest of these deeds one, which belongs now to Mr. Vernon Austen Malcolmson, of Aston Bury, Herts., is Queen Adeliza's charter giving the manor and church of Aston, Herts., to Reading Abbey. The other is King Stephen's charter of confirmation of the same, and is still amongst the Woodhall Park deeds.
page 8 note 1 With ‘Bercksyra’ in error for ‘Hertforda schira’.
page 8 note 2 See B.M. Cat. of Seals, no. 789.
page 9 note 1 Add. Ch. 19586. It is reproduced in Warner and Ellis's Facsimiles of Royal and other Charters in the British Museum, i, pl. x, 1903.
page 9 note 2 Chronicle of Florence of Worcester (Bohn Library), p. 268, 1854.
page 9 note 3 Chronicles of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, ed. R. Howlett (Chronicles Series), iii, 54, 55.
page 9 note 4 Ibid., iv, 137.
page 9 note 5 Gesta Regum, ed. W. Stubbs (Chronicles Series), ii, 555.
page 9 note 6 Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 55.
page 9 note 7 Introduction to Gesta Stephani, pp. xxi–xxv.
page 9 note 8 Chronica Majora (Chronicles Series), ii, 170.
page 10 note 1 Stephen's first seal bears on the obverse the king enthroned, with inscription + STEPHANVS DEI GRATIA REX ANGLORVM; and on the reverse the king on horseback, with STEPHANVS DEI GRATIA DVX NORMANORV (B.M. Cat. of Seals, no. 43).
page 11 note 1 Historia Anglorum, ed. T. Arnold (Chronicles Series), p. 266.
page 11 note 2 Symeon of Durham. Historia regum (continued by John of Hexham), ed. T. Arnold (Chronicles Series), ii, 302.
page 11 note 3 Gilbert Stone, England from the earliest times to the Great Charter, pp. 484–5, 1916.