The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. I.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.
Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Delalinde : from Lynde, near Lille and Hazebrook, Flanders. "The manor of Bolebrooke in Sussex belonged, temp. Ed. I., to the family of De la Lynde, whose ultimate heiress carried it to that of Dalyngruge, ancestor of the founder of Bodiham Castle."—Lower's Sussex. We also meet with them in the adjoining counties. John de la Lynde in 1272 held Paddington, Pembroke, and Walton in Surrey. Sir Humphrey Lynde, the learned author of Via Tuta, was of Cobham in the seventeenth century. A tenement in Sheffield-Lingfield long retained the name of Le Lynde Place. (See Manning's Surrey.) John de la Lynde was present at Agincourt, in the retinue of Lord Maltravers. Alexander and John de la Lynde were among the principal landowners in Somerset in the time of Edward I. In Dorsetshire the name appears as early as 1165, when Robert de la Lynde is mentioned as a landowner there (Liber Niger). The bailiwick of Purstock Forest was granted by Henry III. to John de la Linde. Another of the name fell into dire disgrace with the same sovereign. "King Henry III. having disported himself in the forest of Blakemore, he spared one beautiful and goodly white hart, which afterwards Sir Thomas de la Linde, a neighbour gentleman of ancient descent and special note, with his companion pursuing, killed at this place" (King's Stagg Bridge). "The king took so great indignation against him that he not only punished them with imprisonment and a grievous fine of money, but taxed their lands, the owners of which yearly ever since that day pay a round sum of money, by way of amercement, into the Exchequer, called White Hart Silver; in memory of which this county needeth no better remembrance than the annual payment;[1] and the forest for some time lost its antient name, and was called the Forest of White Hart."—Coker. The grandson of this Sir Thomas left no heirs save daughters; but the name is found in Dorsetshire up to the sixteenth century. John Delalind was one of "the considerable men of the county, able to dispend £12 per annum," in the time of Henry VI.; Sir Thomas Delalind was Sheriff of Dorset in 1517; and George Delalind of Clenston filled the same office in 1551. In Shropshire "a patent of August 12, 1267, directs John de la Lynde (Justiciar) to ascertain whether John Fitz Hugh of Strattondale had killed John Treget in self defence."—Eyton. This John (afterwards Constable of the Tower) was of Bolebrook, Sussex. "Sir Thomas de la Lynde, in the fifteenth century, represented the ancient Dorsetshire house of Herring of Herringstone. His daughter and heir became the wife of John Williams of Herringstone, and thus the representation of the Herring family passed to the purchaser of their ancient lands. The families of Herringstone and Bridehead quartered, through Thomas de la Lynde, the well-known armes parlantes of the herrings."—Woodward's Hants. Hampshire also claims the legend of the White Hart for its forest of Kingwood.
The family is mentioned by Leland. "Delalinde dwellyd at Herteley two Miles from Ceren Abbey, and yet it is yn theyr Name."