The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

ADDITIONAL NAMES GIVEN BY LELAND.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Delatoun : William de la Toune occurs in Shropshire during the reign of Edward I. (Rotul Hundred.). John de la Doune was Lord of Doune, in that county, in 1316.—Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs. The names are evidently synonymous. Ralph de la Thun held land in Woodchurch, Kent, of the King in capite, and died before 1260, "without heir of his body."—Archaeologia Cantiana. Thomas de Toune, of Throwley, was one of the constables of the Hundred of Faversham during the great Kentish rebellion of 1380.—Ibid. "Hamone de la Dune" witnesses one of the charters of Cumbwell Priory, in the same county, in 1284. William de la Doune, one of the Lords of Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire, a justice of oyer and terminer for Essex and Herts in 1310, was summoned from the Hundreds of Uttlesford and Freshwell in Essex for service against the Scots in 1322.—Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs. Robert de Dun held a knight's fee in Breydeston.—Testa de Nevill. John de la Dune, in 1254, held land at Bradewell, in Essex, "by the serjeancy of carrying one gleyve (gladium) or sword, in the King's army. And, in 1284, Thomas de la Doune, most probably his son, held a tenement in Bradewell by the serjeancy of finding one lance for the King, whenever he should happen to go with an army into Wales."—Morant's Essex. He died in 1306, leaving an heiress Margaret. Morant suggests that he took his name from Dounhall, his residence; but it is at least equally likely that his house was named from him. In Surrey, Gregory de la Doune held of William de Windsor at Compton (Testa). Sir Roger de la Dune, "a knight of Middlesex" is mentioned in Staffordshire temp. Henry III.