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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S. Jory : or Saint Jores, "one of the parishes under the jurisdiction of the Barons of La-Haie-du-Puits."—M. de Gerville. In the Norman Exchequer Rolls of 1198-1203, S. Joire is given as an abbreviation of S. Georgius. There was also Saint Jorry, which, "with other estates, was sold to the King of France in 1285 by the Vicomte de Lautrec."—Anselme. The name is here made to rhyme with Somery. I have only found it mentioned twice in England, and on each occasion shorn of its saintly prefix. In 1304, Roger Jory and Alice his wife granted to Elstow Abbey some land at Moulsoe in Oxfordshire. "Three years later the transaction was concluded by an agreement entered at Westminster, the Abbess dementia paying them £20: so that, after all, that which might have been supposed to be an act of beneficence assumed a very ordinary, if not mercantile character."—Chronicle of Elstow Abbey. John Jory was one of the contumacious tenants in the Isle of Thanet during the Wat Tyler insurrection of 1381.—Archaeologia Cantiana.