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

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Vnket : a singular name, rarely to be met with; and each time under a fresh disguise. The first mention I have found of it is in Eyton's Shropshire, as Onyet or Ovyet. At the Assizes held coram Rege at Salop, 1226, "Stephen de Ocle, as tenant of half a virgate at Norton, was impleaded for the same by Geoffrey Ovyet, a minor, as heir of William Ovyet, a Crusader. The question was similar to that in a suit of mart d'ancestre, viz. 'whether William Ovyet was seized, on the day when he left for Jerusalem.'" The jury found that he was not. Again, at the Shropshire assizes of 1256, "Richard, son of Richard Onyet, was sued for disseizing William Vylande and his wife of a tenement at Astley." Robert Ungot, of Norfolk, occurs about 1272 in the Hundred Rolls. I am doubtful whether we can include Thomas and William de Unketel, who were of Somersetshire at the same date, in the family;—probably not. But the name certainly reappears once, if not twice, in Norfolk. On an old oaken screen that divides the chancel of Croxton Church from the nave, is inscribed:—* * * Willmi Ungot Capelli: et Petri Ungot et Anabule * * * Parentum Suor. William Ungot was the incumbent in 1471.—Blomfield's Norfolk. In the same county, a brass in Tottington Church commemorates Luke Vngar, Margaret Pory his wife, and their son, 1598.