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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Waloys : This name, variously spelt Le Walleys, Wallais, Walays, Waleis, le Waloys, and Latinized Wallensis and Vallensis, means simply the Welshman, and was first taken by one of the Churchills, through whom it was transmitted to the illustrious Sir William Wallace. "The family of Corcelle took part with Robert of Normandy, and lost their estates. Richard Pincerna (or de Corcelle) and his sons took refuge in Wales. After some time the heir of Roger de Corcelle was granted the hundred of Frome in Somerset; and Richard Walensis (or de Corcelle) returning from Wales, obtained from the Fitz Alans the fief of Tassley, Shropshire, which had belonged to his father. He in 1120-26 witnessed a charter of Ranulph Earl of Chester (Mon. i. 260). William Walensis, his brother, founded the Scottish family."—The Norman People. Their earliest recorded ancestor, was, however, Richard Wallensis, who is believed to have accompanied Walter Fitz Alan, the first Stewart or "Dapifer Regis Scotiae," to Scotland, and is found as witness to one of his charters to the Abbey of Paisley, between the years 1165 and 1173.

The name—which became Walsh^[170]—was borne by Richard Waleys, a baron by writ in 1321, and is retained by Sheldesly-Waleys, Burgh-Waleys, Newton Waleys, &c. But it has no claim to a place on the Battle Abbey Roll.