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SELECTIONS FROM TUE MUNIMENTS OF LORD SCARSDALE. By the kind permission of the Lord Scarsdale we are enabled to i:)ublish some of his ancient deeds. A brief statement of the early history of the family seems necessary for the purpose of explaining who were the parties to those deeds, and also to coiTCCt some eiTors which occur in Collins' Peerage. The annexed Pedigree, with the numbers affixed to each name, will assist the following statement. Giraline de Curzon or Cursou (I.), the ancestor of this noble family, came into England with the Conqueror, and had the manor of Lockinge, and divers other lands in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, granted to him. He had three sons ; Stephen, the eldest, succeeded to the estates in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, and had the manor of Fauld in Stafford- shire gi'anted to him by ^^'illiam Earl FeiTars, He died without issue male, and so did Giraline, the third son. Richard (II.), the second son, held four knights' fees in Croxhall, Kedleston, Twyford, and Edinhale, in the reign of Heniy I. (1100 — 1135). He was succeeded by his son Robert (III.), who lived in the reign of Henry II. (1151 — H^'O. ^^'^'^ had a son Richard (IV.), who had issue Robert (V.), whose line terminated in an heir female, Maiy, who married Edward Sackville, Earl of iJorset. Richard (II.) had a second son Thomas (VI.), and he had a son Thomas (VII.), who had issue Richard (VIII.), living in the reign of Henry III. (121G — 1272), and he had issue another Richard (IX.), who, according to Collins, held the fourth part of a knight's fee in Kedleston in 25 Edw. I. (1297). His son Ralph (X.) was the father of Richard (XL), who held three parts of a knight's fee in Kedleston in 4 Edward III. (1331), and from him the present Lord Scar-sdale is lineally descended as heir male. As the first deed here given was made in the 10th Riciiard I., and is a grant by Richard de Cur/on to Tluimas, tiie son of Thomas de Curzon, it is plain tliat the Richard here mentioned was Richard (IV.), and that Tliomas (VII.), the son of Thomas (VI.), was the grantee of that deed, and that the grantor and grantee were first cousins. Crox- hall, Kedleston, Twyford, and lul inhale were held by Earl FeiTars in the time of Domesday, and the second deed shows tiiat Kedleston had been granted by one of the Earls Ferrars to one of the Curzons ; for it shows that Richard, the releasor of that deed, held immediately from the then Earl Ferrars; and as Richard (II.), his grandfatlior, hel(l Croxhall, Kedleston, Twyford, and P^dinhale, the inference is that that Richard was the gi-antcc of those manors from the then Earl Fcrrai-s.