Humphrey Le Heyer.

Nicholas Le Heyer.

Galfredus Le Heyer, (time of Edward II.)

John Le Heyer, of Wedhampton,
Wiltshire.

Thomas Eyre of Wedhampton.

William Eyre of Wedhampton

John Eyre of Wedhampton

principles advocated in that production by President Chauncy. It should be added that those principles obtained currency in the churches of New England, and are substantially in practice at the present time.

Besides these, he is said to have published an election sermon, preached before the General Court in 1656; I cannot obtain any evidence that this sermon was published.

NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OF CHAUNCY.

In compiling the following table, great care has been taken to follow the best authorities, and such as are abundantly confirmed by general history or collateral evidence.-W. C.

The paternal ancestry of President Chauncy is given with general accuracy by Sir Henry Chauncy in his History of Hertfordshire. This can be inferred not only from the authorities he gives, but from the fact that from the time of the Conquest, 1066, to the birth of President Chauncy in the year 1592, the family had but once removed. They occupied their estates as hereditary Barons of Skirpenbeck, in Yorkshire, on the river Derwent, from the Conquest to the year 1399, in the reign of Richard 2d, when, by consent of the king, the estates were alienated, including the title, which was then by tenure or attached to the estate. They then by purchase or exchange obtained the estate of Gedleston or Newplace, in Hertfordshire, which was entailed, and also that of Pishobury by lease. See Clutterbuck and Burke.

The name of CHAUNCY is Norman, and was taken from the name of the place in Normandy, Canchy, where the ancestors of all the Chauncys in England and America resided. Canchy or Chaucy is six miles north-northeast from Abbeville, and less than thirty miles from Amiens. Not far to the northeast is the river Canchy or Chaucy, which runs by Montreuil, and two leagues from that town empties itself into the English Channel. The name of the family has at different times been spelt Canci, Cauci, Caunci, Chauncie, Chancy, Chauncy, Chauncey.

Skirpenbeck is near Stamford bridge, over the Derwent. Near this latter place Harold defeated his brother and the king of Norway.

1. CHAUNCY DE CHAUNCY, a Norman nobleman, came into

England in A. D. 1066, with William the Conqueror. See Roll of Battle Abbey, in Stow, Hollinshed, and Grafton's Chronicles.

2. WILLIAM DE CHAUNCY, the eldest son of Chauncy de Chauncy, was Baron of Skirpenbeck in the reign of Henry 1st. Another son, AUSCHAR, flourished in the same reign.

3. WALTER DE CHAUNCY, son and heir of William, succeeded as Baron. In 5th of King Stephen, he gave £15 to the king for license to marry whom he pleased. He was a great benefactor to the monastery of Whitby.

a. The record of this payment by Walter de Canci, is in the pipe Roll, p. 26. The editors consider that roll to have been made in the 31st of Henry 1st, and not in the 5th of Stephen, as was formerly supposed. In their preface, p. xxi, they mention the baronial house of Canci as one of those whose antiquity is touched by this roll. The wife of this Walter and mother of his son and heir Anfride, was Alicia, oldest sister of William Fitz Helte (Placitorum Abbreviatio, pp. 56-7, tempore, 9th John.) That Walter lived in the time of Henry 1st is proved by the Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium, p. 206, 5 Richard II., where it is recorded that the king confirmed to William de Chancy (so printed) blood relative, (consanguineo) and heir of Anfride de Chauncie, (so printed,) all the land of Walter de Chancie, (so printed,) in the county of York, "cum sac soc, &c." granted by Henry the 1st.-N. C.

3. ANFRIDE DE CHAUNCY, Son and heir of Walter, was a great benefactor to the canons of St. Peters, at York. On the 12th Henry 2d, upon the assessment of an aid for marrying the king's daughter, it was certified that he held five knights' fees. He died 6th of Richard 1st, leaving Walter and Roger, both under age; Hugh Murdock gave 100 marks for the wardship of the heir.

5. WALTER, son and heir of Anfride, came of age 8th of Richard the 1st. He also became a great benefactor to the York minster, by confirming the gift of his father and otherwise, but died without issue.

6. ROGER DE CHAUNCY, brother and heir of Walter, married Preciosa. He died 15 Henry III. leaving Robert and Hugh. The latter became afterward lord of the manor of Upton, in the

county of Northampton, and from him sprang the branch of the family in Edgcott in that county.

6. ROBERT DE CHAUNCY, son and heir of Roger, 23d of Henry 3d, paid his 25 marks for five knights' fees for his barony of Skirpenbeck and sundry manors connected therewith.

a. He did not long survive his father; for in the 30th of Henry III. the king gave Robert de Cuppings, for his services and one hundred pounds, the custody of the heir of Robert de Chauncy, till his lawful age and his marriage, (Excerpta de Rotulis finium, vol. i., p. 458.)—N. C.

7. THOMAS DE CHAUNCY, son and heir of Robert, 23 years of age, 56 of Henry III., to whom he did homage. He married Isabel, daughter and afterwards only heir of Sir Philip de Chauncy, another branch of the family, Lord of the manor of Willoughton, in Lincolnshire, by whom he became possessed of a large addition to his estate. He was one of the barons who joined in a letter to Pope Boniface, 1301, to maintain the king's right to Scotland against the pretensions of the pope. He died on the 8th day of April, 2d of Edward II.

a. This is stated by Sir Henry Chauncy. But in the list of those who joined in the letter as given by Sir Nicholas Harris, (Synopsis of the Passage, vol. ii., p. 761,) the name of Thomas de Chauncy does not appear. That of "Thom de Chaurces D'n's de Norton" was probably mistaken for it.-N. C.

8. WILLIAM DE CHAUNCY, Son and heir of Thomas, 20 years of age, did his homage 7th of May, 2d of Edward II. He held, in addition to his Barony of Skirpenbeck, the manors of Willington, in right of his mother, also Hogham, Camelstown, Bugthorp and Thoralby.

9. THOMAS DE CHAUNCY, Son and heir of William, succeeded the 17 of Edward III.

a. There appears to be a clerical error in the statement in the tables that Thomas de Chauncy, son and heir of William, succeeded in the 37th of Edward III., 3 having been written for 1. From the Calendarium Inquisitionum post mortem, vol. ii., p. 110, it seems clear that William Chauncy was deceased in the 19th of Edward III., having been seized of Skirpenbeck manor and other property. And in the new edition of the Monasticon,