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Robert de Prebenda, Bishop of Dunblane 439
* after 1531.' And, having got as far as that, I believe a time will
come when the critics will accept, as still more likely, < after 1532.'
Cambridge.
WALTER W. SKEAT.
ROBERT DE PREBENDA, BISHOP OF DUNBLANE. [Mr.
William Brown, Secretary of the Surtees Society, has kindly communicated
the following note regarding a thirteenth century Bishop of Dunblane,
Robert c de Prebenda' or 'de la Provendir' circa 1256-1283. His connection
with Ruddington, near Nottingham, was known previously, but the
abstract from MS. Assize Rolls of Nottinghamshire is particularly valuable
for the definite data it supplies confirming very explicitly the conjecture of
Thoroton, whose book was published in 1677, that Bishop Robert was a
scion of the Ruddington family.]
Robert Thoroton 's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (Throsby's edition),
i. 126. John, son of Sigerus de Clifton, remised to Richard, called Martell,
of Rodington, lands sometime the bishop of Dunblane's. The witnesses,
Sir John de Leke, Sir Geoffrey de Stapleford, Knts., Richard de Pavelli of
Rodington, Henry Poutrell of Thurmeton, etc., in the time of Edward I.
It is like the bishop was of this family and that Rodingtons were
1
afterwards called Martells, p. 127. A chantry was founded in Flawforth
church, 37 H. 6, by William Babington, supposed to represent the Martells,
and amongst the souls to be prayed for besides certain members of the Martell
family was Mr. Robert Prebend, sometime bishop of Dunblane.
Assize Roll (Notts.), No. 671, m. 4.
' Morrow of St. Mary Magdalen,
15 E. I (23 July, 1287).
An assize was taken to ascertain whether Robert
son of Geoffrey, bishop of Dunblane (deceased), and others were seised in
demesne as of fee in two messuages, etc., in Clyfton, Slapton, and Hokenale.
He is also called Robert son of Geoffrey de Rotyngton, and was brother of
Adam son of Geoffrey de Rotyngton. The bishop had a nephew, Richard
Martel of Rutyngton, who on Thursday, the eve of St. James the Apostle,
15 Edw. I. (24 July, 1287), granted the manor of Hokenale Torkard, which
he had received from his uncle, to Walter de Wynkeburne. The bishop
also had property
in
Chyllewelle.'
Clifton, Slapton and Chilwell, like Ruddington, are to the south and
south-west of Nottingham near the Trent. Hucknall-Torkard is about
eight miles north of Nottingham. It belonged to Lord Byron who is
buried in the church there. WILLIAM BROWN.
JENNY CAMERON. I desire to discover as much as can be discovered
about the famous Jenny Cameron of the '45, apart from the
accounts in the catchpenny books called her Life, which were published
after Culloden. That she existed is certain. That she was famous all
over Britain is shown by a remark in Tom Jones. That she was popularly
supposed to have a personal influence over Prince Charlie is demonstrated,
inter alia, by the print of his head between portraits of herself and of Flora
1 Autog. apud Clifton.