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MONASTERY FOUNDED IN 1246 BY EARL OP CORNWALL, LATER KING OF THE ROMANS
Exhibit 4— Hayles Abbey became part of Toddington in ijs7. and was occupied by William
Tracy wiien he became interested in New World exploitations which resulted in his
financial ruin and the establishment of the Tracys in America — Rare print in 171J
twelve years of age, 979. His reign was
remarkable for his long and bloody wars
with the Danes, and for the general massacre
of them in the year 1002. He died
1016 and left eight sons and four daughters.
GoDA, the youngest of king Ethelred's
daughters was married to Walter de
Maigne (or de Mantine or de Mantes or
de Mantz etc.) a nobleman in Normandy.
Ralph (Rudolph etc.) son of Goda and
Walter de Maigne was Earl of Hereford.
Harold son of Ralph was lord of Sudeley;
and the Tracys do now give the saine arms
as this lord Sudeley gave, only with an
escollup shell for difference. John the son
of Harold married Grace the daughter of
(Henry de) Traci, lord of Barnstaple in
Devonshire. William Traci. second son
of John, lived in the reign of King Henry
the Second, and took his mother's nanse
Traci. He held lands of his brother Ralph
de Sudeley by one knight's fee, and was of
the same name (de Maigne) and is supposed
by some to be one of the four
knights who murdered Thomas Becket
archbishop of Canterbury. Oliver Tracy,
son of William, lived in the second year
of King John, and had issue Sir William
Traci of Todington, who lived in 17 Ed. I.
and was granted in wardship of I^awrence
Fresham 1298. He was high-sheriff of
Gloucestershire 1319. John Archer son of
John of the ancient family of Archers in
Warwickshire married Margaret daughter
of this Sir William Tracy of Todington, in
the reign of Edward the Second. (And
son down. )
To give a full understanding of this
ancestral estate, from which I am to
prove the Tracys in America came,
and to further corroborate the evidence
that it was the home of the
Tracys in England, I quote these lines
which I find in a volume publisiied in
London in 1810, written by Edward
Wedlake Brayley and John Britton,
entitled "The Beauties of Ensrland and