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Note 1 — HENRY S. SIMMONDS.

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The true derivation is supposed to be from Falk or Faulk de Brent, a famous Norman soldier of fortune to whom King John gave in marriage Margaret de Ripariis or Redvers. To the lady belonged that Manor of Lambeth to which the Mansion called Faulks Hall was annexed.—London, by Charles Knight, Vol. I., p. 403.

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