Note 1209 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]
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Gaimar, 5255 (M. H. B. 827);
“Marleswain donc i lessat;
Pur ost mander en suth alad.”
See Ellis, ii. 185. Merlswegen held lands in various parts from Cornwall to Yorkshire: it was of Lincolnshire that he was Sheriff. See Domesday, 376.