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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
WILLIAM
DE PESHALE
Fifteenth
in Ancestry
Section 1, William de Peshale-Section 2, Ancestry of Ellen Broughton and Pantulf-Section 3, Robert de Peshale
de Swinnerton-Section 4, John de Peshale-Section 5, Ralph de Peschale.
SECTION
1.
*15.
WILLIAM DE PESHALE, son of John de Lumley de Peshale,
Chapter 12, Section 1, married Ellen Broughton, Chapter 13, Section 2.
His second wife was the daughter of William Pantulf,
Baron of Wem, Chap. 11, Sec. 3, Div. 7 and
Chapter 13, Section 2. The Pantulfs were
descendants of the brother of Liguiph who
married Ealdgyth, the daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Northumberland. Children:
1. *14. WALTER DE PESHALE, Chapter 14,
Section 1.
2. Stephen de Peshale,
Chapter 14, Section 3.
In
the old Anglo Saxon Chronicles we read concerning the Conqueror: Truly
there was much trouble in these times, and very great distress; he caused
castles to be built, and oppressed the poor. The king also was of great
sternness, and he took from his subjects many marks of gold, and many
hundred pounds of silver, and this either with or without right, and with
little need. He was given to avarice and greedily loved gain. He made
large forests for the deer and enacted laws therewith, so that whoever
killed a hart or a hind should be blinded. As he forbade killing the
deer, so also the boars; and he loved the tall stags as if he were their
father. He also appointed concerning the hares, that they should go free.
The rich complained and the poor murmured, but he was so sturdy that he recked naught of them; they must will all that the
king willed, if they would live, or would keep their lands, or would hold
their possessions, or would be maintained in their rights. [Readings in English
History, by Edward P. Cheyney.]
William
and his successors as Kings of England seized vast tracts of land in
central England, much
of it cultivated farms, which they changed into great forests, game
preserves for the purpose of affording the Normans the amusement and ex, 'ment of the chase. There were great forests in the
border counties, but the king and his company wanted to enjoy this sport
without having to travel any great distance from the larger cities of the
kingdom. Way out on the Welsh border were yet to be found the primeval
forests of Britain, and to these the king and his company would go at
long intervals when they wanted the real pleasures of the hunt, and hence
were willing to make the long journey. This forest included a large part
of Staffordshire, which later came to be known as the fighting-forest county of England. When we speak of the
King's forest, we are not however to be understood as designating a dense
growth of trees or merely a tract of wood-
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