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     Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 122  2002  page 138
Patrixbourne Church: Medieval Patronage, Fabric and History. By Mary Berg

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NOTES
  1 Mostier, A. du., Neustria Pig (Rouen, 1663), p. 916.
  2 London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra, C.vii. (Merton Priory Cartulary), ff. 213-217, and A. Heales, The Records of Merton
Priory
(London, 1898).
  3 T. G. Godfrey-Faussett, ‘The Saxon Cemetery at Bifrons’, Archaeologia Cantiana, x (1876), 98-300. A number of burial sites were found, including one about a quarter of a mile away from Patrixbourne church.
  4 English versions of French names have been used for the Patrick family because those are used in the translations of the contemporary records and in commentaries.

  5 Musset, L., Actes caennaises (Caen, 1961), no. 14, p. 107.
  6 Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I, ed. J. Hunter (London, 1844), p. 66.
  7 The mound or motte is still discernible. The lane leading round the motte is called Rue Guillaume Patry.
  8 Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (London, 1896), pp. 135, 197. Ingelram Patrick paid fifteen knights’ fees in respect of his tenancies.
  9 Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I (1066-1087), ed. D. Bates (Oxford, 1998), no. 205, p. 646. On p. 644, Bates refers to William Patrick as one of three witnesses who are ‘obscure characters’ who do not aid the dating. See also (in Bates), no. 53. p. 253; no. 59, p. 278; no. 61, p 291. All grants/confirmations to Caen: 52 to Saint-Etienne 1080/ix 1083, grant by William Patrick confirmed, 59 to La Trinité
1082, William Patrick’s lordship referred to, 61 to La Trinité l066x1083, William Patrick witness; Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum. 1066-1154, vol. 2, eds. C. Johnson and H. A. Cronne (Oxford, 1956), no. 1593, p. 228 and no. 1183, p. 142 respectively.
  10 F. Barlow, Thomas Becket (London, 1997), pp. 260-1.
  11 Canterbury Cathedral Archives, DCc Cart Antiqua, p. 39 and p. 40, undated but Ingelram was Lord of Patrixbourne from 1174 until 1190/1. The charters also provide an early inclusion of ‘Patrick’ in the place name (Patrichesburne).
 
12 Ingelram Patrick’s seal bears a close resemblance to that of William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, made around 1180 and that of Philip of Alsace. Both these are seals are illustrated in Heslop, ‘Seals as Evidence for Metalworking in England in the Later

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