Note 2.4

The first grant by William the Conqueror noted in Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 Volume I, edited by H W C Davis (Oxford, 1913), dated 1066 states: 1. Grant by Duke William to the Church of the Holy Trinity at Fécamp. Of the land of Steyning [co. Sussex]; the Duke gave seisin to the Church by the token of a knife, before he went to England; the grant to take effect if God should give him victory in England. Witnesses: Aymeri the vicomte; Richard fitz Gilbert; Pons.

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