Hugh de Peshale

Citations

1. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume I: Chapter 10 Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbiel, section 1, pages 176-185.
   page 176 - Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbeil was the first of our ancestors who owned the Manor of Peshale. He married into one of the families who formed the colony of immigrants from Northumberland and who settled near Stone Priory in Staffordshire. At this time Staffordshire was almost an unbroken forest with only here and there clearings which had been made by the English prior to the Conquest. Among these clear and cultivated spots in the forest was that of Peshale, which had been forfeited from its English owner and which was now included in the holdings of Robert de Toesni, de Stafford.
   page 178 - It was a principle of the English law down to the reign of Charles II, that a feoffment of land need not be in writing and that its transfer might be effected by the symbolical delivery of a piece of turf or twig or a stone and by many other ways, and this was the method followed by Robert de Stafford in granting the manor of Peshale to Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbeil. [note: this is referring to the original agreement entered into by Robert’s father Gilbert de Corbeil – KLM]