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Hunualdi, quem etiam ipsum sibi amicissimum autumabat. Sed, heu, proh dolor! longe aliter erat: nam ab eodem comite proditum eum Osuiu, eum praefato ipsius milite per praefectum suum Ediluinum detestanda omnibus morte interfecit. Quod factum est die decima tertia Kalendarum Septembrium, anno regni eius nono, in loco qui dicitur Ingetlingum.
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Cataract towards the north-west. He himself , with only one trusty soldier, whose name was Tonhere, withdrew and lay concealed in the house of Earl Hunwald, whom he
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Bardulf's 5x great-grandson, Adam FitzHugh (the 10th Lord of the Manor), inherited Didderston from his deceased father in 1305. Upon Adam's death he conveyed the manor of Didderston to
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