The earliest date connected with the persons mentioned, that can be gathered from the confirmatory charters, is from a confirmation of Henry Wifward's gift of the Combe portion of tithes in Hoo, granted by Bishop Gundulph in the year 1091.

Dead bards stench every coast

a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,

Never return evil for evil that's either real or imagined.