identifies Walter de Langton with Leicestershire.1 My other reason for considering the Yorkshire evidence as inconclusive, would, f it stood alone, be unworthy of a moment's consideration, but, taken in connection with the facts to which I have already alluded, it seems to me to increase their force. In 1465, John Langton, clerk, and others, were seized of lands in Tur Langton, and these lands were held of the Archbishop of York.' 2 The connection suggested by this passage between the Langton property and the Archbishop of York may, of course, have been formed subsequently to the time of Simon Langton's election to the archiepiscopal chair. Yet as I have found no hint in the book from which I have quoted of the time at which such change of possession could have taken place, I am inclined to consider this connection as a possible explanation of the preferments above-mentioned. The next question which presents itself to the historian, with regard to Langton's family, has been answered in an exactly opposite sense, and with equal dogmatism, by two modern writers. The 'Histoire littéraire de la . France' seems to have no doubt that Langton was an Anglo-Norman. Michelet, on the other hand, tells us that he was of Saxon origin, like Becket; his name of Langton sufficiently proves it.'3 For my own part, 'See Nichol's Hist. and Antiqu. Leicestershire, vol. ii. pp. 660– 674; vol. iii. part ii. p. 880; vol. iii. part i. p. 44; vol. iv. part i. p. 118; Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 233; Bib. Top. Britan., vol. vii. Leicestershire, p. 447. 2 Nichol's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pp. 669, 670. Michelet, Histoire de la France, vol. ii. Book IV., chap. vii. 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