SIEUR DE BAUDEWIN.

The Sieur de Baudewin, whose name occurs on the Roll, became, after the battle of Hastings, Caetellan of Montgomery, and from him that town acquired its Welsh appellation of Tre Faldwiri, or town of Baldwin. There scarcely exists a doubt that this Norman Chief was patriarch of the ancient and respectable Shropshire family of Bawdewin, or Baldwyn, of which was THOMAS BALDWYN, Esq., of Diddlebury, who suffered imprisonment in the Tower of London, temp. Queen Elizabeth, and went through much suffering, as his epitaph, still remaining at Diddlebury, quaintly records

Qui mare, qui ferrum, dura qui vincula turria Quondam traneivit."

His representative, after five generations, Richard Bawdewin, Esq., sold the Diddlebury estate to Capt. Frederick Cornewall, R.N., father of the late Bishop of Worcester. William Bawdewln, or Baldwin, second brother of "the prisoner," took up his abode at Elsich, in his native parish, and founded the branch seated there, and at Stoke Castle, which eventually acquired the lands of Aqualate, and is now represented in the male line by WILLIAM LAC0N CHILDE, Esq., of Kinlet, whose father changed his name from Baldwin to Childe.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)