Gents Mag 1856 part 1 p.380

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1856 part 1 p.380
Morville Family   Hugh de Morville
	Hugh de Morville, the Morville Family THE FAMILY OF MORVILLE. MR. URBAN, - A little work has recently fallen my way, entitled "Memorials of Canterbury," containing, amongst other matters, an account of the martyrdom of Archbishop Becket, afterwards called Saint Thomas of Canterbury, with some particulars of his murderers, amongst the rest Hugh de Morville.* I think the author will feel obliged to me for pointing out in your pages an error into which, following in the steps of Dugdale and others, he has fallen. He states correctly enough that Hugh de Morville the murderer must not be counfounded with his namesake, the founder of Dryburgh Abbey; but he is himself led into the mistake of confounding him with another namesake, who held the barony of Burgh, in Cumberland, as late as the reign of king John. I wish to point out that there were three individuals of this name - 1. Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, who founded Dryburgh Abbey, and
	* Our correspondent refers to the highly interesting volume by the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, which is doubtless already well known to many of our readers.
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