CHANDOS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From Ellis's Introduction to Domesday Book it appears that this name only occurs therein as Candos (and Candorso to be accurate, but evidently the same person). This was Roger de Candos, and reference to Domesday shows he was an under-tenant of Hugh de Montfort, in Suffolk.
In the Red Book of the Exchequer (A.D. 1166) is the "Carta Ricardi de Candos," then- a tenant-in-chief in Herefordshire, Roger and Hugh de Condos being among his sub-tenants. Elsewhere in the Red Book, it is true, Chandos, Chamdos and other readings are found, but this is really not material. Of the books I have lOoked at for the place-name, 1 have only found in Moreri's •Dictionnaire Historique," Candas, bourg de Picardie dam l'Amienois a peu pies au nord d'Amiens, dont il est eloigne d'environ einglieues." In the Nouveau Dictionnaire de Geographic Universelle Candas appears as a village of the Somme, no doubt the same as Morerrs. In the absence of further information, it seems permissible to suggest that Candas accounts for the name Chandos.
In Dugdale's Baronage it appears that both the Montfort and Chandos families were benefactors to the abbey of Bee. —I am, Sir, &e., G. E. ANSELL.
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