Life History

Notes

• "Humphrey, the eldest, who died without issue, was among those knights of St. Edmund's who witnessed several charters of Abbot Hugh of St. Edmund's (1157-80) of lands in Hengrave Westley and Fornham, as Humphrey fil. Drieu and Richard his brother. Some of these Charters are among the MSS. of the Bodleian Library. He was living after the death of Abbot Hugh, as he is one of the witnesses to a grant of Abbot Sampson after 1182 as to land in Dickleburgh. Humphrey is found to hold one knight's fee in Livermere of the Abbot; (this was later held by Humphrey's great-nephew Robert, of Hugh de Vere, earl of Oxford); and he is shown as having the church of Livermere in his gift, and 30 acres land in Horningsheath. It is noteworthy too that the same Humphrey fil. Drieu had then a small holding of 15 acres in Grisestoft in Rougham. He was succeeded by his brother Richard."
  
  From 'The History of the Family of  DRURY In the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk From the Conquest' by Arthur Campling, London, 1937.