Charter by Robert De Brus

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 At one time a  Scandinavian named Ingebald held the lands of Dryfesdale , as well as Applegarth . 

    in  1215 AD    Robert de Brus restores to Hugh, son of Ingebald, certain lands in Dryfesdale, to be held “ in wood and plain, land and water, Monastery and mill” as his father held them before him, rendering to Brus the services of two vills and in the king’s army the service of one knight ...

The below script is written in Latin and from observing  printed Latin text this spelling was in Latin was  D R I U E S DALE    the English translation is noted below as  Drivesdale in today s context .

It is important to note that the alphabet for today's English today was developed by the ancient Romans, except that it did not contain J, U or W as separate letters , this  changed in medieval times as the consonant value of I became its own letter and V were changed to U, V and W. 

 If you click the photo it will open to a larger view look on the second row down under the yellow mark 

                              This is ,  from what I have available to me now the earliest WRITTEN record                           OF THE NAME DRYSDALE 

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