I checked out _The Quatremains of Oxfordshire_ from the local library and the only slightly relevant comment it makes is this (p 58): "Maud [Quatremains] married John Bruley, of Waterstock, Oxfordshire, a few miles north of Thame, a manor which his great-grandmother Katherine, a Foliot heiress, granted to his grandfather John Bruley. Dr. Macnamara gives (p 219 &c.) a clear and interesting history of the Bruley family, but does not follow them into Warwickshire and Worcestershire. I might supplement his account, but content myself with noticing their handsome coat of arms ..." etc. Thus this book makes contact with the Bruley pedigree mentioned by Patrick above (through the marriage of Henry Bruley to Katherine Foliot), but sheds no light whatsoever on the lineage in question. There is no mention of Alice Bruley or of the Spine, Durvassal or Throckmorton surnames. Dave Ebel

Thanks all for your efforts to document the de Spineto/Spyne family. VCH Warwickshire (in the Coughton section) cites several deeds from the Warwickshire Feet of Fines volumes (Dugdale Society). I have now read the full text of these abstracts/translations. I see nothing to identify the wives of the men named William de Spineto beyond their given names. Are these volumes readily available to others interested in this family? If not, I can post transcriptions of the fines when I have finished copying them for myself. Meanwhile the name William de Spineto appears twice in the Fine Rolls of Henry III: 1253/54 February. Wiltshire. William son of Sewal' de Spineto gives the king two marks for an assize of mort d’ancestor to be taken before Roger of Whitchester. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take etc. ["Sewal' de Spineto" written over erased text.] http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_051.html#it256_010, 38 Henry III (28 October 1253–27 October 1254), membrane 10 1271 December 17. Warwickshire, "William de Spineto and Joan his wife" gave "half a mark for having a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire." http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_069.html#it168_019, 56 Henry III (28 October 1271–27 October 1272), membrane 19 We know from one of the Fines cited in VCH that a William de Spineto was purchasing land in Coughton by 1256-1257 (41 Henry III). We also know from deeds that the William de Spineto that married a Margery had land interests in Worcestershire. Does it seem plausible that William son of Sewal' de Spineto was the same man as the William de Spineto who purchased land in Coughton in 1254-1255? Would it be surprising for a man purchasing land in Warwickshire to have recently asked for an assize of mort d'ancestor in Wiltshire? Was 2 marks a lot to pay for such an assize? Would such a case be recorded in the King's Bench Plea Rolls? In some records the surname of this family is written del Espyne (and variants) and later Spyne (and variants). Is the origin of this name the Latin word for a thicket of thorn bushes and the French word for thorn? In 1196, a William de Spineto (Oxford DNB calls him William d'Épinay), keeper of the castle of Bonneville-sur-Touques, was sentenced to be hanged for his roll in allowing the escape of a prisoner entrusted to the custody of Robert de Ros.