WALTERO de SULIE. ROGERO de BERCHEREL. PHILIPPO de MARECROS. URBANO de PENDUUELIN. PHILIPPO sacerdote de MARECROS. WILLELMO le SOOR. WILLELMO de Sancte HILARIO. WILLELMO de PORTECHIWET. THOMA capellano domini episcopi. RICARDO de KAERWIGA. WILLELMO de BEDINT'. et GODEFRIDO monachis de MARGAN.

Seal in dark brown wax, 24in. diam.; upon two plaited cords, silk in two colours. Device, a figure riding to the proper right, holding a lily flower in the right hand; in the left a horn, which he is blowing.

Legend-SIGILLUM PAGANI DE TURBERVILLA.'

Endorsed-Karta Pagani de Turb'vill' de terra de Coitkard.'

DCLXXII.

TO THE SAME EFFECT, WITH SLIGHT VARIATIONS IN THE LANGUAGE EMPLOYED, BUT WITH A PROVISION ADDED IN CASE THE WARRANTY SHOULD FAIL.

[PENRICE MSS.]

Reverendo patri suo WILLELMO Dei gratia LANDAVENSIS episcopo et omnibus Sancte ecclesie filiis ad quos presens carta pervenerit. PAGANUS de TURBERVILLE salutem.

Notum facimus universitati vestre nos dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse. consilio et consensu conjugis mee et heredum. et amicorum. Deo et B. M. et monachis de MARGAN D. i. s. totam terram quam dominus meus WILLELMUS comes GLOECESTRIE michi dedit in territorio NOVI CASTELLI in COITTKARD. pro servitio meo. ut ipsi eam habeant totam in perpetuam et puram elemosinam liberam et quietam ab omni servitio et seculari exactione. per omnia sicut ego eam melius et integrius unquam habui in moris et in pratis. in pasturis et ceteris pertinentiis suis. Et si aliquod servitium sive domini Regis sive comitis. sive aliud forsitam inde fuerit aliquando requisitum. Ego et heredes

et

mei illud adquietabimus ut monachi sint ab omnibus rebus quieti. Sane ego heredes mee prefati hanc donationem meam quam feci pro anima patris et matris mee. et domini mei WILLELMI comitis et antecessorum meorum. et successorum monachis warentizabimus contra omnes homines. Quod si facere non poterimus. ipsis monachis xxti. marcas argenti reddemus. quas michi dederunt mee magne necessitati conpacientes ad redimendam et recuperandam terram meam et hereditatem in ANGLIA. que terre vocatur MERSFELDA. Teste WILLELMO de LOND' seniore. et WILLELMO de LOND' juniore. WILLELMO Monacho de OWEIN. REGINALDO Monacho de NETH. HEREBERTO filio TURKILLDI. RICARDO de DUNESTERRE. ROBINO fratre PAGANI. WILLELMO de CANTELO'. MAURICIO de CANTELO'. DANIELE clerico de COITTIF. HERTWEIO de LARMERE. RICARDO filio HEREBERTI. RANNULFO de la KAER.

Imperfect seal, brown wax, as described in the preceding Charter.

Endorsed Pag. de Turberwill'.'

The Turbervilles, a Norman family, held Beer Turberville and other Dorsetshire lands, and Crickhowell in Brecknock.

A very early branch settled at Coyty in Glamorgan, where Pagan de Turberville is reputed to have strengthened his position by a marriage with the heiress of the dispossessed Welsh lord.

A Pagan de Turberville witnessed the Neath foundation charter in 1179, and another, probably his son, appears in a law suit with Walter de Sully in 1199, and under King John in 1207. He was probably the father of Gilbert, who died before 1281. They held Coyty, and filled a great position in the lordship till the extinction of the male line in or about the reign of Richard II., when Catherine, their heiress, married Sir Roger Berkerolles.

The estates finally descended to William Gamage, whose descendant and heiress, Barbara Gamage, in the 16th century married Sir Robert Sydney, and the Earls of Leicester held Coyty till their extinction in 1743, when the estates were sold.

DCLXXIII.

GRANT BY RES, SON OF HOEL, AND HIS BRETHREN TO MARGAM OF LAND ON THE AVENE.

[PENRICE MSS.]

Omnibus Sancte Ecclesie filius ad quos p. s. p. RESUS filius HOEL et fratres ejus scilicet HOEL. GRIFFINUS. LOELIN. YTHEL. salutem.

Sciatis nos c. et d. et hac carta confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Sancte MARIE de

MARGAN et m. i. D. s. concessione MORGANI filii KARADOCI in puram et perpetuam elemosinam totam partem nostram videlicet totam tertiam partem omnium quo continentur inter has divisas scilicet a vado KEUELHI usque ad fontem Sancti YLTHUTI et a fonte Sancti YLTHUTI usque ad TORBETHEL et a THORBETHEL usque ad BLAIN CRAGAN sicut BLAIN CRAGAN descendit in AVENE. pro anima patris nostri et antecessorum et successorum nostrorum tenendam et habendam libere et quiete in bosco et in plano in pasturis et in omnibus aisiamentis. Et nos hanc donationem predictis monachis warantizabimus sicut elemosinam nostram contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Hiis testibus MORGANO filio KARADOCI. ROGERO WIAN. DAVID PUIGNEL. YCHENARD filio YTHEL. MEURIC WAS.

Two seals, red wax. 1. Morgan ap Caradoc, as usual. ‘+ SIGILL

MARGANI

2. An oval, lin. by 13in. Device, a broad-leaved spear,

A Res ap Howel appears as latro et felo,' conveyed from Langunit to Caerdiff, in the accounts of the Comitatus (I. p. 238); also as witness in an Avene Charter in 1333 (Ibid 283).

DCLXXIV.

CONFIRMATION BY RES AP HOEL AND HIS BROTHERS OF THEIR FATHER'S GRANTS TO MARGAM.

1 Omnibus S. E. f. ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit RESUS filius HOEL. et fratres ejus. scilicet. HOEL. GRIFFIN[NUS]. LUELIN. YTHEL. Salutem.

Sciatis nos concessisse et dedisse et hac carta confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Sancte MARIE de MARGAN et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus. concessione MORGANI filii CRADOCI [in puram et] perpetuam elemosinam. totam partem nostram . videlicet totam terciam partem omnium que continentur inter [has divi]sas. scilicet a vado KEUELHI usque ad fontem Sancti YLTHUTI. et a fonte Sancti YLTHUTI usque ad THOR . . . . . et usque ad BLAINCRAGAN Sicut BLAINCRAGAN descendit in AVENE. pro anima patris nostri et antecessorum et successorum nostrorum tenendam et habendam libere et quiete in bosco et in plano in

pasturis et in omnibus aisiamentis. Et nos hanc donationem predictis monachis warantizabimus sicut elemosinam nostram contra omnes homines imperpetuum. His Testibus MORGANO filio CRADOCI. ROGERO WRAY. DAVID PUGNEL. YCHENARDO filio Y.... MEURIC. WAS.

Endorsed Confirmatio Resi filii Hoel et fratrum suorum de terra quam nobis dimisit pater eorum. (Vacat

(1) This copy is scored through, as though for erasures.

DCLXXV.

REMISSION BY THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF TEWKESBURY
TO THE ABBOT AND CONVENT OF MARGAN OF AN
ANNUITY ON THE LIFE OF JURDAN DE HAMELDENA.
[HARL. CH. 75 A. 51.]

Noverint universi legentes et audientes hanc cartam quod nos abbas et conventus THEOKESBIRIE Conventionavimus abbati et conventui de MARGAN quod de illis viginti duobus solidis quos nobis ipsi reddunt pro JURDANO de HAMELEDENA. quamdiu ipse vixerit. quod de illis viginti duobus solidis post mortem ipsius JURDANI nichil omnino requiremus á domo de MARGAN. Set ipsa domus inperpetuum erit inde quieta et carta de MARGAN quam inde habemus. ipsis sine omni contradictione resignabitur. Et super hoc fecimus eis cartam nostram in testimonium.

Endorsed-De ecclesia de Kenefec.'

Portions of two seals attached. 1. First seal of Tewkesbury abbey. 2. Seal of the abbot of Tewkesbury. The abbot standing on a corbel with a book in the left hand, the right hand uplifted in benediction.

A fine of 1197 (Vol. I., p. 33) mentions Thomas le Sanford as having married Amable, elder daughter and co-heir of Richard de Kardif, and as with him holding a knight's fee in Hameleden, which was probably in Gloucestershire and connected with Tewkesbury. Jordan was a name in use in the de Kardif and Sandford families, but who Jurdan was is unknown. He may have been a de Cardiff. The charter is probably of the close of the 12th century.

DCLXXVI.

GRANT BY PHILIP, SON OF WURKENI, TO MARGAM

OF TEN ACRES.

[HARL. CH. 75 D. 22.]

Sciant omnes tam presentes quam futuri quod ego PHILIPPUS filius WURKENI dedi abbati et monachis de MARGAN in perpetuam elemosinam liberam et quietam ab omni servitio et seculari exactione xcem. acras terre de terra quam comes dedit mihi et aliquantulum eo amplius. Scilicet inter viam que vadit inter terram meam et terram PAGANI de TURBERVILLA et fossatum quod descendit ab eadem via inter terram meam et terram WILLELMI SCURLAGE usque ad metas in signum positas in planitie ejusdem campi versus orientem et hinc usque ad bosculum recta linea qui est in descensu versus aliam viam que vadit inter terram meam et terram WILLELMI SCURLAGE. Hanc totam terram dedi eis in terra arabili et pratis et morosis. Teste frater ROGERUS cellararius de MARGAN JORDANUS et RICARDUS de BADA fratres de MARGAN GILEBERTUS presbiter de Novo CASTELLO WALTERUS LAHELES NORMANNUS prepositus EILMERUS palmerus CODWINUS de Novo CASTELLO RODBERTUS nepos meus.

A pointed oval seal, 2țin. by 11in., in a fine style of work, in bright red wax. Device, a dexter hand and arm, issuing from the proper left, holding a lanceflag. Legend-'+ SIGILL' FILLIPI F' WURKENI.'

Endorsed Carta Philippi filii Gurgeni.'

DCLXXVII.

GRANT BY WILLIAM, SON OF OSMUND, TO HIS SON THEO

BALD, OF A BURGAGE IN KENFEG, AND A HOUSE IN
CARDIFF, ETC.

[PENRICE MSS.]

WILLELMUS filius OSMUNDI dominis suis et omnibus amicis suis et

omnibus hominibus suis. salutem.