290 Broughton Gifford. 
40s. a year being reserved to the monks of Gloucester from it. On 
assessing the aid for marrying Maud, Henry II.’s daughter, to the 
Duke of Saxony, Elias certified that. he held nine knights’ fees. 
He died 1190, leaving a son and heir Thomas under age, who suc- 
ceeded, 1194. He paid scutage £9, for the nine fees which his 
family held, towards the King’s redemption from captivity. An- 
other Elias (the fourth) succeeded. He joined the Barons against 
King John, who deprived him of his estates, which were, however, 
restored under Henry III. He died 1248, leaving John Gifford 
his son and heir 17 years of age. 
This John was the first Baron Gifford by writ. His six predeces- 
sors were barons by tenure. He was continually summoned to Par- 
liament from 24th June, 23 Edward I. (1295) to 10th April 27 Ed- 
ward I. (1299),!in which year he died in possession of the manor of 
Broughton.? He was an able man and led an active life. He was 
frequently employed by Henry III., 1257-62, in the wars against the 
Welsh: but, taking part with Leicester and the rebellious barons, 
he was one of those excommunicated by the Archbishop of Canter- 
bury for their depredations in 1264. In the same year he fought 
against the King at the battle of Lewes: but in the following year 
obtained the King’s pardon, on account, as the patent expresses it, 
of his “good services in the battle of Evesham ;” and in the next 
year, as a further mark of royal favour, he had license to hunt in 
all the King’s forests this side of Trent. In 1281 he obtained a 
charter of free warren for Broughton and his other manors in 
Wilts. He, together with Edmund Mortimer, commanded the 
English forces which were collected on the left bank of the Wye 
in 1282, to chastise the insolence of Llewellyn, who was posted on 
the other side at Blnit in Radnorshire, elated at the victory which 
the Welsh had obtained over the invaders at the Menai bridge a 
few months before. Gifford, observing Llewellyn leave the main 
body of his army with a small party, crossed by a ford, and sur- 
prised him. The Prince was slain by Sir Adam Frankton, who at 
the time was ignorant of the rank of his antagonist. John Gifford 
is said to have sent Llewellyn’s head to Edward at Rhuddlan, 
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