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was Chamberlain of our Lord K. John, our father, all the 
land which belonged to Walter, son of Matthew de Beninge- 
worth, in Clyve, with all its appurtenances. Ofthe gift of 
the same Hubert, then Chamberlain of the same our father, 
all homages and services of all their free men of Clyve, and 
of their heirs, with all appurtenances, the service of Ralph, 
son of William, and his heirs excepted. Also of the gift of 
the same Hubert, afterwards Earl of Kent, all his land of 
Treglastan and of Pothwell, with all its appurtenances. 
Wherefore I will, etc. "These are witnesses : A. Bishop 
of Coventry, Th. Bishop of Norwich, R. Earl of 
Chester and Lincoln, William Marshall Earl of Pembroke, 
J. constable of Chester, Osbert Giffard, Ralph son of 
Nicholas, Hugh Despenser, Geoffrey Despenser, and others. 
Given by the hand of the venerable father, R. Bishop of 
Chichester, our Chancellor, at Windsor, the third day of 
September, in the year, etc., eleven.”* 
That was in 1226. The next is also a confirmation by 
the same King of a previous grant:— 
(X.) “ The King has granted, and by his charter has con- 
firmed, to the abbot and convent of Olive, in the county 
of Somerset, the manor of Bramton, with the hundred 
without, in the county of Devon, with other its appur- 
tenances. To be holden of the King and his heirs for ever, 
at a rent of twentytwo pounds per annum. And it is 
ordered to the Sheriff of Gloucester that he make them to 
have a full seizin of the manor of Bramton, ete. Witness, 
the King, at Gloucester, the twenty-fifth day of June.”f 
At this point my first division, that of the charters 
hitherto printed, ends. The documents form an interesting 
* Cart. 11., Hen. III., pat. 2, m.3. Dwugdale, Monast. Angl., 
Vol. V., p. 734. 
+ Rot. Fin. 23 Hen. III, m.7. Dugdale, Vol. V., p. 734. 
