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eaid Willelmus juvenis; he must therefore have been 

 Willelmus the first lord. This would also agree better 

 with the date, 1114, generally given as the foundation of 

 the Abbey, which was during the reign of Henry the First, 

 not that of Stephen, as represented by those who make 

 Willelmus the 3rd the founder. It will be seen also 

 that in this Charter, as in the earlier one, the founder is 

 styled Comes, but not Somcrsetensis. This obscure part of 

 the history of the Mohuns should be investigated, as there 

 is no historical evidence of any of that family having the 

 title of Earl of Somerset confirmed upon him, though the 

 Empress Maude is said to have made him Earl of Dorset. 

 See these two Charters. 



One Charter of William de Moyun juvenis, directed to 

 Robert, Bishop of Bath, grants 1 hyde of land, a well, and 

 whatever other property he has in Bruton ; also six acres 

 and pasture for 100 pigs in his forest of Seiwood, for the 

 health of the soul of his father, and his mother, and his 

 brothers, and his own. 



Another Charter is in these terms : " Will'us de Moyun 

 Juvenis omnibus S. Dei Eccl'ia? Fidelibus tarn praasentibus 

 quam futuris & omnibus hominibus suis Francis & Anglis 

 Salutem. Sciatis me concessisse omnes donationes quas 

 avus meus Comes Will'us & Will'us pater meus fecerunt 

 Eccl'iae B. Maria? de Bruwton & Canonicis regularibus in 

 eä Deo servientibus, in Eccl'is & Terris & Decimis & 

 libertatibus & in omnibus aliis rebus, sicut cartae eorum 

 testantur. Concedo etiam eas donationes quas Homines 

 de Feod. meo pra?d. Canonicis pro salute animarum 

 suarum fecerunt. Plane autem concessionem meam ut 

 firma et illibata permaneat, scripto meo et sigilli impres- 

 sione confirmo et subscriptis testibus corroboro. Lucia 

 Uxore meä, Gilberto Capellano, Ric'o de Moyun, Ric'o 

 Clerico de Longham, Will'o Britt. Rad'o Perd.'' 



