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abridged the inhabitants of many of the 

 privileges granted to them by Lacy.* 

 Upon the execution of D' Efpencer they 

 again efcheated to the crown, and were 

 by Edward III. given to Roger Mor- 

 timer, Earl of March, in exchange for 

 lands to the value of a thoufand pounds 

 per annum, which he furrendered to the 

 King,-f whofe attainder and execution 

 enabled the King not long after to grant 

 them to Sir William Montacute, after- 

 wards created Earl of Salifbury, who 

 had been a moil zealous and a6live man 

 in the fervice of the ftate J. He died in 

 1333; and, on the reverfal of the at- 

 tainder of the Earl of March, they were 

 reftored to his grandfon Roger; and 

 by the marriage of Ann, fifter to Roger, 

 the lafl Earl of March, with Richard 

 Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge, they 



* Pennant, II. 37. t Dugdale's Baronage, I. 145. 



$ Ibid, I. 147, 645, 647. Ibid, I, 148. 



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