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their wedding-day, in a turnament.. She was in her own right 

 Baronefs of Veifler and Montenatt, daughter of Guy Chajlillon, Earl 

 of St. Paul, in France, and his wife Mary, the daughter of John 

 the fccond Duke of Brit any and Earl of Richmond, by his wife 

 Beatrix, the daughter of K. Henry III. She was fo afFefted with 

 the lofs of her hufband, who made her joint executrix with 

 others, that fhe refigned herfelf entirely to a religious and con- 

 templative life, and bellowed moil of her fortune on acts of 

 piety and charity, railing her faithful friends above want and 

 indigence, and creeling i.-oble ftruclures in honour of religion 

 and learning, with liberal endowments ; Denney-pnory, in Cam- 

 bridge/hire, for nuns, of the order of St. Clare, being of her foun- 

 dation, endowed with the manour of Strom!, in Kent, and other 

 lands ; alfo Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge, moflly finillied about the 

 year 1347, and endowed with lands for a warden and fellows, 

 fome of whom me lived to fee preferred to the highcfl dignities 

 in England in the courfe of forty years or upwards. She died 

 1 5th March, 51 K. Edward III, and was interred in her own 

 priory of Denney, under a marble monument, between the two 

 choirs of the nuns and feculars. She furvivcd her hufband 61 

 years ; part of whofe barony of Mitford was afligned to her for 

 her life (z). His Lordfhip's heirs were John de Hajlings, Johanna, 

 the wife of David de Strabolgy, Earl of Athdl, and her lifter Eli~a- 

 leth Cumin. 



The Earl and Countefs of Atholl had this barony, except that 

 part of it which was held by Mary the countefs dowager of Pern- 

 broke, and St. Paul (a). The Earl died, i K. Edward III, and was 



fucceeded by his fon and heir, 



David 



(z) Vid. Fchon. 



(a) David de Stralolgy, nuper Conies AtkoU, tenuit die quo obiit ad terminum vitns fuse 

 per legem Anglia de haereditate Jobanntf quondam uxoris ejus defunftas, manerium de Mit- 

 ford, 



