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lords who were his feoffees to a third manorial lord also his 
feoffee, and is one of those evidences of the exercise in action 
of rights of overlordship which were required in the Inquests 
of Edward I. detailed in de Quo Warranto to be shown as 
proof of use. This lordship over North Westmorland I was 
able only to suggest as being an extreme probability in Cum- 
berland and Westmorland Transactions, N.S., vol. xil., 384-5, 
there being little further evidence of it then than an entry in 
~ Assize Roll 981 of a statement of claim to it, with no reasons 
shown in the Roll and no pleadings recorded. It was the 
claim to that barony by Margaret de Ferrers, Ela de la Zouche, 
Elizabeth Countess of Buchan, and Devorgil, wife of John de 
Balliol, against Isabel, wife of Roger de Clifford, and Idonea, 
wife of Roger de Leyburn, daughters of Robert de Veteripont. 
I can now venture from this charter to give it its name as 
the Galloway Lordship of North Westmorland. Alan, lord 
of Galloway, the grantor, is shown as exercising this right, 
which he was able to do as heir to his mother, Eva, daughter 
of Richard de Morville; and through Alan the claim set forth 
on p. 385 of the volume just mentioned came, and my provi- 
sional scheme of the Morville descent receives its justification 
thereby. Later on, after Alan’s time, the rights of his de- 
scendants in Westmorland seem to have dwindled down to a 
solitary manor, Mauds Meaburn, where the shrunken lordship 
Was carried on in a sort of purparty between one of them and 
the Veteripont as late as 6 Edward I., 1278. But there is now 
sufficient proof of the existence of this lordship, few though 
the evidences are. They came down in the end to such in- 
stances as these : :—A claim by John le Fraunceys (C. & W. 
Transactions, N.S., Xi., p. 321) to be released from de Ballio! 
service which ought to be done by de Veteripont intermediate 
between him and Balliol (Curia Regis Roll, 142, membrane 
18d) ; and the Inquisitiones post mortem of Gilbert le Fraunceys 
(a) in 6 Edward I. viz. : C. Edward I. 18(g) and (b) C. Edward 
I. 33/8 of 11 Edward I. In one of these de Balliol is recog- 
nised as in part, in the other as wholly, the overlord. 
And the unsettlement of things by King John’s action in 
granting to the Veteripont husband of a Morville, who was not 
the right Morville heir, the lordship in the guise of hereditary 
