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shrievalty may possibly be the explanation of the series of 
actions in law courts, and of those Final Concords which we 
find recorded as if to give legal assurance to Veteripont owner- 
ship. For: instance, in 19 Henry III. between Hugh and 
‘Gilbert de Cabergh and John de Veteripont for common of 
pasture; between James de Morton and John de Veteripont 
for 30 acres of woodland; between Robert de Helbeck and 
John de Veteripont for the manor of Sowerby and 60 acres in 
Helbeck ; between Thomas de Musgrave and John de Veteri- 
pont for 30 acres in Murton; and between Thomas and Agnes 
Boet and John de Veteripont for 9 acres of land in Waitby. 
Other claims and agreements are mentioned by Dodsworth 
and Hodgson; and we are reminded of the series of similar 
cases which followed the grant by William de Lancaster the 
last, to his half brother Roger, not his heir and not of de 
Lancaster blood, of the barony of Barton in Westmorland, as 
will be seen in a future paper. 
Incidentally, working at this charter has thrown light on 
a matter mentioned in C. & W. Transactions, N.S., Xi., 321, 
which was unexplainable then. John le Fraunceys (Assize 
Roll 1046 of 1251 A.p.) held land also of John de Balliol in 
Leicestershire, and held a moiety of the manor of ‘‘ Soureby 
in Farnes in Galewayth.’’ From the Chartulary of Holyrood, 
p- 40, it turns out that there was a deanery of Farenes in 
Galloway, whose dean William witnesses a confirmation by 
Bishop John of Whitherne of advowsons granted to Holyrood, 
and it is easy to see from this that Soureby in Farnes was the 
modern Sorbie in Wigtownshire. This. is the only record of 
a le Fraunceys holding in that county, and we can now fairly 
add this to that of Castle Sowerby in Cumberland as held by 
that famiiy. These, John de Balliol’s possessions, derived 
from his Scottish descent, in three different parts of Great 
Britain came to him in different ways. The Leicestershire 
possession was almost certainly part of the inheritance of 
Devorgil, his wife, by her descent from David, Earl of Hunt- 
ingdon, grandson of David I., King of Scotland; the Galloway 
portion through her descent from Alan, lord of Galloway ; and 
the Westmorland portion through her descent from the Mor- 
