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2. Margery, the second daughter (sometimes called Malicia) was aged 

 24 in 1249. She married the Earl of Stratherne. She was dead in 1254, 

 and left two infant children. 1. Muriella aged 10 in 1254, who married 

 the Earl of Mar, and died without children in 1291. 2. Maria (also 

 called Margery) was aged 6 in 1254. She married Nicholas de Graham. 

 She became heir to her sister, as appears on the inquisition on her death. 

 She had a son, John de Graham. 



3. Isabella, the third daughter was 24 years old in 1254. She married 

 William de Huntercumbe, and was aunt to Isabella de Ford, and became 

 heiress of one half of her possessions. William died 55, Hen. III., 127U. 

 Their son Walter de Huntercumbe, was then of full age. He died without 

 children, 6, Edw. II., 1312."* 



Robert de Muschampe's mother, Matilda, was a Scottish heiress, and 

 had been a widow previous to her marriage with his father, her Scottish 

 property being Halsington, in Eccles parish, held of the Earl of Dunbar, 

 which was afterwards bestowed on Melrose. Robert de Muschampe 

 became early influenced with the religious sympathies of his age, and was 

 a most generous benefactor to the church. It is in a charter of his 

 conveying to the monks of Melrose, the lands of Trolhope (or Trowup) in 

 the territory of Hethpol, that the name of this place first occurs in record 

 The charter has much local interest, but " Trollop " manor would require 

 a special chapter. It was granted in behoof of the souls of his lords, 

 Henry, Richard, and John, Kings of England, and the souls of his father 

 and mother, and of his ancestry, and for the salvation of his lord King 

 Henry, and that of himself and of his wife, and of all his successors. 

 Among the great lay witnesses to the deed were Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, 

 and his son Patrick, Roger de Merlae, Roger Bertram, Odonell de Forde, 

 Robert de Akeld and his son William, Robert and Roger de Hameldon 

 (Humbleton), Robert de Manners, Hugo de Morwic, Sampsone de 

 Coupland, etc.f The final settlement was in 1223, in St. Nicholas Church, 

 Newcastle, but the first deed was of previous date, for in 1222, Pope 

 Honorius II., by a bull had to satisfy the Prior and Canons of Kirkham, 

 to whom the tithes of Trolhope belonged, that these should be duly paid 

 at the Church of St. Gregory, at Newton, in Glendale.J The corn and 

 hay tithes of Kirknewton and Heathpool still belong to the vicarage of 

 Newton in Glendale.|| 



Robert de Muschampe obtained as the reward of his benefactions, burial 

 in Melrose Abbey in 1250. § 



According to the " Testa de Nevill," which is of various dates from and 

 during the time of Henry III. and later, Robert de Muschampe, then 

 alive, holds in chief, among numerous other estates " Hetpol." From the 



* Dickson's Pipe Rolls, p. 155. 

 t Liber de Melros., pp. 268-9. 

 X Liber de Melros., pp. 268-9 ; pp. 271-2. 

 || Hodgson's Northd., III., ii., 152. 



§ Chronicle of Melrose, p. 205 (Stevenson's Church Historians of 

 England.) 



