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of the King. Avice was the wife of Michael Columbers, and a 

 daughter of Elias Croc. 1 In the reign of Edward II., A.D. 1310, 

 Eichard had been succeeded by John de Seles, and by charter of 

 this date, made at " Seles," he granted to "Walter de Ailesbury one 

 half part of all his lands in Over Seles, Nether Seles, and Wulliton, 

 to be held as of his manor of Seles. This transaction looks as 

 if de Ailesbury had previously nothing more than the over- 

 lordship, which may have included the whole of Zeals, of which the 

 de Seles family were terre tenants. In 1315 John de Seles restored 



' to his estate a messuage and mill in Seles, which Eichard, his 

 father, had sold to John de Cove, and in 1331 he made an agreement 



i with Nichola, his daughter, late the wife of Eobert Coterel, whereby 

 he grants to her for her life certain lands in Seles, and covenanted 

 to provide reasonable maintenance and clothing for Eobert, her son, 



j Nichola, in return, granting to her father all her lands in Caldecote, 

 within the manor of Stourton. By the end of the reign of Edward 

 III. the manor had come into the hands of Matthew de Clivedon, 

 and it is clear that he acquired it by purchase. He was descended 



I from a Somersetshire family, who derived their name from Clivedon, 



J or Clevedon, on the Bristol Channel, a manor which in the Domesday 

 Survey was held by Matthew de Moretaine, who is supposed to be 

 their Norman progenitor. As the elder line of the family had 

 ended in a female, this Matthew must have been a member of a 

 collateral branch. He was married twice. By his first wife he had 

 at least two sons, and to provide for his second wife and her issue a 

 settlement was made by final concord of 50 Edward III., between 



> John Wykying, John Pykering, and Eobert Combe, plaintiffs, and 

 Matthew de Clyvedon and Joan his wife, defendants, whereby the 



; manor of " Seles " and five messuages, one carucate of land, 3s. 

 rent, and rent of a bunch of cloves, in Mere, Caldecote, Seles, 

 Wolverton, and Lyttel Ammesbury, Wiltes, and seven messuages, 

 thirty acres of land, twelve acres of meadow, and thirty acres of 

 wood, in Grayspore, Somerset, were limited to the said Matthew and 



i Joan and the heirs of their bodies ; remainder to Alexander, son 

 to the said Matthew, in tail; remainder to Eichard, brother of 



1 Coll. Top. and Gen., vii., 148. 



