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Leicestershire, “ Eutropius Hasteng xxs. per Radulfum Musard.” 
That is to say, Eutropius paid then 20s. of scutage to King 
Richard I. on the Warwickshire fees held by Ralf Musard. 
In Fulk de Monasteriis we have the source of the family 
name of the Nottinghamshire Musters. (Cf. Chaworth- 
Musters) . 
The lands held by the wife of Richard Musard were perhaps 
parts of those at Over-Siddington and at Chesterton by 
Cirencester, consisting of one hide at each place. That the 
“ Carta ” is registered under Nottinghamshire and not under 
Gloucestershire is perhaps misleading, but we have seen that 
the “ Caput Baroniae ” was at Staveley, in Co. Derby. 
It was in these days, at any rate, about the middle of the 
twelfth century, that Alan le Rous, 1 a noble Breton neighbour, 
Lord of the Manor of Harescombe (and perhaps a relative by 
marriage of the Musard family), at Sudgrove, gave a virgate 
or (c) thirty acres of his land to the new Priory of Lanthony 
by Gloucester. This gift was confirmed (c) 1216 by Ralf 
Musard and Henry (Fitz-Roger) le Rous, who were tenants and 
relatives of De Bohun, at the former Castle of Harescombe. 
(Note. — Perhaps situated at Stockend, with a deer park.) 
It was probably the next 'successor, Hasculf Musard 2 
of Miserden, who gave Wyshanger to the Preceptory of the 
Templars at Quenington, to which Gilbert (d. 1163) and Agnes 
de Laci his neighbours were likewise benefactors. It may here 
be remarked that the Breton blood thus strongly imported into 
this neighbourhood has survived. Villages far and near, as 
1 His name was given to Alansmore in co. Hereford. 
Alan le Rous (the Red) = 
I 
Roger= 
(1166) | 
Henry= 
(1216) | 
Roger=Eleanor de Avenbury. 
(1284, I 
d. 1294) | 
John=Hawisa. 
(i3M) | 
Thomas (1340). 
2 Literally Hascwulf ; Latin : Hasculfus. 
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