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well as Painswick and Pitchcombe, still abound in Birts (i.e. 
Le Breton) ; Brets-Moreton is to-day Birts-Moreton. Haseulf 
Musard gave his sister Constance the hides he held at Siddington 
and Chesterton, when she married Peter de Laci, 1 her first 
husband ; also Richard Musard, another donor of the same land, 
is mentioned in the Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey. 
Haseulf Musard died in 1175, 2 and was doubtless succeeded 
in his barony and lands by his youthful son Ralf, who afterwards 
fulfilled a considerable career as Sheriff of Gloucestershire in the 
last years of King John, and in the opening ones of Henry III. 
(1216-25), at whose coronation in Gloucester he must have 
prominently figured, together with the Marshalls and the 
De Burghs. Later still we find him acting as Justice in Eyre 
for the Forest of Dean (1229-31). In 1201 he had paid 30 marks 
on his twelve fees in chief (Oblate Rolls, p. 146), and again 
in 1210 he paid assessment upon two of his Gloucestershire 
fees, Eyeford (1) and Aston Somerville. In 1205 another 
20 marks (p. 279 idem). In the Pipe Roll of Richard I., in (3) 
1191, he is mentioned as owing £100 for license to marry whom 
he willed, and for fine for his lands. His name appears as a 
witness to two Berkeley Charters (c.) 1190. One wife is known 
to have been Isabel, widow r of John Nevill. Robert Musard, 
his son, (holding his lands in 1235 and 1243), Ralf, and a Clement 
(le Musarder) witnessed (c. 1230) a grant made by Isabel de 
Longchamp (d. of Henry de Miners) to the Cistercian Abbey of 
Ivingswood near Wotton-under-Edge. This Clement Musard 
had a son Richard, who calls himself “ Filius et haeres dementis 
de la Musardere,” who gave 2s. of land to Cirencester Abbey. 
Ralf Musard probably died in 1231-2, as the executors of his will 
are referred to in the Pipe Roll, a. 17 Henry III. (1232-33), and 
Robert Musard succeeded his father as Baron, paying assessment 
1 I am unable to place this hitherto unknown member of the great baronial family : perhaps 
he was a brother of Gilbert de Laci, but he may have been his son. His Charter in the Cirencester 
Cartulary (f. 219, vol. 1), calls him “ mariti Constancie Musard de 1 hyda terre.” Moreover, in 
another deed he says, “ f, Peter de Laci and Constance, my wife, give a hide at Chesterton which 
Hascul(f) Musard gave me with the same Constance, his sister, in free marriage.” 
2 In the Pipe Roll of a. 32 Hen. II. we find the daughter of Asculf Musard is in ward to the 
King, which points usually to the decease of the lady’s father. There is a curious entry that 
Reginald of Seynesbury is fined 20 marks for refusing to marry her. Her mother is mentioned 
as Johanne, and rod. a week was allowed for her board and raiment. (Cf. Introduction by J. H. 
Round to vol. xxxvi.) The Sheriff of Gloucestershire accounted for £60 for the ferm of the lands 
of Haseulf Musard by roll of the justices with the land of the son of Walter de (Somerville) Aston 
also in custody of the King. 
