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upon Eyeford Manor and Aston (Somerville) in 1235 (two and 
a quarter fees). He had to pay, moreover, for a quarter of a 
fee more than Ralf, bis father, paid in 1210. He does not 
appear to have married, and was certainly succeeded by his 
brother, another Ralf (c. 1246-47). It is not easy to learn 
what took place with regard to some of the other Gloucestershire 
lands of the family ; but it is certain that there had been a 
division of some of them among the brothers, for Hasculf 
(as we have mentioned) had granted the hide at Chesterton 
to his sister Constance, when she had married Peter de Laci, 
before-mentioned. She likewise received the other hide at 
Siddington (Over), and she retained these properties when 
later she married (2) Alexander (“ vir meus ”) and (3) Robert 
de Cardonville, 1 as having been given her by her brother in 
free marriage (Reg. B. Abb. Cirences.); A gift of 2s. of land 
held in Duntesbourne to the Abbey of Cirencester by Clement 
Richard, son and heir of Clement de la Musardere, occurs in the 
Register of Cirencester Abbey (fol. 699), c. 1250. 
The lands and barony owned by the heir in 1263-64, Ralf (2) 
Musard, were these : Seynesbury [Manor and Musardene Manor 
(Gloucestershire) ; Staveley, Wodesthorp, Hynkershill, William- 
thorp, Witwell (Derbyshire), and one fee of the Barony at 
Staveley, held in Co. Berks, i.e. 2 curucates ( plough-lands ) at 
Sparsholt. Seynesbury was worth /30 per annum and 
“ Musardyr ” /io, and Ralf, the heir of the late Ralf 2 Musard 
and Matilda was of full age (I.P.M. 49 Hen. III., No. 10). 
Here we do not see mention of Aston (which was partly 
alienated to the Somervilles in 1250) as a Musard holding, nor 
do we find the manors of (Over-) Siddington and Chesterton 
mentioned, though both duly reappear in the I.P.M. of 1272 
(a. 56 Hen. III. and a. 1 Edw. I., No. 13). 
We do not find the Musard family figuring in the War of the 
Barons. 3 Again, in 1274 (I.P.M. c. a. Edw. I.), we see that 
1 The De Cardonvilles were sub-infeudists to De Laci at Stratton and Baunton near Cirencester 
and were benefactors to that Abbey. By Robert de C. Constance has issue Isabel who married 
one Asketil. R. de Cardonville was living 1210 and held half a virgate in Cirencester of Humphrey 
Torel (Reg. B. 2, p. 80, Abb. of Cirencester). 
2 Arms of Ralf Musard : Gules 3 plates. 
3 The heir was a ward in King Henry’s hands. 
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