Cons. 1244, died 1253. William de Radnor, elected 30 July, 1256, died 1265. William de Braose, Prebendary of Llandaff, elected March 1266, died 19 March, 1287.

Llanmeuthin, now Llanveithen, is an extra parochial place topographically in Llancarvan.

Mr. Traherne cites a deed in Mr. Talbot's possession, from "Hugo Roberti de Lancarvan filius," by which he gives to the monks of Margam

xxx acras terre sue de Landoyeuthin cum crofta que adjacet veteri cemeterio consensu domini mei Henrici de Unifravill. Testibus P. de Marecross. W. Flamenge. Joh. le Sor. P. de Turbill. Odo de Novo Burgo. W. Prior de Goldclive."

This charter and 75 B. 27 are connected by the occurrence of Roger the Cellarer in both. Probably he immediately preceded the William of 75 D. 15.

Godfrid the Monk occurs here, in D. 15, and in C. 48. Gilbert Burdin and his sons, Reuer, Gaufrid, and William, do not occur again here, but Walter Burdin gave four acres in the fee of Newton to Neath before John [N. Mon. v. 58] and Richard de B. appears in the

Gloucestershire close roll in 1216.

VII.-Carta Henrici de Humfranville.

[Brit. Mus. Harl. Chart. 75, D. 15.]

Universis Sancti Ecclesie filiis ad quos presens carta pervenerit H. de Humfranville salutem. Notum facimus universitati vestre nos concessisse et presenti karta nostra confirmasse Deo et Beate Marie et monachis de Margan in puram et perpetuam et liberam elemosinam quietam et immunem ab omni servitio et seculari exactione illam totam terram quam pater meus Gillebertus dedit Urbano de Penducaet apud Lantmeuthen pro anima Neste uxoris sue ut videlicet prefati monachi de Margan habeant et possideant predictam terram libere et quiete et integre in perpetuum pro salute anime mee et patris mei et uxoris mee et liberorum meorum et antecessorum et successorum. Hiis testibus Willielmo de Sancto Johanne, Engelranno filio Odonis, Johanne de Boneville, Sibilla uxore Henrici de Humfranville, Odone Bothan, Henrico Walensi, Luca de Budicam', Willielmo Cellarario de Margan, Willielmo de Bedint', Henrico monacho de Margan, Godefrido monacho, Jordano converso et Ricardo magistro de Lanmeuthin, et aliis pluribus. (Endorsed) Henr' de Umfranville. [1196-1205.]

VIII.-Carta Gereberti filii Roberti.
[Cart. Harl. 75, C. 48.]

Reverendo patri suo Henrico divinâ gratiâ Land. episcopo, et universis Sanctæ Ecclesiæ filiis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Gerebertus filius Roberti salutem. Noverit Universitas vestra me concessisse et presenti cartâ confirmasse consilio et consensu Domini mei Henrici de Humframvill, et fratrum meorum Adæ et Jord., et amicorum meorum, Deo et Beatæ Mariæ et monachis de Margan in perpetuam elemosinam liberam et quietam ab omni servitio et seculari exactione pro salute animæ meæ et antecessorum et successorum meorum, omnes donationes quas frater meus Hugo illis fecit in terris et croftis per omnia et in omnibus rebus sicut cartæ ipsius testantur: scilicet, xxx acras terræ meæ quæ proximiores sunt terræ eorum de Lamaseuthin cum croftâ quæ proximo adjacet vetere cimiterio ex occidentali parte, necnon et quatuor alias adhuc croftas, quarum una jacet subtus vetus cimeterium, et tres reliquas a magnâ viâ versus fontem descendunt de Lanmeuthin et tres acras terræ quarum duæ jacent ad occidentalem partem rivuli qui descendit per Curtem grangiæ a fonte et tendunt sursum a prato monachorum, versus aquilonem, et una jacet super montem ad occidentem viæ magnæ quæ venit a Lantcarvan ad grangiam de Lameuthin et unam acram terræ ad ausilium fabricandæ capellæ in honorem Sancti Meuthin, quæ videlicet acra jacet juxta xxx prædictas acras ad australem partem illarum. Ut ipsi eas habeant liberè et pacificè et integre in omnibus sine vexatione aliquâ et molestiâ in perpetuum. Et si aliquod servitium de prefatis donationibus fuerit aliquando requisitum sive Domini Regis sive aliud; ego et heredes mei illud adquietabimus, ita quod monachi in perpetuum quieti erunt, et nemini de aliquo respondebunt. Et quando præfatis monachis hanc confirmationem feci, ipsi necessitati meæ compatientes xx solidos argenti mihi dederunt, et fratribus meis unum bissantium. Hiis testibus, Henrico Land. episcopo, Urbano archidiacono, Rogero abbate de Margan, Henrico de Humframvill, Sibillâ uxore ejusdem, Willielmo de Beditun monacho de Margan, Godefrido monacho, Henrico Walensi, Galfrido capellano, et Adam fratre meo. [1196-1205.]

(Seal in red wax, of the size of a penny. Legend," Sigillum Gerberti fil. Rodberti." In the centre is a cinquefoil, well preserved, adopted evidently from the Umfranvilles. Henry, bishop of Llandaff, consecrated before 1196; died Nov. 1218.)

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IX.-Confirmatio Henrici Episcopi.
[Cart. Harl. 75, A. 19.]

Henricus Dei gratia Landavensis episcopus universis Sancte Ecclesie fidelibus in episcopatu Landavensis constitutis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit salutem gratiam et benedictionem. Noverit universitas vestra dilectos filios nostros Henricum de Hunframville et Gerebertum filium Roberti terras quasdam ecclesie de Margan in perpetuam contulisse elemosinam liberas ab omni seculari servitio exactione et consuetudine. Et quia fidelium elemosine locis religiosis collate ut debitam optineant libertatem episcopali sunt auctoritate confirmande, nos ad peticionem predictorum Henrici et Gereberti terras quas prenominate ecclesie de Margan in nostra presentia concesserunt scilicet ex donacione Henrici de Hunframville totam terram de Lanmeuthi et ex concessione Gereberti filii Roberti xxx acras proximiores terre de Lanmeuthi cum crofta que proxima adjacet veteri cimeterio ex occidentali parte necnon et alias adhuc quatuor croftas quarum una jacet subtus vetus cimiterium et tres relique a magna via versus fontem descendunt de Lanmeuthi et tres acre terre quarum due jacent ad occidentalem partem rivuli qui descendit per Curtem grangie a fonte et tendunt sursum a prato monachorum versus aquilonem et una jacet super montem ad occidentalem vie magne que venit a Lantcarvan ad grangiam de Lanmeuthi et unam acram ad ausilium fabricande capelle in honorem Sancti Meuthini que jacet juxta predictas xxx acras ad australem partem illarum. Has omnes predictas terras presentis scripti serie testium inscriptione et sigilli nostri apposicione confirmamus ecclesie de Margan. Habendas et tenendas ita libere et quiete sicut predicti Henricus et Gerebertus cartis suis confirmaverunt auctoritate qua fungimur inhibentes ne quis predictis monachis de Margan de predictis terris que ab omni seculari servitio exactione et consuetudine exempte sunt contra tenorem cartarum quas monachi habent vexacionem molestiam aut gravamen inferre presumat. Hiis testibus Waltero abbate de Neth., Urbano archidiacono, Urbano de Pendmelin et Willielmo de Langtwit decanis, Gereberto filio Roberto, Nicholao Gobion, Henrico monacho de Margan.

In dorso.-Confirmatio H. Episcopi de donationibus H. de Hunframville et Gereberti filii Roberti. [1196-1205.]

These three charters relate to donations by the Hunframville, Umfranville, Umfreville, or Umfraville family and their tenants of land in Llan veithen to Margam. Mention is made of Gilbert de Umfraville

and Nest his wife, Henry his son and Sibilla his wife; also we have Gerebert son of Robert, an Umfraville tenant, and his brothers Adam and Jordan, and Hugh, probably a deceased elder brother, and no doubt the Hugh de Llancarvan, whose donation of thirty acres is mentioned in King John's charter of 1205. Also as Henry, Bishop of Llandaff, who confirms the donations, was promoted from the priory of Abergavenny, and consecrated before 1196, this gives about 1196-1205 as the date of these charters.

The Humfranvilles were lords of Penmark, where the ruins of their castle, described in a former volume of this Journal, still remain.

GILBERT de Humfranville gave land at Aisse, now Nash, co. Somerset, worth 31s. per annum, to Tewkesbury Abbey for the soul of his wife, and in 1104 he was a witness to an apportionment of the abbey revenues. [N. Monast. II, 66, 81.]

He was, it is believed, succeeded by ROBERT, who, about 1131, witnessed a charter to Neath Abbey, by Richard de Granville, and who was probably the Robert who witnessed a charter by William E. of Gloucester, to that church. [N. Mon., V, 269. Floyd.]

His successor seems to have been GILBERT, who, in 1166, held nine knight's fees of William, Earl of Gloucester. [L. Niger, 161], and who must have died before 1189-90, as in that year Henry paid £4 for the relief of his land. [Pipe Roll 1, R. 1.] This is the Gilbert mentioned in the Harleian charter, 75, D. 15, which names also Nest, but whether as his wife, or as is more probable, the wife of Urban de Penducaet, is uncertain.

HENRY de Humfranville, his son and successor, was the grantor of the cited charter. Between 1183 and 1193 he witnessed a charter by Pagan de Turberville to Margam, and in 1186-7 he was rated at £45 for the relief of nine knights' fees held of the Earl of Gloucester, on which there were due £32, and in the treasury £13. [Pipe Roll 33 H. II.]

3 John, 1201, he fined ten marcs on five knights'

fees, for licence "non transfretare." [Obl. et fin. 134. Pipe Roll 2 John.

Besides the donation recorded in the charter 75, D. 15, he, as chief lord, advised and consented to a gift and confirmation to Margam by Gerebert, son of Robert [74, C. 48], originally granted by Hugh de Lancarvan, elder brother of Gerebert, [Col. Top. v, 19], and confirmed by Henry, Bishop of Llandaff, in another charter [75, A. 19]. It appears from two of these charters that Henry's wife was Sibilla. He probably died about 1203, for in the accounts of the Honour of Gloucester in 1203-4, William de Braose had a quittance from a fourth scutage of the five fees held by Henry de Humfranville; also in 1208-9, Gulfrid Whiting accounted for 100 marcs, and a palfry, for having custody of the land and heir of Henry de Humfranville. [Pipe Roll 5 and 10 John.]

This heir was another HENRY, who witnessed a grant by Leisan ap Morgan after 1213, and one by Raymond de Sully. He was in rebellion against John, but on the accession of Henry III, and his return to his allegiance, 1 H. III, 1217, a writ was issued to the sheriff of Devon to give him seizin of his land. [Close Roll I, 313; Fine Roll I, 258.]

Next in succession was probably another Gilbert, who in 1233 did homage to H. III for the land he had as one of the heirs of his cousin Matthew de Torrington [Fine Roll, I, 238], and in 1249 witnessed the cyrograph of the sons of Morgan ap Cadwalathan. In 1253 he sued Walter de Pembroke, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, for impleading him in the ecclesiastical court. [Prynn records III, 109, and plea rolls of Justices Itinerary, M. 14, Devon.]

A Gilbert, possibly the same, in 1257, was witness to the charter of William de Clare, granting Lequid [Leckwith] to the Sandfords, and from the "Extent" of the de Clare lands in the record office it appears that he held four knights' fees in Penmark of the value of £60. [I. P. M., 41-2, H. III, No. 20.] Mr. Floyd concludes