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Since the printing of the two charters previously given (vol. xxviii., pp. 159-60), four other documents have been discovered among Dr. Carne's muniments, three of which are closely connected with the two preceding, and refer those rather to Glouccstershire than to Herefordshire, though the names of some of the persons mentioned belong to both counties.

The first, by Robert Ruphus of Brochamton, gives to Radulf le Frances, of the same place, lands in Wittewell, and is without date. William Long is mentioned as a former holder, and the witnesses are Guy, Lord of Clopell', Ralf Musard, William Liber of Brochamton, John son of Andrew, Robert of Gloucester, and Geoffrey Stoke. The deed is in excellent preservation, clearly and finely written, in good black ink. In appearance it is of the reign of Edward I. There is nothing in this deed to indicate with certainty its County. There is in Gloucestershire, Brockhampton, a hamlet of Bishops Cleeve, and a Brockhampton near Sevenhampton. Near the latter is Whitall farm, which may be a corruption of Whitewell. No Cloppele or Cloppeley appears in Gloucester or Hereford. There is a parish so called in Bedfordshire, once a seat of the Albinis'. Ruphus is not found; but in Essex, temp. Hen. III., was Dominus W. de Rufpha. Ralph is a common name in the Musard family between Hen. III. and Edw. I., in the Counties of Berks, Derby, and Gloucester. The castle called "La Musardere" was in the latter County.

The second charter, dated at Cloppeley nu the Sunday next before the translation of St. Martin, 19 Edw. II., is by Nicholas le Frense, evidently the same with Nicholas le Franceis of the charter already printed, and is granted to William his brother. Here Cloppeley is described as near Sevenhampton, and therefore in Gloucestershire, which also fixes Brockhamton. Of names of persons, we have Robert the Hatter, Robert Brid or Bird, and Henry Reynor, and of places, Brochamton, Cloppeley where the charter is dated, Sevenlhamton, Woldene, and Helewelslade. The witnesses are Robert Solers, a Hereford name, John Olive, a nnnic preserved in the adjacent Shipton-Olive, Robert Oudebi (Owdeswell is a place near), Luke do Monte, Nicholas do Annesforde, John de Walleye, and John le Heir or Eyre.

Tho third charter is without date, but evidently of the same period, and probably a little later than that by Dionysia Herbert, which included