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Gift in frank almoin by Ysabella, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, in her free widowhood, to the monks of Margam, for the sake of her soul, and the souls of her ancestors, successors, and of her lord the late Earl Geoffrey de Mandeville of lands in the fee of Kenefeg, viz.:. (1) All the land of the Peitevin. (2) All the land of Hugh de Hereford. (3) All the land of the Welshmen, for which they paid 32s yearly to the bailiffs of Kenefeg. (4) All the land of Heuedhaloc between the two waters of Keneieg and Baithan. Also she remits to them:. (5) All foreign service for her part of the fee of Langewy, excepting 1/2 mark of silver yearly. (6) All foreign service of knight or huntsman, or other person in regard to all tmt's which the monks hold of her freemen, knights and others. Also she grants to them:. (7) Common of pasture in all her marsh on the western side of the town of Kaerdif, the monks paying therefor, for each animal depastured thereon, as much as the Burgesses of Kaerdifwere wont to pay to the Bailiffs of Kaerdif in the time of her father, William, Earl of Gloucester. Witnesses:- Saiher de Quency, Earl of Winchester; Henry de Furnellis; William de Tichesie; Martin the usher or doorkeeper ('hostiarius'); John de Swinesheued; William, the Canon of Kainesham [Keynsham Abbey]; Nicholas the Prior of Margam: Brother Thomas the conversus; Thomas Pirun. Latin. Pointed oval seal, green wax; 3 x 2 in., appended by a bobbin finely woven, of different colours. On the obverse, a figure of the Countess draped in a long dress with bag-shaped maunches hanging from the wrist, and holding in the right hand a flower, in the left a falcon. [+ Sig]illvm . Isabel. COMITIS[SE.]. [G]loecestrie . ET. Moretvn. On the reverse is a small oval counterseal, with impression of an antique oval intaglio gem, engraved with an imperial bust, two-winged figures of Victory crowning it, and below, an eagle between two standards. + Ego . SV . Aqvila . Cvstos . DNE . Mee. See Cartae, No. CXXI; History of Margam Abbey, pp. 212, 213.