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 bruk, Midelton; scilicet garbarum et cum omnibus ad eas pertinentibus. * * * Item concessi dedi et presenti carta mea confirmavi prædictæ ecclesiæ sancti Johannis de Pontefracto et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus sexaginta acras terræ meæ in Calthorne in puram et perpetuam elemosinam ad mandatum pauperum faciendum in cæna Domini."

To make this grant fully sure to them, the monks obtained a confirmatory charter from this Adam's grandson Robert de Montbegon, in the time of Roger de Laci, constable of Chester; who is one of the witnesses to it. In this grant he renounces all clam to the Church of Silkstone. They further obtain another deed from this Robert's sister Clementia de Lungvillers, dated at York, "in pleno comitatu et primo post festum Sancti Michælis," the 22nd year of Henry III. (1238), in which she is made to renounce for herself and heirs, in very strong language, all right of patronage and all rights of every kind in the Church of Silkstone, and in the chapels belonging to it: "nec ego nec hæredes mei aliquod jus vel clamium habere possimus vel vendicare in dicta ticclesia vel ejus pertinentus. Et si ita contingat quod aliquis hieredurn meorum contra hanc meam confirmationem et quietam clamationem ausu temerano venire priesumpserit, jus monachorum vel presentationem eorum impediendo in aliquo tempore cum dicta ecclesia vacaverit, maledictionem Dei omnipotentis et indignationem genetricis suic beatic Manic et maledictionem meam et omnium mulierum se noverit incursurum."

The grant was confirmed by the chief lords, by Robert de Laci, and by the Hugh de Ia Val mentioned above of Robert's exile, and by a Bull of Pope Celestine.

It was in the time of Swein, or his son Adam, that many of the churches in this neighbourhood were founded, and among them those of Penistone, High Hoyland, Roystone, Felkirk.

With Adam, the son of Swein, the male line of this great Saxon family became extinct. He left two daughters, co-heiresses: the family of one of them, Matilda, married to Adam de Montbegon, Lord of Hornby, became settled at Brierley, in possession of what we may call, speaking generally, the eastward portion of her father's estate. Their son Roger de Montebegon died without issue 12