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 APADAM COMPLETE PEERAGE 179 Family Estates. — These, in 1883, besides about 100 acres in co. Lon- donderry, consisted of about 34,300 acres in co. Antrim. Total about 34,400 acres, valued at about /^2 1,000 a year. Principal Residence. — Glenarm Castle, CO. Antrim. AP ADAMO BARONY I. Sir John ap Adam, of Gorste, near Chepstow, BY WRIT and Beachley in Tidenham, co. Gloucester, s. and h. y of Reynold ap Adam, by Joan de Knoville, his wife. C') ~yy He was b. before 1267. He ;«., before 1291, Elizabeth, da. and h. of John de Gurnay, of Beverstone Castle, co. ^ ' Gloucester, tffc, by Olive, da. of Henry Lovel, of Castle Cary, Somerset. He did homage, and had livery, 18 Feb. 1 290/1, of the {") For this article, and the notes thereto, the editor is indebted to G. W. Watson. V.G. ('') Inspeximus, 25 June 1285, of a charter dated 1267, whereby the Abbot and convent of Grace Dieu gave to Joan de Knoville, sometime the wife of Reynold Abadam, the manor of Penyard Regis, co. Hereford, to be held of them by Joan and her heirs and assigns. This Joan had a grant, 27 Feb. 1280/1, of free warren in all her demesne lands of Penyard. [Charter Rolls, 13 Edw. I, m. 19, and g Edw. I, m. id). Penyard Regis was alienated by her grandson, Thomas ap Adam, 2 June 1329. By two fines, Easter and Trinity, 25 Edw. I, between John de Badeham, or Abadam, and Elizabeth his wife, and John de Knoville, the manors of Beverstone, Purton, and Redwick, co. Gloucester, East Harptree and Barrow Gurney, Somerset, Sharncote, Wilts, and East Hampnett, Sussex, were settled on John and Elizabeth, and the heirs of their bodies, rem. to Elizabeth's right heirs. [Feet of Fines, case 285, file 24, nos. 233, 236) Dr. Ormerod, in his memoir of this Baron [Strigulensia, i86i, pp. 96-108) avers " that he never met with any document giving proof of his parentage in any way, and he therefore commences with him, without any disparagement of Herbert descent. " This descent appears first in the (alleged) commission, 12 Aug. 1460, issued by Edward IV to investigate the ancestry of William Herbert, Earl of Pem- broke. Meyrick (Dwnn's (Visitations, vol. i, pp. 196-7) shows, from the occurrence in it of the title " hys magesr)-e, " that it must be " a forgery and not earlier than the reign of Henry VIII. " It states that Herbert fitz Herbert m. the da. of Milo fitz Walter, and was father of Peter, who inherited Betsley [Beachley] from his mother, father of Reignold, lord of Llanllowel, father of Adam, father of Sir Thomas Adam and of Jenkin Adam of Wernddu [the reputed ancestor of the Herberts]. This account, elaborated by various Welsh genealogists, now appears in the following form. — (i) Reginald fitz Peter, d. 1286, father of (2) Peter fitz Reginald, who, by Alice, da. of Bleddyn Broadspere, Lord of Llanllowel and Beachley, was father of (3) Herbert fitz Peter, father of (4) Adam ap Herbert, father of (5) Sir Thomas ap Adam (and of Jenkin ap Adam, as above), who, by Margaret, da. of Llewelyn ap Howel, was father of (6) Sir John ap Thomas ap Adam, sum. to Pari. 19 Edw. I, who, by Joyce, da. of Andrew Winston, had a da. and h. (7) Margery, wife of John Tomlyn alias Huntley, of Tre Owen. (Bradney's Monmouthshire, 1904, vol. i, p. 199). Burke, Extinct Peerage, under Herbert, gives nearly the same account, with great impartiality, as it is utterly at variance with his statements under Ap Adam. In this tissue of