DEVEROIS 303 Aug. I297),(') da. of Sir Hugh Giffard, sometime Constable of the Tower of London. His father's lands had been forfeited, and granted, 20 Nov. 1265, to Roger de MortimerjC") but he recovered the manors mentioned above. In May 1286 he demised all his land in Cheddar, Somerset, to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, to hold for a term.('=) He was on the King's service in Wales in July i287.('*) On 14 Oct. 1290 he was sentenced to major excommunication by the Bishop of Hereford for detention of the tithes of his manor of Lyonshall, but was absolved 7 Nov. following.() He was summoned for Military Service from 12 Dec. (1276) 5 Edw. I to May (1297) 25 Edw. I, and to Pari. 6 Feb. (1299) 27 Edw. I, by writ directed Willelmo de Ebroicis, whereby he is held to have become LORD DEVEROIS. (') In 1300 he granted the manors of Holme Lacy and Stoke Lacy, and the castle and manor of Lyonshall, to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to hold for life.Q He m. Lucy, who survived him.(*) William, s. and h. of the Lord William de Ehroycis, confirmed the grants of his grandfather, the Lord Stephen de Ehroycis, to Wormsley. {Cartulary of IVormdey, Had. MSS., no. 3586, ff. 14V-23V). (*) " Mccxcvii. Decimo tercio kal. Septembris sepulta fuit in ecclesia cathedra!! Matildis de Evereus juxta locum ubi episcopus frater ejus disposuit sublimius sepeliri." {Annaki de Jf-'tgornla, p. 534). Grant for life at the instance of Walter, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to Maud, sister of the said bishop, and late the wife of William de Ebroicis, who was slain at Evesham, of the manors of Holme Lacy, Frome, Oxen- hall [co. Gloucester], and Wilby [co. Norfolk], late of the said William: 12 Oct. {Patent Roll, 49 Hen. Ill, m. 5). Her son William gave the reversion after her death of the manor of Wilby to his da. (or sister), Maud, and her husband Richard dc Boylonde, and the heirs of their bodies, by a fine levied in the octaves of St. Hilary 5 Edw. I. {Feet of Fines, case 159, file 106, no. 88). C") The transcript of the charter {Liher Niger de IFigmore, f. 37) has Rad'ui instead of Rog'us. In 1274/5 Roger de Mortimer quitclaimed, for himself and his heirs, to William de Everus all his right in the castle of Lyonshall, for 100 marks. (Pleas before the King on the morrow of the Purification 3 Edw. I — Coram Rege, 2-3 Edw. I, roll no. 11, m. 33). (<=) Close Roll, 14 Edw. I, m. 4 d. By a fine, levied in the octaves of St. Michael 13 Edw. I, he gave the said Bishop the reversion of some tenements in Lower Hay ton. {Feet of Fines, case 193, file 6, no. 13). C) Potent Roll, 15 Edw. I, m. "]: Hereford Reg., Swinfield, pp. 242-3. ("') As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage dignity, see Appendix A in the last volume. By a fine, levied in the octaves of St. John the Baptist 28 Edw. I, William Deverose gave to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield [who d. in 1321], the manors of Holme Lacy and Stoke Lacy, for life, with reversion to himself and his heirs. By another fine, levied in the quinzaine of St. Martin 29 Edw. I, William de Ebroicis and Lucy his wife gave the said Bishop the castle and manor 01 Lyonshall, for life, at a rent of ^^20 (or after their deaths, ;^io) a year. {Feet of Fines, case 81, file 24, nos. 185, 196). Lyonshall in some way got into the hands of William Tuchet, who in the Barons' Letter to the Pope (i2 Feb. 1300/1) is styled "dominus de Levenhales." (8) Charters of "Lucia que fui uxor Willelmi de Ebroyc' quondam domini dc Leonhal' in pura viduitate." {Cartulary of IVarmsley, f. 19).
