The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. II.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Muse : Roger Muse occurs in the Norman Exchequer Rolls 1198-1203; and Godfridus de la Mosca held a fief from Philip Augustus of the honour of Malherbe (Mem. Soc. Ant. Nor. v. 176). In England, Isabel Mus is found in the Hundred Rolls, about 1272; John le Mous, or Mows, of Wiltshire, in Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs 1307-25, and Roger Mus, and John de Muse, Essex, circa 1272.—Rotuli Hundredorum. In 1309, Thomas Mus de Arkilgarth, chaplain, was, with several others, prosecuted by Eve de Faggardgill of Arkilgarth in Richmondshire, for the murder of her husband.—Harrison's Yorkshire. William Peverel of Dover's charter to Shrewsbury Abbey is witnessed by William de Musca.—Mon. Angli. Another William de Musca (or the same?) held half a knight's fee of William de Ros in Northamptonshire.—Testa de Nevill. One of the persecuted Templars in 1309 was Brother Philip de Mewes, who, "being advised and earnestly exhorted to abandon his religious profession, replied that he would rather die than do so."—Addison's Knight Templars.