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Excerpt from Descendants of John Gamage, of Ipswich, Mass Of Morgan's daughter, Sar, the following story is related in old manuscripts: Payne Turberville, one of fitz-hammon's knights, who came for the spoliation of Wales in 1089, finding that no grant of land had been made to him, demanded his share. Fitz-hammon replied, There are men and arms, go, get it where you can. Tur berville set his eyes on Fair Coity and commanded Morgan to give it up. Morgan took his daughter by one hand and, with drawn sword in the other, replied, If you marry my daughter and come to my castle like an honest man you may have it, if not, let my arm and sword and those of yours decide who shall call the castle his own. Turberville surrendered his sword, took the daughter's hand, married her, and so came into possession of the lordship Of Coity. Their descendants, of Coity, were as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.