| He confirmed to Joceline, Bishop of Glasgow, between 1180 and 1189, the grant he had made to Bishop Ingelram of the church of Carnwath with half a carucate of land, a toft and croft, common pasturage and other privileges of the township. In the reign of William the Lion one Grim, son of Guy, a waggoner of Roxburgh, granted to the Abbey of Melrose a toft in Berwick for the salvation of his Lord, William de Somerville, and for the souls of himself and his ancestors, saving the service due to his said Lord. He may have been the William de Somerville who died in 1242, and was buried at Melrose.4 |
| This William Somerville was succeeded by one or more persons of the same name ; for a William de Somerville witnessed the resignation of the lands of Boncle in Berwickshire by Adam Spoth, in favour of Randolph of Boncle, 2 August 1247, a conveyance by Roger Lardenarius in favour of William, son of Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, and Christian Corbet his spouse; two charters of the lands of Brunecnolleflat granted respectively by William Landels and his son John in favour of the monks of Melrose, and discharge by Richard de Rule of 20s. a year payable from the same lands. In June 1270 a William de Sumyrvil witnesses a charter by Henry de Halyburton of the lands of Molle to the monks of Kelso, and on 20 April 1281 a person of the same name is said to have witnessed a bond of manrent between Sir Walter de Newbigging and Sir David Barclay of Towie, another of the witnesses being one John Somerville.' It was probably the same William Somerville who, according to the family historian, married Margaret, daughter of Walter of Newbigging.5 |