Coming to the next generation, the grandchildren of William and Ela Longespée, earl and countess of Salisbury, we have first the surviving secretum of William Longespée III, the eldest son of the Crusader and who died early in 1257, showing another, unique, modification of the Longespée repertoire, this time displaying an unsheathed sword pointing downwards with a single lioncel face on each side; the legend is: + SECRETVM. WILLELMI …… NGESPEIE (Fig. 10.14).⁵⁰ I have not been able to identify this William’s main seal with certainty, although Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities purports to describe a seal on an original deed that was undoubtedly issued by him, with the impression of a gauntlet and the inscription: + SIGILLVM WILL’I LUNGESPIE.⁵¹ The seal of William III’s wife is known from two drawings, of 1649 and the early nineteenth century, but no original appears to survive (Fig. 10.15). She was Matilda Clifford, daughter and heir of Walter Lord Clifford, and some years after her husband’s death in 1257 she married in 1271 (in somewhat unclear circumstances) Sir John Giffard, who was alleged initially to have abducted her from one of her manors.⁵² Her seal, used in her widowhood (1257–71), is an attractive piece, which celebrates heraldically her birth and first marriage. The obverse depicts her standing frontally under a trefoil canopy between two small trees on which hang shields of arms; that to her left, whose trunk she grasps, bears the arms of her Longespée marriage, undifferenced, while the other tree has a chequey shield, with a band, for her Clifford birth; the legend is: S. MATILDIS :: LVNGESPEE; the counterseal is her secretum with a triple-branching tree or bush, upon which is displayed a shield of the Longespée arms, undifferenced, the legend reading: * SECRETVM MATILDIS :: LVNGESPEIE. In other words, she has adopted the Longespée family name and given considerable prominence to its arms. William III’s sister (and this Matilda’s sister-in-law), Ela, married Sir James de Audley of Audley (Staffs), a prominent baron who played a major role in the baronial troubles of Henry III’s middle years and was elected as one of the pro-royal members of the council of 15 under the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Like Stephen Longespée before him, he eventually became justiciar of Ireland, and he died in 1272.⁵³ His widow, who used the name Ela de Audley, lived on until 1299. A single impression of her seal survives in the British Library, appended to a deed of 1274, but it is very worn and its details are better observed in the nineteenth-century drawing in Bowles and Nichols (Fig. 10.16). In design it is rather similar to the second seal of her aunt, Ela, countess of Warwick, discussed earlier; it shows Ela holding out an undifferenced shield of the Longespée arms in her right hand and, in her left, the fretty shield of Audley, with the legend: * SIGILLVM. ELE DE AUDELEG; sadly no counterseal is recorded in this case.⁵⁴