I50 DE LA WARR Will dat. 8 Jan. 1397 [1397/8], pr. at Swineshead, i Aug. 1398.0 V. 1398. 5. Thomas (la Warre), Lord LA Warre, next br. and h., of the whole blood. On 30 Aug. 1363, he had a papal disp. that he might be ordained priest and hold a benefice on attain- ing his 20th yeariC") the next day, by another disp., he obtained licence to hold a canonry of Lincoln, with the expectation of a prebend. C") On 13 Oct. 1372, having the first tonsure, he was instituted to the rectory of Ashton-under-Lyne: this he resigned, 11 Oct. 1373. (") Prebendary of New Lafford in the Cath. Church of Lincoln and Vicar of Sleaford, in or before 1376.0 On 24 Dec. 1378 he was instituted to the rectory of Swineshead: this he resigned in 1382.0 He was admitted to the prebend of Grindall in York Minster, 31 Jan. 1380/1.Q On 13 Mar. 138 1/2 he was instituted to the rectory of Manchester.O On 7 Dec. 1390, being then Rector of Manchester, and holding the free chapel of Barthorpe in the diocese of Lincoln, and the canonries and prebends of New LaiFord and Grindall, he had a papal disp. to hold another benefice. O O" 4 Dec. 1394 he was instituted to the rectory of Swineshead: this he resigned in 1400.0 He resigned the prebend of Grindall in 1397, in exchange for that of Oxton and Cropwell in the Coll. Church of Southwell, to which he was collated 8 Aug. 1397.C) On 2 Sep. 1398, his homage was respited, and he had livery of his brother's lands, his fealty being ordered to be taken by the escheator in co. Lincoln :(') he was then aged 40 and more. la Warre et etatis xl annorum et amplius." Inq., Sussex, Surrey, Somerset, Bristol town, COS. Gloucester, Wilts, Hants, Hunts, Lincoln, Northants, 12, 14, 14, 14, 16, 20, 27 Aug., Tuesday (2) and Thursday after St. Bartholomew [27, 29 Aug.] 1398. "Et dicunt quod predictus Johannes le Warre obiit vicesimo septimo die Julii ultimo preterito Et dicunt quod Thomas le Warre [clericus — cos. Sussex, Surrey, Hunts] est frater predict! Johannis le Warre et heres ejus propinquior et est etatis quadraginta annorum et amplius." No heir is mentioned in the Inq. co. Hants. The name is written either /e Warre or la Warre in the inquisitions. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Ric. II, file 108, no. 53: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 71, no. 2, and Enrolments, no. 331). (*) Lincoln Reg., vol. xiii, fF. 2V-3. "Johannes la Warre miles . . . corpusque meum ad sepeliendum in Abbacia de Swynnesheuede." C*) The first disp. was on the petition of Joan, Princess of Aquitaine and Wales, whose clerk he was. {Papal Petitions, vol. i, p. 456: Papal Letters, vol. iv, p. 31). (*) Coventry and Lichfield Reg., vol. iv, Stretton i, ff. 86 r and v, 29. (■*) Le Neve, Fasti, vol. ii, p. 161: cf. Patent Roll, 15 Ric. II, p. i, m. 29. (') Lincoln Reg., vol. x, f. 92V. His successor was instituted, 9 Apr. 1382. {Idem, f. 118). (') Le Neve, vol. iii, p. 191. (8) Papal Letters, vol. iv, p. 356. C") Lincoln Reg., vol. xi, f. 74. His successor was instituted, 20 Apr. 1400. {Idem, vol. xiii, f. gv). (') Torre's MSS., in York Minster, f. 1042: Le Neve, vol. iii, p. 450. (i) Fine Roll, 22 Ric. II, m. 1 8.
