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DE LA WARR 153 He was sum. to Pari, from 15 July (1427) 5 Hen. VI to 3 Aug. (1429) 7 Heii. VI, by writs directed Reginaldo la J'Varre chivaler^-xnA from 25 Feb. (1431/2) 10 Hen. VI to 23 Sep. (1449) 28 Hen. VI, by writs directed Reginaldo IVat chivaler.{f) In Oct. [doubtless 1427, 6 Hen. VI] he petitioned the King and Council that he might sit in Pari, with the precedence held by his ancestors, Lords la Warre, who had continually attended Pari, since 27 Edw. I.C") In 1430 and 143 1 he was in France with the King.('=) He had licence to go to Rome and thence to the Holy Land, 10 and 13 Dec. 1446, receiving letters from Henry VI, dated 3 May following, requesting the Archbishop of Cologne and others to give him safe-conducts. (') Was about to go abroad on the King's affairs, 14 Oct. 1448. (') He w., istly, before 17 Feb. 1428/9, C) Margaret, da. and h. of Robert Thorley, of Tybeste, Cornwall, by his 1st wife, Anne, or Amy, LisLE.(') She </. shortly before 24 Nov. 143^. (*) He ;«., 2ndly, before 19 Nov. 1443, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Robert (*) In the Chancery rolls he is styled Reynold West kt., Reynold la (or de la) Warre kt., or Reynold West, Lord la (or de la) Warre, kt. C") "A Roy nostre souereign' seignur et a son' tressage counseill' eii cest present parleamcnt Supplie vostre treshumble liege Reynold' la Warre Chiualcr q' come Roger iadys Sire la Warre Auncestre le dit Reynold' qi heire il est Cest assauoir pere Johan pere (Johan pere Roger pere) Johanne Mere le dit suppliant Ian de regn' Ic Roy Edward' primer puis le conquest vostre noble progenitour xxvij par brief de somonde d . . parleament . . . venoit a son' parleament a lors tenuz a Westm' le dit an xxvij et issint continueiement le dit Roger et sez heires Auncestres le dit suppliant en plusours ans . . . en temps de mesme nadgaires Roy come en temps de voz nobles progcnitours Edward' le second' Edward' le tierce Richard' le second' Henry le quart Henry le (quint . . . en) lour propre persones ou par lour procuratours ont venuz as parleamentz des ditz nad- gaires Roys continueiement tanq' en cest present parleament a le quel ostre dit sup- pliant est venuz (en son' propre) persone par vostre brief et commandement Que please a vostre tresgraciouse seignurie de considerer les premisses et sur ceo de graunter et ordeyner par aduys de vostre tressage counseill' . . . assembles q' vostre dit suppliant poet auer son' lieu en y cest present parleament en vostre presence come sez ditz Auncestres seignurs la Warre ont ev en lez parleamentz . . . ct ceo pour dieu ct en ouere de charite." Docketed, "per ducem Glouc' xxxj die Oct'." [Ancient Petitiom, file 121, no. 6013 — the ends of the lines arc gone). This claim to precedence — which was mentioned in the Grey of Ruthin case — is important, owing to its early date and for other reasons. (') Feudal Aids, vol. iv, pp. 420, 428: French Rolls, 8 Hen. VI, ww. 19, lO; 25 Hen. VI, mm. 8, 17, 7; 27 Hen. VI, m. 12; cf. 19 Hen. VI, m. 6. C*) Papal Letters, vol. viii, pp. 126, 1 28, 1 29. (') Lambeth MSS., no. 257, f. 21 v. This Anne or Amy Lisle is also mentioned as wife of Robert Thorley in the Register of the Inscriptions in the Church of the Grey Friars, London, Cotton MSS., Vitell., F. 12, f. 285 v. She is called Amy in the Patent Roll, I 7 Ric. II, p. 2, m. I 8. The arms of Thorley, Vert, I o escallops Argent, were among the quarterings of the Wests, Lords la Warre. (') " Margareta que fuit uxor Reginaldi West chivaler." Writ of diem cl. ext., to the cscheator in co. Suffolk, 24 Nov. [Fine Roll, 12 Hen. VI, m. 31). 20