2 DACRE Service from 20 Mar. (1318/9) 12 Edw. II to 6 Oct. (1337) 11 Edw. Ill, to Councils from 20 Nov. (1323) 17 Edw. II to 18 Oct. (1338) 12 Edw. Ill, and to Pari, from 15 May (132 1) 14 Edw. II to 26 Dec. (1338) 12 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Ranulpho de Dacre, whereby he is held to have become LORD DACRE. He was on the King's service in the Marches of Scotland in 1322, in Gascony in 1325, and in Scotland, May to Sep. 1336. (*) A banneret, 14 Mar. 1336/7. (^) Sheriff of Cumberland 1330-35/6. Appointed Constable of Carlisle Castle 10 Dec. I330,() a Warden of the March of Cumberland 2 Aug. I333,() and of the Marches of Cumberland and Westmorland 28 Aug., 26 Sep. 1334, and 26 Jan. I335/6-C) He had a grant of castles, i^c, in Annandale from "the magnificent prince," Edward, King of Scots, and had livery thereof, 18 Nov. i334.('=) Had licence to crenellate his house at Naworth, Cumberland, 27 July 1335. (^) He m., in or before I3i5,('^) Margaret, da. and h.() of Thomas de Multon of Gilsland, Cumberland [Lord Multon], by ( — ),(') da. of Piers de Mauley, le tierce, of Mulgrave, co. York [Lord Mauley]. He did fealty and they had livery of her father's lands, 30 Oct. I3I7.(^) He d. shortly before 20 Apr. 1339,0 ^"<^ '^'^^ ^^^- i" Lanercost Priory. His widow, who was b. at Mulgrave Castle 20, and (*) Patent Rolls, 1 5 Edw. II, /. 2, ;n. 9 ; 1 6 Edw. II, /.. I , »/. 24 ; 1 8 Edw. II, p. 2, m. 14; 9 Edw. Ill, p. 2, m. 20. Close Roll, 1 1 Edw. Ill, p. i, m. 34. (b) Fine Roll, 4 Edw. Ill, m.l2. ("=) Scottish Rolls, 7 Edw. Ill, ;«. 14; 8 Edw. Ill, w/^i. 17, 14, 7; 10 Edw. Ill, 7n. 36. ("5) In this year, being already married to Margaret, he had sued out her writ de etate probanda: day given in 3 weeks from Easter 9 Edw. II. But after Michaelmas and before 4 Feb. 131 5/6, he abducted her by night from Warwick Castle during the absence of the escheator, in contemptum domini Regis, she being yet in the King's custody. (Coram Rege, Easter, 9 Edw. II, m. 62 d). Pardon therefor, 28 Oct. 1317. {Patent Roll, 11 Edw. II, p. 1, m. 20). "Thomas de Multuna dominus Gilles- landie . . . unicam filiam heredem nomine Margaretam post se reiiquit quam Robertus de Clifford filius Roberti de eadem septimo sue etatis anno apud Hoffe [co. IFestmorland] ipso lecto decubante desponsavit. Et vivente dicto Roberto Ranulphus de Daker filius domini Willelmi de Daker eandem Margaretam nupsit quia jus habuit ad illam propter paccionem factam ante priores nupcias inter Thomam de Multuna patrem dicte Margarete et Willelmum de Daker." [Chron. de Lanercost, p. 223). (•) She was also heir to any Barony of Multon (of Gilsland) which may be held to have existed. (*) Genealogists call her Margaret, owing to a mistaken identification by Dugdale. See Multon. (s) Close Roll, II Edw. II, m. 19. (■>) "Ranulphus de Dakre." Writ of diem cl. ext. 20 Apr. 13 Edw. III. Inq., Cumberland, Westmorland, Saturday and Monday before the Nativity of St. John the Baptist [19, 21 June] 1339. "Willelmus de Dacre filius predict! Ranulphi est heres ejus propinquior et etatis viginti annorum et amplius." (Ch. Ing. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 60, no. 4: Exch. Inq. p. m.. Enrolments, no. 26).
