DACRE 5 being murdered in his bed, at Halton, co. Lancaster, and was bur. at Halton. (') IV". 1375. 4. Hugh (de Dacre), Lord Dacre,() next br. and h. He was fined £100 for damages inflicted on the Earl of Douglas in time of truce, 20 Oct. 1371.C) Aged 40 and more at his brother's death, which death he was suspected of having caused. He was released from the Tower, where he had been detained on that suspicion, 2 July I376,('=) and had livery of his inheritance 10 July following, his homage and fealty being respited, by special grace. (■=) He was sum. to Pari, from I Dec. (1376) 50 Edw. Ill to 20 Aug. (1383)7 Ric. II, by writs directed Hugoni de Dacre {chivaler). Appointed a Warden of the Western Marches, 4 June, 4 Nov. 1379, 14 Mar. 1381/2, and 16 June 1382. ('^) He ;«., be- tween 8 Oct. 1354 and i July 1 355,0 Elizabeth, widow of Sir WilHam de Douglas, of Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale, sometime Earl of Atholl (who was slain beside Galsewood in Ettrick Forest, in Aug. 1353,(0 and Ranulphi et etatis quadraginta annorum et amplius." Inq., Cumberland, defaced. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 244, no. 39). C") The Bishop of Carlisle, instructed on 5 Oct. by the Archbishop of York, pro- nounced a sentence of excomniunicacio major on the assassins, 9 Nov. 1375. " Auribus siquidem nostris nuper imposuit quod dolenter referimus vox clamosa quod quidam Sathane satellites dei timore postposito almeque matris ecclesie reverencia retrojecta quorum nomina ignorantur pariter et persone ipsius sequentes vestigia qui lucem tugit et tenebras semper afFectat spiritu furibundo apud Halton' Ebor' diocesis accedentes et in quemdam dominum Ranulphum de Dacre presbiterum et in ordine sacerdotali notorie constitutum virum catholicum justum et pudicum in lecto suo jacentem manus impias et violentas ausu temerario imposuerunt ac plagis crudeliter eidem presbitero impositis tandem ipsum totaliter cruentatum ut ovem coram tondente obmutescentem nullat/nus eisdem resistentem inhumaniter occiderunt in dei ignomi- niam libertatis ecclesiastice violacionem manifestam aliorumque christi fidelium exemplum perniciosum." {Carlisle Reg., Appilby, f. 88 v). () In 49 Edw. Ill he differenced his arms by a bordure chequy. (Seal, Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. v, p. 318, and Stowe MSS., no. 763, f. 32 v). (^) Close Rolls, 45 Edw. Ill, m. 10 d; 50 Edw. Ill, p. 2, m. 21 d. Fine Roll, 50 Edw. Ill, m. 18. (d) Scottish Rolls, 2 Ric. II, w. i ; 3 Ric. II, m. 3; 5 Ric. II, mm. 3, 2. if) On 8 Oct. 1354 "Elizabethe qe fu la femme mons' William de Douglas" did homage to Edward III and was granted " le Chastel del Hermytage et le val de Lideir " for life, with rem., provided she married " un homme Engleis," to her heirs by him. "Ac jam [i July 1355] prefata Elizabetha se de assensu nostro dilecto valletto nostro Hugoni de Dacre Anglico fratri dilecti et fidelis nostri Willelmi de Dacre maritaverit"; wherefore the King took Hugh's homage and fealty, and they had livery of the premises to them and the heirs of their bodies. [Scottish Rolls, 28 Edw. Ill, OT. 5 d; 29 Edw. Ill, m. 8). William de Dacre had to appear before the King and his Council on the quinzaine of Michaelmas 1357 to account for the loss of Hermitage Castle. {Close Roll, 30 Edw. Ill, m. 1 2 d). (*) By his kinsman, William, Earl of Douglas: the cause being jealousy, according to the ballad quoted by Hume of Godscroft: —
