FEUDAL BARONAGE Basset, the justiciar/ and died about 1180. She re-married after his death Guy son of Maurice de Creon.' In 1 190 tallage was levied from the men of Tunstall, co. Norfolk, which had been Albert Grelley's.' Robert Grelley, son of Albert III. was aged 1 1 in 1 1 84—5, and in 1 1 9 1 was in ward of his uncles, Gilbert, Alan, and Thomas Basset,* and attained his majority in 1 194, when his quota of ;^i2 to the scutage levied for the king's redemption was pardoned because his twelve knights had accompanied the king to Normandy.' His equestrian seal, attached to a fine charter granting lands in Norfolk and this county to Robert de Byron, may be seen amongst the Duchy of Lancaster charters preserved in the Public Record Office.* During his life- time he enfeoffed Robert de Byron of the hamlets of Clayton (i carucate), Droylsden (4oxgangs),and half Failsworth (2 0xgangs),these being parcel of his Manchester demesne. He enfeoffed Ralph de Ancotes of 2 oxgangs of land, representing the hamlet of Ancoats,^ and Aca, the clerk, of a field, parcel of the demesne of Manchester.' He married Margaret, daughter and heir of Henry de Longchamp, lord of Werlingham and Weston, co. Suffolk, brother of the chancellor.^" From 1195 to 1203 he and his knights were almost every year engaged in military service." In 1203 Ranulf, earl of Chester, Roger de Montbegon, Robert Grelley, and William le Boteler of Warrington were requested by the king as a favour to give him the aid of their men in the work then being done upon the ditches of Lancaster Castle.^^ In 1215 he had a warrant for six harts to be taken in the royal forest of Clive, probably for restocking his park at Blackley or Horwich Chase." He was one of the northern barons who were prominent in extorting the Charter of Liberties from John," for which cause, towards the end of 12 15 he underwent the sentence of excommunication by the pope," and his estates were seized, the king giving Periton to Ralph Gernon," and placing Adam de Yealand in charge of the castle of Manchester and the lands dependent upon it." On 20 June, 12 15, five days after the date of Magna Carta, he was at Runy- mede, between Windsor and Staines, in the king's company." In 12 17 Henry III. restored to Robert his estates in cos. Oxford, Lincoln, and Rutland,^' those in this county having been previously restored. In 1 2 1 8 he was with the king's forces at the siege of Newark,^" and in 1221 at the siege of Bytham Castle,^^ and the same year was appointed with three others to pursue and arrest the rebel Richard Siward, with his adherents,*"* for opposing the king in the last-mentioned siege.*** In 1224 he was with the king's forces at the siege of Bedford, and the year following witnessed the reissue of the Great 1 Grimaldi, Rot. de dominabus, 3-4, where an account of the issues of Albert Grelley's Lincolnshire estate for about 4-5 years will be found, and at p. 25, of his Norfolk estates. 2 Pipe R. 28 Hen. II. co. Line. ' Pipe R. i Ric I. (Rec. Com.), 46.
- Grimaldi, Roi. de dominabus, 33 ; Pipe R. 2 Ric. I. co. Line.
^ Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. "]%. ^ See also Lanes, and Ches. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xvii. 41. 7 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 404^. ^ Ibid. 9 ibid. 405. io Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 295 ; Cal. Close R. 1216-2 s, 6^. 11 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. pass. ^^ Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 87. 13 Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 215. 1* Matth. Paris, Chron. majora (Rolls Ser.), ii. 585 ; Flores Hist, (ibid.), iii. 297 ; Rymer, Foedera, ed. 1816, i. 144. 15 Flores Hist. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 356. 1^ Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 241. 17 Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 165. ^^ Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 2io3. 19 Close R. (Rec. Com.), 337. ^^ Ibid. 447*^. 21 Ibid. 475. 32 Pat. R. 1216-25, 282-3. ^^ ^^'^^- 3°°- I 329 42
