A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Charter.^ He was appointed also, with Richard de Copeland, a justice of the forest in this county, for the perambulation and disafforesting of those places so to be dealt with according to the carta de foresta^ and was himself served with a writ to disafforest wood and moor in Heaton under Horwich, which Henry de Boulton claimed as his tenement, and in Anderton, which Thomas de Burnhull so claimed.* In 1222 he proffered 5 marks and a palfrey to have a fair yearly at his manor of Manchester on the eve and the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle,* and in 1227, when the king attained his majority, obtained a charter of this privilege.^ He died towards the end of the year 1230,° after returning to England from the expedition to Poitou, where his health had been undermined by exposure and improper food.^ The abbot of Vaudey, the executor of his will, had livery of his chattels in January, 1231.* The inquest of service of 12 12 contains full particulars of his fee in this county, from which it may be of interest to tabulate the names of the tenants by knight's service, their tenements and quota of service, comparing the same with similar particulars for the years 1242—3. IN CO. LANCASTER » 1212 ^T,,. , . 1 • i.^ J ('Matthew, son of William de^ Withington cum mem- i knightand tt , ' 1242-3 —1 10 bris Barton upon Irwell cum ) 1 i, • u* membris . f 2 6 Worthington Coppul Childwall . AspuU Turton Brockholes . Harwood Dalton Parbold . . Wrightington Pilkington Rumworth . Lostock . Clayton . Droylsden
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. J Hathersage Matthew de Hathersage •^ ° (Roger, son of the said Williamj fGilbert de Notton, iure uxoris) ^.,, . „ lEdith, lady of Barton . . . .) Albert de Barton Thomas de Worthington . . . PJUlf"" '^^ Worthing- Richard, son of Robert de Lathum Robert de Lathum (Roger de Samlesbury . (Alexander de Harwood ([William de Samles- buryjii [John de Harwood] fi knight (I judge I J knight > ^ knight Cotgrave i knight [Roger, son of William de Kirkby] Robert de Lathum ' [ Alexander de Pilkington . . , Roger de Pilkington . [Richard de Pierpont] .... Richard de Pierpont . [Richard,son of Robert de Byron] {(Cf^^g;^^ '° ^'^g^ CO. NOTTS . Robert Grelley ^^ Abbot of Swineshead ^'
- Pat. R. 1216-25, 570 ; c£ S75-
1 Jnn. de Burton (Rolls Ser.), i. 232. 3 Ibid. 576. 4 Fine R. 6 Hen. III. m. 3. 6 Chart. R. 1 1 Hen. III. m. 4 ; Cal Chart. R. 56. « Fine R. i 5 Hen. III. m. 8. 7 Matth. Paris, HLst. Angl. (Rolls Sen), ii. 328. The chronicler describes him as ' vir nobilis et potens.' 8 Cal. Close R. 1227-31, 474. 9 Exch. K.R. Kts. fees. Bdle. I, No. 9, m. 5 ; lesta de Nevtll (Rec. Com.), 4.043. 10 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 397-^. " Lanes. Fines, Rec. Soc. xxxii. 90. 13 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), zib. ^^ Ibid. 3^, yb, I ib.
