FEUDAL BARONAGE proffered lo marks for a recognition of his land of Cossington, co. Leicester/ an estate which his heirs held of the earls of Chester. Robert de Ingleby, the son, dying without issue between 1 175 and 1 189, was succeeded by his sister Edelina, wife of Walter de Somervill, by whose marriage the greater part of her brother's inheritance passed to that family,' The only document which in anywise connects Richard the butler, of Warrington, with the above family is a deed addressed to Walter, bishop of Lichfield (1149-1159), by which Richard Pincerna grants to God, St. Mary, and St. Giles of Calk, 8 virgates of his demesne land in Durandesthorp (Donasthorpe, co. Derby), to which Beatrice, his wife, Ranulf the clerk, and Hugh, his brothers, and several Derbyshire men were witnesses.' Donas- thorpe was a member of the earl of Chester's fee in Derbyshire,* and, like Ingleby, had probably been added to the earl's fief in that county after the for- feitures of 1 102.° The attestation of the grantor's wife, Beatrice, and the fact that Calk Priory was found in possession of burgage property in Warrington at a later date, seem to confirm the opinion that the grantor was Richard, the first of the family of Butler who were barons of Warrington. As Richard the butler, he attested many charters of Ranulf, earl of Chester, in the last decade of Stephen's reign." In 1165 he had acquittance of the sheriff's demand for 8 marks of a scutage in connexion with the Welsh campaign of that year, having performed military service with the king in person.^ The only recorded feoffment which he made in his Warrington fee was to Waldeve de Walton, master serjeant of the wapentake of West Derby, of lands in Eggergarth, in Lydiate.^ His death occurred in or before 1 176.' William, his son, was in ward of Ralph fitz Bernard, sheriff of Lancaster, during his minority," and probably attained his majority between 1 185 and 1 190. He was in arms against the king with his chief lord, John of Mortain, in 1 193—4, but made his peace with Richard in 1 1 94 by payment of a small fine of 30 marks." He confirmed to the priory of Thurgarton the church of War- rington, the church of Titheby with the chapel of Cropwell, and the carucate of land in Cropwell which Matthew de Vilers, his grandfather, gave to that house.'^* His first wife, whose name was Dionisia, was probably the mother of his issue. She died before 12 15, in which year William the butler obtained a letter from the king in support of his suit for the hand of Aline, the relict of William de Furness, who died in 1 204.^^ He married this lady shortly after. About the year 1205 he attested a charter of Ranulf, earl of Chester, as the latter's butler.^* 1 In 1237 Roger de Somervill held half a fee in Cosinton, viz. one half of the earl of Ferrers, the other of the seneschal of Mohaut (Montalt). Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 92- 2 See Afra. Angl. ii. 362; Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. I. No. 113; Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. ed. Helsby, ii. 864-6; Testa de Nevill, cos. Derby, Staff and Leicester, pass. 3 From the original formerly in the possession of the Rev. W. Massie of Chester. Beamont, Annals of Warrington, 34.
- Durandestorp was part of Nigel de Stafford's fief in Domesday (Dom. Bk. i. 278). Engelebi was
divided between Nigel de Stafford, Ralph fitz Hubert, the king, and the king's thegns (ibid, passim). ^ Beamont, Annals of Warrington, 35. j t • , « Ibid. 33 ; Y&XKT, Lanes. Pipe R. passim. The earliest appears to be a charter dated at Lincoln on the eve of the feast of SS. Simon and Jude (27 October), probably in the year 1 145. Dep. Keeper's i^th Rep. App. i. 7, No. 65. 7 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 6. 8 Inf. of 1 212, Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. xlviii. 10. » Pipe R. 23 Hen. II. Notts. 10 Ing. of 1212, Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. xlviii. 6. " Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 77. 13 Mon. Angl. vi. 191. 1^ Lanes. Pipe R. 180, 252. 1* Cal. Pat. R. 1317-21, 26. 339
