DUFF1ELD CASTLE. 1 33 



it may, the grant is of much interest to us, inasmuch as it affords 

 proof positive, if any was needed, of the existence of Dufifield 

 Castle at this period, notwithstanding its alleged demolition a 

 century earlier. 



Robert de Ferrers did not remain long in confinement at 

 Windsor. An old MS. thus tells us of the successive places of 

 his custody : — " Robert Erie Ferrers was by mightie hand taken 

 of the kyngs soldyers at Chesterfeild, and committed forthwith to 

 stray te prison, first in the castell of Wyndsore, then Chippenham, 

 a place within two myles thereof now ruynated, and lastly from 

 thence lede still prisoner to Wallingford Castell."* 



After he had been imprisoned for nearly three years, at the 

 intercession of several of the most powerful of the barons, Robert 

 de Ferrers was set free on the ist of May, 1269, and the grant of 

 his lands to Prince Edmund repealedt on the payment of a fine of 

 ,£50,000 to Edmund in lieu thereof, within 15 days of the feast 

 of St. John the Baptist next ensuing. He obtained as sureties 

 for the payment of this bond Prince Henry (who had defeated 

 him at Chesterfield), the Earls of Pembroke, Surrey, and Warwick, 

 Roger de Somery, Thomas de Clare, Robert Walraund, Roger de 

 Clifford, Hamor le Strange, Bartholomew de Sudley, and Robert 

 de Briwer, granting to them, as counter security, all his lands, 

 excepting Chartley in Staffordshire, and Holbrook in Derbyshire. J 



* Lansdowne MSS. 205, f. 158. " Heraldic and Historical Collections." 



t The following is a copy of the writ to Edmund, directing him to deliver to 

 Robert de Ferrers seisin of his lands because he had found pledges to satisfy 

 the king for his transgressions : — 



PATENT ROLL 53 HENRY III., M. l6. 

 Pro Foberto ) ^' Edmundo n 'i° suo salutem Quia Robertus de Ferar' 

 de Ferariis I ' nven ' t n °bi s salvos plegios de satisfaciendo nobis de omnibus 

 I transgressionibus sibi impositis tempore turbacionis nuper 

 habite in regno nustro per quod ei terras suas reddidimus et ipsum a prisona 

 liberavimus vobis mandamus quod eidem Roberto vel ejus attomato de 

 omnibus terris et tenementis suis in manu vestra occasione transgressionum 

 predictarum existentibus plenara seisinam sine dilacione habere faciatis. In 

 cujus &c. Teste Rege apud Windes primo die Mail. 



PER IPSUM REGEM EDWARDUM. 

 R. WALERAUND ET TOTUM CONSILIUM. 

 + Full transcipts of all the documents relative to this transfer of property, 

 and of the security given by the bondsmen, are printed in Mosley's History of 

 Tutbury, pp. 20-27. 



