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circumstance he took the surname of “Lancaster” instead of 
Tailbois, in the reign of Henry I. This William de Tailbois had 
issue William de Lancaster II., who appears to have been a some- 
what pugnacious individual, for he gave thirty marks to King 
Henry II. for permission to fight a duel with Gospatric, the son of 
Orme, some relation of his. I don’t know what the result of the 
duel was, but am pretty certain that they would come to closer 
quarters than thirty-five paces, the distance Frenchmen appear to 
think near enough now-a-days to exchange shots and satisfy 
honour, even on a foggy morning in November. This William de 
Lancaster II. left one daughter, Helwise, who married Gilbert, son 
of Roger Fitz-Reinfred, to whom Richard I., in 1189, granted the 
Forest of Westmorland, Kendal, and Furness, together with a 
weekly market on Saturdays at Kendal. This William de 
Lancaster was also, to his credit be it said, one of those bold barons 
who opposed King John. Gilbert Fitz-Reinfred died in 1219, 
leaving one son and three daughters. His son William, who also 
took the name of Lancaster, married Agnes de Brus, but, dying 
without issue, the barony descended to his two surviving sisters, 
Helwise and Alice, the former of whom got as her share that 
portion of it which is now comprised in the Marquis and Lumley 
Fees, and the latter what is now called the Richmond Fee. Helwise 
married Peter de Brus, and had one son, Peter, and four daughters. 
This son Peter de Brus at his mother’s death succeeded to one 
half of the barony, now comprised in the Marquis and Lumley 
Fees ; and on his death, in 1278, his estates passed to his four 
sisters, Margaret, Agnes, Lucy, and Laderina. Margaret married 
Robert de Ross or Roos, and had as her share Kendal Castle, and 
all that belonged to her deceased brother, in demesnes, villages, 
rents, and services of freemen or others, except the vill of Kent- 
‘mere, which was assigned to Laderina. Agnes took no share of 
the Westmorland estates, but Lucy, the third sister, got what is 
now called the Lumley Fee, and which comprised the Manors of 
Helsington, Crosthwaite, and Lyth, and a fourth-part of the town 
of Kendal, with the turbary of Sampool. 
Robert and Margaret de Ross or Roos left heirs, and this 
