the Town of Manchester. 485 
and left issue, THomas GRELLEY, Fourth 
Lord of Manchester, (s) his son and heir, 
who performed his homage, and had livery of 
his lands that same year. (¢) In the twenty- 
sixth year of Henry ILI. he had summons to 
fit himself with horse and arms to attend the 
King in his expedition into France, where- 
upon he gave one hundred marks, besides his 
ordinary scutage, to be excused from that 
duty. In the twenty-seventh year of Henry 
III. being on the King’s service beyond seas, 
he was quit of his castle guard in the Castle 
of Lancaster; and in the forty-second year of 
that reign, was ordered to attend the King to 
Chester, to withstand the incursions of the 
Welsh. Inthe forty-third year of Henry IIT. 
he was made Warden of the King’s forests 
south of Trent, and died about the forty-sixth 
(w) of that reign; in which year it was found 
by inquisition that he, then lately deceased, 
had not enfeoffed PETER GRELLEY, his son, 
of the Manor of MANCHESTER, and that, 
because it was held of the King in capite by 
barony, it was taken into the King’s hands. 
The Sheriff had command to seize it, and 
(s) According to Kuerden the jifth Baron. 
(t) Rot. fin, 15 Hen. 3, m. 6, 
J 
(uw) Rot. Fin. 46 Hen. ITT. m 12. 
