The Town of Manchester. 487 
This Ropert was dead in the tenth of 
Edward Ll. whereupon Amadeus de Saucy had 
custody of the Manor of MANCHESTER, 
during the minority of his son and heir, THo- 
mas Grewxiey, Sixth Lord of Manchester, 
(z) who, in the thirty-fourth year of Edward I. 
was made a Knight of the Bath, by bathing 
and other ceremonies ; (a) and was summoned 
to parliament as a Baron, by writ, dated the 
10th of March, in the first of Edward II. 
(1307), and returnable in fifteen days of EKas- 
ter then following ; which was the third par- 
liament of Edward Il. He granted a charter 
to the town of MANCHESTER, (b) constitu- 
ting it a free borough, and continued to be 
summoned the fourth of that reign inclusive ; 
(ce) and probably died soon after, for, in the 
ninth year, John de Ja Warre, who had 
married Jane, sister and heir of this Thomas, 
was returned (d) Seventh Lord of Manches- 
ter, (e) in the county of Lancaster, of Swines- 
head and Great Casterton in the county of 
{z) Kuerden’s eighth Baron. 
(a) Compot. Joh. de Drokensford Cust. Gard. in Scacc,---Blores’ 
Rutland. p. 94. 
(6) Vide Appennix.---No 3. 
(¢) Rot, Claus. iisdem annis.---Blore’s Rutland, 
(d) Ninth, according to Kuerden, 
(e) Nom, Villar. in Scaccar, 
