A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



The heir to the Lindsay moiety of Wyresdale in 

 1246 was Walter son of William de Lindsay." 

 Walter died in or before 1272, his son William being 

 then of full age and married to Ada daughter of John 

 de Balliol." William de Lindsay died in 1282, and 

 soon afterwards his daughter and heir Christiana was 

 by the King of Scotland married to Ingram or Ingel- 

 ram de Gynes, she being then in Scotland. 86 This 

 part of the manor was in the escheator's hands for six 

 months in 1282-3, and the receipts amounted to 

 72 3/. 4^." In 1292 Ingelram and Christiana 

 were called upon to prove their right to the assize of 

 bread and ale, gallows and infangenthef, and market 

 at Warton and Garstang, but it was alleged that at 

 the latter place only assize of ale was exercised, and 

 that all the rights had been held by William de 

 Lancaster.* 8 In 1297 half a knight's fee in Amoun- 

 derness was held of the Earl of Lancaster by Ingram 

 de Gynes, Walter de Fauconberg and M.irmaduke de 

 Thweng, who rendered 5/. a year for castle ward w ; 

 and in 1 302 Ingram de Gynes and John de Rig- 

 maiden were tenants of the half-fee in Garstang. 30 



Ingram and Christiana were involved in many local 

 suits, as was a Gilbert de Lindsay, and in 1313-14 

 the defendants to a claim for common of pasture in 

 Garstang were Marmaduke de Thweng, Walter de 

 Fauconberg, Ingram de Gynes, Christiana his wife, 

 Gilbert de Lindsay, a number of Rigmaidens and 

 others." Baldwin de Gynes was enfeoffed of the 



Lindsay moiety of Wyresdale before I3l8, 3> and in 

 one version of the feodary of 1324 he appears as 

 tenant by knight's service, rendering 2s. dd. a year 

 for castle ward. 33 Ingram de Gynes died in 1324, 

 but Wyresdale is not named in the inquisition. 

 His son and heir was William, aged thirty-six." 

 Christiana obtained the lordship of Wyresdale from 

 Baldwin de Gynes, without the king's licence, and 

 received a pardon in 1325." She was still living in 



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William de Gynes, also known as de Coucy from 

 his French lordship, in 1335, 

 after his mother's death, 

 granted the barony of Lindsay 

 and various manors and lands 

 in Scotland 37 and England, 

 including Wyresdale, to his 

 son William. 38 Robert de 

 Gynes, however, another son 

 of Ingram, seems to have been 

 made lord of Wyresdale ; on 

 the outbreak of war with 

 France he took the French 

 side, and all his English lands 

 were declared forfeit. William 

 de Coucy, his nephew, was placed in possession, 39 but 

 died in 1342, when his brother Ingram was found 

 to be the heir. 40 Several inquisitions were taken," for 

 Ingram died or forfeited his rights," so that the 



Coucy. Barry 

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21 Lanes. Inij. and Extents, i, 166, 168. 

 The family had the barony of Lindsay in 

 Berwick-on-Tweed and various manors, 

 &c., in Scotland. 



*> Ibid. 236-8. 



!e Cal. Doc. rcl. to Scotland, ii, 69, 72. 

 In 1292 Edward I caused inquiry to be 

 made as to the loss he might have sus- 

 tained by the marriage of the heiress, but 

 it was alleged to be the custom that when 

 an heir had lands both in Scotland and 

 England the marriage was granted where 

 the body was found ; Coram Rege R. 1 34, 

 m. 38. 



For the pedigree see Duchesne, Hist, 

 des Maisons de Guines . . . et de Coucy, 

 1631. 



The homage of Ingram de Gynes and 

 his wife was specially named in a grant 

 by Edward I to his brother Edmund in 

 1291 ; Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xi, 

 42 d. 



27 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 258. 



28 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rcc. Com.), 383 ; 

 a statement of the descent is given. In 

 1291 Ingram de Gynes had been com- 

 manded to do homage to Edmund the 

 king's brother for the lands in the honour 

 of Lancaster held in right of his wife ; 

 D. of Lane. Royal Chart, no. 1723. 



29 Lanes. Inq. and Extents, i, 289, 297. 

 3 <> Ibid. 316. 



31 Assize R. 424, m. 2. 



M De Banco R. 225, m. 435 d. 



88 Dods, MSS. cxxxi, fol. 39/1, which 

 gives Ingram instead of Baldwin (probably 

 his brother). The latter name appears in 

 the version printed in Gregson's Frag- 

 ments (ed. Harland), 341. The lordship 

 extended over Great and Little Eccleston, 

 Great Carleton, Upper Rawcliffe, Cat- 

 terall, Sowerby and Rowall. 



3 * Lanes. Inq. and Extents, ii, 164. 



36 Cal, Pat. 1324-7, p. 172 ; Inq. 

 a.q.d. file 186, no. 8 (19 Edw, II). 



aG De Banco R. 294, m. 291 d. She 

 died soon afterwards; Cal. Pat. 1330-4, 

 p. 561. 



37 Cal. Doc. rel. to Scotland, in, 210. 

 The pedigree above referred testates that 

 William married Isabel de St. Paul. 



38 Cal. Pat. 1340-3, pp. 69-70. In 

 1334 there was a treaty of marriage 

 between John Earl of Cornwall (son of 

 Edward III) and Mary daughter o/ 

 William de Gynes, lord of Coucy, but 

 the marriage did not take place ; Rymer, 

 Foedera (Syllabus), i, 274. 



The elder William appears to have 

 died in or before 1339, leaving his son 

 William a minor; Cal. Pat. 1338-40, 

 p. 252. Robert de Gynes was uncle of 

 William the son; ibid. 1340-3, p. 70. 

 Ingram brother of the elder William is 

 named in 1341 ; De Banco R. 326, 

 m. 191 d. 



39 In 1337 Edward III granted the 

 custody of Robert's lands to his nephew 

 William de Coucy, the king's yeoman ; 

 CaL Pat. 13348, p. 404. It seems 

 from this grant that William's own lands 

 had for the time been seized. 



William de Coucy m 1340 obtained a 

 grant of free warren in his demesne 

 lands of Wyresdale and elsewhere ; Chart. 

 R. 14 Edw. Ill, m. 2, no. 7. 



40 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 51 ; Robert son of Ingram de Gynes 

 is named, and Ingram, brother and heir 

 of William, was of full age. The manor 

 of Wyresdale (of which William had held 

 a moiety) was held of the Earl of Lan- 

 caster by knight's service. The manor 

 (place) was worth izd. ; 60 acres of 

 arable land held by tenants at will ren- 

 dered 6d. a year each, as did 1 1 acres of 

 meadow. Various tenants at will paid 

 ji8. There was a park rendering 91. 

 yearly ; the moiety of three water-mills 

 rendered 4 and a fulling-mill ios. The 

 court was held jointly with Robert de 

 Bellew from three weeks to three weeks, 

 and was estimated to produce zos. in all. 

 There were also nine free tenants of the 

 Coucy moiety, holding by knight's service 

 and rents amounting to 24.1. iod. William 



302 



de Coucy had by the king's grant held 

 certain estates which had belonged to 

 Robert de Gynes. 



The inquiry as to the estates of the 

 said Robert, ' an adherent of the king's 

 enemies in France,' was made a year 

 later. It was found that he had held of 

 the Earl of Lancaster a moiety of the 

 manor of Wyresdale in fee in the vill of 

 Garstang by knight's service ; William 

 de Coucy had occupied it for his life, and 

 after him the king had granted it to the 

 Countess of Pembroke; Inq. p.m. 18 

 Edw. Ill (2nd noi.), no. 58. 



41 A further inquiry was made in 1347 ; 

 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 63. 

 It gives many details. The pasture of 

 the manor site was worth 6d. ; 75^ acres 

 of demesne farmed to various persons 

 were worth 112*. io^d. ; in Hallsteads 

 and Mekmyr were 4 and 4^ acre* of 

 meadow, 171. ; a several pasture, 401. ; 

 tenants at will of improved land, 

 ,38 7*. iod. ; 8 acres more might be 

 improved, worth 81. ; Thomas de Rig- 

 maiden, who held per indiviso with the 

 other lord, inclosed 12 acres, of which 

 6 acres belonged to the Coucy moiety, 6s 

 At Cleveley a water-mill and the moiet) 

 of another were worth ^4, a mill at 

 Garstang 401., the moiety of a mill at 

 Sandholm 461. S./., a fulling-mill at 

 Cleveley and the moiety of a mill at 

 Caldcr 201. The sale of wood produced 

 6s. 8*y, The rents of free tenants came 



to 241. iod. 



There were two courts a common 

 court, the perquisites of which were worth 

 zos. a year, and a several court, 131. $.d. 

 Other profits arose from the pannage of 

 pigs, dead wood, the fishery of the Wyre, 

 honey and bees in the park and outside 

 wood. 



Other inquisitions were taken m 

 1365-6, as cited below. 



43 The lands of Ingram son of Ingram 

 de Gynes were escheated in i 342 ; Cal. 

 Close, 1341-3, p. 452. This may refer to 



