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Crown entered into possession and made various 

 grants. 43 



In I 346 the land of WyresJale seems to have been 

 assessed as three plough-lands, half being described as 

 lately held by William de Coucy and the other half 

 as held by John son of Thomas de Rigmaiden ; each 

 moiety rendered ^^. 6J. for castle ward. 44 John de 

 Coupland, a distinguished soldier of the time, who 

 captured David King of Scots at Ncvill's Cross in 

 1346, had a grant of 500 a year partly at one time 

 charged on the Coucy manors. 44 Joan wife of John 

 de Coupland also had a grant of WyresJale,' 16 but 

 after her death it was in 1365 restored to Ingram 

 son of the above-named Ingram de Coucy, who won 

 the favour of Edward III, 47 receiving the king's 

 daughter Isabella in marriage and being created Earl 

 of Bedford in 1 366. 48 Ingram's daughter and co- 

 heir, Philippa wife of Robert de Vere Earl of 

 Oxford and Duke of Ireland, had his English estates 

 and died in 1411-12. Wyrcsdale was granted to 

 John Duke of Bedford, son of Henry IV, famous in 

 the French campaigns of the i;th century, 49 and 

 later still to Edmund Earl of Richmond in 1453 

 and in 1487 to Margaret Countess of Richmond, 



GARSTANG 



mother of Henry VII. 60 On her death in 1509 it 

 descended to the king, and was granted out on lease 

 to Sir Thomas Parr and others. 11 



A compotus of 1495 preserved at Sizergh Castle 

 shows that the rents of the Crown moiety of Nether 

 Wyresdale amounted to 51 21. id., including ^s. 

 from Sir Thomas RadclifTe for Winmarleigh, accord- 

 ing to a rental renewed in 1461. The mill at 

 Sandholme paid zos. 8</. a year. Lord Derby paid 

 4/. for 'Grcnoll,' Thomas Rigmaiden 3^. for the 

 ' Boundes.' The free tenants of the Bonds in i\\ 

 paid 5/. $J. 



The Crown moiety of Wyresdale was purchased 

 in 1574** by Sir Gilbert Gerard, Master of the 

 Rolls ; and as his son Sir Thomas Lord Gerard of 

 Gerard's Bromley 63 acquired the other moiety in 

 1602 from the heirs of Rigmaiden, 64 the whole 

 lordship was reunited in his family. Lord Gerard 

 died in 1617 * 5 and his son Gilbert in 1623," 

 leaving a son and heir Dutton, who died in 1640." 

 Gilbert had married Eleanor Dutton, heiress of the 

 great Cheshire family ; she afterwards married Robert 

 Needham Viscount Kilmorey, and occurs in con- 

 nexion with Wyresdale. 48 Dutton's son Charles was 



ion of the earlier Ingram. In 1343 

 a preliminary grant of William de 

 Coucy' s lands was made to his brother 

 Ingram ; Cal. Pat. 1 343-5, p. 36. 



43 A grant to the Countess of Pembroke 

 (Mary de St. Pol) has been recorded 

 above. After the expiry of her term the 

 manor of Wyre sdale was to go to Aymer 

 Darcy for life ; Cal. Clou, 1 343-6, 

 p. 643. The Earl of Lancaster was in 

 134; suing her for her free tenement in 

 Garstang, viz. a moiety of the manor of 

 Nether Wyresdale; Assize R. 143$, 

 m. 35<L 



44 Survey of 1 346 (Chet. Soc.), 50, 

 52. The former moiety is wrongly 

 described as one plough-land only. The 

 sheriff's compotus of 1348 gives it 

 correctly. 



<* Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 370. The 

 Archbishop of York in 1368 gave licence 

 to the Prior and Canons of Kirkham (in 

 the East Riding) to remove the body 

 of John de Coupland from Carham to 

 their church ; Dods. MSS. vii, 202. For 

 will see H'illt ami Invent. (Surt. Soc.), 

 i,2 9 . 



"The Duke of Lancaster in 1361 

 claimed a moiety of the manors of 

 Mourholme and Wyresdale against John 

 de Coupland and Joan his wife ; Assize 

 R. 441, m. 2 d. Joan is described as 

 daughter and heir of John de Rigmaiden ; 

 r'eul. Aidt, iii, 90. She died early in 

 136; holding by grant of Edward III 

 the Coucy part of the Lancaster family's 

 possessions. The moiety of the manor 

 of Wyresdale was held of John (of Gaunt), 

 Duke of Lancaster, by knight's service, 

 with reversion to Ingram de Coucy Earl 

 of Bedford and Isabella his wife j Inq. 

 p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 29. 



47 In Sept. 1365 a fresh inquiry was 

 made as to the lands, Sec., of William son 

 of William de Coucy ; Inq. p.m. 49 

 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 2Z. It was stated 

 (erroneously) that William had died 

 without heir in 133; and that he was 

 ' a man of the kingdom of France.' 

 In the next year another jury found that 

 William de Coucy had held the moiety 

 of the manor ot Wyresdale, dec., as before, 

 that he died in Feb. 1341-1, and that his 



heir was Ingram de Coucy Earl of 

 Bedford, son and heir of Ingram brother 

 of the said William ; ibid. 50 Edw. Ill 

 (1st nos.), no. 18. William the English 

 and then John de Coupland and Joan his 

 wife were said to have occupied the 

 manors, &c., after William's death. 



48 G.E.C. Comfltti Peerage, i, 292 ; 

 * Ingelram or Enguerraud de Coucy, 

 Sire de Couci, La Fere and Oisi in the 

 district of Marie, &c., only s. and h. of 

 Enguerraud de Couci of the same . . . 

 succeeded his father in 1 344, being then 

 in his tilth year. He was one of the 

 hostages for John King of France to 

 England, where he arrived in i 360. The 

 English king showed great favour to him, 

 restoring him to lands in Lancashire, Ac.' 

 He in 1367 gave the king the reversion 

 of his manors, then held' by Joan widow 

 of Sir John de Coupland (Ar^h. Journ. 

 xxxv, 166), and finally renounced his 

 English honours in 1377* Mention is 

 made of a grant by him ; Cal. Pat. 

 1385-9, p. 413. 



49 G.E.C. op. cit. i, 293. At his death 

 in 1435 he held the manor or lordship of 

 Wyresdale of the king in chief by knight's 

 service, and other parts of the Lancaster 

 inheritance ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Hen. VI, 

 no. 36. The king was his nephew 

 and heir. Jaquetta his widow had as 

 dower the third part of a moiety of 

 Wyresdale, &c., and held it till her death 

 in 1472 ; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fot 91. 

 Richard Holder of Kirkland was the 

 farmer of the lordship ; Cal. Pat. 

 1436-41, p. 275. 



A rent from the manor is named 

 among the possessions of John Duke of 

 Somerset in 1444 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 

 Hen. VI, no. 19. 



w Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. iv, no. 28. 

 Henry VI granted all the late Duke of 

 Bedford's manors, tec., to Edmund Tudor 

 Earl of Richmond (d. 1456), from whom 

 they descended to his son afterwards 

 Henry VII ; as king he gave the same 

 to his mother for life. She had dower in 

 1459, confirmed 1464 ; (.'.;/. Pat. 1461-7, 

 p. 363. For a grant by her to Sir 

 William Parr (1472, 1475) see ibid. 

 '4*7-77, PP- 334, 53*- Sn 'urvived 



33 



her son three months, dying 14 July 1509, 

 and Henry VIII succeeded her. She 

 had a further connexion with Lancashire 

 as wife of the Earl of Derby, and some- 

 times lived at Lathom ; Cooper, Lady 

 Margaret, 57. 



In 1498 a writ was issued summoning 

 Margaret Countess of Richmond and 

 John Rigmaiden to hear judgement in a 

 plea concerning their right to assize of 

 bread and ale in Garstang ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Writs Proton. 15 Hen. VII. 



" To Sir Thomas Parr in 1513 for 

 forty years; Pat. 4 Hen. VIII, pt i. 

 To William Parr Earl of Essex in i ^46 ; 

 Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. vi. To Henry 

 Earl of Cumberland in 1553-4 for 

 twenty-one years ; Pat. I Mary, pt. iv. 



M Pat. 1 6 Eliz., pt. ii ; the grant, to 

 Gilbert Gerard and his wife and their 

 issue, included the manors of Nether 

 Wyresdale, Ashtnn, Carnforth and Scot- 

 fort h. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iv, 17-18 5 

 Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), i, 653. 



** A third part of a moiety from 

 Charles Fleming and another third part 

 from Thomas Brockholes ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 64, no. 21, 28. A 

 settlement of the manors of Wedacre, 

 Nether Wyresdale, Winmarleigh, tec., was 

 made in 1611 ; ibid. bdle. 77, no. 58. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxviii, 

 119 (16 Jas. I) ; the purchase of the two 

 moieties of the manor is recited, also a 

 settlement on Eleanor wife of Gilbert 

 Lord Gerard for life with remainder to 

 Gilbert in tail male. Gilbert, the son 

 and heir, was twenty-one years of age. 



"Ibid, cccci, 119; Dutton, the son, 

 was nine years old. 



" Ibid, dxcix, 92 ; Charles, the son 

 and heir, was five years of age. 



** The following refer to settlements of 

 the manors! 1618, by Gilbert Lord 

 Gerard ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 94, no. 7. 1635, by Dutton Lord 

 Gerard, Robert Viscount Kilmorey and 

 Eleanor his wife ; ibid. bdle. 127, no. 7. 

 1662, by Charles Lord Gerard and Jane 

 his wife ; ibid. bdle. 168, m. 7. 



Lord Kilmnrey is named in Cal. Com, 

 forComf.il, 1284-5. 



