FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Henry de Monewden failed in 1226 to oust him, owing to the false recogni- 

 tion of a suborned jury, he succeeded the year following in obtaining 

 possession of the lands of Hornby. 1 Immediately after obtaining possession 

 of his inheritance Henry de Monewden enfeoffed Hubert de Burgh (earl of 

 Kent, 1227), and Margaret his wife, of the castle, honour, and soke of Hornby, 

 with the advowson of the priory there, and of the church of Melling, which 

 grant the king confirmed 14 September, 12 27.* In Easter term following, 

 Hubert and Margaret impleaded Henry to warrant Hornby to them, 3 and in 

 November, 1229, Henry confirmed his grant of the honour to them by fine, 

 to hold of him during their lives by the service of half a knight's fee, con- 

 ditionally that, failing issue of their bodies, it should revert to Hubert's heirs.* 

 In November, 1232, after the seizure of his lands for having given the king 

 displeasure, Hubert de Burgh recovered his lands and stock, but Hornby with 

 other castles he did not recover until later. 6 In 1236, Olive de Montbegon 

 released to Hubert and Henry de Monewden her right of dower in Hornby 

 in exchange for 8j marks of yearly rent from Thonock. 6 In 1229 Henry 

 resigned his manor of Oswaldbec to the king in exchange for an annuity of 

 20 marks, 7 which however he was obliged to resign in 1239 in consideration 

 of the king's aid against his creditors, certain Jews of York and London. 8 In 

 1230 he was serving abroad in the retinue of the earl of Kent. 9 In 1235 he 

 alienated his fee of Tottington to John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, to hold of 

 him for z\ knights' fees, 10 which the king confirmed on 10 September. 11 In 

 Easter term, 1242, John de Lungvilers commenced process at law against 

 Margaret, countess of Kent, to substantiate his title to the manors of Hornby 

 and Melling. 12 In consequence of the earl's death Hornby Castle was put in 

 charge of Alexander Bacon on the king's behalf, but was restored on 29 July, 

 1243." The proceedings dragged on until the beginning of 1252." This 

 John was son of Eudo de Lungvilers by Clemence, sister and co-heir of 

 John Malherbe, the half brother of Roger de Montbegon, the younger. 15 

 Maud, the other sister and co-heiress, married before 1227, probably as her 

 second husband, Geoffrey de Nevill. 16 Early in 1252 the king took steps to 

 terminate the suit which had long been in progress between John de 

 Lungvilers and John son of John de Burgh, grandson of the earl of Kent. 17 

 John de Lungvilers died in I254, 18 and was succeeded by his son John, who 

 probably survived his father only a few years. Early in 1259, Ellen, probably 

 the widow of the younger John de Lungvilers, was suing John de Burgh, 



i Cur. Reg. R. No. 169, m. \id. * Cal. Chart. R. i. 60, 83. 



s Cur. Reg. R. No. 102, m. 1 6. * Lanes. Fines (Rec. Soc.), i. 57. 



6 Close R. 17 Hen. III. m. 17. There is a rental of Hornby for 16-18 Hen. III. in the P.R.O., Min. 

 Accts. 1117, No. 13. 



8 Lanes. Fines, 147. 7 Cal. Pat. R. 1225-32, 239. 



8 Orig. R. 23 Hen. III. m. 4. 9 Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 361. 



10 Duchy of Lane. Gt. Coucher, i. 63. n Cal. Chart. R. i. 213. 



18 Cur. Reg. R. No. 123, m. 15. See also No. I24,m. 23 ; No. 128, m. I ; No. I35,m. 35^; No. 139, 

 m. 15. 



13 Pat. R. 27 Hen. III. m. 2. u Assize R. No. 1046, m. 73. 



16 Upon the death of John Malherbe in or before 1216 she received half the manor of Appleby, 

 co. Lincoln, as her pourparty (p. 323). 



18 Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 158. Henry de Monewden was suing Maud and her sister Clemence with 

 their respective husbands in 1227 for the half of the church of Penistone, co. York. Cf. Torks. Inq. p. m. 

 (Yorks. Rec. Soc.), i. 279 ; Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i. 192. 



" Assize R. No. 1046, m. 73. Cokayne, Compl. Peerage, iv. 350, note e. See also Plac. de quo war. (Rec. 

 Com.), 381. 18 Cal. Inq. p.m. i. 77. 



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