A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Charter. 1 He was appointed also, with Richard de Copeland, a justice of the 

 forest in this county, for the perambulation and disafforesting of those places 

 so to be dealt with according to the carta de foresta? and was himself served 

 with a writ to disafforest wood and moor in Heaton under Horwich, which 

 Henry de Boulton claimed as his tenement, and in Anderton, which Thomas 

 de Burnhull so claimed. 8 In 1222 he proffered 5 marks and a palfrey to have 

 a fair yearly at his manor of Manchester on the eve and the feast of St. 

 Matthew the Apostle, 4 and in 1227, when the king attained his majority, 

 obtained a charter of this privilege. 6 He died towards the end of the year 

 1230,' after returning to England from the expedition to Poitou, where 

 his health had been undermined by exposure and improper food. 7 The 

 abbot of Vaudey, the executor of his will, had livery of his chattels in 

 January, 1231." 



The inquest of service of 1212 contains full particulars of his fee in 

 this county, from which it may be of interest to tabulate the names of the 

 tenants by knight's service, their tenements and quota of service, comparing 

 the same with similar particulars for the years 1242-3. 



IN CO. LANCASTER" 



1212 



242-3 



-. , . i u j (Matthew, son of William de") 



Withmgton cum mem- ikiughtandl Hath Matthew de Hathersage 



bns ' J ud 8 e (Roger, son of the said William] 



Cotgrave . 



CO. NOTTS 

 i knight . Robert Grelley 1Z Abbot of Swineshead 13 



8 Pat. R. 1216-25, 57 cf. 575. 



i Ann. de Burton (Rolls Ser.), i- 232. 



s Ibid. 576. 



* Fine R. 6 Hen. III. m. 3. 



' Chart. R. 1 1 Hen. III. m. 4 ; Cal. Chart. R. 56. Fine R. 15 Hen. III. m. 8. 



1 Matth. Paris, Hist. Angl. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 328. The chronicler describes him as ' vir nobilis et potens. 



8 Cal. Close R. 1227-31, 474. 



9 Exch. K.R. Kts. fees. Bdle. i, No. 9, m. 5 ; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 4.04*. 



10 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 397^. " Lanes. Fines, Rec. Soc. ixxix. 90. 



12 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 22*. ls Ibid. 3^, 76, i ib. 



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