FEUDAL BARONAGE 



in cos. Lancaster, Lincoln, and Cheshire. 1 The wardship of Thomas Grelley, 

 the heir, who was then but three years of age, was given to Amadeo of 

 Savoy. 3 In 1291 his marriage was given to Joan, wife of John Wake, for 

 the benefit of one of her sisters, 8 but there is no evidence that any marriage 

 resulted. He proved his age in 1300,* and was the same year summoned to 

 serve against the Scots, 5 and again in 1301, 1303, I3o6, 6 and yearly from 

 1308 to 13 1 1. 7 He was summoned to Parliament as a baron no less than 

 six times between 1308 and 13 n. 8 The year after attaining his majority he 

 granted a charter of liberties to his burgesses of Manchester. 9 In 1304 he 

 sold his manor of Willisham, co. Suffolk, to William de la More, 10 and in 

 1308 that of Periton, co. Oxon., to John de Guise, 11 and in 1309 he alienated 

 the manor or lordship of Manchester to the husband of his sister Joan, John 

 la Warr, knight. 12 The year following he practically completed the dispersal 

 of his barony by the sale of the manor of Wakerley, co. Northampton, to the 

 same John la Warr. 13 Nevertheless he retained a life estate in some of these 

 manors, and the presumption seems to be that he alienated them because he 

 had no heir of his body and, being unmarried, no expectation of any. On 

 Whitsunday, 1306, he was made a Knight of the Bath with Prince Edward 

 and some 300 noble youths, preparatory to the expedition to Scotland. 14 In 

 1 307 he was required to do homage to Thomas, earl of Lancaster. 16 In 1310 

 the king seized the manor of Wakerley, on the grounds that it had been 

 acquired from Thomas Grelley without licence, but it was restored to John 

 la Warr in the autumn of the same year, as the result of an inquiry made at 

 Wakerley on 20 September, at which time Thomas Grelley was holding the 

 manor of Manchester in this county and the manor of Swineshead, co. 

 Lincoln, for the term of his life. 16 On 23 December, 1 3 1 3, he was summoned 

 to attend the array at Berwick on Tweed on 10 June, I3I4, 17 but his name 

 was included amongst the summonses in error, as the writs to take his lands 

 into the king's hand after his decease had been already tested at Windsor on 

 1 8 October, 1 3 1 1 , 18 



Thomas Grelley's heir was his sister Joan, the wife of John la Warr, son 

 and heir of Roger la Warr, lord of Isfield, co. Sussex, and Wickwar, co. 

 Gloucester, who was present at the siege of Carlaverock, 19 and died in I32O. 20 

 John la Warr was made a Knight of the Bath in 1306 by the Prince of Wales, 

 and was frequently summoned to Parliament, both in his father's lifetime and 

 after, between 1307 and 1342. He took part in the Scotch, Flemish, and 



1 Cal. Close R. 1279-88, 155, 251, &c. She was living in 1297, being then summoned to perform 

 military service beyond the seas. Mi/. Writs (Rec. Com.), i. 289, 294. 



8 CaL Pat. R. 1281-92, 24. s Ibid. 445. 



* Cal. Genea/. ii. 314, 569. He was born at Sixhills, co. Line, on the eve of St. Lawrence 7 Edw. I. 

 (9 August, 1279). 



6 Mil. Writs (Rec. Com.), i. 333-4. 6 Ibid. 349, 377. 1 Ibid. i. and \\.paisim. 



8 Ibid. Cf. Cokayne, Comp. Peerage, iv. 93. His arms are given among those of the bannerets of 

 England' Sire Thomas de Greley, de goules, a iii bendes de or ' (Cott. MS. Calig. A. xviii.). 



9 Harland, Mamecestre (Chetham Soc.), Ivi. 212 ; Tait, Medieval Manchester, 60-119. 



10 CaL Pat.R. 1301-7, 267. 



11 Ibid. 1307-13, 68. Acknowledgements for payment of 7,000 by John de Guise, and of 4,000 by 

 John la Warr were made on 14 May, 1308. Cal. Close R. 1307-13, 65. 



13 Harland, Mamecestre, 248. Confirmed by fine levied 20 January, 1310. 



13 Cal. Pat. R. 1307-13, 287. u Dugdale, Baronage, 6o8<5. 16 Cal. Pat. R. 1301-7, 502. 



16 Inq. a.q.d. 4 Edw. II. No. 82. " Close R. 7 Edw. II. m. 14. 



18 Writ of D.C.E. tested 1 8 Oct. 5 Year; Fine R. Edw. II. MS. in P.R.O. 12. Also Orig. R. 

 5 Edw. II. No. 5. i Nicolas, Carlaverock, 155. 20 Cokayne, Comp. Peerage, iii. 45. 



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