FEUDAL BARONAGE 



William the butler died before 20 November, 1233, when Emery his 

 son had livery of six knights' fees which he held in chief, the two fees 

 between Ribble and Mersey being then held of the earl of Ferrers. 1 Emery 

 died before 4 September, 1235, when the earl gave the king 100 for 

 wardship of the heir. 3 His wife Alina had her dower in Cropwell. 8 She 

 was probably the daughter and heir of Stephen de Upton, lord of Upton, 

 co. Warwick, who was returned in 1236 as holding one knight's fee in 

 Upton, 4 which fee the heir of Emery le Botiler held in 1242.' William, his 

 son and successor,' attained his majority about the year I245. T In 1249 he 

 held Exhall and Foleshill of Roger de Montalt of Hawarden, co. Flint, as 

 of his manor of Coventry, 8 and in 1268, after the death of William Mauduit, 

 earl of Warwick, was returned as holding of him one knight's fee, probably 

 in Upton. 9 On 20 October, 1255, he had a grant of a yearly fair at 

 Warrington to be held on the vigil, the feast, and the morrow of the Trans- 

 lation of St. Thomas the Martyr. 10 The grant of a weekly market on 

 Wednesday at the manor of Laton, in Amounderness, was made on 

 26 October, 1257, in error to 'Robert' the Butler. 11 On 5 February, 

 1259, upon his appointment as sheriff, the county and castle of Lancaster 

 were delivered to William the butler as custos, 13 and so continued in his charge 

 until Michaelmas following. In 1260 he was summoned to attend a council 

 in London with other magnates of the kingdom. 13 About the year 1 260 William 

 the butler acquired Burtonwood from Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby, with 

 vert and venison in his woods and lands in Sankey, Penketh, and Dallam for 

 a yearly quit-rent of one penny. 14 The earl also resigned his mesne lordship 

 over the manors of Halsall and Windle, which had been created by Pain de 

 Vilers I., and had been acquired by the earl's grandfather apparently from 

 Warin de Vilers, lord of Hoole, a supposed younger brother of Robert de 

 Vilers, living in 1 2 1 2. 1B He also enfeoffed William the butler in the mesne 

 lordship of Bold, quit of suit to the wapentake court of West Derby, and 

 from the yearly thegnage rent of los. due for this manor. 1 ' As a vassal of 

 the earl of Derby he took part in the barons' rebellion of 1264, but after the 

 battle of Evesham made his peace with Henry, in September, 1265, and 

 recovered his lands," only, however, to be again dispossessed the year 

 following. On 25 October, 1266, his lands in cos. Notts, Warwick, 

 Leicester, and Lancaster were given to David, son of Griffin, for 200 

 librates of land, 18 but seem to have been restored to him a few days later 



1 Rot. Fin. 1 8 Hen. III. m. 1 1 ; Close R. 17 Hen. III. m. 4. 

 Fine R. 19 Hen. III. m. 4. s Testa de NeviU (Rec. Com.), 398. 



* Ibid. 83, 89. * Ibid. 99^ ; cf. Close R. 29 Hen. III. m. 2. 



' In a deed granting to the priory of Lancaster the site of a grange in Laton he is described as ' Willelmus 

 filius Almarici le Botyler' (Reg. of Lane. Priory, 438). 



7 When he contributed 8 for eight fees to the aid to marry the king's eldest daughter (Pipe R. 

 30 Hen. III. Lane. m. I2</.). See also a fine at Lancaster in 1246 ; Rec. Sue. Lane, and Ches. mix. 100, 

 104, 109. 



8 Sir Peter Leycester's MSS. Liber C. 26 ; quoted in Annals of Warrington, 65. 



CaL Inq. p.m. Hen. III. (Rolls Ser.), i. 2 1 3. Cal. of Chart. R. i. 45 1. 



" Ibid. 476. 1* Rot. Orig. 43 Hen. III. m. 2 ; Pat. R. 43 Hen. III. m. 13. 



1 3 Rep. on the Dignity of a Peer, App. i, 20. 



14 Beamont, Annals of Warrington, 73. The consideration for the purchase of Burtonwood seems to 

 have been 900 marks, of which only 105 marks had been paid on 12 February, 1270. Ibid. p. 87. 



16 Ibid. (See Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. vol. xlviii. 8, 147.) " Ibid. 



W Close R. 49 Henry III. m. 2 ; Dugdale, Baronage, 653. 

 18 Miscel. R. Chanc. Bundle 16, m. 2, m. 2 d. 



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