A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Garstang was extended by the barons of Kendal in the thirteenth century to 

 include estates in Ulverston granted to their tenants to hold by knight's 

 service. 1 This was perhaps a straining of feudal rights, for Ulverston was 

 held of the monks of Furness at fee farm by the yearly service of i o shillings. 2 

 This infeudation had probably been made to William de Lancaster, or to 

 Gilbert his father, before the date (i 127) of Stephen of Mortain's gift of half 

 the territory of Furness to the Cistercian monks from Savigny. If this was not 

 so, it is inexplicable that the monks should have let Ulverston go out of their 

 hands for a paltry rent of 10 shillings a year. In 1 166 William de Lancaster 

 appears in the return of the fees held by Roger de Mowbray in chief as 

 tenant of two knights' fees, representing the wapentake of Ewcross. 3 The 

 Mowbray interest in Kendal had been extinguished or relinquished before 

 this time, and before the end of the twelfth century the Lancasters' interest in 

 the wapentake of Ewcross also appears to have been relinquished. 



William de Lancaster I. died in or before 1170.* Besides William, his 

 son and successor, he had a son Jordan, named above, who probably died in 

 his father's lifetime; and at least three daughters: (i) Avice, who married 

 Richard de Morevill, eldest son of Hugh de Morevill, the friend and subject 

 of David, king of Scots, and founder of the abbeys of Dryburgh and Kilwin- 

 ning, which Richard had Great and Little Eccleston and Larbrick in this 

 county s and considerable estates in Ewcross wapentake, co. York, of his 

 wife's dowry, and was father of William de Morevill, who died childless, 

 having confirmed his parents' grants to the monks of Furness of pasture in 

 Selsete and Birkwith ; 6 (2) Agnes, married to Alexander de Windsore, who 

 had with her in frank marriage the manors of Heversham, Grayrigg, and 

 Morland, co. Westmorland ; 7 (3) Siegrid, married to William the clerk of 

 Garstang, who had with her lands and a mill in Garstang in frank marriage, 8 

 and was father of Paulin de Garstang, named with his father in an agreement 

 made between 1194 and 1199 by the abbot and monks of Wyresdale with 

 H., chaplain of St. Michael's on Wyre. 9 From this William descended the 

 family of Wedacre. 10 



William de Lancaster II. is chiefly noted as the founder of the 

 Premonstratensian Hospital at Cockersand, 11 which was erected into an abbey 

 in 1190. He confirmed to the monks of St. Bees his father's and uncle's 

 grants to that place. 12 To the hospital of St. Leonard of York he gave land 

 called Dochergh (now Docker, par. of Kendal) in exchange for land in 

 Kendal, which had been given to the hospital by Ketel, son of Eldred, and 

 land in Bartonhead which his father gave." He was a liberal benefactor to 

 the canons of Conishead, to whom he gave land between Ulverston and 

 Bardsea, the church of Ulverston and the estate of Gascow, near Ulverston. 1 * 



1 Exch. K.R. Kts. fees, $, m. 3* ; Rec. Soc. xlviii. 2, 159. 



2 Lanes. Fines, Rec. Soc. xxxix. 5. The service was increased in 1 196 to 30 shillings. 

 Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 420. 



* Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 1 6 ; ' Richard de Morevill, 200 m. pro recto,' etc. 

 6 Lanes. Inq. (Rec. Soc.), xlviii. 3 note. 



6 Duchy of Lane. Anct. Chart. Dtp. Keeper's $6tA Rep. App. 2, 181-2. 



7 Anct. transcript at Levens Hall, Regist. .41. 



8 De Bane. R. No. 321, m. 294. Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R, 337 et fast. 

 10 Cockersand Chartul. Chetham Soc. pass. " Ibid. 758. 



i Reg. of St. Bees, Harl. MSS. No. 434, eh. 223. 1S Man. Angl. vi. 613. 



!* Mm. Angl. vi. 556 ; Lanes. Pipe R. 359. 



