A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



tenants as the king had acted towards his magnates. 1 In 1226 he was 

 appointed a justice itinerant in Cumberland, 2 and again in 1228 to do justice 

 at Appleby upon those appealed by one John Scot, an approver. 3 On 

 10 March, 1226, he received a military summons to go to Winchester, pre- 

 pared with his two knights to go abroad in the king's service, 4 and in 1230 

 had letters of protection whilst over sea, 6 pleas pending with Robert de Kyme 

 touching 15 librates of land in Ulverston, and with William de Arundel 

 touching the bounds between Firbank and Hay, near Kirkby Kendal, being 

 put in respite. 6 He was one of the witnesses to the great charter of liberties 

 executed by Henry at Westminster on 28 January, 1237.* From Michaelmas 

 1233 to the same feast in 1246 he was sheriff of Lancaster, 8 and in 1241 had 

 the custody of the honour committed to his trust. 9 He was one of the persons 

 appointed for the assize of arms in the county in I242, 10 in which year he was 

 summoned to perform military service in France, 11 and in 1244 against the Scots. 13 

 He married Agnes de Brus,and by deed dated at Kirkby Kendal a few days before 

 his death granted, for the health of his soul and that of Agnes his wife, to the 

 monks of Furness lands in Ulverston called Scathwaite and Egton, two boats 

 on Windermere and two on Coniston water, one upon each mere for the 

 carriage of timber and other necessaries, and another with 20 nets for fishing, 

 and bequeathed his body for burial in the presbytery of Furness, near the 

 tomb of his grandfather, William de Lancaster II. 13 To the canons of Conis- 

 head he gave his fishery of Leven, meadow land near Elterwater, and land 

 between Ulverston and Conishead adjoining the estate of Gascow which his 

 grandfather had given to the canons of that house, 1 * to whom he also gave the 

 advowson of the hospital of St. Leonard at Kirkby Kendal. 15 Upon his death- 

 bed he bequeathed to the abbot of Cockersand, with his heart, 4 oxgangs of 

 land in Garstang, and at the same time made numerous feoffments to his 

 friends and retainers, the validity of which seems to have been afterwards 

 called in question. He died on 28 November, I246, 16 without issue, Agnes 

 his wife surviving him, who had for assignment of her dower the manors of 

 Garstang, Ashton, Scotforth, Stodday, and Carnforth, in this county, and 

 Grasmere, Langdale, Crosthwaite, and Lyth in Westmorland. 17 His barony 

 and possessions were divided between his nephews, Peter de Brus, son of 

 Peter, by Helewise, his eldest sister ; and Walter de Lindsay, son of William, 

 by Alice, his second sister ; the third sister, Sarot, wife of Alan de Multon, 

 dying without issue. 18 Peter de Brus had the castle of Kirkby Kendal assigned 

 to him for his chief seat, and Walter de Lindsay had Moreholme Castle in 

 Warton, 19 but afterwards a new partition was made, the nature of which is 

 indicated by the inquests taken after the death of Walter de Lindsay in 



l Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 575. a Ibid. ii. \$ib. * Pat. R. 1225-32, 218. 



* Close R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 151. 6 Pat. R. 1225-32, 360. 8 Close R. 1227-31, 347, 349. 



1 Annul. Man. (Rolls Ser.), i. 104; Cott. MSS. Vesp. F. xiii. Art. 3, fol. 5*. 



8 Dep. Keepers 3111 Rep. 301, Pat. R. 25 Hen. III. m. 7. 



10 Close R. 26 Hen. III. pt. 2, m. 10 d. n Ibid. pt. 3, m. 3 d. 



12 Rep. on Dig. of Peer, App. iii. 10. 



l Coufher of 'Furness, Chetham Soc. (New Ser.), xi. 348, 350. 



1* Dep. Keeper's 36 Rep. 194 ; Man. Angl. vi. 556^. Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 168. 



l Ibid. 167. " Close R. 31 Hen. III. m. 1 1. 



18 Man. Angl. iii. 553. A similar genealogy in the Cockersand Chartul. (Chetham Soc.), pp. 305-6, gives an 

 erroneous account of the descent of William de Lancaster's heirs. 



19 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii. 7. 



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