FEUDAL BARONAGE 



1271, of his son William in 1282,' and of Peter de Brus in 1272. 2 The 

 subsequent descent of this barony, and its ultimate division into the Marquis, 

 Lumley, and Richmond fees, 3 does not belong to the history of this county, 

 but will be pertinent to the history of the neighbouring county of West- 

 morland. 



Roger de Lancaster, 4 bastard brother of William de Lancaster III., 

 had large estates in Barton, Patterdale, Morland, and Witherslack, parcel of 

 the barony of Kendal, and in this county had half the manor of Diversion 

 by his brother's grant, to hold of the abbot of Furness. 6 In 1255 he had a 

 warrant to the keeper of the forest of Lancaster for 2 harts and 8 hinds which 

 the king had given him, probably for stocking his park at Witherslack.* In 

 1267 he obtained the custody of the heir of Henry de Croft of Dalton in 

 Kendal, with his lands, for >6o a year. 7 His wife was Philippa, the eldest 

 of the four daughters and co-heirs of Hugh de Bolebeck (died 1262), who, 

 as son of Margery, eldest sister and co-heir of Richard de Munfichet (died 

 1267) was entitled to the third part of the barony of Munfichet, including 

 the manors of Stansted Mountfichet, Great Holland, Tolleshunt Tregoz, East 

 Ham and West Ham, co. Essex, and Barrington, co. Cambridge. 8 In 1265 

 and 1266 Roger was sheriff of Lancaster; in 1271 keeper of Ingle wood 

 Forest. 9 In 1275 he obtained the king's confirmation of the grant from 

 Margaret de Brus, daughter and co-heir of Peter de Brus by his wife Helewise 

 de Lancaster, of the forest of Rydal and of her pourparty of Ambleside and 

 Loughrigg. 10 In 1276 certain encroachments which he had made upon land 

 belonging to Furness were the subject of an agreement with the monks of 

 that house. 11 In 1280 he obtained a charter for a market and fair at 

 Diversion, 13 and four years later granted to the burgesses of that town a 

 charter of liberties similar to those enjoyed by Kirkby Kendal. 13 He died 

 before 18 April, 1291, when John his son, who was probably a minor at his 

 father's death, did homage and had livery of his inheritance. 1 * 



John de Lancaster of Rydal 15 was summoned to Parliament as a baron from 

 1297 to 1 30 1, 16 and in the former year was also summoned to protect the 

 Scotch marches, in which service he seems to have been constantly employed 

 during the three following years. 17 He was one of the signatories to the 

 barons' letter to the pope in i3oo. 18 In 1306 he had licence to alienate in 

 mortmain the advowson of the church of Barton, co. Westmorland, to the 



1 Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 235, 253. 

 3 Torks. Inq. Yorks. Rec. Soc. xii. 147-8. 



3 See Nicholson and Burn, Hist. ofCumb. and WeitmU. i. 29-63. 



4 Roger de Lancaster's arms were, ' Argent two bars gules, on a canton of the second a lion passant 

 guardant or.' Armytage, ' Charles' Role of Armes,' No. 264. 



6 Couc/ter of Furness, Chetham Soc. (New Ser.), xi. 328-9, 347. 



Close R. 39 Hen. III. m. 3. 7 Ibid. 5 I Hen. III. m. 6 d. 



8 Ibid. 52 Hen. III. m. 8 ; Cal. Inq. p.m. i. 150, 217 ; Cal. Gen. i. 224 ; Feud. Aids, ii. 149,010. 



9 Close R. 55 Hen. III. m. 3. 



10 Chart. R. 3 Edw. I. m. 4, No. u. 



11 Coucher of Furness, Chetham Soc. 384. Chart. R. 8 Edw. I. m. 4, No. 28. 

 13 Courier of Furness, Chetham Soc. 425. 1* Fine R. 19 Edw. I. m. iz. 



15 ' Sire Johan de Lancastre ' bore arms ' de argent, a ij barres e un quarter de goules ; en le quarter un 

 lupard de or.' Nicolas, Roll of Arms, p. 12, 

 18 Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol. iii. 



17 Cal. Pat. R. \ 292-1 301, pass. 



1 8 Rep. on Dignity of a Peer, App. i, 126 ; The Ancestor, vii. 256, where an illustration of his seal is given, 

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