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Nicholas, son of Lucy, was the natural son of Nicholas de Menill by 

 Lucy, daughter of Robert de Thwenge. 



Thomas de Hibernia was obliged after raising a plea to acquiesce.* 



This settlement led to further dispute. Nicholas de Menill died 26th 

 April, 15 Edw. II., 1321, without lawful heir of his body ; and Maria, 

 daughter of Margery de Muschaunce, died on the 18th October, 17 Edward 

 II., 1323, and the Escheator prevented Nicholas, the son of Lucy, from 

 entering upon the manors, and took them into the King's hands, 17 Edw. II. 



By a writ of pardon for acquiring lands holden of the King in chief, of 

 which the date is not given, no. 52, Ford Papers in MS., temp. Edw. III., 

 it appears that Nicholas Menille by his charter did give and grant to 

 Nicholas son of Lucy and Alice his wife, daughter of William Eos de 

 Hamelak,f certain lands (Cheviot Forest) which he had of the gift of 

 Nicholas de Huntercombe, and also the moiety of the manors held by 

 Maria de Graham, and that in consequence of Nicholas son of Lucy, having 

 taken forcible possession of them, they were seized into the King's hands. 



Meantime, Nicholas son of Lucy de Thwenge had died. The King on 

 the requisition of John Darcy le Fitz, who had interposed, pardoned the 

 trespass and granted to the said Alice and her heirs begotten by the said 

 Nicholas son of Lucy, the moieties of the said manors to hold of the 

 King's gift. John Darcy, however, had unauthorisedly taken the manage- 

 ment of the lands himself. The Placita of 18 Edward III., 1344, show 

 that Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas, son of Lucy, brought a writ of 

 intrusion against John Darcy le Fitz, and that the King desired him to be 

 ejected, and Elizabeth to have seizin, but being under age, the King took 

 the minor into his own hands. % 



By a writ, 27 Edward III., (1352-53) the King appoints John de 

 Fenwick, Robert de Reymes, and Adomar de Atheles to take into the 

 King's hands the moiety of the manors of Wollore, Hethpole, etc., till the 

 legitimate age of the heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas de Meynill 

 (Nicholas, son of Lucy,) deceased. || 



John Darcy ultimately married the heiress. On the 27 Edw. III., 

 1352-3, the King gave licence to John Darcy de Kynath and Elizabeth his 

 wife, that they may enfeoff Thomas de Swynford, chivaler, and John de 

 Chartereye in the manor of Yarum, and the moieties of the Wooler barony, 

 including Hethepole, with power to re-enfeoff the foresaid John Darcy and 

 Elizabeth his wife, and their heirs in their possessions, to revert to the 

 King if there are no legitimate heirs. This is to all purposes a grant to a 



* 5 Placita de Banco, 8 Edw. II., MS. Documents. 



f Mr Dickson mistakingly, Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, iv., p. 21, calls her Alice 

 Graham, only child of John Graham, son and heir of Nicholas de Graham . 

 and that she married " Nicholas, Baron de Meinil," and that " they had an 

 only child, Elizabeth, Baroness de Meinil." 



I Ford Tithe Case, Printed, pp. 229, 230. 



|| Hodgson's Hist, of Northd., Part III., ii., p. 318. 



