326 High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 



to support it.] In 1167 for the Pleas of the county of Godfrey 

 and Richard de Luci, Lambert de Butlesdun rendered an account 

 of 1 mark for a groundless appeal. He paid in the Treasury, and 

 is discharged." In 1187 the same Sheriff rendered an account of 

 £6 6s. 8d. for the borough of Wark worth and " Aclinton, Over- 

 butlesdun, and Birling pertinents to Waikworth, etc." The 

 sum not having been paid, is repeated in the accounts for 1188, 

 1190, and 1191.^ In 1227 Wm. de Butlesdon rendered an 

 "account of half a mark for pluries [a writ of pluries, or for 

 plevin.] In the treasury 40d., and he owes 40d "- 



In 1240, at the death of John fitz-Robert, Lord of Wark- 

 worth — who was one of the 25'* Magna Charta Barons — it was 

 found that he held in cap. of the King, Warkworth with its 

 members, Acklington, Birling, ' Upper Budliston,'* and a fourth 

 part of Togston, by the service of one knight's fee : the guardian- 

 ship of his heir— Roger fitz-John — was committed to the 

 King's half brother, Wm. de Valence. Of Eoger fitz-John, 

 •'Wm.^ son of Walter held half of the ville of Butelesden, and 

 paid 16s. a year, besides 13s. 4d. for a horse and a dog, and 3s. 

 for stallage and a day's ploughing with two ploughs, with other 

 services worth ll|^d. per year. William son of Lambert held 

 the other half, and paid 30s. a year, besides 6s. 8d. for the 



^ Pipe Rolls, pp. 9, 10, 44, 46, 48, 51, translated by Dr Hardy, who adds 

 that Richard de Luci was chief justiciary under Henry II. from the 13th 

 year of his reign, till 24 Henry II ; previous to that he was joint justiciary 

 with another. He was also a warrior, and refounded the Abbey of Lernes 

 or Westwood, parish of Erith, Kent, in 1178, and retired to it in 1179, dying 

 the same year. Foss's Judges of England, pp. 415, 417. His son Godfrey 

 de Luci was Bishop of Winchester, and completed the Abbey of Lernes. 

 In 1179 he was named by the council held at Windsor, on the division of 

 the kingdom into four parts for the administration of justice at the head of 

 the six justiciaries to whom the northern counties were appropriated. He 

 died Sept. 4, 1204.— I6id., p. 417. 



"^ Pipe Rolls, p. 149. Pluries is the name of a writ that goes out in the 

 third place after the original writ called capias and the sicut alias have 

 been issued without any effect. — Dr Hardy. 



3 Bates, Border Holds, p. 89. 



" Testa de Nevill, p. 204. 



^ This Wm. of Botlesdon is possibly he who also held lands in Nether 

 Buston, and who gave to Brinkburn Priory, for the lights, a rent charge 

 of 18s. 6d., to be received from Henry Palmerius and his heirs, out of a 

 burgage in Warkworth. — Index to Brinhhurn Chartulary, Arch. Ml., vol. 

 II., p. 221., and Canon Oreenwell's MS. notes thereon. 



