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came again to prosecute his claim, he lured back the unscrupulous earl by 

 grants exceeding in magnitude those conceded by Stephen.^ Henry's charter 

 was issued at Devizes and regranted Stephen's concessions to the earl, in- 

 cluding ' totum honorem comitis Rogeri Pictavensis ubicunque aliquid 

 haberet,' the great honour of William Peverel and many other fiefs.* The 

 earl had hardly taken possession of these vast territories when death removed 

 him from the scene, and made way for the conclusion in November of the 

 same year of a compromise between Henry and Stephen, embodied in the 

 treaty of Wallingford. By the promise to Stephen's only surviving son, 

 William Earl Warenne, of all the fiefs which his father had held before he 

 became king, including of course the honour of Lancaster, Henry disposed of 

 the claim to the crown which the son of Stephen might have made/ In 

 1 155, Henry II. was perhaps in possession of the honour during the minority 

 of the earl of Warenne, and confirmed to Shrewsbury Abbey the gifts of ' Earl 

 Roger, surnamed the Poitevin,' of his sheriff Godfrey, of Pain de Vilers, and 

 of William, constable of Chester.* Very soon after this, Warenne was in 

 possession of the honour, or of the greater part of it, for there is no record of 

 the date when the king of Scots surrendered ' Lancaster.' This must in any 

 case have occurred before the spring of 1158, for in January the earl 

 accompanied Henry to Carlisle, and either in going or returning confirmed 

 an agreement and exchange of lands made between Ewan, abbot of Furness, 

 and his neighbour, Michael le Fleming.^ In August of the same year the earl 

 went to Normandy, and was with the king in the Toulouse campaign of 

 1 159. His death occurred in the retreat from Toulouse in October of the 

 same year.* His dealings with the honour as recorded by charters are few in 

 number. He confirmed Broughton in Amounderness to Ughtred son of 

 Huck, ancestor of the Singleton family,'' and gave land in Walton, Waver- 

 tree, and Newsham, near Liverpool, to Waldeve de Walton to be his Serjeant 

 of the wapentake of West Derby.* The honour probably formed part of 

 his widow's dower until her re-marriage in 1 1 64 to the king's illegitimate 

 brother Hameline.' It was then resumed by the crown, and from Michaelmas 

 1 1 64 until Midsummer 1189 the issues were yearly accounted for in the 

 Pipe Rolls. 



Immediately after his accession Richard granted to his brother John, 

 count of Mortain, amongst other vast possessions the castle and honour of 

 Lancaster, with the county.^" For the next five years it remained in John's 

 hands. Many of his charters of this period have been preserved, and the 

 terms of many others are recoverable from his confirmations of former grants, 

 made after he succeeded to the crown." In 1194 the honour was resumed 

 by the crown in consequence of John's rebellion. The king of Scots 

 promptly took occasion to press his claim to the county together with North- 



1 Round, Engl. Hist. Rev. x. 91. ^ Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 370. 



* Rymer, Tcedera (Rec. Com.), i. 18. * Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 284 ; Tait, Meditsval Manchester, 174. 



5 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 315 ; Duchy of Lane. Anct. D., L. 342. 



6 Eyton, Itin. of Hen. II. 40,48 ; Round, Cat. of Doc. France, 285. 7 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 430. 



8 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 403. 



9 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. xii ; Lanes. Inquests (Rec. Soc), vol. 48, p. 23. During this period, and in fact 

 during the earl's absence in France, Reginald de Warenne seems to have had the charge of the honour. 

 Ibid. 286. 



10 Benedietus (Rolls Ser.), ii. 78 ; Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 6. 

 U Farrer, Lanes, Pipe R. passim ; Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), xl. 24-8. 



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