A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Clitheroe, because his knights had served with the king in Wales that year.* 

 Three years later he accounted for the scutage due from 42J and i^ knights' 

 fees of the honour of Pontefract and 13^ of new feoffment.' In 1171 he 

 was amerced >Cioo by the justices in eyre of the forest for a hart killed in 

 the royal forest,' and next year he rendered account of the scutage due from 

 his Yorkshire fief.* In 1173 he was with the king at Breteuil in the 

 campaign against the French king.^ In 1175 he attested the royal confirma- 

 tion in favour of Welbeck Abbey, dated at Nottingham," and in 1177 

 attested the king's award between the kings of Castille and Navarre.' About 

 the month of May that year he set forth with the earl of Essex and other 

 notables to join the count of Flanders in a crusade.* From this expedition 

 he never returned, dying, as it was believed, in the Holy Land on 25 Sep- 

 tember following.* His wife is said to have been Albreda,*" sister of William 

 de Vesci, parson of Barwick in Elmet." By her he had issue an only son 

 Robert. Only three infeudations which he made in the honour of Clitheroe 

 have remained upon record. To Hugh, son of Leofwin, he gave the manors 

 of Altham, Clayton le Moors, Accrington, and a moiety of the manor of 

 Billington ; *' to Robert Banastre, lord of Makerfield, he gave Walton in le 

 Dale, Mellor, Eccleshall, Little Harwood, Over and Nether Darwen," and 

 to Richard Fitton he gave Great Harwood." All these grants belong to the 

 period 1 160— 1 177. 



Robert de Lacy is first mentioned in one of his father's charters belong- 

 ing to the year i 160.*° Before 1 183 he gave an oxgang of land in Great 

 Marsden to his maternal uncle, William, son of Eustace de Vesci," and two 

 oxgangs there to the monks of Pontefract." In 1185 he gave 40 marks to 

 have certain of his men, who were said to have slain outlaws, tried in the 

 king's court.'* He was present at the king's coronation in 1 189,'° and about 

 this time gave to Kirkstall Abbey a vaccary and woodland at Roundhay;'"' and 

 for the welfare of the soul of Isabel his wife, and of his own soul, gave all 

 Accrington, with the wood there called the Hay, and also Rushton Grange, 

 in Bowland," and confirmed many grants to the priory of Nostell."* He like- 

 wise warranted by charter to William de Arches the grants of his ancestors 

 to William's predecessors of the liberty to take venison in their fee in 

 Wiswall, Hapton, and Osbaldeston.^ To Efward Brun he gave half a caru- 



1 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 6 ; Pipt R. Soc. 52 ; Staff. Collect, i. 45. 



^ Pipe R. Soc. xii. 88. In 1 166 Henry de Lacy returned his fees of this honour as 77! fees, including 

 1 8i held by Guy de Laval, 2 held in alms, his own, viz. 4of of old feoffment, and just over 1 8 of new 

 feoffment. Red Book of the Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 421-4. In 1 172 the numbers were 43! and 313'^ respectively. 

 Madox, Hist, of the Exch. i. 629. 



8 Pipe R. Soc. xvi. 73. * Pipe R. Soc. xviii. 6:. ' Benedict (Rolh Ser.), i. 51. 

 « Moti. Jng/. vi. 875. '' Hoveden (Rolls. Ser.), ii. 131. 



* Benedict (Rolls Ser.), i. 159. A great battle was fought at Rames in Palestine on 26 November, 1 177. 



9 Mon. Angl. v. 5 3 3*. 



10 Tovraeley MSS. Chetham Lib. C. 8, 8 ; Brooke, Discovery ofErnrs (1723), 63. 



11 Mon. Angl. v. 533^. 



12 Whitaker, Hut. oj Whalley, edit. 1876, ii. 265. A Hugh, son of Lefwin, was amerced in Yorkshire 

 in 1 175 for having received goods from Flanders into his shop. Pipe R. Soc. 21 Hen. II. 180. 



15 Hist. ofWbalUy, ii. 330. 1* Ibid. 388 n. i^ Qhartul. of Pontefract (Yorks. Rec. Soc.), 3,. 



16 Ibid. 42. William de Vesci died before Easter, 1183 ; Grimaldi, Rot. de dominabus, 5. 



17 Chartul. of PonUfract, 26. i' Pipe R. 3 1 Hen. II. Yorb. ro. 5 d. 



19 Benedict (Rolls Sen), i. 80. 



20 Mon. Angl. (Dodsworth), vi. 862 ; Chartul. of Pontefract (Yorb. Rec Soc), 315. 

 !i Coucher of Kirhtall (Thoreshy Soc), 196, 199. *' Mon. Angl. vi. 92. 



23 Duchy of Lane, formerly CI. xxv. bdle. R. 13, v. 



