FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Basset, the justiciar/ and died about 1180. She re-married after his death 

 Guy son of Maurice de Creon.' In 1 190 tallage was levied from the men of 

 Tunstall, co. Norfolk, which had been Albert Grelley's.' 



Robert Grelley, son of Albert III. was aged 1 1 in 1 1 84—5, and in 1 1 9 1 was 

 in ward of his uncles, Gilbert, Alan, and Thomas Basset,* and attained his 

 majority in 1 194, when his quota of ;^i2 to the scutage levied for the king's 

 redemption was pardoned because his twelve knights had accompanied the king 

 to Normandy.' His equestrian seal, attached to a fine charter granting lands 

 in Norfolk and this county to Robert de Byron, may be seen amongst the Duchy 

 of Lancaster charters preserved in the Public Record Office.* During his life- 

 time he enfeoffed Robert de Byron of the hamlets of Clayton (i carucate), 

 Droylsden (4oxgangs),and half Failsworth (2 0xgangs),''these being parcel of his 

 Manchester demesne. He enfeoffed Ralph de Ancotes of 2 oxgangs of land, 

 representing the hamlet of Ancoats,^ and Aca, the clerk, of a field, parcel of 

 the demesne of Manchester.' He married Margaret, daughter and heir of 

 Henry de Longchamp, lord of Werlingham and Weston, co. Suffolk, brother 

 of the chancellor.^" From 1195 to 1203 he and his knights were almost every 

 year engaged in military service." In 1203 Ranulf, earl of Chester, Roger 

 de Montbegon, Robert Grelley, and William le Boteler of Warrington were 

 requested by the king as a favour to give him the aid of their men in the 

 work then being done upon the ditches of Lancaster Castle.^^ In 1215 he 

 had a warrant for six harts to be taken in the royal forest of Clive, probably 

 for restocking his park at Blackley or Horwich Chase." He was one of the 

 northern barons who were prominent in extorting the Charter of Liberties 

 from John," for which cause, towards the end of 12 15 he underwent the 

 sentence of excommunication by the pope," and his estates were seized, the 

 king giving Periton to Ralph Gernon," and placing Adam de Yealand in 

 charge of the castle of Manchester and the lands dependent upon it." On 

 20 June, 12 15, five days after the date of Magna Carta, he was at Runy- 

 mede, between Windsor and Staines, in the king's company." In 12 17 

 Henry III. restored to Robert his estates in cos. Oxford, Lincoln, and Rutland,^' 

 those in this county having been previously restored. In 1 2 1 8 he was with 

 the king's forces at the siege of Newark,^" and in 1221 at the siege of Bytham 

 Castle,^^ and the same year was appointed with three others to pursue and 

 arrest the rebel Richard Siward, with his adherents,*"* for opposing the king 

 in the last-mentioned siege.*** In 1224 he was with the king's forces at the 

 siege of Bedford, and the year following witnessed the reissue of the Great 



1 Grimaldi, Rot. de dominabus, 3-4, where an account of the issues of Albert Grelley's Lincolnshire estate 

 for about 4-5 years will be found, and at p. 25, of his Norfolk estates. 



2 Pipe R. 28 Hen. II. co. Line. ' Pipe R. i Ric I. (Rec. Com.), 46. 

 * Grimaldi, Roi. de dominabus, 33 ; Pipe R. 2 Ric. I. co. Line. 



^ Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. "]%. 



^ See also Lanes, and Ches. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xvii. 41. 



7 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 404^. ^ Ibid. 9 ibid. 405. 



io Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 295 ; Cal. Close R. 1216-2 s, 6^. 



11 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. pass. ^^ Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 87. 



13 Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 215. 



1* Matth. Paris, Chron. majora (Rolls Ser.), ii. 585 ; Flores Hist, (ibid.), iii. 297 ; Rymer, Foedera, ed. 

 1816, i. 144. 



15 Flores Hist. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 356. 1^ Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 241. 



17 Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 165. ^^ Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 2io3. 



19 Close R. (Rec. Com.), 337. ^^ Ibid. 447*^. 21 Ibid. 475. 



32 Pat. R. 1216-25, 282-3. ^^ ^^'^^- 3°°- 



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