FEUDAL BARONAGE 



proffered lo marks for a recognition of his land of Cossington, co. Leicester/ 

 an estate which his heirs held of the earls of Chester. Robert de Ingleby, 

 the son, dying without issue between 1 175 and 1 189, was succeeded by his 

 sister Edelina, wife of Walter de Somervill, by whose marriage the greater 

 part of her brother's inheritance passed to that family,' 



The only document which in anywise connects Richard the butler, of 

 Warrington, with the above family is a deed addressed to Walter, bishop of 

 Lichfield (1149-1159), by which Richard Pincerna grants to God, St. Mary, 

 and St. Giles of Calk, 8 virgates of his demesne land in Durandesthorp 

 (Donasthorpe, co. Derby), to which Beatrice, his wife, Ranulf the clerk, and 

 Hugh, his brothers, and several Derbyshire men were witnesses.' Donas- 

 thorpe was a member of the earl of Chester's fee in Derbyshire,* and, like 

 Ingleby, had probably been added to the earl's fief in that county after the for- 

 feitures of 1 102.° The attestation of the grantor's wife, Beatrice, and the fact 

 that Calk Priory was found in possession of burgage property in Warrington 

 at a later date, seem to confirm the opinion that the grantor was Richard, 

 the first of the family of Butler who were barons of Warrington. As Richard 

 the butler, he attested many charters of Ranulf, earl of Chester, in the last 

 decade of Stephen's reign." In 1165 he had acquittance of the sheriff's 

 demand for 8 marks of a scutage in connexion with the Welsh campaign of 

 that year, having performed military service with the king in person.^ The 

 only recorded feoffment which he made in his Warrington fee was to Waldeve 

 de Walton, master serjeant of the wapentake of West Derby, of lands in 

 Eggergarth, in Lydiate.^ His death occurred in or before 1 176.' William, 

 his son, was in ward of Ralph fitz Bernard, sheriff of Lancaster, during his 

 minority," and probably attained his majority between 1 185 and 1 190. He 

 was in arms against the king with his chief lord, John of Mortain, in 1 193—4, 

 but made his peace with Richard in 1 1 94 by payment of a small fine of 

 30 marks." He confirmed to the priory of Thurgarton the church of War- 

 rington, the church of Titheby with the chapel of Cropwell, and the carucate 

 of land in Cropwell which Matthew de Vilers, his grandfather, gave to that 

 house.'^* His first wife, whose name was Dionisia, was probably the mother 

 of his issue. She died before 12 15, in which year William the butler 

 obtained a letter from the king in support of his suit for the hand of Aline, 

 the relict of William de Furness, who died in 1 204.^^ He married this lady 

 shortly after. About the year 1205 he attested a charter of Ranulf, earl of 

 Chester, as the latter's butler.^* 



1 In 1237 Roger de Somervill held half a fee in Cosinton, viz. one half of the earl of Ferrers, the other 

 of the seneschal of Mohaut (Montalt). Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 92- 



2 See Afra. Angl. ii. 362; Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. I. No. 113; Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. ed. Helsby, ii. 864-6; 

 Testa de Nevill, cos. Derby, Staff and Leicester, pass. 



3 From the original formerly in the possession of the Rev. W. Massie of Chester. Beamont, Annals of 

 Warrington, 34. 



* Durandestorp was part of Nigel de Stafford's fief in Domesday (Dom. Bk. i. 278). Engelebi was 

 divided between Nigel de Stafford, Ralph fitz Hubert, the king, and the king's thegns (ibid, passim). 



^ Beamont, Annals of Warrington, 35. j t • , 



« Ibid. 33 ; Y&XKT, Lanes. Pipe R. passim. The earliest appears to be a charter dated at Lincoln on 

 the eve of the feast of SS. Simon and Jude (27 October), probably in the year 1 145. Dep. Keeper's 

 i^th Rep. App. i. 7, No. 65. 



7 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 6. 



8 Inf. of 1 212, Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. xlviii. 10. » Pipe R. 23 Hen. II. Notts. 

 10 Ing. of 1212, Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. xlviii. 6. " Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 77. 

 13 Mon. Angl. vi. 191. 1^ Lanes. Pipe R. 180, 252. 1* Cal. Pat. R. 1317-21, 26. 



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