FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Scotland.^ In the year 1300 he granted charters to his chief tenants of the 

 fee of Warrington, releasing them, their heirs and tenants, from finding 

 thenceforth more than one beadle to do service at the three weeks' court of 

 Warrington, acquitting them from any claim in respect of waste land brought 

 under cultivation and enclosed, saving always puture of one beadle from their 

 oxgangland, and from bode and witness, stallage, and forstal/ In 1301 he 

 was summoned to Berwick to serve in the war against the Scots/ He died 

 before the middle of the year 1304.* Henry his son, who was one of the 

 knights of the shire returned to the Parliament of 1297,' predeceased his 

 father before August 1299, leaving by his wife Isabel, said, but on insufficient 

 grounds, to have been a daughter of the first Richard the butler of Marton," 

 a son William, who succeeded to the barony on his grandfather's decease/ 

 In 1299, as WiUiam the butler, son of the late Henry the butler, kt., he 

 granted lands in Foleshill, co. Warwick, to Wilham le Warner of Exhall/ In 

 Trinity term, 1304, John son of John de Vilers was suing William son of 

 Henry le Boteler to perform the service due to Thomas, earl of Lancaster, 

 for some unspecified lands in co. Lancaster." In 1 3 1 3 he participated in the 

 pardon granted to Thomas, earl of Lancaster, for complicity in the murder of 

 Peter de Gaveston.^" He is frequently described as ' of Bewsey,' in the 

 charters and leases of his time." In the years 13 14, 13 16— 7, and 1321— 3, he 

 served in person against the Scots in response to various summonses.^^ His 

 arms — azure, a bend between 6 covered cups or — are preserved in a MS. of 

 the time of Edward II." William, his son, sealed with these arms in the 

 2 Edward III. (1328)." On 12 November, 1321, he was inhibited from 

 attending the meeting of the ' Good Peers,' illegally convened by Thomas of 

 Lancaster, and the year following appears to have attended upon the king 

 with some forces in the brief campaign against the earl.^^ In 1320 the manors 

 of Laton, Great Marton.^and Great Sankey were settled upon him and his wife 

 Sibyl and the heirs of their bodies.^' In 1323 he was appointed one of the 

 chief keepers of the peace in the county," and the following year was sum- 



1 Rep. on Dig. of a Peer, i. 89, 104. 



* Annals of Warrington, 121 ; Lanes. MSS. Chetham Lib. 



' Pari. Writs (Rec. Com.), 355 ; Rep. on Dig. of a Peer, App. i. 138. 



* In Easter term, 1305, there is reference to a claim for relief made by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, after 

 the death of William the butler for a tenement in Kinalton, co. Notts.; Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 254. 

 There seems to be no doubt that WiUiam le Boteler was in possession of the barony from 1245 to 1303, a 

 period of fifty-eight years. Not only is there the evidence, given in the plea of 'quo waranto' in 1292, that 

 he had obtained royal charters in 1257, 1277, and 1285, but in a plea in the King's Bench in 1313 

 respecting a tenement in Warrington which his grandson William was called by the defendant to warrant, 

 the said tenement was described as having been given by William son of Emery le Boteler to the plaintiffs 

 father, one William the clerk. De Banc. R. No. 201, m. 68. 



5 Pari. Writs (Rec. Com.), i. 58. 



* On 8 January, 1 304, by deed dated at Summerby, co. Lincoln, Walter de Hepaym released a debt of 

 ;^29 to Isabel, formerly the wife of Henry le Boteler, in which sum she was bound to him on 8 September, 

 1303. She had lands in Lincolnshire worth ;^I7 a year. De Banc. R. No. 149, m. xZ d. 



7 He is described as ' William son of Henry le Boteler ' in a deed of I Edw. II. Annals of Warrington, 

 13s; and in a plea against Robert son of Roger de Sonky, at Martinmas, 1 306. Assize R. No. 420, m. 1 1 . 

 ^ Anct. D., A. 3273. 



' De Banc. R. No. 152, m. 178. i" Cal. Pat. R. 1313-17. 24- 



11 Beamont, Annals of Warrington, 133-160. 



i2Af«7. Writs (Rec. Com.), i. 428-63 i,/<j///«,- Rep. on the Dig. of a Peer, App. i. 256-339 /j/«»/. 

 13 Harl. MSS. No. 337, f. 29;^, No. 3. See the Genealogist (New Ser.), iii. 120. The arms of ' Sire 

 William le Botiler de Wemme ' \sic for Werinton] were ' de azure, a une bende e vj coupes de or.' Nicolas, 

 Roll of Arms, temp. Edw. II. 82 ; Roll, temp. Edw. III., i6th cent, co^y penes W. Farrer. 



!■* Beamont, ^«w// of Warrington, plate facing p. 149. i^ Pari. Writs (Rec. Com.), ii. (2), 545^, 549;^. 



i« Lanes. Fines, Rec. Soc. xlvi. 40. ^'' Pari. Writs (Rec. Com.), ii. (2), App. 238. 



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