A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



n^oned as holding lands oi £15 yearly value to the Great Council of West- 

 minster.^ About this time Richard son of Henry de Trafford, kt., was 

 living with him ' de son conseil et a ses robes ' as one of the servants of his 

 house.' In 1328 he settled his manor of Cropwell-Butler upon his son 

 Matthew, in tail, with remainder to his other son William.' As the latter 

 re-settled two-thirds of the manor in 1332 upon himself and Elizabeth his 

 wife and the heirs of their bodies, it would appear that Matthew died during 

 his father's lifetime.* WiUiam the butler the father, married Sibyl, whose 

 family and parentage are unknown, and died in 1329.^ In 1332 two- 

 thirds of the manor of Warrington and other lands were settled upon his 

 son and heir William, and Elizabeth his wife, and their issue.' This lady 

 appears to have been sister and co-heir of Richard son of Nicholas de 

 Havering, who died in 1335, in whose right her husband acquired half the 

 manor of Chalk well, co. Essex, which Thomas Butler, kt., alienated in 1498.^ 

 In 1335 he was summoned to be at Newcastle-upon-Tyne with horse and 

 arms to attend the king in the campaign against the Scots, this being the last 

 occasion in which he was summoned in the same form as the barons of the 

 realm.* In 1336, as 'William le Boteler, son and heir of William le Boteler 

 of Weryngton,' he confirmed the gift of an annuity of 40/. yearly to Cocker- 

 sand Abbey made by his great-grandfather, William the butler, kt,, in con- 

 sideration of the remission of a mark yearly of the annuity during the lifetime 

 of his mother Sibyl.' In 1337, together with Thomas de Lathum, he was 

 ordered to raise a force of 1,500 men-at-arms in the county, and to lead them 

 into Scotland." On 16 July, 1338, he and John the butler, being about to 

 set out on the king's service in France, had letters of protection from pleas 

 whilst absent from the kingdom." From this time he is described as 'chivaler.'" 

 In 1 340, shortly after the marriage of his eldest son, Richard, to Joan, daughter 

 of Thomas de Dutton of Dutton, kt., he settled his Lancashire estates and his 

 manor of Exhall, co. Warwick, upon himself and Elizabeth his wife for their 

 lives, remainder to Richard his son and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their 

 bodies, with remainder to his younger son John and the heirs of his body." 

 In I 341 he was in the king's service either at Berwick-upon Tweed, in the 

 marches, or elsewhere in Scotland.^* The following year ' Sir John Boteler 

 of Warrington,' whilst taking part in the war of succession in Brittany on the 

 side of the comte de Montfort, was wounded in the assault of the castle of 



1 Par/, irriti (Rec. Com.), ii. (2), 638. " Anct. Deeds, C. 3295. 



« Annals of Wontnffon, 159. * Notts. Feet of F. 6 Edw. III. 



• Cf. Cal. Close R. 1330-3, 146 ; Assize R. No. 1404, m. 18. In Trinity term, 1329, Sibyl, late the 

 wife of William le Boteler, of Warrington, was suing Adam de Southworth in a plea of dower. De Banc. R. 

 No. 278, m. ii</. A wooden effigy of a cross-legged knight, habited in mail from head to foot with a heater- 

 shape shield on his left arm, and both hands upon his sword's hilt, which was formerly in the Friary church 

 at Warrington, possibly represented the above William the butler. Harl. MSS. No. 139, C 22. 



* Lanes. Fines (Rec. Soc), xlvi. 82-6. 



7 Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. III., No. 20 ; 10 Edw. III. (2nd Nos.), No. 25 ; and 20 Edw. III. Morant, Hist. 

 0/ Essex, ed. 1768, i. 296. Elizabeth, wife of William le Boteler, kt., seals with a coat having a bend between 

 6 covered cups (Boteler) impaling a lion rampant double queued (Havering). See Nicolas, RoU of Arms, 

 Edtv. III. (W. Pickering, 1829), 9. 



' Rep. on Dig. of a Peer, App. i. 443. 



» Cockersand Chartul. Chetham Soc. 161. '" ^. Scot. (Rec. Com.), i. 48 6i. 



11 Cal. Close R. 1337-9, 523. John Butler was slain in this campaign. Ciron. de Lanercost (Rolls Ser.), 

 s. d. 1340. 



i» Assize R. No. 1425, m. 6</. i' Lanes. Fines (Rec. Soc.), xlvi. 195. 



!♦ Rot. Scot. (Rec. Com.), i. 606, 61 1-2, 627. 



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