A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of Arklow, afterwards confirmed to him by William Marshall on becoming 

 jure uxoris lord of Leinster/ and in 1 188 he attested the charter of his brother 

 Hubert, then dean of York, founding the abbey of Premonstratensian canons 

 at West Dereham.' In 1189 he accompanied his uncle Glanvill to France, 

 witnessing with him a charter of Henry II., confirming the translation of 

 the canons of Swainby to Coverham in Richmondshire.' 



Soon after his accession to the honour of Lancaster in 1 189, John granted 

 to Theobald for his homage and service all Amounderness for the service of 

 three knights' fees, the grant comprising the town of Preston with the 

 demesne lands belonging to it, all the demesne lands of the hundred or wapen- 

 take with the service of knights and freemen in the hundred, the wapentake 

 court with the pleas, and the forest of Amounderness with pleas of the forest, 

 reserving only pleas of the crown.* Mr. Round tells us that from 1185 to 

 1 193 Theobald 'was in constant attendance on John, witnessing his charters 

 to St. Augustine's, Bristol {Mon. Angl. xi. 367), and Jerpoint Abbey in Kil- 

 kenny (ibid. vi. 1 132), and receiving from him, as lord of Ireland, the office 

 of his 'butler.' He first assumes this style (' Pincerna ') when testing John's 

 charter to Dublin, 15 May, 1192, at London {Mun. Doc. p. 55; St. Mary's 

 Chart, i. 266—70) ; and it was apparently about this time that he received a 

 grant from the archbishop of Dublin as ' pincerna domini comitis Moretoniae 

 in Hibernia' (Cott. MS. fol. 266), a style proving that he was appointed by 

 John. He now adopted a fresh seal, adding to his name (Theobald Walter) 

 the style ' Pincerna Hiberniae.' This has escaped notice. Hence he is 

 occasionally, in his latter days, spoken of as ' le Botiller,' or * Butler,' which 

 latter became the surname of his descendants." Towards the end of 1192 

 he was with John at Nottingham,* and on 12 June, 1193, with John at 

 Dorchester.^ Mr. Cokayne considers that the grant of the office of ' Butler 

 of Ireland ' would probably comprise baronial rank and position for the 

 holders of that office.* Theobald is said to have subsequently obtained the 

 valuable monopoly of the prisage of wines in Ireland, which was purchased 

 by Act of Parliament in 18 11, from his successor, the first marquess of 

 Ormonde, for >r2 16,000.' Some strength is given to this statement by the 

 petition to Parliament in 1335, of James Butler, first earl of Ormonde, in 

 which he declared that his ancestors, time out of mind, had enjoyed the 

 prisage of wines in the four towns of Dublin, Drogheda, Waterford, and 

 Limerick, by rendering 40J. for each cask at the exchequer in Dublin.^" He 

 adhered to John in the rebellion of 1 193-4, when he held the castle of Lan- 

 caster on the latter's behalf; " but in February, 1 194, being summoned by his 

 brother Hubert, then justiciar, to surrender, he delivered it to him, and 

 through his mediation made his peace with Richard,'^ who immediately 

 appointed him sherifF of the county (which office he retained until John's 

 accession)^' and on 22 April, 1 194, re-granted to him the hundred of Amoun- 

 derness, to hold as before by the service of three knights." In August of the 



1 Carte, quoted by Round in Diet. Nat. Biog. viii. 77-8. 



3 Mon. Angl. vi. 900. 3 Mm. Angl. vi. 920*. 



* Cott. MS. Titus B. xi. fol. 252. s Ulct. Nat. Biog, viii. 78. 



6 Cott. MS. Titus, B. xi. 347. T Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. ^16. 



6 Ccm/l-ic Peerage, ii. 94. » Carte, Life of James D. ofOrmondt. 



10 R. Pari. (Rec. Com.), ii. 90. u Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 237. 



^" Ibid. 13 p.R,o, lists and Indexes, vol. 9. 

 1* C:;rt. Antiq. R. 24^ ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 81, 434. 



