A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Amounderness who reaped on the lord's demesne and took care of his dogs 

 and horses." 



Count Roger forfeited this with all his other English lands in 1102 by 

 supporting his eldest brother, Robert of Belleme, in his rebellion against the 

 new king, Henry I, and the whole mighty fief was taken into the hands of 

 the crown. In accordance with Norman custom, however, it did not lose its 

 individuahty, continuing to be known as the ' Honour of Roger of Poitou,' 

 or the ' Honour of Lancaster,' " and was speedily regranted by Henry to his 

 fatherless nephew, Stephen of Blois. The exact date of the grant is not 

 known, but a roll of the landowners in Lindsey drawn up between 1 1 1 5 and 

 1 1 18, shows Stephen, now count of Mortain, in possession of Lincolnshire 

 lands held in 1086 by Roger of Poitou.'* His first recorded act in the 

 north-western part of the honour belongs to 1124, when he established 

 monks of Savigny at Tulketh, near Preston, upon whom, three years later, he 

 bestowed the greater part of Furness." The earliest evidence of his 

 possession of ' Between Ribble and Mersey,' is in the Pipe Roll of i 129-30.'* 

 There is no good reason, however, for doubting that the honour was given to 

 him as a whole in the early years of the reign." Several new feoffments 

 were made between the Mersey and the Lakes by Henry I after the 

 forfeiture of Roger of Poitou or by Count Stephen." One of these deserves 

 special mention, because it left a permanent impress upon hundred boundaries. 

 In 1 102 Robert de Lacy of Pontefract, to whom Roger had given Bowland, 

 and in all probability the adjoining fief of Clitheroe, which included the 

 whole hundred of Blackburn, received a grant of the eastern corner of 

 Amounderness — Chippingdale, Dutton, and Aighton." The gift led to the 

 transference of this compact block of territory on the right bank of the 

 Ribble to Blackburn hundred.'* 



The accession of the amiable but irresolute Stephen to a disputed throne, 

 undid for a time the work of Rufus and Henry I in the north-west, and the 



" Three Lams. Doc. (Chet. Soc), 56 ; cf. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 404. The lands in Newton and 

 Warrington hundreds which were still held in drengage in 1086, suffered further reductions, and what 

 survived was in the thirteenth century held in thegnage. 



" The latter perhaps had a narrower application at first ; see below, p. I 86. 



'* Roll of Landowners in Lindsey (ed. Chester Waters), 20sqq. 



" Sec above, p. 1 14. 



™ Lanes. Pipe R. i. A charter ascribed by the editor (ibid. 427) to 11 14-16 cannot be earlier than 

 1 125, and may be ten years later ; cf. The Ancestor, No. 4, p. I 56. 



" The alleged previous tenure of ' Between Ribble and Mersey' by Ranulf le Meschin, who was lord 

 of Kendal, Ewcross, and Copeland (as son-in-law of Ivo Taillebois), and of Rufus's conquest of Carlisle Oby 

 gr.int of Henry I) until 1 1 20, when he became earl of Chester, rests only upon an assertion made in a charter 

 of his son, Ranulf Gernons, when in possession of the district in the next reign ; Lanes. Pipe R. 319. As the 

 latter had probably laid violent hands upon it (see below, p. 1 86), he would have an interest in claiming to hold 

 it by hereditar}' right, and it is significant that he wholly ignores Count Stephen's tenure of it. It is possible 

 th.Tt the earls of Chester thought they had rights there in virtue of its former connexion with Cheshire. The 

 charter in which Clitheroe is described as ' in Cheshire,' belongs to this period {c. 1 I 22) ; see above, p. 180. 



" Michael le Fleming's lordship of Aldingham in Furness, which was excepted from the grant to Savigny, 

 may have been one of the fiefs given by Henry I to newcomers from Flanders. William Peverel, of Notting- 

 ham, received Ashton and Great Marton near Preston, and Blackrod near Bolton, which after the escheat of 

 his lands to the crown in 115 3, formed part of the honour of Peverel ; Lanes. Pipe R. 266 ■ but cf F.C.H. 

 Lanes, i, 293. The Butler fief of Weeton, in Amounderness, was probably created by Count Stephen 



" Lanes. Pipe R. 382. / r • 



" Ibid. 425 ; Lanes. In}, i, 289. The parish of Ribchester (which included Dutton) was thereby divided 

 between the two hundreds. Dutton and Chippingdale were left in the deanery of Amounderness. Little 

 Bowland with Leagram was probably part of Chippingdale, but may possibly have formed part of Bowland 

 proper, confirmed to Lacy about the same time. In the latter case it must have been separately annexed to 

 Lancashire and Blackburn hundred. 



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