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 132 THE HALL OF OAKHAM. Roger de jMortimer had several children by his first wife IMehsent, who was also a Ferrars, daughter of the earl of Derby, but the manor of Oakham descended to his second son Robert, by Isabella, who bequeathed it to his wife Mar- garet de Say. She was in possession 3 Hen. III. (1219''.) After her decease, some of her estates fell to her husband, William de Stuteville, and in the 43rd Hen. HI. they came to her son, Hugh de Mortimer, (1259.) It does not appear that Oakham was amongst the number, for in 36 Hen. HI. (1252) it was granted to Richard, earl of Cornwall, King John's second son, in part payment of £500 due to him on the dower of Sanchia his wife'. In the same year he received permission to enclose the wood of Fliteris. Their son Edmund, earl of Cornwall, succeeded to the inheritance in 55 Hen. HI. (1271J.) In the 50th Hen. HI. (1272) he had a grant of the castle of Oakham, to hold it in fee with the shrievalty of Rutland^ He died at Ashridge, 28 Eclw. I. (1300), without issue. In the Parliament held at Lincoln the same year, at the urgent request of the barons there assembled, the king allowed Margaret the widow £500 per annum, to be secured to her as well as from other somxes, so also from the castle and manor of Oakham, the wapentake of Martinslei, and the hundreds of Alnestow and East Hundred ; from the hamlet of Egilton and part of the manor of Langham, also from cer- tain issues of the court leets and sheriffs' aids in Ketton, Preston, Oakham, Ilameldon, and various other places in the county of Rutland. After the decease of Margaret, who had been divorced from her husband and married to Piers de Gaveston, and subseqnently to Hngh de Audley, earl of Gloucester, the manor of Oakham reverted to the crown^ By an Inquisition held 28 Edw. I., (1300,) it appears that at the decease of Edmund, earl of Cornwall, as far as the issues of the castle itself were concerned, it was profitless. Without the enclosure there was a garden, the fruit and herbage of which was worth 8^. a year, also stews, a wind- mill and a water-mill, worth £8 per annum. There was a h Rot. Claus. 3 Henry IIL p. 395. Rot. Chius. sub anno m. 3. 39th Hen. III. Gilbert de Preston was ap- Rutland and inquisition upon offenders pointed justice of gaol delivery at Oakham. found therein. Incjuis. post n)ortem. Rot. I'at. 39 Hen. III. m. 15. dorso. The " Rot. Fin. ni. 13. county of Rutland had been granted to ' luquis. ](j Edw. III. Ricliard, earl of Cornwall, 11 Ihn. III.
 * Rot. Pat. 36 Hen. IIL m. 4. In the > 9 Edw. I. the king lias the forest of