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xii Testa de Nevill, p. 329:

‘Walter Marescall holds the vill of Ingoldemol, Partenay, Burg, Steping, Skeggnes of the king in chief, of the honor of Purnfrey.’

Edmund de Lacy, son of John and Margaret, married Alesia daughter of the marquis of Saluzzo, but died in 1258 before his mother. His son and heir, Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, was lord of Ingoldmells when the earliest court rolls we have were written, and had been found to have free warren in Ingoldmells on his own lands and other people’s twenty years in 1276.

Henry de Lacy, ‘the closest counsellor of Edward I,’ took an eminent part in the affairs of the kingdom during the earlier years of the reign of Edward II. He married Margaret, daughter and coheir of William de Longespee. Their son, Edmund, was drowned in a well in Denbigh Castle in the life­time of his father, and their daughter Alice became their heir. The earl in 1292 granted his honor of Pontefract, with the manors &c. belonging thereto, to the king, but eventually an entail was made, whereby after the death of Henry and Margaret his wife all their castles, manors &c., including Ingoldmells, were settled on Thomas Plantagenet, earl of Lan­caster, and Alice his wife, daughter of the earl of Lincoln, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the heirs of Thomas.

Henry de Lacy died at his mansion house, called Lincoln’s Inn, 5 Feb. 1311, whereupon Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and Alice his wife became possessed of the manor of Ingoldmells. It is stated on the rolls that the earl of Lancaster held the manor for life only, and after his death in 16 Edward II we ﬁnd Ebulo le Strange in possession of the manor in right of Alice his wife.

Alice, countess of Lincoln, died without issue in 1348, when under the above-mentioned entail Henry, earl of Derby and Lancaster, became her heir. It was found by an inquisition taken at Bolingbrok, 15 October A.D. 1348, that Alice held the manor of Ingoldmells, with appurtenances, to herself and