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 THE ANCESTOR 173 Braddelegh Cross on the road from Knutsford to Warrington. We hear also of an akedon des ditz armes^ which the grandfather wore in Scotland ; of a cotearmure formerly preserved by Sir John de Davenport ; and of charters in the possession of St Werburgh's at Chester, of John de Holford, John de Domvile, John de Etoun, and John de Frodesham, but their contents we are not always told. Lastly, coming to the defendant himself, we find that previous to the invasion of Scotland he had seen consider- able service in the French wars. While still a lad, he accom- panied his father in law en le darrain viage du rot Edward tierce en frame ^ that is to say, in the campaign of 1359-60, which ended with the treaty of Bretigny. Thus he was no doubt present when Sir John Daniers challenged Carminowe, though by reason of youth not qualified to take up his own quarrel. War broke out afresh in 1369, when Froissart tells us a force of English and Gascons took Vire in Normandy. The army, under the Earls of Cambridge and Pembroke, then marched southward, crossing the Loire at Nantes, and the usual desultory fighting followed. The stronghold of Brux in Poitou was attacked, and carried on a second assault. Three esquires seized the castle of Belle Perche in the Bourbonnais, and there captured the due de Bourbon's mother. La Roche sur Yon, a fortified town of some strength, surrendered to Sir James Audley after a formal siege. Various deponents men- tion Grosvenor's presence on all these occasions, under Sir James de Audelegh, lieutenant of the Black Prince, al saut de FierSy a Nauntes en Britaigne, al gayne del 'T our de Brose, or Brusey as siege de Relperge (sic), and al siege de Rochesirion. At this point Froissart breaks off, but the depositions add that he was at Limoges, taken and retaken in 1370, al rescus de Blank en Berri (Le Blanc, on the river Creuse), at the winning of Beau- lieu in Guyenne, at Mauleverer in Anjou, and at Issoudun in Poitou. Again he was with the late king at Sandwich, and en le darrein viage du roi Edward sur le meer ; that is, in the abor- tive expedition, intended for the relief of Thouars, which set sail in August, 1372, but returned a month or two later with- out having effected a landing. Of his second marriage with the lady of Pulford we hear from one of Scrope's witnesses. Sir Maheu Redeman. The evidence I have thus epitomized supplies us with the following