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 200 DERBY was sum. to Pari, by writ directed Comiti Derb In that Pari, he was accused of divers trespasses and was sent to the Tower by Earl Simon, his lands being taken into the King's hand.(*) On 5 Dec. 1265 he was admitted to the King's grace and had full pardon for all offences committed up to that day, on payment of 1,500 marks and a certain drinking-cup of gold.('') In a few months he again rebelled, and joining forces with John d'Eiville, Baldwin Wake, and others, devastated the Midlands. They were surprised at Chesterfield, 15 May 1266, and he was captured and sent to Windsor Castle,('=) where he remained a prisoner for nearly three years; his lands being again taken into the King's hand. On 28 June the castles and lands, and on 12 July 1266, the honour of Derby, forfeited by Robert de Ferrers, formerly Earl of Derby, the King's enemy and rebel, were granted to Edmund the King's son.('^) By the Dictum of Kenilworth his lands were subjected to the penalty of 7 years' purchase. On i May 1269 Edmund was ordered to restore these lands to him.('') But on that day he was forced to sign a charter, by which he agreed to redeem them, and obtain his release from prison, for /^ 50,000 to be paid to Edmund in a single payment before 8 July following, in default the lands to revert to Edmund and his heirs to hold till the money was paid in the manner pre- scribed. He soon afterwards regained his liberty but could not redeem his lands, which were accordingly released to Edmund. He brought an action to recover them in 1274, but failed.(') In 1273, when ante. Volens autem dominus Symon de Monteforti predictum Comitem liberare et domini Regis animum pacare, predictum Robertum Comitem cepit et in Turri Lon- donie incarceravit." [Annales de JVaverkia^ p. 358). According to Wykes (p. 160), the Earl of Leicester, " preclusis sibi [Comiti Ferariensi] legitimis defensionibus, ipsum tanquam hostem publicum carcerali custodie mancipavit." (*) See ayUc^ p. 198, note " i." C") Patent Roll, 50 Hen. Ill, m. 40. Tile cup was received at the Wardrobe on Saturday the eve of St. Thomas the Apostle, I.e., 19 Dec. {Idem, m. 38). i^) Annales de DumtapUa, p. 24 1 : Annales de IVaverleia, p. 370 : Wykes, pp. I 87-8 : Trevet, p. 269: Rishanger, Chron., p. 48: Chron. Maiorum London., p. 86: Annales London., p. 73. According to Hemingburgh (vol. i, p. 326), he hid himself in a church, but was betrayed by a woman. {^^ Duchy of Lancaster, Royal Charters, nos. 104, 105. (f) Patent Roll, 53 Hen. Ill, m. 17. The lands were restored to him in order that he might enfeoff his manucaptors. (') Robert de Ferrers sued Edmund, son of King Henry, in a plea that he might redeem his lands at 7 years' purchase according to the Dictum of Kenilworth. Edmund said that Robert could not claim the benefit of the Dictum, because after it was passed he had of his own freewill agreed to redeem himself from prison, and his lands, for j/^50,000 to be paid to Edmund in the quinzaine of St. John the Baptist 53 Hen. Ill: and that Robert had found manucaptors and conveyed all his lands to them, on condition that if the money was not paid to them at that date they should give the lands to Edmund to hold until Robert should pay him the ^50,000 simul et semel, and he produced Robert's [undated] charter to that effect. Robert said that this charter ought not to prejudice him, for he sealed it on the day of SS. Philip and James 53 Hen. Ill, and before that he was in the King's prison at Windsor, whence he