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 may be inferred. They demand the advowson of a chapel, &c. We say that we hold the advowson of a church, &c. Wherefore the view is necessary. — There is only a chapel in the town. . — We cannot yield up what he demands, for we hold the advowson of a church, and at present we do not know if he demands the advowson of a chapel in that church, as we have seen in other cases, or if he mean to say that there is another chapel; and we pray the view, &c. And the Justices awarded the view, and he had it.

Robert de Clyderhou was the son of Jordan and Cecilia de Clyderhou, from whom he probably inherited the manor of Bayley in the county of Lancaster. Like his predecessor Maunsell he was a man of some importance in the affairs of State and entrusted with several commissions by the Crown. By writ tested at York on 3rd June, 1312, he was summoned as a clerk of the council to the Parliament to be held at Lincoln on Sunday next after the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, 23rd July (6 Edw. II). In 7 Edw. II. he paid a fine of five marks to the King for a renewal of the charter granted to John Maunsell; and a charter of inspeximus, tested at New Minster on 7th June of that year, 1314, was accordingly granted by the said King to his beloved clerk Robert de Clyderhou and his successors, parsons of the church of Wigan, and the burgesses of the borough aforesaid, confirming the privileges before given to John Maunsell and his successors. In 8 Edw. II. Robert de Clyderhou appears as the King's escheator, citra Trentam, as also in 9 Edw. II., in which year he seems to have changed places with John Walewayn and taken the escheatorship ultra Trentam. In the following year they appear to have