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 again changed places. In this year, on 22nd Sept. 1316 (10 Edw. II.), Robert de Clyderhou was empowered, with others, to make a new assessment of the fifteenth in the city of York. On the following day, ix Kal. Oct. (23rd Sept.) 1316, as ''Dominus Rob. de Cliderhow, presbyter'' he was instituted to the rectory of Gargrave, in the deanery of Craven, on the presentation of the Abbot and Convent of Sallay. But he did not hold it long, for his successor was instituted on 22nd April of the following year, 1317.

By writ tested at York, 8th June, 1319, and again by writ tested at Westminster, 5th June, 1320, he was ordered to cause all proceedings before him as Justice of assize, or otherwise, to be estreated into the Exchequer. In 1322, 11th July, 16 Edw. II., he entered into his recognizances as one of the manucaptors for Gilbert de Haydok, on his discharge from imprisonment.

His tenure under the Earl of Lancaster now brought him into opposition to the crown. Like most of the magnates of the county of Lancaster, he took part with the said earl and the barons against the King and his unpopular favourite Piers Gaveston; and after the fall of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Boroughbridge, and beheaded in April, 1321, his adherents were prosecuted for high treason.

Two years later, at Michaelmas, 1323, an inquisition was held before the King at Wigan, when the jury presented that Robert de Clyderhou, parson of the Church of Wigan, who had been for thirty years clerk of the King's chancery and afterwards Escheator citra Trentam, had sent to the assistance of the Earl of Lancaster, at his own expense, two men at arms with good equipments, namely, his son, Adam de Clyderhou, and John, son of John de Knolle, and with them four strong and powerful foot-soldiers, armed with swords, knives, and bows and arrows, and also that the said Robert had publicly preached in his church of Wigan on a certain holiday, when he told his parishioners that they were