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 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Clitheroe fee — continued. Towneley, Coldcoats, and) . . _• . ^ Snodworthi . . . J TtT ^'8"^ • Twiston ^ knight. Extwisle -^ knight . Aighton, Great Mearley,! i]j^i„ht. and Livesey . . . j ° ' Downham knight . Foulridge  knight . L,,d.M»ley . . . .jA^g;: Rishton, ^ knight . Billington ^ knight . Altham  knight . Great Harwood .... J knight . Clayton le Moors . . .  knight . Walton in le Dale . . . i knight . I2I2 f [Geofirey, son of Robert) t thedeanofWhalley]'} [John,constable of Chester] [Adam de Preston ?] * . . [Hugh de Mitton]* . . [John,constable of Chester] ([John, constable of Ches-| I ter]« I [Roger de Praers]^. . [Elias de Billington]^ . [Richard de Altham]!' [Richard Fitton] i" . [Ralph de Clayton ?] . [Thurstan Banastre] . 1242-3 Henry Gedleng {The heir of the earl of Lincoln Adam de Preston Ralph de Mitton Robert de Chester' John de Criggleston (William the Marshal (Hugh de Mearley (Parva) (Gilbert, son of Henry [de Rishton] Adam de Billington I The heir of Hugh de Al- ( tham Hugh Fitton Henry de Clayton (The heir of Robert I Banastre AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED Penwortham fee Warton J knight. Frees and Newton. Freckleton, Whittingham] Newton and Elswick j knight. I knight. •r The heirs of Richard, son of Roger [see p. 368] [Robert, son of Gille- michael] .... ichard, son of Roger de Freckleton Thomas de Beetham William de Prees Richard de Freckleton Maud, the wife of Roger, survived her husband, and was living about 1220— 1225, having had assigned to her in dower 28 librates of land in Ingoldmells and Holton le Moor, co. Lincoln, besides the demesne manors which belonged to the honour of Pontefract." In addition to John, his eldest son, he had issue Roger, who in 121 5 was in the custody of the queen as a hostage,^* and subsequently of the earl of Chester.^' John de Lacy was probably under age at the time of his father's death, as he did not obtain livery of his possessions until about 26—29 J^^y* 12 13, when he undertook within four years to pay 7,000 marks for livery of his inheritance and to be discharged of his father's debts to the Exchequer, further binding himself by oath and by his charter to serve the king faithfully under pain of forfeiture." His castles of Pontefract and Donnington were withheld until the following year, when the king, being 8 Whitaker, Hist. ofWhalley (edit. 1876), ii. iii. 8 Whitaker, HwA of Whalley (edit. 1876), ii. 377. 10 Ibid. 388. 1 In Billington. 8 Pontefract Chart. Yorks. Rec. Soc. xxv. 226. 5 Brother of John de Lacy, constable of Chester. 7 Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (edit. Helsby), iii. 301. » Ibid. 267. 11 Testa de Nevill (^cc. Com.), 348^, 370. The statement, which originated in the Historia Laceiorum {Men. Angl. vi. 315), that Roger de Lacy's wife was Maud, sister of [Bevis] de Clare, treasurer of York, is, of' course, a grotesque error, seeing that Bevis de Clare, alias de Fairfax, was treasurer of York from 1285 to about 1291. Cal. Pat. R. 1281-92, pp. 193, 435. 12 Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), i. 143^. In 1226 Roger was receiving ^^30 a year for his maintenance in the king's service, Chse R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 113. Another son, Robert, is said to have been appointed constable of Flamborough, and to have been ancestor of the constables of that place. Add. MSS. 26,741, f. 263 ; Peachman, Compkat Gentleman (1622), 171. i^ Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 189^. 1* Rot. de Ftnibus (Rec. Com.), 483, 494 ; Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 147, 169 ; Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 1 196. 304
 * Whitaker, Hist, of Whalley, tdii. iSy6, ii. 189.
 * Lanes. Fines, Rec. Soc. xxxix. 34.