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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Clitheroe, because his knights had served with the king in Wales that year. Three years later he accounted for the scutage due from 42½ and knights' fees of the honour of Pontefract and 13⅜ of new feoffment. In 1171 he was amerced £100 by the justices in eyre of the forest for a hart killed in the royal forest, and next year he rendered account of the scutage due from his Yorkshire fief. In 1173 he was with the king at Breteuil in the campaign against the French king. In 1175 he attested the royal confirmation in favour of Welbeck Abbey, dated at Nottingham, and in 1177 attested the king's award between the kings of Castille and Navarre. About the month of May that year he set forth with the earl of Essex and other notables to join the count of Flanders in a crusade. From this expedition he never returned, dying, as it was believed, in the Holy Land on 25 September following. His wife is said to have been Albreda, sister of William de Vesci, parson of Barwick in Elmet. By her he had issue an only son Robert. Only three infeudations which he made in the honour of Clitheroe have remained upon record. To Hugh, son of Leofwin, he gave the manors of Altham, Clayton le Moors, Accrington, and a moiety of the manor of Billington; to Robert Banastre, lord of Makerfield, he gave Walton in le Dale, Mellor, Eccleshall, Little Harwood, Over and Nether Darwen, and to Richard Fitton he gave Great Harwood. All these grants belong to the period 1160—1177.

Robert de Lacy is first mentioned in one of his father's charters belonging to the year 1160. Before 1183 he gave an oxgang of land in Great Marsden to his maternal uncle, William, son of Eustace de Vesci, and two oxgangs there to the monks of Pontefract. In 1185 he gave 40 marks to have certain of his men, who were said to have slain outlaws, tried in the king's court. He was present at the king's coronation in 1189, and about this time gave to Kirkstall Abbey a vaccary and woodland at Roundhay; and for the welfare of the soul of Isabel his wife, and of his own soul, gave all Accrington, with the wood there called the Hay, and also Rushton Grange, in Bowland, and confirmed many grants to the priory of Nostell. He likewise warranted by charter to William de Arches the grants of his ancestors to William's predecessors of the liberty to take venison in their fee in Wiswall, Hapton, and Osbaldeston. To Efward Brun he gave half a 318