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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Roger of Poitou, in South Kelsey, Thornton-le-Moor, Holton-le-Moor, Tealby and elsewhere in Lincolnshire. Between Ribble and Mersey, Roger, the knight of Roger of Poitou, held lands in three out of the six hundreds into which that district was divided. In 1094 his chief lord confirmed to the abbey of St. Martin of Sées, inter alia, the tithe of the land of Roger de Montbegon at South Kelsey, Tealby, and Tydd Gote, and of all his demesne between Ribble and Mersey, which Roger and Sezilia his wife had previously granted by their charter, with tithes also of their demesne beyond the river called 'Ripa' (Ribble). Roger did not participate in the forfeitures of 1102 and 1106, but upon the creation of the honour of Lancaster by Henry became tenant of lands held of that honour by the service of eight knights, which service his descendant owed to the honour in the time of Henry II. At the date of the Lindsey survey (1115-8) Roger held under Stephen, count of Mortain, lands in Waddingham, Laughton, Thorpe, Thonock, Dunstall, Scotton, Yawthorpe, Blyton, Tealby, South Kelsey, Thornton-le-Moor, Holton-le-Moor, Walesby, Market Rasen, Nettleton, Elsham, Clixby, and Howsham, which his descendants afterwards held.

Roger de Montbegon, probably son of the last-named Roger, was amerced 30 marks in 1129-30 by Richard Basset and William de Albini, justices in eyre in co. Lincoln. When Stephen, circa 1149, temporarily resigned to the earl of Chester his land between Ribble and Mersey, and, the honour of Lancaster beyond the Lyme, the lands of Roger de Montbegon in Lincolnshire were expressly excepted from the grant, a reservation which points to the king's desire to retain the service of a favourite and powerful baron. Roger de Montbegon II. was succeeded by his son Adam about the commencement of the reign of Henry II. A few years later Adam attested the confirmation by William, count of Boulogne, of an agreement made between the monks of Furness and Michael le Fleming, lord of one half of Furness. Between 1160 and 1170 he pledged Crofton, in Yorkshire, to Henry de Lacy, of Pontefract, who subsequently obtained the king's charter ratifying the transfer. He married Maud, younger daughter and co-heir of Adam fitz Swain, lord of Silkstone, co. York, and of Kirkandreas, Melmerby, and Ainstable, co. Cumberland. Perhaps in connexion with his wife's inheritance in this county, consisting of the manor of Croston with its members and one moiety of the region formerly known as Kaskenmoor, which embraced the townships of Crompton and Oldham with their hamlets, a debt of 75 marks is recorded in 1170 as due from Adam de Montbegon from the time of the shrievalty of Geoffrey de Valoignes (circa 1160-64). This debt was pardoned in 1172, after Adam's death, by the king to John Malherbe, who had married Adam's widow. Amongst the various acts of 320