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 FEUDAL BARONAGE CO. LINCOLN I2I2 1242-3 Bloxholme. . . . | knight. [Robert Grelley] 1 Thomas Grelley * Swineshead. . . . i knight, Robert Grelley s Thomas Grelley, Mar- garet his mother hold- ing in dower* Sixhills 1 i k ■ 1 1 "i ?SS°a.e: : : :L J, . ' tRo..„G,.M. |T.„„a3G,e,,.,. Canwick J ^ ^ V CO. NORFOLK Timstead, . . . i knight . [Robert Grelley] ^ Thomas Grelley « CO. SUFFOLK Risby I knight . [Robert Grelley] i" Robert le Breton " Willisham .... I knight . Robert Grelley i^ Thomas Grelley" (Little Blakenham 1* . ^ knight). (Almesburn is ... | knight). On 3 January, 123 1, the king received the homage of Thomas Grelley, son and heir of Robert.^' In June, 1242, he was summoned with horses and arms to accompany the king in the campaign for the recovery of Saintonge." In the summer and autumn of the following year he was in Gascony in the king's service, and had acquittance of his yearly render for ward of Lancaster Castle.^* In the summer of 1244, in obedience to the royal summons, he was in Scotland on the king's service." In 1 245 the king presented him with five bucks and fifteen does, taken alive in the park of Macclesfield, for the restocking of his park,^° and four years later he obtained a charter of free warren in his demesne lands in Manchester." In the spring of 1258 he was summoned to serve in the Welsh expedition,^^ and, taking a prominent part in the crisis of that year, was one of the twelve elected by the barons under the Provisions of Oxford to treat with the king's council on behalf of the commonalty touching the common need, and also one of the twenty-four elected to treat about the raising of an aid.^^ In 1259 he was appointed warden of the king's forests south of the Trent.*** Two years later we find his name amongst those summoned to assemble before the king in London after Easter,''^ and the same year he was summoned to serve in the expedition against Llewelyn. "^ In 1259 1 No return in 121 2. ^ Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 319. 5 Ibid. 346. * Ibid, 'iizb, there ' Crek' appears for ' Grelley.' 5 No return in 1 21 2. ^ Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 411. ^ Ibid. 324^. 8 No return in 1 2 1 2. * Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 411. For ' Constude ' read ' Tonstude.' 10 No return in 1212. ^^ Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), igii. i^ Ibid. 295^. 13 Ibid. 41 1. 1* Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I. 51. " Ibid. 16 Fine R. 15 Hen. III. m. 7. 17 Close R. 26 Hen. III. pt. i. m. 3 </. In response to an earlier summons in May, 1242, he gave 100 marks besides his ordinary scutage to be freed from foreign service, but afterwards accompanying the king had acquittance of castleguard (Dugdale, Baronage, i. 608 ; Roles Gascons, 1013, 1556), was allowed 100 marks for his passage, and was excused debts amounting to £jo mostly due to Aaron of York ; Roles Gascons, 1365, 1460, 1556. 18 Close R. No. 56, m. 7. He had proffered 100 marks not to transfrete, but had afterwards accompanied the king. Ibid. m. 2. 19 Ibid. No. 58, m. 4 ; Rot. de Summon. 28 Hen. III. m. I. 20 Close R. 29 Hen. III. No. 59, m. I. 21 Cal. Chart. R. i. 342. 22 Close R. 42 Hen. III. m. d. 23 Annates Mon. (Rolls Ser.), i. 449, 450 ; Stubbs, Select Charters, ed. 1870, 381, 385. 2* Pat. R. 43 Hen. III. m. 2. 26 Close R. 42 Hen. III. m. d. 26 ibid. m. 9a'.