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 FEUDAL BARONAGE in COS. Lancaster, Lincoln, and Cheshire.^ The wardship of Thomas Grelley, the heir, who was then but three years of age, was given to Amadeo of Savoy.* In 1291 his marriage was given to Joan, wife of John Wake, for the benefit of one of her sisters,' but there is no evidence that any marriage resulted. He proved his age in 1300,* and was the same year summoned to serve against the Scots,^ and again in 1301, 1303, 1306,' and yearly from 1308 to 13 1 1.'' He was summoned to Parliament as a baron no less than six times between 1308 and 131 1.* The year after attaining his majority he granted a charter of liberties to his burgesses of Manchester.' In 1304 he sold his manor of Willisham, co. Suffolk, to William de la More,^" and in 1308 that of Periton, co. Oxon,, to John de Guise," and in 1309 he alienated the manor or lordship of Manchester to the husband of his sister Joan, John la Warr, knight.^' The year following he practically completed the dispersal of his barony by the sale of the manor of Wakerley, co. Northampton, to the same John la Warr." Nevertheless he retained a life estate in some of these manors, and the presumption seems to be that he alienated them because he had no heir of his body and, being unmarried, no expectation of any. On Whitsunday, 1306, he was made a Knight of the Bath with Prince Edward and some 300 noble youths, preparatory to the expedition to Scotland." In 1307 he was required to do homage to Thomas, earl of Lancaster." In 1 3 10 the king seized the manor of Wakerley, on the grounds that it had been acquired from Thomas Grelley without licence, but it was restored to John la Warr in the autumn of the same year, as the result of an inquiry made at Wakerley on 20 September, at which time Thomas Grelley was holding the manor of Manchester in this county and the manor of Swineshead, co. Lincoln, for the term of his life." On 23 December, 1 3 1 3, he was summoned to attend the array at Berwick on Tweed on 10 June, 13 14," but his name was included amongst the summonses in error, as the writs to take his lands into the king's hand after his decease had been already tested at Windsor on 1 8 October, 1 3 1 1 ." Thomas Grelley's heir was his sister Joan, the wife of John la Warr, son and heir of Roger la Warr, lord of Isfield, co. Sussex, and Wickwar, co. Gloucester, who was present at the siege of Carlaverock,^' and died in 1320.^° John la Warr was made a Knight of the Bath in 1 306 by the Prince of Wales, and was frequently summoned to Parliament, both in his father's lifetime and after, between 1307 and 1342. He took part in the Scotch, Flemish, and ^ Cal. Chse R. 1279-88, 155, 251, &c. She was living in 1297, being then summoned to perform military service beyond the seas. Mil. Writs (Rec. Com.), i- 289, 294. « Cal. Pat. R. 1281-92, 24. * Ibid. 445. (9 August, 1279). 6 Mil. Writs (Rec. Com.), i. 333-4. * Ibid. 349. 377- ^ ^^id. i. and n. passim. 8 Ibid. Cf. Cokayne, Comp. Peerage, iv. 93. His arms are given among those of the bannerets of England — ' Sire Thomas de Greley, de goules, a iii bendes de or ' (Cott. MS. Calig. A. xviii.). 9 Harland, Mamecestre (Chetham Soc), Ivi. 212 ; Tait, Medieval Manchester, 60-II9. 1" Cal. Pat.R. 1 301-7, 267. 11 Ibid. 1307-13, 68. Acknowledgements for payment of (j,ooo by John de Guise, and of ^^4,000 by John la Warr were made on 14 May, 1308. Cal. Close R. 1307-13, 65. 13 Harland, Mamecestre, 248. Confirmed by fine levied 20 January, 1 3 10. i» Cal. Pat. R. 1307-13, 287. 1* Dugdale, Baronage, SoU. " Cal. Pat. R. 1301-7, 502. 16 Inq. a.q.d. 4 Edw. II. No. 82. " Close R. 7 Edw. II. m. 14. 18 Writ of D.C.E. tested 18 Oct. 5 Year; Fine R. Edw. II. MS. in P.R.O. 12. Also Orig. R. S Edw. II. No. 5. 19 Nicolas, Carkverock, 155. ^ Cokayne, Comp. Peerage, iii. 45. 333
 * Cal. Geneal ii. 314, 569. He was born at Sixhills, co. Line, on the eve of St. Lawrence 7 Edw. L