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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE moned as holding lands of £15 yearly value to the Great Council of West- minster.^ About this time Richard son of Henry de Trafford, kt., was living with him 'de son conseil et a ses robes' as one of the servants of his house.' In 1328 he settled his manor of Cropwell-Butler upon his son Matthew, in tail, with remainder to his other son William.' As the latter re-settled two-thirds of the manor in 1332 upon himself and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies, it would appear that Matthew died during his father's lifetime.* WiUiam the butler the father, married Sibyl, whose family and parentage are unknown, and died in 1329.^ In 1332 two- thirds of the manor of Warrington and other lands were settled upon his son and heir William, and Elizabeth his wife, and their issue.' This lady appears to have been sister and co-heir of Richard son of Nicholas de Havering, who died in 1335, in whose right her husband acquired half the manor of Chalk well, co. Essex, which Thomas Butler, kt., alienated in 1498.^ In 1335 he was summoned to be at Newcastle-upon-Tyne with horse and arms to attend the king in the campaign against the Scots, this being the last occasion in which he was summoned in the same form as the barons of the realm.* In 1336, as 'William le Boteler, son and heir of William le Boteler of Weryngton,' he confirmed the gift of an annuity of 40/. yearly to Cocker- sand Abbey made by his great-grandfather, William the butler, kt,, in con- sideration of the remission of a mark yearly of the annuity during the lifetime of his mother Sibyl.' In 1337, together with Thomas de Lathum, he was ordered to raise a force of 1,500 men-at-arms in the county, and to lead them into Scotland." On 16 July, 1338, he and John the butler, being about to set out on the king's service in France, had letters of protection from pleas whilst absent from the kingdom." From this time he is described as 'chivaler.'" In 1 340, shortly after the marriage of his eldest son, Richard, to Joan, daughter of Thomas de Dutton of Dutton, kt., he settled his Lancashire estates and his manor of Exhall, co. Warwick, upon himself and Elizabeth his wife for their lives, remainder to Richard his son and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to his younger son John and the heirs of his body." In I 341 he was in the king's service either at Berwick-upon Tweed, in the marches, or elsewhere in Scotland.^* The following year ' Sir John Boteler of Warrington,' whilst taking part in the war of succession in Brittany on the side of the comte de Montfort, was wounded in the assault of the castle of 1 Par/, irriti (Rec. Com.), ii. (2), 638. " Anct. Deeds, C. 3295. « Annals of Wontnffon, 159. * Notts. Feet of F. 6 Edw. III. • Cf. Cal. Close R. 1330-3, 146 ; Assize R. No. 1404, m. 18. In Trinity term, 1329, Sibyl, late the wife of William le Boteler, of Warrington, was suing Adam de Southworth in a plea of dower. De Banc. R. No. 278, m. ii</. A wooden effigy of a cross-legged knight, habited in mail from head to foot with a heater- shape shield on his left arm, and both hands upon his sword's hilt, which was formerly in the Friary church at Warrington, possibly represented the above William the butler. Harl. MSS. No. 139, C 22. 7 Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. III., No. 20 ; 10 Edw. III. (2nd Nos.), No. 25 ; and 20 Edw. III. Morant, Hist. 0/ Essex, ed. 1768, i. 296. Elizabeth, wife of William le Boteler, kt., seals with a coat having a bend between 6 covered cups (Boteler) impaling a lion rampant double queued (Havering). See Nicolas, RoU of Arms, Edtv. III. (W. Pickering, 1829), 9. ' Rep. on Dig. of a Peer, App. i. 443. » Cockersand Chartul. Chetham Soc. 161. '" ^. Scot. (Rec. Com.), i. 48 6i. 11 Cal. Close R. 1337-9, 523. John Butler was slain in this campaign. Ciron. de Lanercost (Rolls Ser.), s. d. 1340. i» Assize R. No. 1425, m. 6</. i' Lanes. Fines (Rec. Soc.), xlvi. 195. !♦ Rot. Scot. (Rec. Com.), i. 606, 61 1-2, 627. 344
 * Lanes. Fines (Rec. Soc), xlvi. 82-6.