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 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE THE BARONY OF BUTLER OF AMOUNDERNESS' Hervey ' Walter, the first of this family upon record, was the tenant in the time of Henry L of a small fee which he held of the honour of Lancaster, comprising the chief manor of Weeton (or Witheton, as it was formerly and more correctly written) in Amounderness, held by the service of half a knight, and the manor of Boxstede, co. Suffolk, held by the same service,' and Newton, co. Suffolk, for one seventh of a knight's fee. He also held lands in Belaugh and ' Hulmested,' co. Norfolk." He or his son may possibly be identified as Hervey son of Hervey who in 1130 rendered account in co. Suffolk of I o marks for his land which he had recovered from, or held of, Hamon Peche.' In the great inquest of service taken for this county in 1 2 1 2, he is specifically named as the father of Hervey Walter, and also as having enfeoffed Orm son of Magnus in marriage with his daughter Aliz of 4 caru- cates of land in Rawcliffe, Thistleton, and Greenhalgh, members of his fee of Weeton.* The issue of this marriage was Roger son of Orm, lord of Hutton in Leyland hundred, father of Elias de Hutton, who gave his manor of Hutton to the canons of Cockersand between the years 1201 and 1210.^ Hervey Walter II., son and heir of the above Hervey, advanced the fortunes of the family by his marriage with Maud, daughter of Theobald de Valoignes, lord of Parham, co. Suffolk, and sister of Bertha, wife of Ranulf de Glanvill, the justiciar under Henry II.' To this kinship with the house of Glanvill was undoubtedly due the great advancement obtained by the sons of Hervey Walter under Henry II. and Richard. Upon the foundation of Butley Priory by Ranulf de Glanvill in 1171, Hervey gave to that foundation all the land he had in the vill of Wingfield and elsewhere, doubtless of his wife's inherit- ance.' In this county he gave, with the consent of Theobald his son, land in Medlar to Roger de Heaton, of Heaton, near Lancaster.'" William son of 1 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 633. This barony consisted of the following townships and hamlets, situate within the hundred of Amounderness : — Weeton, half of Marton, Greenhalgh with Thistleton, Wesham, Treales, Wharles, and Roseacre, Out Rawcliffe including Middle Rawcliffe. These vills were rated at 1 6 carucates of land and were held by the service of half a knight. To the barony originally belonged Boxstede, co. Suffolk, held by the service of half a knight, and Old Newton, in the same county, held by the service of one-seventh part of a knight. ' Mr. Round has called attention in his Peerage and Family History (izz note) to the ' Herveus pincerna' and ' Herveus botellarius,' who attests, with other officers and tenants of the castle of Dol in Brittany, two charters to the abbey of St. Florent, one bearing the date 1086 {Cal. of Docs. France, 416), as the possible ancestor of the Butlers of Ireland. This Hervey may perhaps be identified as the Hervey, son of Hubert, who with his father attested a charter ofBaderon to the nunnery of St. George at Rennes circa 1080-90 {Genealogiit (New Ser.), xviii. i). It is also to be noted that Edmund Butler, styled earl of Carrick, held in 1298 of Richard Fitz John, his uncle, part of the manor of Skelbrook, co. York {forks. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc), xxxi. 86), which had formed part of the Domesday fief of Hervey de Campels, the bishop of Bayeux's vassal. There is, however, nothing to show that the Butlers of Ireland descended from either of these Herveys. Nor is there anything to show that the Butlers had any interest in Skelbrook before the marriage of Theobald IV. to Joan, sister of Richard Fitz John. Mr. Glanville-Richards has collected much information relative to the bearers of the name of Hervey in the twelfth century, and suggests as the possible ancestor of Hervey Walter a certain Hervey of Gisors, eldest son of Theobald Pain, whose family held the hereditary office of castellan of Gisors, and were Bretons by race {House of Glanvilk, xviii.). Hervey appears to have been a common name amongst the Bretons. » Testa de Nevill (Rec Com.), i-jb, 40 3^ ; Pipe R. Soc. xvii. zo. * Ibid. ' Pipe R. 31 Hen. I. (Rec. Com.), 98. For the connexion between Glanvill and Peche see Glanville- Richards, Ho. of Glanvilk, 18. ' Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 403^ ; Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 37. ^ Chartul. of Cockersand, Chetham Soc. (New Ser), xliii. 408. 8 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 633^ ; Man. Jngl. vi. 1 128. » Mon Angl. vi. 380. 10 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 437.