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 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE of Arklow, afterwards confirmed to him by William Marshall on becoming jure uxoris lord of Leinster/ and in 1 188 he attested the charter of his brother Hubert, then dean of York, founding the abbey of Premonstratensian canons at West Dereham.' In 1189 he accompanied his uncle Glanvill to France, witnessing with him a charter of Henry II., confirming the translation of the canons of Swainby to Coverham in Richmondshire.' Soon after his accession to the honour of Lancaster in 1 189, John granted to Theobald for his homage and service all Amounderness for the service of three knights' fees, the grant comprising the town of Preston with the demesne lands belonging to it, all the demesne lands of the hundred or wapen- take with the service of knights and freemen in the hundred, the wapentake court with the pleas, and the forest of Amounderness with pleas of the forest, reserving only pleas of the crown.* Mr. Round tells us that from 1185 to 1 193 Theobald 'was in constant attendance on John, witnessing his charters to St. Augustine's, Bristol {Mon. Angl. xi. 367), and Jerpoint Abbey in Kil- kenny (ibid. vi. 1 132), and receiving from him, as lord of Ireland, the office of his 'butler.' He first assumes this style (' Pincerna ') when testing John's charter to Dublin, 15 May, 1192, at London {Mun. Doc. p. 55; St. Mary's Chart, i. 266—70) ; and it was apparently about this time that he received a grant from the archbishop of Dublin as ' pincerna domini comitis Moretoniae in Hibernia' (Cott. MS. fol. 266), a style proving that he was appointed by John. He now adopted a fresh seal, adding to his name (Theobald Walter) the style ' Pincerna Hiberniae.' This has escaped notice. Hence he is occasionally, in his latter days, spoken of as ' le Botiller,' or * Butler,' which latter became the surname of his descendants." Towards the end of 1192 he was with John at Nottingham,* and on 12 June, 1193, with John at Dorchester.^ Mr. Cokayne considers that the grant of the office of ' Butler of Ireland ' would probably comprise baronial rank and position for the holders of that office.* Theobald is said to have subsequently obtained the valuable monopoly of the prisage of wines in Ireland, which was purchased by Act of Parliament in 18 11, from his successor, the first marquess of Ormonde, for >r2 16,000.' Some strength is given to this statement by the petition to Parliament in 1335, of James Butler, first earl of Ormonde, in which he declared that his ancestors, time out of mind, had enjoyed the prisage of wines in the four towns of Dublin, Drogheda, Waterford, and Limerick, by rendering 40J. for each cask at the exchequer in Dublin.^" He adhered to John in the rebellion of 1 193-4, when he held the castle of Lan- caster on the latter's behalf; " but in February, 1 194, being summoned by his brother Hubert, then justiciar, to surrender, he delivered it to him, and through his mediation made his peace with Richard,'^ who immediately appointed him sherifF of the county (which office he retained until John's accession)^' and on 22 April, 1 194, re-granted to him the hundred of Amoun- derness, to hold as before by the service of three knights." In August of the 1 Carte, quoted by Round in Diet. Nat. Biog. viii. 77-8. 3 Mon. Angl. vi. 900. 3 Mm. Angl. vi. 920*. 6 Cott. MS. Titus, B. xi. 347. T Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. ^16. 6 Ccm/l-ic Peerage, ii. 94. » Carte, Life of James D. ofOrmondt. 10 R. Pari. (Rec. Com.), ii. 90. u Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 237. ^" Ibid. 13 p.R,o, lists and Indexes, vol. 9. 1* C:;rt. Antiq. R. 24^ ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 81, 434.
 * Cott. MS. Titus B. xi. fol. 252. s Ulct. Nat. Biog, viii. 78.