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 FEUDAL BARONAGE He acquired lands in cos. Warwick, Bucks, Suffolk, and Essex, in the year 1 3 1 o from John Pypard,^ and the same year obtained a charter of free-warren in his lands in Skelbrook and Shepley, co. York.** In 1 3 1 2 he acted as deputy of John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland,* to which office he was himself appointed in 1 3 1 5.* As Edmund Walter he granted about this time to Nicholas de Mareys for the term of his life the hamlet of Roseacre, near Kirkham, in this county/ From 1312 to 13 13, and again from 13 15 to 13 17, he was chief governor of Ireland, under the style of Lord Keeper, and was active in dispersing the rebellion. At a feast in Dublin in 13 13 he created no less than 30 knights. For his services against Edward Bruce and the Scots,* as also against the rebel Irish, he received in 1 3 1 5 the fee ' of the castle and manors of Karryk Mac- griffyn, and Roscrea,' to hold in fee ' under the name and honour of the earl of Karryk.'^ Mr. Cokayne shows that this grant failed to confer upon the recipient the earldom of Carrick, notwithstanding that on 26 November, 1315 ; 3 and 8 October, 23 November 13 16,* and 28 April 13 17,' he is styled in Letters Close and Patent ' Edmund le Botiller, earl of Carryk.' He married in 1302 Joan, daughter of John fitz Thomas fitz Gerald, first earl of Kildare. He died in London on 13 September, 1 3 2 1, after returning from a pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella in Spain, and was buried at Gowran. At the time of his death he held the manor of Weeton of the king by barony, and in addition to his Irish and Yorkshire estates held the manor of Shere, CO. Surrey, of the earl of Warenne by the service of two knights, and the manor of Sopley, co. Hants.^° Of his son James Butler, created earl of Ormonde in November, 1328," and of his successors to the present day, a full account will be found in Mr. Cokayne's Complete Peerage (vi. 139—154), from which source many items of information have been taken for this account.^^ THE LANCASTER FEE OF WARTON AND GARSTANC The origin of the family of Lancaster, lords of Ulverston, Warton, and Garstang in this county, and barons of Kendal in Westmorland, is obscure. 1 Cal. Pat. R. 1307-13, 207. 2 Ca/. Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 144. 8 Ca/. Pat. R. 1309-13, 595. * Ibid. 13 13-7. 2°7- 6 Cott. MSS. Titus, B. xi. f. 252^. Nicholas de Mareys was bailiff of Weeton to Theobald Butler V. (Chanc. Inq. p. m. 25 Edw. I. No. 50a). According to Lodge (iv. 5) the Butler family succeeded to considerable estates in England and Ireland on the death of Stephen de Mareys, which occurred in February 1373 (Chanc. Inq. p. m. 5 Ric. II. No. 39), in right of Joan Butler, great aunt of the said Stephen. Cokayne makes the strange suggestion (Co«/. Peerage, ii. 95, note c ) that this Joan was the first wife of Theobald Butler II. whose first wife died before 1225 ! « Chron. Edw. I. and 11. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 21 1. 7 Chart. R. 9 Edw. II. m. 5 1. 8 Also possibly as late as 1320. Cal. Pat. R. 1317-21, 442 ? » Palgrave, Pari. Writs, ii. (3) 576. 1" Inq. a. q. d. 1 6 Edw. II. No. 32. The manors of Shire and Sopley were the pourparty of Joan (died 1303), wife of Theobald Butler IV. (Inq. p. m. 4 Edw. I. No. 47 ; 25 Edw. I. No. 50 ; 31 Edw. I. No. 32). 11 Chron. Edw. 1. and 11. (Rolls Ser.), i. 343. '^'^ S^t a%o Ciitt, Lift of James, Duke of Ormonde, 1736, and other authorities cited by Mr. Round in Foster, Collect. Geneal., 84-93, and in Diet. Nat. Biog. viii. 79. 13 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 421. The following townships composed the fee in this county which belonged to the barons of Kendal. The parish of Warton, containing Warton with Lindeth, Silverdale, Yealand Redmayne, Yealand Conyers, Priest Hutton, Borwick, and Carnforth ; in Lonsdale and Wyresdale, part of Lancaster, Scotforth, Ashton with Stodday, Thurnham and Cockersand, Ellel, HoUeth, Forton, Cleveley, Nether Wyresdale, Cockerham, Winmarleigh, Cabus, Garstang, Barnacre with Bonds, Nateby, Kirkland, Catterall, Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnicar, Inskip with Sowerby, Great Eccleston, Little Eccleston with Larbreck, and Great and Little Carleton. This fee was said to contain 36J carucates of land in 1246 (Inq. p. m. 31 Hen. III. No. 45. Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 166), but the Domesday assessment was about 5 8 carucates. It was held by the service of one knight. 357