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 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Garstang was extended by the barons of Kendal in the thirteenth century to include estates in Ulverston granted to their tenants to hold by knight's service.^ This was perhaps a straining of feudal rights, for Ulverston was held of the monks of Furness at fee farm by the yearly service of lo shillings.' This infeudation had probably been made to William de Lancaster, or to Gilbert his father, before the date (i 127) of Stephen of Mortain's gift of half the territory of Furness to the Cistercian monks from Savigny. If this was not so, it is inexplicable that the monks should have let Ulverston go out of their hands for a paltry rent of 10 shillings a year. In 1 166 William de Lancaster appears in the return of the fees held by Roger de Mowbray in chief as tenant of two knights' fees, representing the wapentake of Ewcross.' The Mowbray interest in Kendal had been extinguished or relinquished before this time, and before the end of the twelfth century the Lancasters' interest in the wapentake of Ewcross also appears to have been relinquished. William de Lancaster I. died in or before 1170.* Besides William, his son and successor, he had a son Jordan, named above, who probably died in his father's lifetime; and at least three daughters: (i) Avice, who married Richard de Morevill, eldest son of Hugh de Morevill, the friend and subject of David, king of Scots, and founder of the abbeys of Dryburgh and Kilwin- ning, which Richard had Great and Little Eccleston and Larbrick in this county ' and considerable estates in Ewcross wapentake, co. York, of his wife's dowry, and was father of William de Morevill, who died childless, having confirmed his parents' grants to the monks of Furness of pasture in Selsete and Birkwith ; * (2) Agnes, married to Alexander de Windsore, who had with her in frank marriage the manors of Heversham, Grayrigg, and Morland, co. Westmorland ; ^ (3) Siegrid, married to William the clerk of Garstang, who had with her lands and a mill in Garstang in frank marriage,^ and was father of Paulin de Garstang, named with his father in an agreement made between 1194 and 1199 by the abbot and monks of Wyresdale with H., chaplain of St. Michael's on Wyre." From this William descended the family of Wedacre."" William de Lancaster II. is chiefly noted as the founder of the Premonstratensian Hospital at Cockersand," which was erected into an abbey in 1 190. He confirmed to the monks of St. Bees his father's and uncle's grants to that place.^' To the hospital of St. Leonard of York he gave land called Dochergh (now Docker, par. of Kendal) in exchange for land in Kendal, which had been given to the hospital by Ketel, son of Eldred, and land in Bartonhead which his father gave." He was a liberal benefactor to the canons of Conishead, to whom he gave land between Ulverston and Bardsea, the church of Ulverston and the estate of Gascow, near Ulverston." 1 Exch. K.R. Kts. fees, ^, m. ja ; Rec. Soc. xlviii. 2, 159. 2 Lana. Fines, Rec. Soc. xxxix. 5. The service was increased in 1 196 to 30 shillings S ReJBL of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 420. 5 Lanes. Inj. (Rec. Soc), jdviii. 3 note. 6 Duchy of Lane. Anct. Chart. Dep. Keeper's iSih Rep. App. 2, 181-2. ^ Anct. transcript at Levens Hall, Regist. f. 41. 8 De Banc. R. No. 321, m. 294. » Farrer, Lana. Pipe R, 337 et pass. ^0 CoctersanJ Ciariu/. Chethim Soc. pass. " Ibid. 758. IS Reg. of St. Bees, Harl. MSS. No. 434, ch. 223. is Mg„_ j„^} ^j g,, 1* Mm. Jngl. vi. 556 ; Lams. Pipe R. 359. 360
 * Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. id ; 'Richard de Morevill, 200 m. pro recto,' etc.