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 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE tenants as the king had acted towards his magnates.' In 1226 he was appointed a justice itinerant in Cumberland/ and again in 1228 to do justice at Appleby upon those appealed by one John Scot, an approver/ On 10 March, 1226, he received a military summons to go to Winchester, pre- pared with his two knights to go abroad in the king's service,* and in 1230 had letters of protection whilst over sea,° pleas pending with Robert de Kyme touching 15 librates of land in Ulverston, and with William de Arundel touching the bounds between Firbank and Hay, near Kirkby Kendal, being put in respite/ He was one of the witnesses to the great charter of liberties executed by Henry at Westminster on 28 January, 1237/ From Michaelmas 1233 to the same feast in 1246 he was sheriff of Lancaster,* and in 1241 had the custody of the honour committed to his trust/ He was one of the persons appointed for the assize of arms in the county in 1 242,'° in which year he was summoned to perform military service in France," and in 1 244 against the Scots/' He married Agnes de Brus,and by deed dated at Kirkby Kendal a few days before his death granted, for the health of his soul and that of Agnes his wife, to the monks of Furness lands in Ulverston called Scathwaite and Egton, two boats on Windermere and two on Coniston water, one upon each mere for the carriage of timber and other necessaries, and another with 20 nets for fishing, and bequeathed his body for burial in the presbytery of Furness, near the tomb of his grandfather, William de Lancaster 11/* To the canons of Conis- head he gave his fishery of Leven, meadow land near Elterwater, and land between Ulverston and Conishead adjoining the estate of Gascow which his grandfather had given to the canons of that house,'* to whom he also gave the advowson of the hospital of St. Leonard at Kirkby Kendal." Upon his death- bed he bequeathed to the abbot of Cockersand, with his heart, 4 oxgangs of land in Garstang, and at the same time made numerous feoffments to his friends and retainers, the validity of which seems to have been afterwards called in question. He died on 28 November, 1246," without issue, Agnes his wife surviving him, who had for assignment of her dower the manors of Garstang, Ashton, Scotforth, Stodday, and Carnforth, in this county, and Grasmere, Langdale, Crosthwaite, and Lyth in Westmorland." His barony and possessions were divided between his nephews, Peter de Brus, son of Peter, by Helewise, his eldest sister ; and Walter de Lindsay, son of William, by Alice, his second sister ; the third sister, Sarot, wife of Alan de Multon, dying without issue." Peter de Brus had the castle of Kirkby Kendal assigned to him for his chief seat, and Walter de Lindsay had Moreholme Castle in Warton/' but afterwards a new partition was made, the nature of which is indicated by the inquests taken after the death of Walter de Lindsay in 1 Cbse R. (Rec. Com.), i. 575. ^ Ibid. ii. 151^. s Pat. R. 1225-32, 218. 7 Jnnal. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), i. 104; Cott. MSS. Vesp. F. xiii. Art. 3, fol. 5^. 8 Dep. Keeper's 31// Rep. 301. 9 Paj. R. 25 Hen. III. m. 7. 1" Close R. 26 Hen. III. pt. 2, m. 10 d. 11 Ibid. pt. 3, m. 3 d. ^- Rep. on Dig. of Peer, App. iii. 10. IS Coucher of Furness, Chetham Sec. (New Ser.), xi. 348, 350. 1* Dep. Keeper's 36 Rep. 194 ; Mm. Angl. vi. 5563. is Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii 168 " ^bid. 167. 17 Close R. 31 Hen. III. m. 1 1. Mon. Angl 111. 553. A simUar genealogy in the Cockersand Chariul. (Chetham Soc), pp. 305-6, gives an erroneous account of the descent of William de Lancaster's heirs. i» Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii. 7. 364
 * Close R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 151. 6 pat, R. 1225-32, 360. « Close R. 1227-31, 347. 34.0.