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 FEUDAL BARONAGE 1271, of his son William in 1282/ and of Peter de Brus in 1272.^ The subsequent descent of this barony, and its ultimate division into the Marquis, Lumley, and Richmond fees,* does not belong to the history of this county, but will be pertinent to the history of the neighbouring county of West- morland. Roger de Lancaster,* bastard brother of William de Lancaster III., had large estates in Barton, Patterdale, Morland, and Witherslack, parcel of the barony of Kendal, and in this county had half the manor of Ulverston by his brother's grant, to hold of the abbot of Furness.* In 1255 he had a warrant to the keeper of the forest of Lancaster for 2 harts and 8 hinds which the king had given him, probably for stocking his park at Witherslack.* In 1267 he obtained the custody of the heir of Henry de Croft of Dalton in Kendal, with his lands, for ^^60 a year.^ His wife was Philippa, the eldest of the four daughters and co-heirs of Hugh de Bolebeck (died 1262), who, as son of Margery, eldest sister and co-heir of Richard de Munfichet (died 1267) was entitled to the third part of the barony of Munfichet, including the manors of Stansted Mountfichet, Great Holland, ToUeshunt Tregoz, East Ham and West Ham, co. Essex, and Barrington, co. Cambridge.* In 1265 and 1266 Roger was sheriff of Lancaster; in 1271 keeper of Inglewood Forest.* In 1275 he obtained the king's confirmation of the grant from Margaret de Brus, daughter and co-heir of Peter de Brus by his wife Helewise de Lancaster, of the forest of Rydal and of her pourparty of Ambleside and Loughrigg.^" In 1276 certain encroachments which he had made upon land belonging to Furness were the subject of an agreement with the monks of that house." In 1280 he obtained a charter for a market and fair at Ulverston,^^ and four years later granted to the burgesses of that town a charter of liberties similar to those enjoyed by Kirkby Kendal.^* He died before 18 April, 1291, when John his son, who was probably a minor at his father's death, did homage and had livery of his inheritance." John de Lancaster of Rydal" was summoned to Parliament as a baron from 1297 *° 13°^/° ^^^ ii^ t^^ former year was also summoned to protect the Scotch marches, in which service he seems to have been constantly employed during the three following years." He was one of the signatories to the barons' letter to the pope in 1300.^* In 1306 he had licence to alienate in mortmain the advowson of the church of Barton, co. Westmorland, to the 1 Lanes. Inj. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 235, 253. 2 Torks. Inq. Yorks. Rec. Soc. xii. 147-8. 3 See Nicholson and Burn, Hist. ofCumb. and Westmld. i. 29-63. guardant or.' Armytage, ' Charks' Role ofJrmes,' No. 264. 5 Coucher of Furness, Chetham Soc. (New Ser.), xi. 328-9, 347. « Close R. 39 Hen. III. m. 3. "> Ibid. 51 Hen. III. m. 6 d. 8 Ibid. 52 Hen. III. m. 8 ; Cal. Inq. p.m. i. 150, 217 ; Cat. Gen. i. 224 ; Feud. Aids, ii. 149, etc. 9 Close R. 55 Hen. III. m. 3. 10 Chart. R. 3 Edw. I. m. 4, No. 11. " Coucher of Furness, Chetham Soc. 384. *' Chart. R. 8 Edw. I. m. 4, No. 28. 13 Coucher of Furness, Chetham Soc. 425. '* Fine R. 19 Edw. I. m. 12. 15 ' Sire Johan de Lancastre ' bore arms — ' de argent, a ij barres e un quarter de goules ; en le quarter un lupard de or.' Nicolas, Roll of Arms, p, 12, 1* Cokajrne, Complete Peerage, vol. iii. ^T Cal. Pat. R. izgz-ijoi, pass. 18 Rep. on Dignity of a Peer, App. i, 126 ; Ihe Ancestor, vii. 256, where an illustration of his seal is given. No. 35. 365
 * Roger de Lancaster's arms were, ' Argent two bars gules, on a canton of the second a lion passant