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FEUDAL BARONAGE favourably inclined to the young constable, remitted part of his fine.^ During the greater part of the years 12 13 and 12 14 he appears to have been with the king in Poitou.^ Nevertheless, in 1 2 1 5 he joined the confederate barons, and was one of the twenty-five appointed to see to the observance of the Great Charter,* On the last day of 1 2 1 5 he had a safe-conduct to make his peace with the king, who was anxious to secure his service,* which being done, the next day he had warrants to the sheriffs of cos. Northumberland, York, Nottingham and Derby, Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, and Oxford for the restoration of his estates ; ° and three months later, having pledged his fealty to the king,* was commissioned to bring three other Yorkshire barons to the king for pardon, and at the end of April had letters of protection to visit his estates in seven counties/ During the summer of 1 2 1 6 he was in attendance upon the king, but soon after withdrew himself, and in Sep- tember his land of Naseby in Northamptonshire was delivered to Ernald de AmblevilL' In the meantime his castle of Donnington had been destroyed by the king's order,^" whilst he also shared in the excommunication imposed upon the confederate barons by Innocent III." After Henry's accession he had letters of safe-conduct on 27 April, 12 17, to William Marshall to treat about his pardon," and in August following his estates were restored to him." In November he was commissioned to conduct the king of Scots and Robert de Ros from Berwick to the king.^* The following year (12 18) he accompanied the earl of Chester to the Holy Land, and was present at the siege of Damietta." As far back as March, 1 2 1 5, he had taken the cross.^* After his return to England towards the end of 1220, he obtained the king's approval for levying an aid from his Oxfordshire tenants towards his expenses in the crusade." He led the Lancashire forces which were engaged in February, 122 1, in the reduction of Skipton Castle, then held against the king by the party of William of Aumale,^^ and the year following was one of the justices appointed to see to the perambulation of the forests in cos. York and Nottingham." At the end of 1223 he joined the earl of Chester in the opposition to the government by the justiciar, but the earl, being threatened with excommunication, surrendered his castle, whereupon his constable did the same.^" Six months later he assisted to quell the rebellion of Falkes de Breaute, and was with the king in June and July at the siege, and probably at the capture, of Bedford castle.^^ In October the king made him a present of a valuable goshawk.^^ In May, 1225, he was appointed to escort the young Roger Bigod, who had married the king of Scots' sister, to ^ Chse R. (Rec. Com.), 151^. His sureties were twenty knights. By 26 July, 1214, he had found further sureties, viz., his brother Roger and four of his principal vavassours, and obtained possession of Donnington Castle. Ibid. 167, 169 ; Pat. R. ii^b. ^ Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), i<)6-ioib, fass. 3 Stubbs, Select Charters (ed. 1870), 298. * Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), 162^. 6 Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 245. * Rymer, Foed. (Rec. Com.), i. 137. 7 PaAiJ. (Rec. Com.), 176. 8 Ibid. 179. 9 C/w^ /?. (Rec. Com.), i. 289. 10 Matth. Paris, Chron. majora (RoUs Ser.), ii. 171. n Ibid. ii. 166. 13 Pat. R. 1216-25, 112. 13 qIqsi ^. (Rec. Com.), i. 318. 1* Rymer, Toed. (Rec. Com.), i. 149 ; Pat. R. 1216-25, '^^• 16 Matth. Paris, Chron. majora (Rolls Ser.), ii. 230. 16 Gervase of Cant. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 109. " Pat. R. 1216-25, 284. 18 Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 474^, 5461^. 19 Ibid. 503^. ao Matth. Paris, Chron. majora (Rolls Ser.), ii. 260-1 ; Stubbs, Constitut. Hist. ii. 36 : cf. Pat. R. 1216-25, 481. 21 Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 606, 610^, 635. 22 ibid. 627, 652^. I 305 39