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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE senior, and John de Burgh, junior, for dower in Hornby and MeUing,' but apparently failed, on the grounds that her husband had never been in possession of the lordship except by intrusion." In 1269 Henry de Monewden released to Edmund, the king's son, the feudal rights belonging to all the knights' fees and lands held by him, or of him, in the county and honour of Lancaster/ He was at this time well advanced in years and living in straitened circumstances. Probably he did not out-live his sovereign, Henry III. John de Lungvilers, the younger, left issue at his death, Margaret, his daughter and heir, who was married before 1269 to Geoffrey de Nevill, younger brother of Robert de Nevill of Raby.* In September, 1 27 1, John de Burgh, the younger, was suing his father for the manors of Hornby and Melling,^ and in December of the same year his father was defendant with Geoffrey de Nevill and Margaret his wife in the same plea.* This seems to point to the acquisition of these manors by Geoffrey and Margaret from the elder John de Burgh. In 1 279 died John de Burgh, junior, leaving issue three daughters, one being the wife of Robert Grelley.^ As it does not appear that he was possessed of Hornby at his death, the suggestion that his father had alienated the manor to Geoffrey de Nevill and Margaret his wife, in or before 1271, gains some strength. Geoffrey was in possession of Hornby in right of his said wife at the time of his death,* and in his line this lordship continued for many generations. With the death of Henry de Monewden the barony of Montbegon may be considered to have terminated. THE BARONY OF GRELLEY" Albert Grelley ^^ resigned his fee in Blackburn hundred sometime after 1086 and obtained instead a grant of the manor of Manchester, possibly with 1 Cur. Reg. R. No. 162, m. x'jd. John de Burgh, senior, was in possession of the castle. The writ of pone was granted in February, 1258. Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii. 271. 2 Ibid. No. 169, m. izd. The parties were to hear judgment in Michaelmas term 1263, but none was recorded. Ibid. No. 173, m. id. 3 Duchy of Lane. Gt. Coucher, i. 63. ^ Inj. p.m. Lanes, and Ches. Rec. Soc. vol. 48, p. 263 ; Yorks. Rec. Soc. vol. 23, p. 25. ^ Assize R. No. 12 10, m. 7 {Lanes, and Ches. Rec. Soc. xlvii. 124). 6 Pat. R. 56 Hen. III. m. 301/. (Lanes, and Ches. Rec. Sec. xlviii. 251-2). 7 Ca/. Gencal. i. 293. 8 Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. I. No. 19 ; Lane, and Ches. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 261. ' This barony comprised the following townships and hamlets in this county. In Salford hundred : — Manchester, Ancoats, Crumpsall, Blackley, half of Moston, Harpurhey, Newton, Clayton and Droylsden, Bradford, Beswick, Ardwick, Openshaw, Gorton, Withington, Chorlton cum Hardy ; Didsbury, Moss Side, Rusholme, Levenshulme, Burnage, Heaton Norris, Denton, Haughton, Barton upon Irwell, Pilkington, Kearsley, Farnwortb, Little Lever, Darcy Lever, Westhoughton, Aspull, Lostock, Rumworth, Heaton, Horwieh, Halliwell, Harwood, Bradshaw, Turton, Longworth, Sharpies, Anglezark. These lands were rated at about 46 carucates of land, and were held by the service of 5 J knights. In Leyland hundred : — Coppull, Wrightington, Parbold. In West Derby hundred : — Dalton, Childwall, Allerton. In Amounderness : — Brockholes. In Lincolnshire, 2 knights' fees in Kirton-in-Lindsey, Swineshead, Sixhills, Bloxholm, Hainton, Canwick, Braeebridge. In Nottinghamshire, one knight's fee in Cotgrave. In Norfolk, one knight's fee in Spixworth, Tunstall. In Suffolk, 2^ knights' fees in WiUisham, Little Blakenham, Risby, Almesbum, Blakenham. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 291, 4043, 411 ; Lanes. Inq. (Rec. Soc.), xlviii. 52-9. See Dugdale, Baronage, i. 608. Hist. Soc. of Lanes, and Ches. (New Ser.),xvii. 23 ; Tait, Medieval Manchester, 120. 10 He probably owed the nick-name of ' Greslet ' {crematus in Dom. Bk. ii. 347^), to some personal peculiarity. ' GrSlet,' in old French 'greslet,' signifies marked as by hail, i.e. pitted, or pock-marked. ' Grdsiller,' some- 326