FEUDAL BARONAGE William the butler died before 20 November, 1233, when Emery his son had livery of six knights' fees which he held in chief, the two fees between Ribble and Mersey being then held of the earl of Ferrers.' Emery died before 4 September, 1235, when the earl gave the king j(^ioo for wardship of the heir.^ His wife Alina had her dower in Cropwell.' She was probably the daughter and heir of Stephen de Upton, lord of Upton, CO. Warwick, who was returned in 1236 as holding one knight's fee in Upton,* which fee the heir of Emery le Botiler held in 1242.' William, his son and successor," attained his majority about the year 1 245. In 1 249 he held Exhall and Foleshill of Roger de Montalt of Hawarden, co. Flint, as of his manor of Coventry,* and in 1268, after the death of William Mauduit, earl of Warwick, was returned as holding of him one knight's fee, probably in Upton.' On 20 October, 1255, ^^ had a grant of a yearly fair at Warrington to be held on the vigil, the feast, and the morrow of the Trans- lation of St. Thomas the Martyr." The grant of a weekly market on Wednesday at the manor of Laton, in Amounderness, was made on 26 October, 1257, in error to 'Robert' the Butler." On 5 February, 1259, upon his appointment as sheriff, the county and castle of Lancaster were delivered to William the butler as custos^^ and so continued in his charge until Michaelmas following. In 1260 he was summoned to attend a council in London with other magnates of the kingdom." About the year 1 260 William the butler acquired Burtonwood from Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby, with vert and venison in his woods and lands in Sankey, Penketh, and Dallam for a yearly quit-rent of one penny." The earl also resigned his mesne lordship over the manors of Halsall and Windle, which had been created by Pain de Vilers I., and had been acquired by the earl's grandfather apparently from Warin de Vilers, lord of Hoole, a supposed younger brother of Robert de Vilers, living in 1212." He also enfeoffed William the butler in the mesne lordship of Bold, quit of suit to the wapentake court of West Derby, and from the yearly thegnage rent of loj. due for this manor." As a vassal of the earl of Derby he took part in the barons' rebellion of 1264, but after the battle of Evesham made his peace with Henry, in September, 1265, and recovered his lands," only, however, to be again dispossessed the year following. On 25 October, 1266, his lands in cos. Notts, Warwick, Leicester, and Lancaster were given to David, son of Griffin, for 200 librates of land," but seem to have been restored to him a few days later 1 Rot. Fin. 18 Hen. III. m. 1 1 ; Close R. 17 Hen. III. m. 4. » Fine R. 19 Hen. III. m. 4. » j^/^ jg t^gvill (Rec. Com.), 398.
- Ibid. 83, 89. 6 Ibid. 99^ ; cf. Close R. 29 Hen. III. m. 2.
' In a deed granting to the priory of Lancaster the site of a grange in Laton he is described as ' Willelmus filius Almarici le Botyler' {Reg. of Lane. Priory, 438). 1 When he contributed ^^8 for eight fees to the aid to marry the king's eldest daughter (Pipe R. 30 Hen. III. Lane. m. 12 d.). See also a fine at Lancaster in 1246 ; Rec. Soc. Lane, and Ches. mix. 100, 104, 109. 8 Sir Peter Leycester's MSS. Liber C. 26 ; quoted in Annals of Warrington, 65. » Cal. lnq.p.m. Hen. 111. (Rolls Ser.), i. 213. i" Cal. of Chart. R. i. 451. " Ibid. 476. 13 Rot. Orig. 43 Hen. III. m. 2 ; Pat. R. 43 Hen. III. m. 13. 1^ Rep. on the Dignity of a Peer, App. i, 20. 1* Beamont, Annals of Warrington, 73. The consideration for the purchase of Burtonwood seems to have been 900 marks, of which only 105 marks kid been paid on 12 February, 1270. Ibid. p. 87. 15 Ibid. (See Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. vol. xlviii. 8, 147.) 1« Ibid. 17 Close R. 49 Henry III. m. 2 ; Dugdale, Baronage, 653. 18 Miscel. R. Chanc. Bundle 1 6, m. 2, m. 2 d.
