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FEUDAL BARONAGE same year he was appointed by his brother, then archbishop, collector of the nioney for his tournament licences.^ In 1 196 he was pardoned the quota from his three Amounderness fees to the second scutage of Normandy, assessed the preceding year,^ and the year following had similar remission in respect of the third scutage,' having doubtless performed personal service with his knights and men-at-arms. Shortly after this, Theobald endowed certain Cistercian monks from Furness with the church of St. Michael on Wyre and lands there, including the Hay of ' Wirisvalle ' (Wyresdale), but within a year or two translated them to his possessions in Ireland, and established them at Wotheny, or Wythney, in the parish of Abington, co. Limerick.* This was his first foundation in Ireland,^ but subsequently as butler of Ireland, he en- dowed another house of Cistercian monks at Arklow, who likewise came from Furness, for the welfare inter alios of his father, Hervey Walter, and mother, Maud de Valoignes,* and about the year 1200 founded a house of canons at Nenagh, in the county of Tipperary. Between 1 1 94, and the accession of John, he endowed the canons of Cockersand with the Hay of Pilling, in the wapentake of Amounderness.^ Owing to this benefaction he has been erroneously described by Dugdale, and by innumerable writers since Dugdale's time, as the founder of Cockersand Abbey. In 1 196 he obtained from the monks of Shrewsbury a recognition of his title to the advowson of Kirkham Church,' and from the monks of Sees, a like recognition touching Preston Church, subject to a fine upon presentation, whilst to the last-named monks he re- leased all claim to the advowson of the churches of Poulton and Bispham.^" In 1 197 he acted as a justice itinerant, assessing a tallage in Colchester." Upon the accession of John, who was incensed at his defection to Richard in 1 194, Theobald lost possession of Amounderness, and was removed from the office of ^erifF of Lancaster, held by him since Easter, 1194. His Irish posses- sions were also seized and his fief of Limerick ^'^ sold on 12 January, 1201, to the king's favourite, William de Braose, but by the interest of his brother, the archbishop, he redeemed his lands for 500 marks, and within a year became Braose's tenant.^' On 2 January, 1202, he obtained a re-grant from John of the wapentake of Amounderness.^* Theobald married Maud, daughter of Robert Vavasour, of Denton and Askwith, co. York, and had with her the manors of Edlington and Shepley and lands in Bolton by Bowland, co. York, and Narborough, co. Leicester." He probably died before 8 October, 1205 (when Narborough was delivered to Thomas Basset),^' and is said to have 1 Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), ii. 268. ^ Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 94. 3 Ibid. 98. * Farrer, Lattcs. Pipe R. 336-40, Cott. MS. Titus, B. xi. fol. 252^. ^ Farrer, Lana. Pipe R. 340. ^ Mon. Jug/, vi. 1 1 28 . 7 Ibid. vi. 1 145. * Chartul. of Cockersand (Chetham Soc), 375. 9 Lanes. Fines (Rec. Soc), xxxix. 2. i" Ibid. 6. " Pipe R. 9 Ric. I. ro. e,d. 1^ Hoveden states (iv. 1 5 2-3) that all his Irish possessions were sold to William de Braose, but Mr. Round has pointed out that only his Limerick fief was sold. {Diet. Nat. Biog. viii. ySi.) ^^ Hoveden (Rolls Sei.),'w. I S3. 1* Liberate R. (Rec. Com.), 25. Theobald seems to have acted with harshness and injustice to his tenants of Amounderness. There are numerous references to complaints and pleas instituted against him whilst out of favour with John (1199-1201) by those whom he had dispossessed, in Rot. Cur. Reg., Rot. de Oblatis, Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), and other contemporary records. At an inquest held in 1253 an Amounderness jury declared on oath that Theobald had been deprived of Amounderness by King John by reason of the manifold transgressions done by him against sundry liege men of that wapentake, who had complained to the king. Inq. p. m. 37 Hen. III. No. 16 ; Lanes. Inquests, 191. 16 Dodsworth MSS. xxxiii. 17, 21 ; Cal. of Close R. 1227-31, 87. Mr. Cokayne identifies Norbury as Newbourgh, co. York, but Narborough, co. Leicester, is clearly the place referred to. Cf. Testa deNevill{R.K. Com.), 98 ; Feud. Aids, iii. loi. 1* Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 54. 1 353 45