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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE his successful campaign which culminated at Evesham.^ By charter dated at Denewell, ii January, 51 Henry III. (1267), he granted to his beloved kinsman Richard le Botiller (brother of William le Botiller of Warrington) all the lands he had in Out Rawcliffe.' In 1275 he was plaintiff in a plea in the King's Bench to recover land in EdUngton, co. York. The pleadings prove the correctness of the descent given above.' He married John fitz John's* sister Joan, fourth daughter of John fitz Geoffrey fitz Peter and sister, and ultimately co-heir, of Richard fitz John,' baron of Berkhamstead, co. Herts." Joan survived her husband, and in 1298 had her pourparty of her brother's inheritance assigned to her.^ She died early in 1303.* Theobald IV. sat in the Irish Parliaments of Edward I. In 1277 he was summoned to send his service against Llewelyn, and again in 1282 to serve in person against the Welsh." He died in Ireland'" 26 Sep- tember, 1285." Theobald Butler V. was under age at his father's death, William the Butler of Warrington having custody of two-thirds of the lands in this county during the minority of the heir.'* In 1291 Theobald was commanded to do homage to Edmund, earl of Lancaster, in respect of the fee which he held of the honour of Lancaster.'* In 1294 he pledged his manor of Weeton to Richard fitz John as security for a debt of 560 marks which had not been redeemed at the latter's death.'* The same year he was summoned to perform military service in Gascony," and in that and the two following years was enjoined as one of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland to place himself under the orders of the justiciar of Ireland touching military service." His name stands the fifth, without any territorial designation, on the roll of the Parliament of 1295. He accompanied the king to Scotland in 1296, and died unmarried at his manor of Turvey, 14 May, 1299, and was buried in Wotheney Abbey.'^ Edmund Butler, brother and heir of Theobald, sat in the Parliament of 1302. He was knighted by the king in 1309 in London." 1 Amiales Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 365. ' Sealed with a chief indented (Dodsworth MSS. cxlix. 1 14, 1 163), arms evidently of affection adopted with variations by Butler from Glanvill, as also were the arms of the lords of Middleham. In Charles's roll (No. 665) the arms of ' Tebaud le Botiler ' are given as or, a chief indented azure, similar to those assigned to Raulf le Fitz Randolf in Glover's Roll (No. i 36). ' In the King's Bench in 1275 he demanded against Agnes Bacun — who called to warrant Fulk, son of Fulk fitz Warin, and, further, John Vavasour — I carucate of land in Edlington which he pleaded had been in the seisin of his ancestress Maud in the time of King John, from whom the right descended to Theobald, as son and heir, from whom it descended to another Theobald as son and heir, and from that Theobald to another Theobald as son and heir, and from that Theobald to this Theobald, the plaintiff, as son and heir. De Banc. R. 3 Edw. I. No. 7, m. 29. ■* John fitz John, Theobald's guardian, was grandson of Geoffrey fitz Peter, chief justice of England. Chanc. Inq. p. m. 4 Edw. I. No. 47. ' Chanc. Inq. p. m. 52 Edw. I. No. 50. ^ The lands which Richard fitz John held in chief of the king were extended at ,£45 1 i is. id. Inq. p. m. Yorks Rec. Soc. xxxi. 87 note. 7 Fine R. 26 Edw. I. m. 9 ; 27 Edw. I. m. 2. 8 Chanc. Inq. p. m. 3 1 Edw. I. No. 32. » Palgrave, Pari. Writs, i. 485. 10 The Patent Rolls of Edward I. prove that he spent most of his time in that country. 11 Inquests were taken after his death in cos. Lane, and York. Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 264 ; Torks. Inq. Rec. Soc. xiiii. 44, 68. The escheator accounts for ^33 zs. %d. assized rent of Weeton, co. Lane, and for j^5 from Shepeley, co. York, which had been Theobald le Botiler's ' qui obiit in Hibernia, a festo Sancti Mathei, apostoli, anno xiii. finiente, quo die rumor venit de morte ejusdem,' to 20 Feb lAth year Pioe R 16 Edw. L Esch. Acct. t / • I- • 13 Cal. Pat. R. 1281-92, 226. 13 Jbid. 417. 11 Chanc. Inq. p. m. 25 Edw. I. No. 50a. 15 Gascon R. 22 Edw. I. m. gj. 18 Palgrave, P.;/-/. l/'n//, i. 485. " Cokayne, Coot/. P^rag?, ii. 95. ' 18 ibid.