Volume 1
History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton.
- Edward Baines
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster / By Edward Baines ... The biographical department by W.R. Whatton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lie Descend to the Ferrers, earls of Derby. A.D. 1241. 122 The Bistorp of the cuted the office of sheriff by his deputies in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and ninth of that king. Ranulf paid down forty marks of silver for these lands to Roger de Maresey, and afterwards two hundred marks more ; and agreed further to render annually, at Easter, a pair of white gloves, or one penny, for all services whatsoever. ‘This earl, after enjoying his possessions fifty-one years, died in 1252; and, leaving no issue, his whole inheritance was shared by his four sisters and coheiresses. Maud, the eldest, married David, earl of Huntingdon, brother to William, king of Scots; Mabil, the next, married William de Albini, earl of Arundel; Agnes, the third sister, married William, earl of Ferrers, the sixth in lmeal descent from Robert de Ferrers, raised by king Stephen to the earldom of Derby, for his prowess at the battle of the Stan- dard, in the third year of the king. The heirs of the first earl of Derby were usually called earls of Ferrers, though they were likewise earls of Derby. This Agnes had the castle of Chartley, in Staffordshire, and the lands in that part of Wales called Powis; and also the manor of West Derby, and all earl Ranulf’s lands between the Ribble and Mersey; with Buckbrock, in Northamptonshire, and Navenby, in Lincolnshire. In the eighth year of Henry III., William, earl of Ferrers, was constituted governor of the castle and honor of Lancaster ;* and the next year he executed the sheriff’s office for this county for three parts of the year, as he did likewise for the whole of the tenth and the eleventh years of the king’s reign. In addition to £50 for the relief of the lands of his wife’s inheritance, he and she were bound to pay yearly a goshawk, or fifty shillings, into the king’s exchequer, as had been usual for lands lying between the rivers Ribble and Mersey. In 26 Henry HI. he gave a fine of £100 to the king for the livery of the three hundreds of West Derby, Leyland, and Salford, which had been seized into the king’s hands for certain misdemeanors of his bailiffs. This earl died on the 20th of September, 1247, and his countess survived him only one month—they having lived together as man and wife seventy-seven years! William, earl of Ferrers, son and heir of the above earl and countess, had livery of his lands and castle in the year 1247; and the next year he obtained a mandate to the sheriff of Lancashire for the enjoyment of such lands between Ribble and Mersey as his uncle Ranulf, earl of Chester, formerly possessed. He also obtained a charter for free warren, for himself and his heirs, in all his demesne, throughout his lordships in Lancashire and elsewhere. Three years afterwards he procured a * Dugdale’s Baron. ex Pat. 8 Hen. Il]. m. 12. + Ranulfus, consul Cestrie, constabulario, dapifero, baronibus, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, ministris, - & ballivis, quicunque fuerint, inter Ribbam et Mersam, & omnibus hominibus suis, Francis & Anglis, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse Deo & Sancte Marie, & monachis de Evesham, eleemosinam suam de Hoewicce, ita bené & liberé, & quieté, & honorificé, sicut meliis tenuerunt tempore comitis](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33521682_0001_0160.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
