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An Illuminated Charter of Free Warren, dated 1291

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Charles Clay
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The charter which is illustrated in pl. xviii is a grant by King Edward I to Roger de Pilkington and his heirs of free warren in their demesne lands of Pilkington and elsewhere in the county of Lancaster. The grantee was the son of Alexander de Pilkington, whom he succeeded at some date after 1282. He was a knight of the shire for Lancashire in 1316; and an adherent of Thomas earl of Lancaster, being imprisoned after the battle of Boroughbridge, and dying shortly afterwards. In Feb. 1289–90 he was granted for his services in Gascony 100 li from the first wardships which fell in on the south side of Trent; and in June 1291 he was granted the present charter. In the following year he was summoned to Lancaster to show to the justices itinerant by what warrant he claimed free warren in Pilkington and elsewhere, and he successfully exhibited to them the actual charter which is the subject of this note.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1931 , pp. 129 - 132
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1931

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References

page 129 note 1 V. C. H., Lancs., v, p. 89; and Lt.-Col. John Pilkington, Pilkington Family, 3rd ed., p. 31.

page 129 note 2 Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1281–90, p. 352.

page 129 note 3 Plac. de Quo Warranto, p. 369.

page 129 note 4 Yorks. Arch. Journal, xxix, p. 103.

page 129 note 5 The credit of the find is due to Mr. W. E. Preston, the Director of the Corporation Art Gallery and Museum at Bradford.

page 129 note 6 It is entered on the Charter Roll, the date in the Calendar (p. 390) being given as 12 June.

page 130 note 1 Cal. Close Rolls, 1288–96, p. 121. He occurs as a king's clerk in June 1292 (ibid., p. 235). In April of that year he was presented by the king to the rectory of Tilshead, Wilts., having resigned the church of All Saints, Worcester, before 30 May 1290 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1281–92, pp. 358, 487). He resigned Tilshead at the king's request before 20 July 1317, when a sum was granted for his maintenance until the king should cause him to be provided with some promotion (Cal. Close Rolls, 1313–18, p. 490). In 1305 he occurs among the executors of Robert Burnell, the chancellor (ibid., 1302–7, p. 350).

page 130 note 2 Schools of Illumination, part II, pl. XV; Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the tenth to the thirteenth century, pl. XCVI.

page 131 note 1 Schools of Illumination, part II, pl. xiv; Millar, op. cit., pl. xcv.

page 131 note 2 Millar, op. cit., p. 63.

page 131 note 3 Cal. Charter Rolls, 1257–1300, pp. 382–404.

page 131 note 4 P. R. O., Anc. Deeds, AS 533; Catalogue of the P. R. O. Museum, 10th ed., no. 32.

page 132 note 1 My thanks are due to Mr. E. G. Millar, F.S.A., and Mr. M. S. Giuseppi, F.S.A., for help in several points arising out of the subject of this paper.

page 132 note 2 Harley Charter 83 C13; Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1330–4, p. 84; New Palaeographical Soc., series I, pl. CXCVIII.

page 132 note 3 Anc. Deeds, AA 460; Foedera (Record Commission), ii, p. 2.