WEST GoscoT-fe.] CASTLE DONINGtofc. 771 as parcel of the earldom of Chester ; also that Hugh le all his lands to the king; who regranted them to him Despenser held one burgage and one virgate of land in for life j and, after his decease, to Thomas '-arl of Donington aforesaid of the earl of Lincoln, by, ho- Lancaster and Alice his wife, daughter to the said mage and the service of one pair of gilt spurs'.— Henry, and the heirs of their bodies; failing of which, Utnry de Lacy, despairing of male, issue, had surrendered they were to remain over to Edmund the king's brother. (Pedigree of LACY. Enlarged from Mr. Burton's MS.) I*Jigcll, baron of Haulton, made constable of=p .... Jlbert, to whom William the Conqueror gave the=p Chester by Hugh Lupus earl of Chester. lordship and honour of Pontefract. -t William Fitz Nigell, constable of Chester, founder=p . V Hugo de Laci. Robert de of the abbey of Norton, co. Chester, died H33. | T Ilbert Lacy, Robert=pAlbreda,-^=2. Henry de William, Matilda, Agnes, -7 Eustace Fitz.-John, :=Beatrix,so,le faarr. Alice, de Li- sister of Laci. died i. p. dau.and dau. and lord of Haulton, dau. and dau of zours, William coheir. coheir, constable of Ches- heir of Ivd Gilbert de ad Vssci. second ter, killed in de Veicy, Gaunt; hufb. wife. Wales in 1177. first wife. died s. p. Richard Fitz Eustace, baron of Haulton,~Albreda deLizourSj heirr: William Fitzwilliams de Robert de Laci, constable of Chester, first husband- of Robert de Laci. Sprotbrugh, 2d husband. died s. p. 1193. i. John de Laci, constable of Chester; founder of Stan-^AIice de Vere sister of 2. Robert, an Hospitaller of St. law abbey, 1178 ; died in the Holy Land 1179. | William de Mandevile. John of Jerusalem. 1 Eustace. Roger de Laci, surnarneid Hclle, from his fierce and magnanimous spirit, baron—Maud de Clare, sister of of Haulton, constable of Chester, was at the siege of Acre in 1192; and the treasurer of the died in 1211. church of York. Alice, dau. of Gilbert=John de Laci , baron of Haul-=j=Margaret, dau. and coheir of Robert de Quih'cy, second soli de'Aquila} first wife. ton, constable of Chester; earl of Saher de Quincy earl of Winchester; in her own risrht of Lincoln 1232; died 1240. countess of Lincoln; second wife. Edmund Lacy 3, baron of Haulton, constable of Chester; died==Alice, dau. os the marquis of Saluces in Italy, and in his mother's life-time, 1258. cousin to the queen of England ; living 1271. Henry Lacy earl of Lincoln4, baron of Haulton, constable of=pMargaret, dau. and coheir of sir William Longespej Chester, died Feb. 5, 1310, aged 60. son of Willia.m earl of Salisbury. John, died Edmund, died Alice, dau. and heir, =r Thomas Plantagehet earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby; and, Irk if.p. young. died 1^48, s. p. right of his wife* baron of Haulton ; beheaded Marcb.22,1321; s. p. Thomas earl of Lancaster, taking arms against the firmasse eidem Hugoni, castrum, villam, manerium, & king, was defeated, taken prisoner, and beheaded at honorem de Donyngton, in com' Leic' (que fuerunt his castle of Pontefract 1321s. In the great proicrip- Henrici de Lacey comitis Lincoln', & que per mortem tion of the barons which followed this event, the Thome nuper comitis Lane', tenentis castrum, villain, hereditary rights of the earl of Lancaster and his wife manerium, & honorem predictum, inimici & rebelli$ being seized into the hands of king Edward the Se- nostri, ad manus nostras devenerunt; que etiam in cond, and alienated in divers ways, the king enforced rranu nostra exiflentia, Alefia, filia & heres predicti the countess Alice to release this manor unto Hugh le Henrici, que suit uxor predicti Thome, nobis & here- Despenser the younger, whose father was one of the dibus nostris remifit & quieta clamavit in perpetuum) judges that condemned the earl of Lancaster, and had habenda & tenenda eidem Hugoni & heredibus suis ; afterwards been created earl of Winchester. una cum hamelettis, reversionibus dotum, & aliis re- July 16, 1322, king Edward II. granted to Hugh le verfionibus quibufeunque ; ac cum feodis militum, ad- Despenser, junior, the castle, town, manor, and honour vocationibus ecclefiarum, capellarum, domorum reli- of Donington, with the appurtenances (late parcel of gioforum ac hofpitalium, & cum hundredis, visibuS tthe possessions of Henry de Lacy earl of Lincoln, and franciplegii, mercatis, feriis, vvarennis, parcis, boscis, which, by the death of Thomas late earl of Lancaster, chaseis, liberis piseariis, & omnibus aliis libertatibus who married Alice, daughter and sole heir of the said & liberis confuetudinibus, ad predictum castrum, vil- Henry, became forfeited into the king's hands; the lam, manerium, & honorem qualitcrcunque & ubicun- said Thomas earl of Lancaster being declared a rebel, que fpectantibus; adeo ljbere & integre sicut predictus and executed as such; Alice his relict: having also, Henricus, temporibus progenitorum nostrorum quon- for her and her heirs, renounced all claim to the pre- dam regum Anglie aut noltri, ea unquam tenuit de jnises) to him and his heirs for ever' nobis & heredibus nostris, ac aliis capitalibns dominis " Rex, archiepiseopis, &c. salutem. Sciatis nos, pro feodorum, per fervicia per que dictus Henricus cas- bono & laudabih servicio quod dilectus & fidelis noster tnum, villam, manerium, & honorem predictum tenuit Hugo le Dispenser junior nobis impendit & impendet in perpetuum. Quare volumus, &c. Hiis testibus; in futurum, dedisse, conceffisse, & Me carta nostra con- J. Norwic' epifeopo, cancellario nostroj W. Exou' 1 Esch. 4 Edw. II. N° 51. Leic. In his time, 1214, the castles of Donington and Pontefract were for some time retained by king John in his own hands ; allowing ^'40. a year for the custody of them ; but in 1215 Donington was restored to John de Laci upon hostages ; and in the loilowing year the castle was demolished. 3 He was buried in the choir of the abbey church of Stanlaw; as were his father and grandfather, with these epitaphs: i." Hie sepelitur Heros generofus in urbe Rogerus, 1, " Egregii Comitis an liæcest tumba Johannis, 3." MorsprobatErimundibrevis est quod gloria mun<?i Conjuge cum diara, qoam mors prottravit amur.i, Hostibus immicis cunctis dum vixerat annis. Mend ix & mundus, qu;imvis.quandoque sscunihis, Foiti Sampsoni similis suit, atque leoni j |ure suum Comitem luget Lincolnia niitcm Scanderequi primo cum cepit lapsus inymo; 'rai cornnto pungendi semper acuto. Qnea\ plangunt unnm Cestiensia caitra tribunum. Monstrat quod mundus est labilis, atque rotundiit: Tectum torate nullus superare valebat j Anglia flet riti tali curuiffe Qijirite, Nilque fit in mttndo, qaod non pertransit enndc, R-ghum cum pice miles sub Rege rep;eb.it. Ec Stanlaw bonum dolet athisisse Patrohum. Protinus a mundo, com sit quasi vas iine fundo. Nullus Trojanus par fibi suit in probitate, Cliristo d«v»tus miles suit undiqne notus, Ergo det Edinundo Deus a contamine mundo Victor in ætate suit alter Velpasianus. Wallia quern Scotus tenuit, mundus quoque tatuf. Uti jocundo vuliu Chiisti redeiindo. Seflas Peisarum, Medorum, Sparsi.-itaium, C5allii£ ii Hilpanus, Norrnannus, Brito quoque Dan us, Respice qui transis, in me circumsnice quid sis, Gi æcos, Cretenfes, Romanos bella mnv«ntes, Almannns gnaius bello, Lumbardus avarus: Exemploque mei, sis memor ipse tui. Hie dum pvgnavit, pugnans pwgnando donavit, Jndns & obscenus gentilis, atrox S.iracenus, Sum quod eris, quod es ipse fni, mundrqn« siipersjes VIVHS ut optavit, dofuncto tumba paratur. Ætliiopes fufci, Græci, Babylonia; Tiisci. FI01 ueram muinlo, lerra cinisque modo, Piclor adonwvitpetram suh qn& iumulatur, Rex & SoUiamis omhis populusqne piofamu, Qi>id probitasj quid opes I quid honor, quid gloria luferni cUustro carcat perflatus ab Aullroi Hmic cum cernebant armatum corde tiemeb.mt. mundi j Sit prece conventus tulgoria in arce letcntus. Vicit eum vermis, qui victor crat in armis Omnia quid fuerint, cum cecidere docent ? luclita matrona, iligna Matilda corona, Sic & vincemiis : Pro <]UO dicendo prrcemnr, Hie jacet I* funus, Celliensis jure tfibunus: Sit cum nnln pia Chrilti conjuncta Marii, Ultimi censuia cum venerit ilia futura Me pro poise bonum scnfit domus ilia patronnm." "l lajis absque mori, pro fundatoribus ora." I. Comes J dira servetnr Judicis iri." Dugdale, Bar. Angl. vol. I. pp. IOI—IOJ. This great lord died at his man (ion house iu Chancery-lane, in the suburbs of London, now called Lincoln's Inn; and was buried at St. Paul t church, in the new work which was of his own foundation, under a goodly monument, with his armed portraiture cross-legged, as one that had taken a voyage to the Holy Land. Weeveij p; 366. s,Cart. 15 Edw. II. n. 2;. n. 33. 6 Eich. 16 Edw. II. VOL. III. PART II. 9 L < epifeopo,.