IV. Carta Henrici de Lascy* facta Henrico de Blakeburne de ecclesia d« Blakeburn.

bENRICUS de Lascy omnib} hominib} ad quos presentes litere puenerint salutes. Notum sit omnib} tam presentib} quam futuris me concessisse et dedisse Henrico clerico de Blak. ecclesiam de Blakeb. cum omni integritate sua, seil. cum capella de Walton et cum omni libertate sua ad eam de iure ptinente, in terris et in aquis, in bosco et in plano. Concessi itaq. prenomi- nato H. beneficium quoddam in ecclesia de Whall. et in eiusdem

* This Henry de Lascy must not be mistaken for the Henry de Lascy mentioned at p. 3. He was lord of Blackburnshire, and descended from llbert de Lascy, who received the fee of Pontefract from the Conqueror. The descents from that llbert arc,

I. Robert de Lascy, his son, Lord of Blackburnshire, probably by grant from

Roger de Busli and Albert de Greslet, the grantees under the Conqueror. He was attainted and dispossessed of all his lands by Henry I., and they were granted to Hugh de la Val, but were restored. He left two sons,

llbert, who succeeded, but died s.p.

Henry, who succeeded.

II. Henry de Lascy, who, A.D. 1147, founded a Cistercian abbey at Barnoldswick,

which was afterwards translated to Kirkstall. He was the grantor to Henry de Blackburne above. He left a son,

76 iTtt. De Ulatteiiunt.

ecclesie capellis, idem videl. quod antecessores mei predicte ecclesie de Blak. olim assignauerunt, quanto plenius aut melius Johannes aut aliquis alius predecessorum psonarum idem tennit. Hijs testib}, Jordano ffbliot, Will. Vauassour dapifero nostro, Walto fflemyng, Will. de Buylli, Thom. filio Petri, Rob. decano, Eswardo fil. Lef- wini et fil. suis Elia et Henr., Rog. de Ruyssheton, Will. fil. Roberti camerario, Adam Murdat, Alano Buttel, Rob. Pincerna, Alex. Siwardo, et Rob. fil. Radi, cum multis alijs. Valete.