sation of misgovernment raised by his brother Thomas, who, on 15 May 1338, became ‘custos’ in his stead. But despite this disgrace, and despite advancing years, Charlton continued employed in active service. In 1341 he and his brother were amon the auditors of petitions from Gascony, Vigales, and Ireland in the Easter parliament at Westminster. Since his return from Ireland he was summoned to parliament as John de Charlton senior, his son John perhaps taking his place in more active work. His last summons was in 1346. In 1343 he made an indenture to marry his grandson, John, to the daughter of Ralph, lord Stafford. In 1344 he incorporated the town of Llanidloes. His obtaining in 1341 a license to have divine worship celebrated at Charlton, his zeal for the reformation of the corrupt Cistercians of Strata Marcella, and his interest in the Grey Friars of Shrewsbury, which his wife had greatly benefited, anywhere she lay buried, show that with declining years he took an increasing interest in religion. At last he died in December 1353 at an unusually advanced age for his period, and was buried beside Hawyse in the church of the Grey Friars of Shrewsbury. The fourteenth-century stained glass now preserved at St. Mary’s Church in that town, and bearing the figure of a knight wearing the arms of Powys, is probably his effigy, originally set up in the church where he was buried (Owen and Blakeway, Shrewsbury, ii. 318.
Charlton’s son, John II, often mentioned in Rymer as John de Charlton junior, succeeded him in the title. He married Maud Mortimer and died in 1360. He was succeeded by John III, his son, whose marriage with a daughter of Lord Staflbrd had already been arranged by John I. Some writers confuse John II and John III, but it is quite clear that they were different persons. The latter was inturn succeeded by is two sons John IV and Edward [see Charlton, Edward with the latter of whom the peerage fell into abeyance.
[Parliamentary Writs, Rolls of Parliament, Rymer's Fœdera, Rotuli Scotize, Stubbs`s Chronicles of Edward I and Edward II. The facts connected with Charlton’s Shropshire estates are collected in Eyton’s Shropshire, especially ix. 32-3; his Irish viceroyalty is described in Gilbert’s History of the Viceroys of Ireland, p. 186 ; Dugdale’s Baronage, ii. 70-1 ; Courthope’s Historic Peerage, 101-3 ; the Collections, historical and archaeological, relating to Montgomeryshire, published by the Powysland Club, especially the articles in vol. i. on t.he Princes of Upper Powys, by the Hon. and Rev. G. T. O. Bridgman, and on the Feudal Barons of Powys by Mr. M. C. Jones, both containing valuable appendixes of original documents]
CHARLTON, JOHN (fl. 1571). [See Chardon, John.]
CHARLTON or CHERLETON, LEWIS (d. 1369), bishop of Hereford, was a member of the family of the Charltons of Powys, as is proved by his early referments in family benefices and by his bearing the lion of Powys on the arms inscribed on his tomb. The exact relationshi which he bore to the known members of the family is not easy to determine. He was educated, it is said, at both Oxford and Cambridge, but was the more closely connected with Oxford, of which he became a doctor of civil law and a licentiate, if not also a doctor, in theology. In 1336 he became prebendary of Hereford, of which see his kinsman Thomas Charlton [q. v.] was then bishop. He next appears, with his brother Humphrey, as holding prebends in the collegiate church of Pontesbury, of which Lord Charlton was (patron. In 1340 Adam of Coverton petitione to the king against him on the ground of obstructing him in collecting tithes belonging to St. Michael’s, Shrewsbury. A royal commission was appointed to inquire into the case, which in 1345 was still pending (Eyton, Shropshire, vii. 142). Lewis had apparently succeeded Thomas the bishop to this prebend, and on his resignation in 1359 was succeeded by Humphrey, who held all three prebends in succession. In 1348 he appears as signing, as doctor of civil law, an indenture between the town and university of Oxford that the should have a common assize and assay ofy weights and measures (Anstey, Munimenta Academica, p. 167, Rolls Series). He was probably continuously resident as a teacher at Oxford; of which university his brother became chancellor some time before 1354. It is sometimes, but without authority, asserted that Lewis himself was chancellor. He constantly acted, however, in important business in conjunction with his brother. In 1354 a great feud broke out between town and university, and at the brothers’ petition the king conditionally liberated some townsmen from prison and granted his protection for a year to the scholars. For these and other services they were enrolled in the album of benefactors, and in 1356 an annual mass for the two was directed to be henceforth celebrated on St. Edmund’s day (ib. p. 187 ; Wood says erroneously on St. Edward’s day, Fasti Oxon. ed. Gutch, p. 25). William of Wykeham is said to have been among Charlton’s pupils in mathematics (Wood, Colleges and Hulk, p. 173). Charlton’s Inn took its name from
