market of the said Robert and to the disinheritance of his church. The answer to the first of his petitions is that nothing can be done for his relief; and to the second that he must sue at common law.[1]
In 3 Edw. III. (1329) Robert de Clyderhou had a confirmation of the charter for a market and fair at Wigan.[2]
In the following year, 4 Edw. III. (1330), it appears from the return to an inquisition of ad quod damnum that it would not be to the King's hurt if Robert de Clyderhow, clerk, should give and concede to the Abbot of Cockersand the manor of Bayley, in the county of Lancaster, which he held of the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, by the rent of 3d. for all services, and of the Lady Isabella as of the honor of Cliderhow.[3] The said Robert de Clyderhou, Rector of Wigan, had previously built a chapel in his manor of Bayley, dedicated to St. John Baptist for the souls of the said Robert, Jordan de Clyderhou, and Cicely, his wife.[4]
In 7 Edw. III. (1333) Robert de Clyderhou, clerk, recovered his seisin against Adam, son of Hugh de Clyderhou, and John, son of Hugh de Clayton, of 36 acres of land, six acres of wood, six acres of meadow, and an eighth part of one mill, with the appurtenances, in Clyderhou and Dynkedeleye.[5] In the same year the first charter for paving the town of Wigan, and erecting a bridge over the Douglas, was obtained.[6] This brings us to the close of Robert de Clyderhou's life. He died on the Saturday next after the feast of Pernella (April 2), 1334.
Ivo de Langton, clerk, son of John de Langton, was admitted to the Church of Wigan on xvii Kal. July (i.e., 15th June), 1334, and instituted, on the presentation of Robert, son of John de Langton, the patron of the church, on the death of Sir
