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As one of the Wiltshire county knights John was involved in law and
order. For example in early 1307 he was appointed, with Peter Malorre
432
, to investigate a problem for a neighbouring landowner and find
the persons who entered the manor of John de la Mare 433 ,
while he was on the king's service and carried away rabbits
and other goods under his protection, at Castelcumbe [Castle
Coombe], co. Wilts, hunted in his warren there and carried
away rabbits and other goods 434
Peter Malorre 435 may have been sympathetic to de la Mare‘s problems, as
he had suffered similar affront just two years earlier; in the patent Rolls
for 1305 there is a record of the appointment of knights to investigate
after people
432
Charter of Inspeximus, Charter Roll, 5 Ed. II., m. 8 quoted at
http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/RAVENSER/beginning.htm
432
Fig. 20 Arms of John de la Mare *
Knights of Edward I vol III (1930) Harl. Soc vol LXXXII p110
Argent bend azure and 3 eagles or by permission of Brian Timms at
http://perso.numericable.fr/briantimms/era/early%20rolls%20of%20arms.htm
John de la Mare held the Barony of Castle Combe as the inheritance of his first
wife, Petronilla de Dunstavill, widow of Robert de Montford. He held it after
Petronilla’s death for life only [http://www.theorb.net/wales/esknights/mare.htm
]
434
Calendar Patent Roll Edw I vol 4 1301 – 1307 dated Jan 24th 1307 p540
435
Peter Mallore was a witness to Edward II‘s grant of a charter as a free
borough to the Yorkshire town of Ravenserode in 1299. From the witness list it
would seem likely that Mallore was one of Edward‘s household knights.