"Licence to Robert de Tylliol to crenellate his dwelling-house (mansum suum) of Scaleby, Co. Cumberland, in the Marches of Scotland."
Granted at Cumnock, by privy seal.
One of three licences of this date given to lords in Cumberland shortly after Edward I death at Burgh-by-Sands on 7 July, this effectively marked the end of this Scottish campaign. Licence given as a reward and possibly as a preparation against a Scottish counter-campaign.
Original source is
(In fact, the original source given is usually a transcription/translation of what are precious medieval documents not readily availably. It should be noted that these transcription/translations often date to the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and that unwitting bias of transcribers may affect the translation. Care should also be taken to avoid giving modern meaning to the medieval use of certain stock words and terms.)
Significant later source are;
A minor local knightly family. I can find scant biographical details of Robert and little mention of the family, which apparently died out in the C15. Robert was the second husband of Maud de Lascelles, whom he married in 1292. Maud have previously been married to Sir William de Hilton (The arms of Sir Peter Tilliol appear on Hilton Castle), who was of baronial status; she was a part heiress to her father, Lord Roger Lascelles. He had died in 1300 so this inheritance may have funded Scaleby, but the existing 'more defensive structure than most' (Emery, 1996, p. 246) dates from the mid C14. Based on the existing remains it is possible that here a licence was obtained without much immediate intent to build but something did stand here before the tower was it was recorded as destroyed by the Scots in 1346 and 1348.
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