Granted at Westminster. Grant by privy seal.

Comments

Original source is;

• Lyte, H.C. Maxwell (ed), 1900, Calendar of Patent Rolls (1340-43) p. 179 online copy

(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. Licentia is best translated as 'freedom to' not 'permission'.)

Significant later sources are;

• King, Andy, 2007, 'Fortress and fashion statements: gentry castles in fourteenth-century Northumberland' Journal of Medieval History Vol. 33 p. 378-9
  Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol. 1 (Cambridge) p. 159
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 367n117
  Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p. 9
  Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 part 2 p. 413 online copy

Robert de Manners (1298-1354)

Biographical source include;

• W. A. J. Archbold, 2004, ‘Manners, Sir Robert (d. 1354)’, rev. C. M. Fraser, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press) online copy (subscription may be needed)
  Vickers, Kenneth H. (ed), 1922, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol. 11 p. 442- online copy