General Notes

Maurice Boteler, one of the justices of assize for the co. of Warwick in the 13th and 16th Henry III [1229 and 1232], and a commissioner for assessing and collecting the fourteenth part of all men's movable goods, according to the form and order then appointed. This feudal lord filled the office of justice of assize for the same shire a second and third time, and was repeatedly justice for the gaol delivery at Warwick in the same king's reign. He was s. by his son, Ralph Boteler. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 63, Boteler, Barons Boteler, of Oversley and Wemme]