Fulk the fourth having arrived at years of maturity, made proof of his
age to Edward I. who invested him with all his patrimonial estates except
Whittington, which he also obtained upon his accompanying the English
monarch on his expedition against the Welsh. He behaved with such
intrepid bravery, that Edward, in reward for his meritorious conduct,
allowed him the liberty of a _Free Warren_ on his lands in this manor,
and likewise forgave him two hundred pounds that Fulk owed to the
exchequer.