took the title of Baron Ros, of Hamlake, Werke, Belvoir, and Trusbut;
was Lord High Admiral of England, and sat in parliament from 11 Edw.
II. to 16 Edw. III; he died in 1342. Sir William de Ros, knight, was
Lord High Treasurer to Henry IV.; he died at the Castle in 1414, and
bequeathed 400_l._ "for finding ten honest chaplains to pray for his
soul, and the souls of his father, mother, brethren, sisters, &c." for
eight years within his chapel at Belvoir castle. John and William Ros,
the next owners, were distinguished in the wars of France; the former
was slain at Anjou; the latter died in 1431, and was succeeded by his
son, Edmund, an infant, who, on coming of age, engaged in the civil
wars of York and Lancaster: he was attainted in 1641, and his noble
possessions parcelled out by Edward IV; the honour, castle, and
lordship of Belvoir, with the park and all its members, and the rent
called castle-guard, (then an appurtenance to Belvoir,) being granted
in 1647, to Hastings the court corruptionist.[2] The attainder was,
however, repealed, and Edmund, Lord Ros re-obtained possession of all
his estates in 1483: he died at Enfield, and the estates then passed
into the Manners family, as we have stated.

[2] "The Lord Ros took Henry the VIth's part against King Edward,
whereupon his lands were confiscated, and Belever Castle given in
keeping to Lord Hastings, who coming thither on a time to peruse
the ground, and to lie in the castle, was suddenly repelled by Mr.
Harrington, a man of power thereabouts, and friend to the Lord
Ros. Whereupon the Lord Hastings came thither another time with a
strong power, and upon a raging will spoiled the castle, defacing
the roofs, and taking the leads off them.--Then fell all the
castle to ruins, and the timber of the roofs uncovered, rotted
away, and the soil between the walls at the last grew full of
elders, and no habitation was there till that, of late days, the