footnote s: "Anno 9 and 12 Edw.II 1316 and 1319, a Simon Warde was keeper of the King's castle at York, and in 1316 of the county also. In 43 Edw.III. Simon Warde had the custody of the manor of Staunford and Grantham, co. Northampton. In 44 Edw.III 1371, he was 'Escaetor Regis' for Northampton and Rutland, and 46 Edw.III the castle and manor of Okeham, late in the custody of Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, deceased, were assigned to him. Abbr. Rot. Orig. vol.i, pp. 222, 243, and vol. ii. pp. 302, 310, 321.