WELL; he m. Ellen, dau. and heir of Charles McCarthy, Esq., of Castlemore, co. Cork, and had issue; of which the eldest son, DAVID, was declared by a decree in Chancery, 1706, heir to his maternal grandmother. From JAMES BARRY, of Ballymacraheen, co. Cork, Esq., stated to have been another son of William Barry, of Lislee, and Ellen McCarthy, his wife, descended JAMES REDMOND BARRY, Esq., who claimed the VISCOUNTY OF BUTTEVANT, in 1825. The 2nd son, DAVID FITZ-JAMES BARRY, Viscount Buttevant and Baron of Ibawne, was one of the lords of the parliament held by Sir John Perrot, 26 April, 1585, but afterwards joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Desmond. He made his peace, however, in the time of Lord Grey's government, by paying a fine of £500. Fro:n that period he became remarkable for bis fidelity to the crown, was of council to Sir George Carew, president of Munster, and did great service against the rebels in that province. In 1601, he was made general of the Provincials, and after the defeat of the Spaniards, and raising the siege of Kinsale, ano 1602, the president placed 1,600 men under his command; when his lordship, with his brother John, and Sir George Thornton, commander of 500 English soldiers, did considerable service; and by taking a very large prey of cattle, forced several, from the extreme misery to which they were reduced, to return to their allegiance and to sue for pardon. In recompense of these services, King JAMES I. made his lordship leases for thirty-one years of a great portion of the lands of the M'Carthys. His lordship m. Ellen, younger dau. of David, Viscount Fermoy, and had issue, DAVID FITZ-DAVID, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard, Lord Poer, and dying before his father, left a son, DAVID, who s. his grandfather. Honora, m. 1st, to Gerald Fitz-Gerald, of the Decies, by whom she had no issue; and 2ndly, to Patrick Browne, Esq., of Mulrankin, co. Wexford, by whom she had William, Walter, and several daus. Helena, m 1st, to John, son and heir of Richard, Lord Poer, of Curraghmore, by whom she had an only son, heir to his grandfather. Her ladyship m. 2ndly, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, but had no issue; and 3rdly, in 1631, Sir Thomas Somerset (3rd son of Edward, Earl of Worcester), who was created, in 1626, Viscount Cashel, by whom she had an only dau, Helena, who d. uam. Ellen, m. to Sir John Fitzgerald, Knt., of Ballymaloe, co. Cork. Catherine, m. to Richard Burke, Esq., of Derry Maclaghny, co. Gal way. Margaret, m. to Robert, Earl of Roscommon. DAVID BARRY, Viscount Buttevant, who highly distinguished himself by his fidelity to the English interest during the civil commotions in Ireland, and was created, 28 February, 1628, EARL OF BARRYMORE. His lordship m. 29 July, 1621, Alice, eldest dau. of Richard, Earl of Cork, and by her (who m., 2ndly, John Barry, Esq., of Liscarrol) he left at his decease, 29 September, 1642, with two daus. (Ellen, n. to Sir Arthur Denny, Knt., of Tralee; and Catherine, wife of Edward Denny, Esq., of Castle Lyons), two sons, of whom the elder, RICHARD BARRY, 2nd Earl of Barrymore, b. in 1630, m. 1st, Susan, dau. of Sir William Killegrew, Knt., by whom he had three daus., Mary, m. to the Rev. Gerald Barry; Catherine, m. to John Townshend, Esq., of Castletown, co. of Cork; and Susan. He m. 2ndly, in 1656, Martha, dau. of Henry Lawrence, Esq., by whom he had a son LAWRENCE, his heir; and a dan, Theodora, wife of Charles May, Esq.; and 3rdly, Dorothy, dau. and heir of John Ferrer, Esq., of Dromore, co. Down, by whom he had four sons and four daus., Dorothy m. to Sir John Jacob, Bart.; Anne, m. to Dr. Henry Maule, Bishop of Meath; Margaret, m. to Thomas Crosbie, Esq., of Ballyheigue; and Elizabeth, who d. young. The earl d. in 1694, and was s. by his son, LAWRENCE BARRY, 3rd Earl of Barrymore, who m. in 1682, Catharine, dau. of Richard, Lord Santry, but by her (who m. 2ndly, in 1699, Francis Gash, Esq.; and 3rdly, in 1729, Sir Henry Piers, Bart., of Tristernagh) leaving no issue at his decease, 17 April, 1699, he was 8. by his half-brother, JAMES BARBY, 4th Earl of Barrymore, b. in 1667, a lieutenantgeneral in the army, who m. 1st, Elizabeth, sister of Charles, Earl of Cork, and by her had a dau., Anne, m. to James Maule, Esq. His lordship m. 2ndly, Lady Elizabeth Savage, dau, and heir of Richard, Earl Rivers, by whom he had a dau. Penelope, wife of Major-General James Cholmondeley; and 3rdly, 12 July, 1716, Lady Anne Chichester, dau. of Arthur, Earl of Donegal, by whom he had issue, III. Arthur, d. unm. in 1770. IV. John-Smith, of Marbury, in Cheshire, b. 28 July, 1725; m. in 1746, Dorothy, dau. and co-heir of Hugh Smith, Esq., of Weald Hall, Essex, and had issue, with a dau., two sons. 1 JAMES-HUGH, of Marbury, Cheshire, and Foaty Island, co. Cork, b. 1748, who . without legitimate issue: his son was the late JOHN-SMITH BARRY, Esq., of Marbury and Foaty Island. 1. RICHARD, his heir. II. HENRY, successor to his brother. III. Augustus, b. 16 July, 1773, in holy orders, d. s. p. 27 November, 1813. 1. Carolina, b. 17 May, 1768, m. July, 1788, Louis Pierro Drummond, Count de Melfort, of the French service, son of Louis, Count de Melfort. His lordship . at Dromana, 1 August, 1773, and was interred at Castle Lyons, co. Cork. His son, RICHARD BARRY, 7th Earl of Barrymore, b. 14 August, 1769, M.P. for Heytesbury. Of this nobleman Sir Egerton Brydges gives the following description:-"With talents to shine in a course of honourable ambition, with wit, good nature, and engaging manners, he shone a meteor of temporary wonder and regret, by freaks which would have disgraced Buckingham or Rochester, until the accidental explosion of his musket, while he was conveying some French prisoners from Folkestone to Dover, as captain in the Berkshire militia, put an end to his troubles and his follies on 6 March, 1793." He left no issue. His brother and heir, HENRY BARRY, 8th Earl of Barrymore, lieutenant-colonel South Cork Militia, b. 16 August, 1770, m. 16 January, 1795, Anne, eldest dau. of Jeremiah Coghlan, Esq., of Ardo, co. Waterford, but d. s. p. in 1824, when all his honours became EXTINCT. Arms.--Arg., three bars, gemelles, gu. BARRY-BARON BARRY, OF SANTRY. By Letters Patent, dated 18 February, 1661. The Barrys of Santry derived, it is supposed, from a branch of the Barrymore family. SIR JAMES BARRY, b. in 1603, eldest son of Alderman Richard Barry, M.P., lord mayor of Dublin in 1610, and nephew of Nicholas Barry, ancestor of the Barrys of Newtown Barry, co. Wexford, entered on the profession of the law, and attained its highest honours, becoming eventually chief justice of the King's Bench in Ireland. He received the honour of knighthood in 1634, and in 1659 was chosen chairman of the convention which met in Dublin, and proceeded to the transaction of business, in defiance of the orders issued by the council of state in England for their dissolution. They asserted their liberty and independence, proclaimed their detestation of the king's murder, and published a declaration for the re-admission of the secluded members into the parliament of England. At the Restoration, these services were not forgotten, and Sir James was advanced, shortly after that auspicious event (by privy seal, dated 18 December, 1660, and by patent dated 18 February, 1661), to the peerage of Ireland as BARON BARRY, of Santry, co. Dublin. His lordship m. Catharine, dau. of Sir William Parsons, lord justice of Ireland, and dying 9 February, 1672, left, with four daus. (Anne, m. 1st, to Stephen Butler, of Belturbet, and 2ndly, to the Hon. Raymond Fitzmaurice; Elizabeth, m. 4 December, 1683, Thomas Anderton, Esq.; Catherine, and Mary), three sons, Francis Gash, Esq.; 3rdly, Sir Henry Piers, of Tristernagh, Bart., and d. 8 June, 1737; Frances, m. 23 November, 1695, John Keating, Esq.; Elizabeth, wife of James Napper, Esq.; and Dorothea) a son and successor, HENRY BARRY, 3rd Lord Santry, b. in 1680, who m. 9 February, 1702, Bridget, only dau. of Sir Thomas Domvile, Bart., of Templeogue, and dying 27 January, 1734, was 8. by his only son, HENRY BARRY, 4th Lord Santry, b. 3 September, 1710, who was brought to trial before his peers, in 1739, for the murder of Loughlin Murphy, a footman, and found guilty, whereby he was attainted of high treason, condemned to suffer death, and all his estates became forfeited to the crown. By the mediation, however, of the Duke of Devonshire, the lord lieutenant, and several other noblemen, Lord Santry obtained a full pardon for his life, under the great seal, 17 June, 1739, and subsequently, in 1741, a re-grant of his estates. He m. 1st, 8 May, 1737, Anne, dau. of William Thornton, Esq., of Finglas; and 2ndly, Elizabeth Shore, of Derby, but d. without issue, 18 March, 1750-1. By his will he devised his estates to his uncle (ex parte materná) Sir Compton Domvile, Bart., of Templeogue, co. Dublin, and Santry is now, in consequence, the seat of the present SIR CHARLES-COMPTON-WILLIAM DOMVILE, Bart. Arms.-Arg., three bars, gemelles, gu. BASSET-BARONS BASSET, OF WELDEN. By Writ of Summons, dated 6 February, 1299 Few families in the early annals of England can boast of a more eminent progenitor than the Bassets, and the descendants of few of the Anglo-Norman nobles attained a higher degree of power than those of RALPH BASSET (son of Thurstan, the Norman), who was justice of England under King HENRY I. We find his son Ralph, in the reign of STEPHEN, “abounding in wealth, and erecting a strong castle upon some part of his inheritance in Normandy." Ralph Basset, the justice of England, required none of the artificial aids of ancestry to attain distinction; he had within himself powers sufficient at any period to reach the goal of honour, but particularly in the rude age in which he lived. To his wisdom we are said to be indebted for many salutary laws, and among others for that of frank pledge. Like all the great men of his day, he was a most liberal benefactor to the church. He d. in 1120, leaving issue, 1. THURSTINE, who s. to the manor of Colston. II. Thomas, ancestor of the Bassets of Heddington, from whom diverged the Wycombe Bassets. III. RICHARD, of whom presently. This Richard is called the eldest son by Dugdale and by others, the 2nd. IV. Nicholas, who sided with King STEPHEN against the Empress Maud; and his son forfeited all the estates to HENRY II. v. Gilbert, of Little Rissington, co. Gloucester, ancestor of the Bassets of Little Rissington. The 3rd son, RICHARD BASSET, Succeeded his father as justice of England, which high office he filled in the latter part of King HENRY I.'s reign, and through the whole of King STEPHEN'S. In the 5th year of the latter monarch, he was sheriff of Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Vere; and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicestershires. He m. Maud, only dau. and heiress of Geoffrey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue, 1. Geoffrey, who, from his mother, assumed the surname of "de Ridel." 11. Ralph, of Drayton, co. Stafford (a lordship bestowed upon his mother by the Earl of Chester). III. William, of Sapcoate. He was s. by his eldest son, GEOFFREY DE RIDEL. This feudal lord married twice, and had issue by both wives; by the 1st, two sons, viz., I. GEOFFREY, who obtained the principality of Blaye, in France, and is said to have been Geoffrey "The Troubadour." II. RICHARD, of whom presently. By the 2nd, one son, Hugh. Geoffrey de Ridel was s. at his decease by his eldest surviving son, who re-assuming his paternal surname, and seating himself at Welden, in Northamptonshire, became RICHARD BASSET. of Weldon, and was s. by his son, RALPH BASSET, who, in the 2nd of HENRY III., paid 30 marks for the fifteen knights' fees he then held, upon the levy of the first scuttage for the king. He d. sometime before the year 1257, and was s. by his son, RALPH BASSET, who had livery of his lands, upon doing homage in the 42nd HENRY III. (1257-8). He was 8. by his son, RICHARD BASSET, who d. in 1275, and was 8 by his son, RALPH BASSET, who d. in 1294, and was s. by his son, RICHARD BASSET, who was summoned to parliament, 6 February, 1299, as Richardo Basset de Welden. In the 34th EDWARD I., his lordship was in the expedition made against the Scots, in the retinue of Almare de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and being subsequently engaged in the same service, he was slain at the battle of Strevelyn in 1314. He was s. by his son (then in minority, whose wardship was granted to Richard de Grey), RALPH BASSET, 2nd baron, who making proof of his age, had livery of his lands in the 15th EDWARD II. (1321-2). He was summoned 1st EDWARD III. to Newcastle, cum equis et armis, but it does not appear, by the existing enrolments, that he was summoned to parliament. He m. Joane, dau. of John de la Pole, citizen of London, and had issue, I. RALPH, his successor. I. Eleanor, m. to Sir John Knyvett, lord chancellor of England. II. Joane, m. to Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Knt. His lordship was 8. at his decease by his son, RALPH BASSET, 3rd baron, who, becoming a canon regular in the priory of Laund, his son and heir, RALPH BASSET, doing his homage, had livery of all his father's lands, and dying in the 8th of RICHARD II., was 8. by his son, RICHARD BASSET, who d. s. p. in the 10th of HENRY IV. (1408-9), leaving his cousins, The male line of Sir John Aylesbury failed with his son, Sir Thomas, who left two daus., co-heiresses, viz., 1. Isabel, wife of Sir Thomas Chaworth, Knt. 11. Eleanor, m. to Humphrey Stafford, of Grafton. But from John Knyvett descended the KNYVETTS, of Buckenham, Norfolk (See CLIFTON, Barons), the Knyvetts, of Charlton, Wilts, the Knyvetts, of Escrick, co. York (See KNYVETT, Baron), the Knyvetts, of Plumstead, Norfolk (ancestors of Lord Berners), &c. Arme.-Or, three piles, gu., within a bordure, sa., bezantée. BASSET-BARONS BASSET, OF DRAYTON. By Writ of Summons, dated 14 December, 1264. Lineage. "Immediately after the Norman conquest," says Collins, arose into power and importance, more especially in the midland counties, the great baronial family of Basset" (descended from Thurstan the Norman), which gave a chief justice to England, in the reign of HENRY I., in the person of Ralph Basset, from whom sprang the Lords Basset of Drayton, the Lords Basset of Heddington, &c. About the middle of the 12th century, the Bassets of Cornwall obtained the estates of Tehidy, by marriage with the heiress of the great house of De Dunstanville, and at the commencement of the 16th, the two noble seats of Umberleigh and Heanton Court came into the possession of a branch of the Bassets, elder than the Cornwall branch, by the marriage of Sir John Basset with Joan Beaumont, an heiress, descended from Sir William Beaumont and Isabel, his wife, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Willington, of Umberleigh. In the 42nd year of King HENRY III. (1257-8), RALPH BASSET, Lord of Drayton, co. Stafford, great-grandson of Richard Basset, justice of England, and his wife, Maud Ridel, had summons (amongst other great men) to attend the king at Chester, well furnished with horse and arms, to oppose the incursions of the Welsh. But in the 48th of the same monarch, having joined Simon Montford, Earl of Leicester, and the other rebellious barons, he was appointed the next year, after the defeat of the king's arms at Lewes, and capture of the king, governor for those lords of the castles of Salop and Bruges. He fell, however, before the close of the same year, at the battle of Evesham. It is said that when the Earl of Leicester perceived the great force and order of the royal army, calculating upon defeat, he conjured Ralph Basset and Hugh Dispenser to retire, and reserve themselves for better times; but they bravely answered, "that if he perished, they would not desire to live." Lord Basset m. Margaret, dau. of Roger de Someri, Baron of Dudley, and widow of Urian St. Pierre, and had issue, I. RALPH, his successor. 1. Maud, m. to John, Lord Grey de Wilton. Notwithstanding the death of Lord Basset, thus in arms against the king, his widow was so favoured by the monarch as to have the chief of his estates settled upon her for life, but soon afterwards, taking the veil, she passed her title in those lands to her son, RALPH BASSET, 2nd baron, who had summons to parliament, 23 June, 1295, as "Radulphus Basset de Drayton." This nobleman was engaged in the French and Scottish wars of King EDWARD I. In the latter, as one of the retinue of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, the king's brother. His lordship m. Joan, dau. of John Grey, justice of Chester, and had issue, 1. RALPH, his successor. 1. Margaret, m. Edmund, Baron of Stafford, the great-grandson of which marriage, THOMAS, Earl of Stafford, was one of the heirs to Ralph, last Lord Basset of Drayton. 11. Maud, m. William de Heriz, and was mother of JOAN, who . Jordan le Brett, and had a son or grandson, Sir John Brett, whose dau. Catherine, m. Sir John Caltoft, and their dau. Alice, wife of Sir William Chaworth, Knt., was one of the heirs to Ralph, last Lord Basset of Drayton. The son and heir of this Alice Chaworth was Sir Thomas Chaworth, whom. 1st, Nichola, dau. of Sir Reginald Braybroke, by whom he had a dan. Elizabeth, wife of John, 6th Lord Scrope, of Masham; and 2ndly, Isabel, dau. and co-heir of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, by whom he had two sons, Sir William and George (see p. 111). His lordship d. in 1299, and was 8. by his son, RALPH BASSET, 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton, summoned to parliament from 29 December, 1299, to 25 February, 1342. This nobleman was one of the eminent persons made knights of the Bath with Prince Edward, in the 34th of EDWARD I., and who attended the king that year into Scotland, but returning thence without leave, orders were issued to the sheriffs of Stafford, Nottingham, and Derbyshire to seize his lands: he received, however, his pardon in the following year. His lordship was for several years afterwards in constant service in Scotland. In the 15th EDWARD II. he was joined in commission with John de Someri, to seize the castle of Kenilworth for the king, by reason of the forfeiture of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and in the same year was constituted steward of the Duchy of Aquitane. During his government there, Lord Basset was embroiled in a contest with the king of France, but being supported by his royal master, he bade defiance to the wrath of the French monarch He did not remain long, however, in that government, but returning to England in the year but one afterwards, he was made constable of Dover Castle, and warden of the Cinque Ports. In the 1st and 7th of EDWARD III. he was again in the Scottish wars, and in the 8th of the same reign he was appointed justice of North Wales. His lordship m. Joane, dau. of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and had issue, RALPH, who m. Alice, dau. of Nicholas, Lord Audley, and dying before his father, anno 1323, left issue, RALPH, successor to his grandfather, and a dau. Isabel, whose illegitimacy has been almost positively established. She m. Sir Thomas Shirley, Knt., M.P. for the county of Warwick, and was ancestor of the SHIRLEYS, EARLS FERRERS. Ralph, Lord Basset, of Drayton, d. 25 February, 1343, and was 8. by his grandson, still to be seen RALPH BASSET, 4th Lord Basset of Drayton, summoned to parliament from 25 December, 1357, to 6th December, 1389. This nobleman was distinguished in arms during the reigns of EDWARD III. and RICHARD II., and was honoured with the Garter, in consequence of which, his achievement is in one of the stalls of the chapel at Windsor. His lordship m. Joane, sister of John, Duke of Britanny, but had no issue. He d. 10 May, 1390, directing by his will, dated 16 January, 1390 (13th RICHARD II.), that his body should be buried at Lichfield, near the altar of St. Nicholas, and devising his estates to Sir Hugh Shirley, his nephew, son of his sister Isabel (see above), upon condition Dugdale, under Basset of Drayton, makes this lady dau of John, the justice of Chester, but under Grey, of Wilton, he calls her the dau. of Reginald Grey, the son of John. that he should assume the surname and arms of Basset, in failure of which proviso, those estates were then to pass to his cousin, Edmund, Lord Stafford. But the matter is differently represented by other authorities; it is certain, however, that great disputes arose after the decease of Lord Basset, between Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, and Sir Thomas Chaworth, Knt., regarding the lordship of Colston-Basset, co Nottingham, but it does not appear that the Shirleys were engaged in it, nor did they take the name of Basset. Amongst other directions, Lord Basset orders in his will that the person, whomsoever it should be, that should first adopt his surname and arms, should have the use of his great velvet bed during his life; and to the same person he also bequeathed four silver basons, with two ewers, whereon his arms were graven, six silver dishes, two silver pots, and four chargera, all marked with his arms; as also a cup, with cover gilt, having one ring on the side thereof. His lordship constituted Walter Skyelaw, bishop of Durham, Richard Scrope, bishop of Chester, and Sir Richard Scrope Knt., his executors. The barony of Basset has remained in ABEYANCE since the decease of this nobleman, which can only be accounted for by the presumption that Isabel, Lady Shirley, was not the legitimate dau. of his lordship's father, and the supposition becomes almost a certainty by the inquisitions taken after the baron's decease; according to the first, Thomas, Earl of Stafford, was found to be his cousin and next heir; and by the second, the same Thomas, Earl of Stafford, and Alice, the wife of Sir John Chaworth, were found his cousins and next heirs, without any mention whatever of his next relative, were she legitimate, Isabel, Lady Shirley. Glover, the Herald, expressly calls her soror naturalis of the 1st baron, and debruises by a baton her coat of arms. (See COURTHOPE'S Historic Peerage.) It is but right, however, to add that Sir Egerton Brydges, in his edition of Collins, argues strongly in favour of a contrary view of the case, and considers Isabel's legitimacy established. Arms.-Or, three piles, gu, a canton, erm. BASSET-BARONS BASSET OF SAPCOTE. By Writ of Summons, dated 14 December, 1264. This branch of the BASSETS was founded by WILLIAM BASSET, one of the itinerant justices for Yorkshire, in the 21st HENRY II., who settled at Sapcote in Leicestershire, and was younger brother of Ralph Basset, Lord of Drayton : as deputy to whom he executed the office of sheriff of Warwick and Leicestershire, in the 9th of the same monarch's reign. In the 10th he was sheriff of Leicestershire himself: from the 11th to half of the 16th years, inclusive, sheriff of both shires, and from the 23rd to the 30th, sheriff of Lincolnshire. To this William Basset 8. his son, SIMON BASSET, who m. in the 6th RICHARD I. one of the daus, and co-heiresses of William Avenel, of Haddon, co. Derby, and was s. by his son, RALPH BASSET, of Sapcote. This feudal lord held the sheriffalty of Lincolnshire from the 25th to the 29th of HENRY III., inclusive, and in four years after performed a pilgrimage to St. James in Gallicia. In the 42nd of the same monarch he received command to attend the king at Chester, to repel the incursions of the Welsh, and he was constituted in that year governor of Northampton Castle. But after the battle of Lewes, being summoned to the parliament which the barons held in the king's name (49th HENRY III.), he subsequently sided with Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and fell with that ambitious noble at the battle of Evesham, on 4 August, 1265. His lordship m. Milisent, one of the daus. and co-heiresses of Robert de Chaucombe, and was s. by his son, RALPH BASSET, Lord of Sapcote, who had summons to parliaColvil, and one of the co-heirs of Robert, Lord Colvil, and left ment, 24 December, 1264: he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Roger a son and successor, SIMON BASSET, 2nd baron, who had summons in the 22nd of EDWARD I. to attend the king, wheresoever he should be, to advise touching the important affairs of the realm, and was shortly afterwards ordered to come to Portsmouth, on 1 Sep tember, well equipped with horse and arms, and to accompany the king into Gascony. His lordship was father of Ralph Basset of Sapcote, whose son, Simon Basset, was father of (COURTHOPE'S Historic Peerage) RALPH BASSET, 3rd Baron Basset, of Sapcote, who had summons to parliament from 8 January, 1371, to 6 October, 1372. His lordship was one of the gallant soldiers of the martial reign of EDWARD III., and shared in the glories of Cressy. We find him, however, subsequently experiencing some of the vicissitudes of a soldier's fortune; for being again in France in the 46th of EDWARD III., under the command of the Duke of Lancaster, and sustaining great losses at Douchy and Rabymont, he was reproved by the king upon his return, which preceded that of the duke. His lordship m. 1st, Sybil, dau. of Sir Giles Astley, and had issue ALICE, who m. SIR ROBERT MOTON, Knt., and carried into that family the estates of Sapcote and Castle Bytham (the latter came to the Bassets through the Colvilles). The grandson and heir of this marriage, SIR ROBERT MOTON, d. 34th HENRY VI., leaving, by Margery, his 1st wife, a son and heir, REGINALD MOTON, of Peckleton, father of two daus., his co-heirs, viz., 1. ANNE MOTON, who m. William Grimsby, and had an only dau. and heir ANNE, who m. RICHARD VINCENT, of Massingham, co. Lincoln, and had issue. In the heir general of this marriage vests a co-heirship to the Barony of Basset. II. ELIZABETH MOTON, who m. Ralph de la Pole, Esq., of GERMAN DE LA POLE, Esq., of Radborne. m. Anne, dau. 1 FRANCIS. of Dale Abbey, in whose heir general vests 2 German, of Lees, ancestor of the family of CHANDOS Lord Basset, of Sapcote, m. 2ndly, Alice, dau. of John Derby, ELIZABETH, who m. Richard, Lord Grey, of Codnor, and had two sons, whose issue became extinct, and three daus., viz, 1. ELIZABETH, m. Sir John Zouche, of Codnor: the heir general of which marriage is co-heir of the Barony of Basset, of Sapcote. II ELEANOR, m. THOMAS NEWPORT, ancestor of THE NEWPORTS, EARLS OF BRADFORD, whose heir general is the present EARL OF BRADFORD. III. Lucy, m. SIR ROWLAND LENTHALL, and had two daus., KATHERINE, M. to William, Lord Zouche, of Harring ELIZABETH, M. Sir Thomas Cornewall, Baron of Burford His lordship d. in 1378, and the BARONY OF BASSET OF SAPCOTE fell into ABEYANCE between his two daus., and so continues amongst their descendants. Arms- Arg., two bars undèe, sa. BASSET BARON DE DUNSTANVILLE, By Letters Patent, dated 17 June, 1796, and 30 October, 1797. The Bassets of Tehidy derive descent in the direct male line from THURSTAN the Norman. SIR JOHN BASSET, of White Chaple, acquired Umberleigh and Heanton, two noble seats in Devonshire, by his marriage with Joan Beaumont, an heiress (descended from Sir William Beaumont, of Shirwell, and Isabel, his wife, dau. and co-heir of Sir John de Willington, of Umberleigh), and had issue a son and heir, SIR JOHN BASSET, of Umberleigh, and White Chaple, who m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of John Denys, by whom he had an only child, Anne, m. to James Courtenay, and 2ndly, Honora, dau. of Sir Thomas Granville, by whom (who m. 2ndly, Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle) he left at his decease, in 1528, two sons, viz., 1. JOHN, of Umberleigh, m. Frances, dau. and co-heir of Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, and was ancestor of THE BASSETS OF UMBERLEIGH and HEANTON COURT, extinct in the male line, but represented, through an heiress, by ARTHUR DAVIE-BASSET, Esq., of Umberleigh and Watermouth, co. Devon. II. GEORGE, of Tehidy, of whose line we treat. The younger son, GEORGE BASSET, Esq., had a gift from his nephew, Sir Arthur Basset, of Umberleigh, of the manor of Tehidy, in Cornwall, to him and his heirs, as appears by a conveyance dated 26 March, 1558. He m. Jacquetta, dau. of George Coffin, of Portledge, in Devonshire, and dying 5 November, 1589, left, with two daus., Catherine, m. to James Cary, of Clovelly, in Devon, and Blanch, m. to William Newman, an only son, JAMES BASSET, Esq., of Tehidy, who d. 8 February, 1603, having m. Jane, dau. of Sir Francis Godolphin, of Godolphin, Knt., by whom he had, with four daus., Margery, m. Henry Trengrove, alias Nans; Joanna, m. to William Courtenay, of Tremara, co. Cornwall; Grace and Margaret; five sons, FRANCIS (Sir); Thomas (Sir), a major-general under King CHARLES I., commanded a division of the royal army at the battle of Stratton; Arthur (Sir), a colonel in the royal army; Nicholas; and James. The eldest son, SIR FRANCIS BASSET, of Tehidy, m. Anne, dau. of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, of Trelawny, Knt., governor and owner of St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall, and d. 19 September, 1645, leaving a 2nd son, JOHN BASSET, of Tehidy, heir male of his brother Francis. who m. Anne, dau. and heiress of Robert Delbridge of Barnstaple, and d. in November, 1656, having had issue, FRANCIS, his heir. Charles, rector of Illogan, d. s. p. 1709. John, d. unm., January, 1708. The eldest son, FRANCIS BASSET, Esq., of Tehidy, m. Lucy, dau. and heir of John Hele, Esq., and had issue, FRANCIS BASSET, Esq., his only son and heir, who m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart, of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, and widow of Sir Samuel Garrard, by whom he had no issue. He m. 2ndly, Mary, dau. and heiress of John Pendarves, rector of Dunsteignton, in Devonshire, and at length heiress of her uncle, Alexander Pendarves. by uer he had two sons, JOHN-PENDARVES, his heir. FRANCIS, of whom presently. Francis Basset d. 11 December, 1721; his elder son, JOHN L'ENDARVES BASSET, Esq., of Telildy, d. 25 September, 1739, and was buried at Illogan, having m. Anne, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Prideaux, of Netherton, Bart., by whom he had a posthumous son, JOHN PRIDEAUX BASSET, Esq., of Tehidy, who d. 28 May, 1756, aged 16, and was buried at Illogan. FRANCIS BASSET, of Torrley, in Northamptonshire, the younger son of Francis Bassct, s. to the family estate at Tehidy on the death of his nephew. He was M.P. for Penrhyn, and d. November, 1769. He m. 19 October, 1756, Margaret, dau. of Sir John St. Aubyn, of Clowance, Bart., and by her (who d. 19 October, 1768) hed issue, FRANCIS (Sir), Lord de Dunstanville, his heir. John-M., in holy orders, rector of Illogan, and of Camborne, Margaret, m. at St. Breock, 1776, to John Rogers, Esq., of The elder son, Cecilia. FRANCIS BASSET, Esq., of Tehidy, b. 9 August, 1757, was created a baronet 24 November, 1779, raised to the peerage, as BARON DE DUNSTANVILLE, 7 June, 1796, and created BARON BASSET, of Stratton, with remainder to his only dau. and her male issue, 30 November, 1797. He m. 1st, 16 May, 1780, Frances-Susanna, dau. of John Hippisley Coxe, Esq., of Ston Easton, co. Somerset, and by her (who d. 14 June, 1823) had an only child, FRANCES, BARONESS BASSET, of Stratton, b. 30 April, 1781, who d. unm., 22 January, 1855, when the Barony of Basset became EXTINCT. Lord de Dunstanville m. 2ndly, 13 July, 1824, Harriet, dau. of Sir William Lemon, Bart., of Carclew, by whom he had no issue. His lordship d. 14 February, 1835, when the title of de Dunstanville became EXTINCT. The barony of Basset and the Tehidy estates passed to his dau., and the male representative of the family devolved on his nephew, JOHN BASSET, Esq., J.P. and D.L, b. 1791, high sheriff of Cornwall in 1837, who m. June, 1830, Elizabeth-Mary, dau. of Sir Rose Price, Bart., of Trengwainton, and left at his decease three sons, viz., JOHN-FRANCIS, now of Tehidy, b. 15 July, 1831, who has Gustavus-Lambert, 72nd highlanders. Arms-Barry wavy of six, or and gu BATEMAN-VISCOUNT BATEMAN. By Letters Patent, dated 12 July, 1725. Lincage. SIR JAMES BATEMAN, Knt., son of Joas Bateman, a merchant of London, and grandson of Giles Bateman, filled the civic chair of London in 1717, and was appointed sub-governor of the South Sea Company 1718. He m. Esther, youngest dau. and co-heir of John Searle, Esq., of Finchley, and had issue, WILLIAM, his heir. Anne, who m. in 1735, William Western, Esq., of Rivenhall, Essex, and had one son and two dau., 1. James Western, d. in infancy. 1. SARAH WESTERN, m. William Hanbury, Esq., of Kelmarsh, in Northamptonshire, and d. in 1766, leaving (with a dau., Anne, wife of John Harvey-Thursby, Esq., of Abington Abbey, co. Northampton) a son, WILLIAM HANBURY, of Kelmarsh, who inherited the WILLIAM HANBURY, was created, in 1837, BARON BATE- II. WILHELMINA-ANNE WESTERN, m. Richard Stephens, Sir James Bateman d. in November, 1718, and was s. by his son, WILLIAM BATEMAN, Esq., M.P., who was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Culmore and VISCOUNT BATEMAN, 12 July, 1725, and, in 1731, created a knight of the Bath. He m. Lady Anne Spencer, dau. of Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and grand-dau. of the great Duke of Marlborough, and dying in 1744, left two sons, JOHN, his heir; and William, capt. R.N., d. 19 June, 1783, 8. p. The elder son, JOHN BATEMAN, 2nd viscount, master of the buckhounds, chief steward of Leominster, and M.P. for Woodstock, m. in 1748, Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of John Sambroke, Esq., but d. s. p. 2 March, 1802, when the peerage became EXTINCT. Arms-Or, on a fesse, sa., between three Muscovy ducks, ppr., a rose of the field. BAVENT-BARONS BAVENT. By Writ of Summons, dated 8 January, 1313. Lineage. In the 25th of EDWARD I., KOGER BAVENT was in the expedition made then into Gascony, and in the 30th of the same monarch he obtained a charter for a weekly market at Marom, co. Lincoln. From the 6th to the 15th EDWARD II., and from the 6th to the 9th EDWARD III, he was summoned to parliament as BARON BAVENT. It does not appear from the existing enrolments, that there was not any subsequent summons to parliament to a member of the Bavent family, although it appears that Roger, Lord Bavent, left a son to succeed him. Vincent, the herald, in his pedigree of the Bavents, enters John Bavent, living 22 EDWARD III, as the grandson of Roger, Lord Bavent, and states that he d. 8. p., leaving a sister and heiress, Eleanor, m. William de Braose (COURTHOPE'S Historic Peerage), and had a son, Peter de Braose, whose descendant heir-general Beatrice, m. Hugh Shirley, Esq., of Eatington, co. Warwick. Certain it is that in the 13th EDWARD III., Thomas de Bavent and Alice, his wife, settled Easton Bavent with Chediston, in Suffolk, on himself for life, remainder to William, his son, and Catherine, his wife, remainder to Felicia, his dau., sister of William, remainder to John, son of Thomas Ubbeston, remainder to Richard, son of John, son of Baldwin Bavent. In the 20th EDWARD III., William Bavent and Robert Paville were Lords of Easton Bavent. Arme-Arg., a chief, indented, sa. to the peerage on 27 February, 1627, in the dignity of BARON BAYNING, of Horkesley-Bentley, co. Essex, and advanced to the rank of VISCOUNT BAYNING, of Sudbury, co. Suffolk, on the 8 March, in the same year. His lordship m. Anne, dau. of Sir Henry Glemham, of Glemham, co. Suffolk, Knt., and had issue, PAUL, his successor. Cecilia, m. Henry Viscount Newark, who s. his father, in 1643, in the earldom of Kingston, and was created MARQUESS OF DORCHESTER in the folowing year, by whom she had two surviving daus; viz., Anne, m. to John, Lord de Ros, afterwards Earl of Rut- ANNE, m. to Henry Murray, Esq., one of the grooms of the ELIZABETH, M. to Francis Lennard. Lord Dacre. Her ladyship was created COUNTESS OF SHEPEY, for life, 6 September, 1680: she d. 1686. The Viscount d. "at his own house, in Mark-lane, within the city of London" on 29 July, 1629, and was s. by his son, PAUL BAYNING, 2nd viscount, who m. Penelope, only dau. and heiress of Sir Robert Naunton, Knt., Master of the court of ward and liveries, by whom he left two daus.; viz., Anne, m. to Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Penelope, m. to the Hon. John Herbert, youngest son of Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery. His lordship dying thus without male issue, all his honours EXPIRED, while his estates passed to daus., as co-heiressess. Arms-Or, two bars, sa., on each as many escallops of the first. WALTER DE BEAUCHAMP, of Elmley Castle, co. Gloucester, having m. Emeline, dau. and heiress of Urso de Arbitot, constable of the castle of Worcester, and hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire (who was brother of Robert le Despenser, steward to the CONQUEROR), was invested with that sheriffalty by King HENRY I., and obtained a grant from the same monarch (to whom he was steward) of all the lands belonging to Roger de Worcester, with a confirmation of certain lands given to him by Adelise, widow of his father-in-law, the said Urso. Walter de Beauchamp was 8., as well in his estates as in the royal stewardship, by his son, WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, who, for his zeal in the cause of the Empress Maud, was dispossessed of the castle of Worcester by King STEPHEN, to which, and all his other honours and estates, however, he was restored by King HENRY II.; and in that monarch's reign, besides the sheriffalty of Worcestershire, which he enjoyed by inheritance, he was sheriff of Warwickshire (2nd HENRY II.), sheriff of Gloucestershire (from 3rd to the 9th HENRY II. inclusive), and sheriff of Herefordshire (from the 8th to the 16th HENRY II., 1167-70 inclusive). Upon the levy of the assessment towards the marriage portion of one of King HENRY'S daus., this powerful feudal lord certified his knight's fees to amount to fifteen. He m. Maud, dau. of William Lord Braose, of Gower, and was 8., at his decease, by his son, WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, who m. Joane, dau. of Sir Thomas |