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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. DEC. 14, 1907.

Somerset. In 5 Edward I. (1276-7) he was appointed Governor of the Castles of Caermarthen and Cardigan. He died at Hatch, 24 Oct., 1283 (11 Edward I.), but his remains were removed to Stoke-sub- Hamdon for burial.

At John Beauchamp's death the elder of his sons John (II.) was only ten years old. This son in due time took his place a: a lord of Parliament. His wife's Christiar name was Joan. He died 10 Edward III (1336), leaving John Beauchamp (III.) aged thirty, his only surviving son and heir also a daughter, Joan, the first wife of John 2nd Baron de Cobham.

When John (III.) died 19 May, 1343 (17 Edward III.), Margaret his wife survivec him ; likewise two sons John, the elder born at Stoke, 3 Edward III. (1329), and Hugh. Such evidence as is available point: to the probability of Margaret Beauchamp being the daughter of John St. John, Lore of Basing, and Isabel, daughter of Hugh de Courtenay. John Beauchamp (IV.) married Alice, a daughter of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick ; but he died without issue 8 Oct., 1361 (35 Edward III.), his heirs being his sister Cecily and John de Meriet, son of another sister, Eleanor. His widow married Sir Matthew Gournay in 1374.

Mr. Batten argues that as the only child of John de Meriet, a daughter named Elizabeth, died about the age of fifteen without issue, the abeyance of the Barony of De Beauchamp terminated in favour of Roger Seymour, grandson of Cecily by her first husband, and from him descended to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, the Protector, from whom it further descended to the 12th Duke of Somerset, and is in abeyance between his three daughters or their representatives.

Robert, the younger brother of John (II.) died a bachelor, 32 Edward I. (1303-4). I can find no reference to the death of Hugh, the brother of John (IV.), but he must have died without issue before the death of the latter ; otherwise he or his children would have been mentioned as his brother's heir or heirs.

Cecily Seymour's second husband was more likely to be Sir Gilbert Turberville of Coity, Glamorganshire, than Richard Turberville of Bere Regis, Dorset. Her sister Eleanor had no granddaughter Mar- garet who married a BonviJle.

With reference to the statements by MB. EDWARDS, on Collinson's authority, that John de Beauchamp (II. in the above

pedigree) served the county of Somerset in Parliament in 1307, 1314, and 1316, I take the following from the official records as published in the form of Blue- Books :

Parliament summoned to meet at North- ampton, 13 Oct., 1307 : Somerset County, Johannes de Bello Campo de Gorden'.

Parliament summoned to meet at Lincoln, 23 July, and (by prorogation) at Westminster, 20 Aug., 1312 : Somerset County, Johannes de Bello Campo de Marisco, miles.

Parliament summoned to meet at West- minster, 23 Sept., 1313 : Somerset County, Johannes de Bello Campo de Marisco, miles. Parliament summoned to meet at West- minster, 20 Jan., 1314/15 : Somerset County, Johannes de Bello Campo de Marisco.

By a writ dated 18 Aug., 11 Edward III. (1337), Johannes de Beauchamp de Dunden was summoned from Somerset to attend a Parliament which was to meet at Westminster, 26 Sept., 1337. This was an addition to the usual knights of the shire and burgesses.

Johannes Beauchamp de Lillesdon was returned as a representative of Somerset to the Parliaments summoned for 24 Feb., 1370/71, and 8 June, 1371 ; and Thomas Beauchamp, miles, was a knight of the shire for Somerset in the Parliament of 30 April, 1425 ; but what connexion they had with the Beauchamps of Hatch I do not at present know.

" Dunden " mentioned above is Compton Dunden. Where was " Gorden " ? Would it be Gordano (Weston-in-Gordano and Easton-in-Gordano) ? As to " Marisco," the only reference I can find to it is in the will of Richard Cole of Nailsea, dated 1650,

where the manor of Sanford-cum-Marisco is named; but the manor has not (so far as I know) been identified.

The first of MK. EDWAKDS'S four "Weaver" references (viz., p. 122) should be to the

Visitations of the County of Somerset, 1531 and 1573,' and not to the ' Somerset [ncumbents.' JOHN COLES, Jun.

Frome.

There is no contemporary evidence that Robert " the Constable," the Domesday tenant of " Hachia," bore the surname of de Beauchamp ; but it is very probable nevertheless. He is the " Robertus " who lolds Merston, but elsewhere in the Survey of Somerset he is styled " Robertus films /vonis." He was a tenant everywhere of Robert, Count of Moretain. Simply as Robertus he is named as holding of the