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 256 BABRY— BASSET. IV. 1734, 4. Henry (Barry), Lord Barry of Santry [I.], only to g. and h. b. 3 Sep. 1710 at St. Mary's. Dubliu. He was tried for the 1739, murder of Uugblin Murphy, a footman (whom iu a fit of passion he „ r had stabbed 9 Anc. 1738, but who did not die til! 25 Sep. followin g, and 1751. fcefagfwmd guilty was attainted and condemned to death, 87 April 1739, whereby it was considered (though probably in error) that 'his Peerage!*) as well as hit estates were forfeited. Oil 17 June following he obtained pardon, under the Great Seal, as to his lit", and, in 1741. a regrant of liU estates. He >n, firstly, S M.y 1737, Anne, da. of William Thokxiox of KinglaB, She d. March 1742 at Nottingham. In this town he, shortly before his death, m. secondly Elizabeth Shore of Derby. He d. s.p. IS March 1750-1, aud was bar. the 22ud at St'. Nicholas' Nottingham, =) when, in all probability, the Peerage became cxtinct., A ) BARRY. See " ROMILLY OF BARRY, co. Glamorgan," Baron, cr. 1S66. BARRYMORE, BARRY, OR BUTTEVAXT. See ante, under " Barry," p. 250. BARTOX COURT. See " AMESBURY OF KIXTBURY, AMESBURY AXD BARTOX COURT, co. Berks," Baron ; cr. and ex. both in 1832. BASIXG. See "ST. JOHN," Baron, cr. 1299 ; but sum. from 1322 to 1325 as " ST. JOHN I'E BASING ; " in abeyance 1347. See "PAnVLET DE BASIXG," Baron, a: 1717, ex. 1754. BASSET^) DE DRAYTOX. Barony by /. Ralph Basset of Drayton, co. Stafford, and of Writ Colston Basset, Notts, s. and h. of Ralph B. of the same, was sum. to Pari. 2t Dec. (1204) 49 Hen. Ill, as a Baron [LORD BASSET I. 1 264. DE DRAVTON], the writ being directed to him us "Haditlphm Basset ( b ) The same appears to have been also supposed in the case of Mervin (Tuchet), Earl of Castlehaven [I.] (see p. 200, under the date 1017-31), though, in both cases, the peerages being in tail would not be forfeited according to the now received ..pinion, aud to the precedent afforded iu the Stourton case (1557) and confirmed (1760) in that of Ferrers. Iu the former case Charles, Lord Stourton, was attainted for felony and hanged for murder, as also, iu the latter case, was Earl Ferrers, but in neither was there any forfeiture and consequently no act of restoration. See Courth"pe" in " Observations on Dignities," p. lxviii. (°) The entry in the parish register is "The Hon. Henry Barry, E3q., formevly Lord Santry of the Kingdom of Ireland." ( d ) By his will he devised his estates to his maternal uncle (of the half blood), Sir Compton Domville, Bart. [I.] (") In Dugdale's " Usage of Arms," edit. 181?, pp. 12 and 13, is an interesting account of the numerous variation! (for the sake of "difference") in the armorial ensigns borne by the various members of the Basset family. From this it would appear that the house of Weldon, and that of Drayton, both of whom derived from the elder sons of Richard Basset by Matilda, da." and h. of Geoffrey Ridel (a moat powerful feudal Baron, whose lands they inherited) adopted the ''J piles" (being the coat of the family of Ridel) but that William Basset (the ancestor of the house of Sapcote), being the yst. s. of the said William and Matilda), " having no advancement