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 BASSET. 261 II. 13M. 2. Rai.i'h Basset, s. and h. made proof of his age (1:121-2), IS Ed. II. Though sum. cum cijuis ct armii to Newcastle (1327), 1 Eil. Hi, he was neecr sum. In Purl, as a Huron, lie in. Joan, tin. of John Dg LA* POLE, Citizen of London, by whom lie had one son. He el. (1341-42) 15 Ed.. Ill, HI. 1312. S. ltAi.ru Basset, b. and h. d, 13G9. He became a Canon Regular in the PHory of Laund. IV. 1369. 4- Ralph Uasset, s. and h. had livery of his father's lands. He if. (1334-85) 8 Uic. U. V. 1385, 6. Richard Uasset, s. and h. who like his father, to grandfather and great-grandfather, never hud summons In Pari. 1408. He i (14'lS) when any hereditary peerage that may have been .■/■. by the writ of 12!)!', fell into abeyance between his consins,( c ) the representativea of the two daughters of his great-grandfather. It is to be observed, however, that there seems no proof of any sitting under the writ of 1399, at any other. BASSET OF STRATTON. Baron or /. Francis Basset of Tehidy, co. Cornwall, only 8. and Baroness •'• "' Pram-is Basnet of the same by .Margaret, da. of Sir John St. Ariivx, l!art., was b. at Walcot 9 Aug. and bap. 7 Sep. 1757 at Charl- I. 179'. bury, Qion. In Nov. 17ti!< he sia: his father in the family estates. On 24 Nov. 1779 he was cr. a BaHONET. He was M.P. for Penrhyn, 1780, 17S4 ami 17!M>, and on 17 June 1 7!><5 was raised to the Peerage, being cr. BARON DE D UN ST A X VILLEf*) of Tehidv, co. Cornwall, and, the vear following, having no male issne, was cr. 80 Nov. 17U7 BAUON BASSET UK STRATTON, co. Cornwall, with a spec. rem. of that Barony, failing the heirs male of his body, to his only da. Frances Basset, spinster, and the heirs male of her body. He m. 16 May 17S0, at St. Marylebuiie, Frances Susanna, da. and at length coheir of John Hippisley CoXE of Stone Faston. co. Somerset, She d. 14 June 1 828 at Twickenham. He Sa. secondly 18 July 1S24 at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Harriet, da. of Sir William Lemon, 1st Dart., by Jane, da. of John BOLLEIl of Jlorval, co. Cornwall. Lord de Duustanville and Basset ei. s.p.m. 14 Feb. 1835 at South Place, Knightsbridge, when the Barony of Dunstanvili.e and the Bakonktct became extinct. Will pr. April 1S35. His widow il 30 Dec. 1864 in her 88th year, at No. 10 Charles street, Berkeley sq. II. 1835 3. Frances, huc jure Baroness Basset of Stratton, ^ 0 only da. (by the 1st wife) and h. to that Barony according to the spec, rem. She was b. 30 April and bap, 28 May 1781 at St. Marylebone 1865. afsd. She il. num. 22 Jan. 1S55 at Tehidy Park, and was tar, at Illogan, when the Barony of Basset of Stratton became cxtinct.( b ) Will pr. June 1855. (") The names of these coheirs were (1) Sir John Aylesbury, s. audh. of Joan, and (2) folia Knyvet, b. and h. of Eleanor, the said Joan and Eleanor being daughters of Haloh Basset of Weldon, by Joan Uetapole. To the first of these was assigned Weston on WeUand and the hamlet of Sutton Basset, and to the latter the estate of Great Weldon. (*) The estate of Tehidy was acquired by the Bassets about 1150 (through a match with an heiress) from the" family of DunttanviUe. Several of Gainsborough's most celebrated pictures belonged to this family and are still (1885) at Tehidy— in particular, " The Cottage Girl with the broken pitcher,"