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 48 DE LA WARE. in rccompencc o£ that service large grants of Monastic lands, vis., Whorwell Abbey, Hants, Sec. He was el. KG, 1st and inst. 13 Dec. 1549 ; P.C., 1T.53. He m. Eliza- beth, da. and coheir of Sir John Bonyillk. She d. before him. He d. s.p. 25 Sep. 1554 at his manor house of Oflington, and was bur. at Brondwatsr.(*) In'/, post mortem 6 June 1555. On his death the Baronies of Dc La Warr and West fell into abeyance, between the daughters and coheirs of Sir Owen West (who el. Oct. 1551) his next br. tho' of the half blood.( h ) His Will, as "Sir Thomas West, K.U., lord La War," dat. 5 Nov. 1654, (confirming the Will of his late wife) pr. 12 Nov. 1551. Barony. l. Wnjuuui "West, nephew and h. male, being s. and h. I 1 570 ^* eor S e Wiert of Warbletoii. Sussex, by Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of Sir Robert Morton of Lcehlade, co. Glouc, which Geoi-ge was 3d son (2d s. by the 2d wife) of the 8th Lord and one of the yr. brothers, of the half blood, of the 9th and hist Lord. He was 6. before 1520, was Knighted between 1 536 and 1549 and sue. his father, Sep. 153S. Having been adopted as heir by his uncle, the last Lord (to the exclusion, apparently of t he issue of that Lord's next br. Sir Owen West, whose death s.p.m. did not take place till 1551), he " being not content to stay till his uncle's natural death, prepared poison to dispatch him rpiickly,"( c ) and was consequently by Act of Pari. 1 Fcby. (1548/9), 2 Ed. VI. disabled from all honours. He was found guilty of being in the plot of April 1556, against Queen Mary. In July 1557 he was Capt. in the Army at the Siege of St. Quintan, in Picardy ; hut, on 10 April 1563, was restored in blood ; in Nov. 1509 (under the Btyle of " William West, Esquire,") he was joint Lieut, for co. Sussex, and was (for the 2d time) Knighted (by the Ear! of Leicester,/, 5 Feb 1569/70, at Hampton Court, and is said on tl e same day to have been er. bv patent BARON DE LA WARR or LA WAUIt./ 1 ) He was sum. to Pari, by writs, S May (1572), 14 Eliz. to 19 Feb. (») See an epitaph composed for him by his frieud, Lord Morley, in "Collins" vol. v, p. 15. where also his possessions are set out as also his coheirs {of the whole blood), viz. the issue of two of his sisters, Dame Eleanor Guilford and Dame Dorothy Owen deceased. ( b ) These were (1) Mary, (2) Anne, of whom Mary became eventually the sole heir. Mary m. firstly Sir Adrian Poynings, and secondly Sir Richard Rogers. By Poynings she had 3 daughters and coheirs, (1) Elizabeth, (2) Anne, and (3) Mary. Sir H. Nicolas observes that " The Barouy of la Warr, as well as that of West, created by the writ of summons to Thomas West, must be considered to be vested in the descendants and representatives of the said Mary. It is a singular fact that, in the proceedings on this Barony, temp. Elizabeth, no allusion is made to this Mary or her descendants ; and the last report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm is also silent on the subject of the issue of the said Mary, who left three daughters, and whose descendants still exist." Mr. Conrthope adds that " Sir Adrian Poynings considered that his issue had, in right of their mother, a right to the Barony, and in the 9 Eliz. 1567 a case was prepared in which that claim was urged ; but the heralds of that day, upon wdiat principle it is impossible now to say, were of a different opinion." In Banks' "Bar. Aug. Cone." vol. i, p. 191, the following conjecture is given : " It is said that Sir A. P. was an alien born, which may account for the passing over her [i.e. Lady Poynings] interest to the next male line." ( c ) See " Dutjdale." ( d ) " Dugdale cites no satisfactory authority for the patent; but Sir Edward Walker (MS. WQ 89), gives an account of the ceremony of his creation on Shrove Tuesday, 5 Feb. 1569, at Hampton Court Palace, on which occasion Garter delivered his letters patent to the Lord Chamberlain, who delivered them to the Queen. No enrolment of the patent is however to be found." [" Courthope."] Sea also notes, sui!570, in " Creations, 1483-1646 " iu ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. Mr. Towusend, Windsor Herald (1781-1819), one of the most competent authorities in such matters, in his additions to " Dugdale " (Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vii, p. 159) makes the follow- ing "observations upon the new creation of the title in William, and the restoration, as it is called, of the son of William to the ancient place ami precedency of his ancestors. — The precise date of this new creation is nowhere mentioned with certainty. I have never seen any letters patent for it, and am of opinion that none ever passed. William was aum. to Pari, for the first time iu 1571 [1572 ?], and placed an junior