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 BASSET (of Drayton) 3 Grey] of Wilton and Ruthin, by his ist wife, Anne, da. of William de Ferrers, of Groby, co. Leicester. He d. 25 Feb. 1342/3. His widow had dower 13 Jan. 1343/4. She d. 1353, before 5 Apr. III. 1343 3. Ralph (B.^sset), Lord Basset OF Drayton, grand- to son and h., aged 8 in 1 343, being s. and h. of Ralph Basset, 1390. by Alice,(^) da. of Nicholas Audley [Lord Audley], of Heleigh, co. Stafford, which last Ralph was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, and d. v.p. about 1335. He had livery of his grand- father's lands 6 June 1355. He joined the army of the Black Prince, and was at Bordeaux, 8 Jan. 1355/6. He was sum. to Parl.(^) from 26 Dec. (1357) 31 Edw. Ill to 6 Dec. (1389) 13 Ric. II, and greatly distinguished himself in the various wars with France. K.G., 1368. On 30 Oct. 1386, at the age of 51, he was a deponent in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy. He »;., istly, about May I338,('=) Joan, da. of Thomas (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, by Catherine, da. of Roger (Mortimer), Earl of March. She d. s.p. He /«., 2ndly, Joan (sister of John, Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort in France, Earl of Richmond in England), da. of Jean de Bretagne, Count of Montfort, by Jeanne, da. of Louis DE Flandre, Count of Nevers. He d. s.p., 10 May 1390. Will dat. 16 Jan. 1389/90, pr. 13 Jan. 1390/1, at Sleaford, and i Aug. 1396. ('^) He was bur. under a "goodly monument in Lichfield Cathedral," when the Barony became dormantj(^) or, possibly, fell into abeyance between the heirs of his two great aunts.O His widow obtained a grant, 23 Apr. cionis beate Marie scilicet in festo Parasceves anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici xxx° secundo," John de Grey, s. of the Lord Reynold de Grey, gave to Ralph Basset, Lord of Drayton, and to Joan, the grantor's da., in free marriage, all his lands in Olney, Bucks, and the advowson of the church there, iifc. (Deed on D( Banco Roll, Easter, 14 Ric. II, m. 441, no. vi). {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. {^) She m. Sir Hugh Meinill before 4 Mar. 1342/3, when both were living. V.G. (*") There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (') By two fines, dated the morrow of the Ascension 13 Edw. Ill [22 May 1338], the manors of Moulton and Buckby, Northants, Walsall, co. Stafford, and Olney, Bucks, were settled on Ralph Basset of Drayton and Joan his wife, for life : rem. to Ralph s. of Ralph s. of the sd. Ralph, and to Joan da. of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and the heirs of their bodies: rem. to the heirs male of the body of Ralph Basset the elder: rem. to Ralph de Stafford for life, rem. to Richard de Stafford for life: rem. to Ralph s. of the sd. Ralph de Stafford, rem. to Richard s. of the sd. Richard de Stafford, rem. to Thomas de Beauchamp s. of the sd. Earl, in successive tail male: rem. to the sd. Earl and his heirs. {Feet of Fines, case 177, file 75, no. iSl; case 287, file 40, no. 255). {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. {^) In E. P. Shirley's Stemmata Shirleiana, 2nd edit., 1 873, p. 376, is an accurate copy of this will, of which the abstract, given in Test. Vet., p. 125, is very misleading. The will is also given in Ancient Deeds, vol. v, A. 1 1 372. (') As to the unwarranted assumption of this and three other Baronies by John (Dudley) 1st Duke of Northumberland, see note under that title. V.G. (*) The heirship of the last Lord is somewhat doubtful. As to many of the estates the heir was found to be, according to one inq., Thomas, Earl of Stafford, s. of Hugh, s. of Ralph, s. of Margaret Basset, sister to the grandfather of the deceased;