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 2i8 BONVILLE BOLTOUN z.if."THiRLESTANE AND BoLTouN," Barony [S.](M'«///tf«^), see "Lauder- dale," Earldom of [S.], cr. 1624. BONKILL i.e. " Douglas of Bonkill, Prestoun and Robertoun," Barony [S.] {Douglas), see "Douglas," Dukedom of [S.], cr. 1703; extinct 1761. BONVILLE (of Chewton) BARONY BY i. William Bonville, of Chewton, Somerset,(') WRIT. s. and h. of John B., by Elizabeth, da. and h. of John . FiTz Roger, of Chewton afsd., was b. at Shute, near 449- Colyton, co. Devon, 30 Aug. 1393, sue. his grandfather, Sir William Bonville, of Shute, 14 Feb. 1407/8 (who had m. Alice {Inq.p. m. 1425-6), and survived John B. abovenamed, his s. and h. ap.), and sue. his mother in the lands of Chewton, i^c., 15 Apr. 141 4. He was knighted before 141 7, being then with the army in France. Sheriff of Devon 1423. Seneschal of Aquitaine 7 Jan. 1442/3, for 12 months. From 10 Mar. (1448/9) 27 Hen. VI to 30 July (1460) 38 Hen. VI, he was sum. to Pari., by writs directed (mostly) tVillelmo Bonville domino Bonville et de Chuton,(^) whereby he is held to have become LORD BONVILLE. Nom. K.G. 8 Feb. 1 460/1, at a Chapter held at the Bishop of London's Palace, near St. Paurs.('^) Having joined the fortunes of the House of York, he was, after the Lancastrian victory at St. Albans, 17 Feb. 1 460/1, executed the next day, by order of Margaret, the Queen Consort, in spite of a promise of safety from the King. He m., istly, Margaret ('^) (who was living 15 Kal. May 1426). He w., 2ndly, "/>«" verba pnrsenti, non tamen in facie ecclesia" (bull confirming the marriage 9 Oct. 1427), ('^) Elizabeth, widow of John, (^) See a good account of this family by Sir John Maclean, in his Trigg Minor, corrected by B. W. Greenfield in N. & Q., 5th Ser., vol. viii, p. 430, and ante. See also Halliday's Porlock Monuments, 1882. ('') There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. 1^) See note siih Richard, Earl of Warwick [1449]. (<*) She is generally said to be "da. and h. of ( — ) Merriet." See Maclean's Trigg Minor; but this is apparently a mistake for the wife of Lord Bonville's grandfather, i.e., Margaret, da. of Sir William d'Aumarle, cousin and h. of Sir John Meriet, junior, which Margaret^. 25 May 1399. Margaret, ist wife of Sir William Bonville, con- veyed, with her husband, the manors of Great Glen, co. Leicester, and of Yelverton and Sokes, Somerset, to feoffees, i Hen. VI. (f) She had stood sponsor to a da. of Lord Bonville by his ist wife, so the marriage would have been void on the ground of spiritual affinity if not confirmed by the Pope. See Register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter (1417-55). {ex inform. Winslow Jones). V.G.