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 BASSET OF STRATTON 9 to his only da.,(^) Frances Basset, Spinster, and the heirs male of her body. He d. s.pjn., 14 Feb. 1835, aged 77, when the first named Barony became extinct. See fuller particulars under De Dunstanville of Tehidy. II. 1835 2. Frances, suo jure Baroness Basset of Stratton to [i797]> only da. and h., being only child of the above by 1855. his I St wife, Frances Susanna, da. and eventually coh. of John Hippisley Coxe, of Stone Easton, Somerset. She, who was b. 30 Apr. and bap. 23 May 1781, at St. Marylebone, sue. to the peerage under the spec. rem. in its creation. She d. unm., 22 Jan. 1855, aged 73, and was bur. at lUogan, when the Barony became extinct.Q') Will pr, June 1855. BASSET (of Weldon) f) I. Ralph Basset, s. and h. of Richard B.,('^) of Great Weldon and Weston by Welland, Northants, Madeley, co. Stafford, ^c, sue. his father in I276,(^) and did homage and had livery of his in- heritance 25 June 1276.Q He was sum. to attend the King at Shrews- bury,(^) 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writ directed Radulfo Basset de Welledon. He m. Alianore, da., and in her issue coh., of Henry W^ade, or DE la W^ade, of Bletchingdon and Stanton Harcourt, Oxon-C*) (^) A rare instance at that date of a rem. to one whose relationship was not in the male line. See, however, the Barony of Barham, in 1805, as also one (yet more extended) in 1706 as to the Dukedom of Marlborough. For a list of these see vol. iii, Appendix F. V.G. C") Several of Gainsborough's most celebrated pictures belonged to this family, and were in 1885 at Tehidy, in particular, "The Cottage Girl with the broken pitcher;" but this last has since been sold. V.G. (■=) The re-writing of this article has been kindly undertaken by G. W. Watson. (<') Ralph Basset, of Weldon, is'c, d. in 1257/8 (writs of diem cl. ext. 17 and 18 Feb. 42 Hen. Ill), when this Richard was found to be his s. and h., and aged 30 and more. (Ch. Inq.p. m., Hen. Ill, file 20, no. 18). Richard did homage and had livery of his inheritance, 28 Mar. 1258. [Fine Roll, 42 Hen. Ill, m. 9). if) "Ricardus Basset de Weledon." Writs of diem cl. ext. i July [sic in orig., but probably a mistake for i June] 4 Edw. I. Inq., cos. Stafford and Northants, the morrow of St. Barnabas [12 June] and —, 1276. Ralph his s., aged 30 and more, or 32 and more, was his h. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. I, file 14, no. 9). (') Fine Roll, 4 Edw. I, m. 14. That is, before the date on the above-mentioned writs of diem cl. ext. (s) As to this supposed Pari., see Preface. V.G. C") This Henry was the King's Cook, and Henry III, "intuitu diutini et lauda- bilis obsequii quod Henricus de la Wade Cocus Regis Regi impendit," gave him, 20 Oct. 1260, the serjeanty of Bletchingdon {Fine Roll, 44 Hen. Ill, m. I; Charter Rod, m. 3). At his death (shortly before 4 Sep. 1287), it was found that he d. seized, inter alia, of a carucate of land in this manor, held by the service of bringing before the King a roast, price 4^d., viz., "unam loynam porci," whenever the King shall 3