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 50 BEAUCHAMP (of Somerset) would have fallen (according to modern doctrine) into abeyance between his sisters or their issue. (*) His widow m., between 1371 and 1374, Sir Matthew Gournay, and d. in his lifetime, 26 Oct. 1383, being bur. in St. John's Priory, Bridgwater. Sir Matthew G. was bur. in the Beauchamp Chapel at Stoke, said to be aged 96. BEAUCHAMP (of Warwick) BARONY BY i. John Beauchamp, 2nd s. of Guy, Earl of War- WRIT. WICK., by Alice, da. of Ralph de Toni, of Flamstead, T Herts, attended the King into Flanders in 1338; was at ^^ the naval victory off Sluys in 1340; and (together with, his elder br. Thomas, Earl of Warwick) was elected K.G. ^ ' in 1348, being one of the 25 Original Knights of that most noble order.C") He carried the Standard-Royal at the battle of Cre^y in 1346, was present at the surrender of Calais, and was advanced to the degree of Banneret, i Mar. 1348/9. Adm. of the Fleet off Calais 1349; appointed Captain of Calais 14 Jan. 1354/5; Adm. for the Western Seas 1355; Adm. for the North, South, and West, July to Dec. 1360. From 25 Nov. (1350) 24 Edw. Ill to 15 Dec. (1357) 31 Edw. Ill, he was sum. to Pari, by writs directed Johanni de Bella Campo de Warrewyk^i^') (^) The coheirs were (i) Cicely, his elder sister, widow of Roger Seymour and then .aged 40 ; and (2) John de Meriet, his nephew (only child and h. of Eleanor, the 2nd and yr. sister, by her only husband, Sir John de Meriet, senior), then aged about 15, having been b. 24 Mar. 1345/6. He, who was knighted, m. three times, and (5^. 26 July 1391, leaving an only child, Elizabeth, b. 13 Dec. 1386 (betrothed to Urry Seymour), who d. s.p., aged about 15, when the issue of her grandmother Eleanor Beauchamp became extinct. But the bulk of the estates seems to have devolved on the ist sister, Cicely, who m., istly, Sir Roger Seymour, and 2ndly, before 1383, ( — ) Turberville, having issue by both. She inherited the manors of Hatch, Shepton-Beauchamp, Murifield and one third of the manor of Shepton Mallet, co. Somerset; the manors of Boultbery and Haberton, co. Devon; of Dorton, Bucks; Little Haw, Suffolk, i3°c. She d. 7 June 1394, and was sue. by her grandson and h., Roger Seymour (then aged 27), ancestor of the Dukes of Somerset, ds'c. This Roger Seymour became, about 1400 (by the death of his cousin Elizabeth Meriet above- mentioned) the sole representative of the Barony of Beauchamp of Somerset, and (according to the present theory as to the descent of such a Barony) was entitled thereto. In that case the 1 2th Duke of Somerset, his lineal heir general, would (subject to any attainder of the ist Duke that might affect it) have been so entitled, and on his death, s.p.m.s., 28 Nov. 1885, it would have fallen into abeyance among his daughters. ('') For a list of these see Appendix B in this volume. V.G. if} It is not improbable that the words " de Warrewyk " (added, doubtless, for the sake of identification) signified (not so much the town or county of Warwick, as) that he was of the family of the "Earls of Warwick." So, also, " de Arundel" signified of the family of the " Earls of Arundel " (see vol. i, p. 259, note "a"), and so, in later times, Evelyn (i 660-1669) speaks of the br. of the then Duke of Norfolk as " Mr. Howard of Norfolk." Such, however, cannot be the explanation of " Beau-