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 i62 CHERLETON Sir John Betteshorne. He d. s.p.m., 14 Mar. i42o/i.(^) His widow, by whom he had no issue, m. John (Sutton), Lord Dudley, who d. 30 Sep. 1487. She d. in 1478, shortly before 8 Dec. On the death of Edward Cherleton any Barony which may be supposed to have been created by the writ of 13 13, fell into abeyance between his two daughters and coheirs by his 1st wife.C') CHESHAM BARONY. I. Charles Compton Cavendish, 4th and yst. s. of J r, r, George Augustus Henry (Cavendish), ist Earl of Bur- -* ■ LiNGTON, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Charles (Compton), 7th Earl of Northampton, was ^.28 Aug. 1793; he was of Latimers in Chesham, Bucks; M.P. (Whig) for Aylesbury 1 8 14-1 8 ; for Newtown (Isle of Wight) 1821-30; for Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) 1831-32; for East Sussex 1832-41; for Youghal (Ireland) 1841-47; and for Bucks, July 1847 to Dec. 1857. Having thus been nearly 40 years in the House of Commons, he was on 15 Jan. 1858, cr. BARON CHESHAM of Chesham, co. Buckingham. He »z., 1 8 June 1 8 1 4, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Catherine Susan, ist da. of George (Gordon), 9th Marquess of Huntly [S.], by Catherine, da. of Sir Charles Cope, Bart. He d. 10 Nov. 1863, in (^) See as to this date p. 10 1 in a review (by J. G. Nichols) in the Her. and Gen., vol. vi, pp. 97-124, of "The Feudal Barons of Powis," by Morris Charles Jones, 1868, an exhaustive treatise, printed in vol. i of the Montgomeryshire collections issued by the Powys Land Club. J. G. Nichols holds strongly against " the crochets of the Peerage lawyers " (who consider the Barony to be that of " Cherleton ") and contends for the Barony being that of "Powis." He states (p. 11 1) that Powys became an English Barony in 1283, when Owen ap Griffin, (the last) Prince of Powis, sur- rendered his Principality and received back his lands in free Barony, and adds that this Owen, as well as Griffin (his s. and h.) ought in any future edition of the peerage to be given as "English Peers;" that John de Cherleton should be "the third not the first Baron;" that Henry Grey should be "the seventh Lord Powis," &€. This, as applied to the territorial Lords of Powis, is doubtless correct, but, unless a peerage Barony by tenure be admitted (as contended for in the case of "Berkeley"), such numbering does not apply to them "as English Peers," i.e. Peers of Parliament; and, inasmuch as such Peerage (only) is the scope of this work, the Editor prefers following Nicolas and Courthope as to the treatment of this Barony, which, as a Peerage, cannot be held to originate earlier than in the writ of 1 313. J. H. Round, however, points out that " Griffin filius Wenunwen " ( Owen's father) was summoned to the so-called Pari, of Shrewsbury in 1283 (see vol. i, p. xviii), at which Pari, his son Owen is alleged to have resigned the Principality of Powis, and to have received it back as a Barony. C") These were (i) Joan, aged 21 in 1421, who inherited the Lordship of Powis, and who m. Sir John Grey, K.G., cr., in 14 18, Earl of Tankerville, in Normandy, whose great-grandson, John Grey, was sum. to Pari. 15 Nov. 1482 by writ directed Johanni Grey de Powys. (2) Joyce, aged 18 in 1421, m. Sir John Tiptoft, sum. to Pari. 7 Jan. 1426 by writ directed "Johanni Tiptoft. The question whether this Barony can be considered as the Barony of Powis, and if so, whether the abeyance has been terminated, is discussed in vol. iv. Appendix H.