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 758 APPENDIX H sitting is to be found, and whose great-grandson, John Grey, was sum. to Pari. 1482, as ' Johanni Grey de Powes.' It is, however, very doubtful if this Barony has ever been taken out of the Abeyance in which it fell on the death of Edward, the last Baron, in 1422; for although the descendants of the eldest coheir and the husband and descendants of the younger were sum. to Pari., yet it is most probable that both the Baronies in question must be considered as new creations. The claim of John Kynaston, Esq., in 173 I, which is more fully noticed under Grey of Powis, appears to have been made under the presumption that John Grey, who was sum. in 22 Edw. IV, had this Barony as sole h., in consequence of the attainder of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (the other coheir), in Oct. 1470, or that the Abeyance was terminated by the Crown in his favour. The former could not have been the fact, for such attainder would have vested that moiety in the Crown; and with respect to the second conjecture, that the Abeyance was terminated by the Writ of Summons to John Grey in 11 Edw. IV, the Editor [Sir Harris Nicolas] acknowledges himself incom- petent to speak decisively, though, if no other evidence of the fact can be adduced than the addition of 'de Powes' to his name in that writ, he presumes, from the numerous examples of such additions without any inference of a similar nature being deducible therefrom, that little stress in favour of such a supposition can be laid on that circumstance; for if it be conceded that John Grey was sum. on that occasion as ' Lord Powis,' it is much more likely that he was then created to that title than that it was intended to give him the Barony created by the writ of 7 Edw. II to John Charleton; as his proper designation, if such was the intention, would have been Lord Cherleton, for the appellation of Powis was not adopted until the 36 Edw. Ill, forty-nine years after the creation of this Barony, and then, in all probability, merely as a distinction, without its being intended to form the title of the dignity. Of this assertion the following instances afford strong proof John Beauchamp, younger son of Guy, Earl of Warwick, was sum. to Pari, from 25 Nov., 24 Edw. Ill, 1350, to 15 Dec, 31 Edw. Ill, 1357 (when he d. s.p.), as ' Johanni Bello-Campo de fVarrewyk,' probably to distinguish him from John Beauchamp of Hache, in Somersetshire, who is described in the writs as John Beauchamp '■ de Somerset;' but it cannot for a moment be contended that either Somerset(^) in the one instance, or Warwick(') in the other, formed the titles of either of these Barons, and that, instead of being Barons Beauchamp, they were Barons of li^arwick and of Somerset. These additions are to be found in the original writs by which those dignities were created, whilst this Barony existed for nearly fifty years before the words ' de Powes ' occur in the Writs of Summons; the presumption is, therefore, more strongly in favour of the Baronies in question being those of M^aiwick and Somerset than that this dignity should be that of Powis. But in order to obtain as much information as was possible on the proper title of this (*) See, however, some observations as to this style, ante, vol. ii, sub Beauchamp of Somerset.