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���CAMOYS. Argent a chief gules 'with three bezant* therein.

��Robert de Briwes died in 1275 holding it of Ralph Camoys of Wotton, and left a son and heir John, then forty years of age.* In 1282 John effected a settlement of the manor on his daughter Bea- trice, 7 who soon after became the wife of Robert son of Wil- liam Burnel. 8

The exact date at which Wisley passed from the Briwes family is uncertain. 9

Lands in Somerset held by John de Briwes in 1285 were less than twenty years later in the possession of Robert Fitz Payne, 10 to whom Wisley ultimately passed." In 1328 Robert Burnel, who had acquired the manor in right of his wife Beatrice, brought an action against Robert Fitz Payne, who had apparently ousted him from it." The end of the suit has not been discovered, but since the Fitz Paynes remained in possession, they evidently established their right to the estate.

Robert Fitz Payne married Ela daughter of Sir Guy de Bryan," but had no male heirs, and at Ela's death in 1355 the manor passed to her cousin " Robert second son of Lord Grey of Codnor, under the

��terms of a settlement made in 1324." Robert de Codnor assumed the name of Fitz Payne " and died seised of the manor in 1 392," when the manor passed to his daughter Isabel, wife of Richard de Poynings. She did not long survive her father, but died seised of the manor in 1393," holding of Thomas de Camoys, lord of Wotton. She left a son and heir Robert then fourteen years old. In 1434 Robert de Poynings settled the manor on his daughter Eleanor on her marriage with Henry Percy, son and heir of the Earl of Northumber- land." She died in 1483, and was succeeded in the pos- session of the manor by her son Henry Earl of Northum- berland. 10 The earl was mur- dered in a riot in 1489, and shortly afterwards a dispute arose among the descendants of Sir Guy de Bryan touching the lands inherited from him." Two of the parties in this suit were the Earls of North- umberland and Orraond, and in the ensuing division of pro- perty Wisley was evidently assigned to Ormond, for John Covert died in I 503 seised of the manor by Ormond's grant." At Covert's death the manor passed to his

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���COVERT. Gulei a fesse ermine between three martlets or.

���WISLEY CHLRCH FROM THE SOUTH-EAST

��6 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. I, no. 46. ' Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 1 Edw. I. 8 Each. Inq. p.m. Roll i, no. 193. Probably about 1324 ; ee note II.

10 e.g. Manor of Staple Fitz Paine ; fee feud. Aids, iv, 272, 313.

11 In 1324 Richard de Fitz Payne and Ela hi* wife paid half a mark for a writ

��of entry to their Surrey lands (Fine R. 1 7 Edw. II).

" Parl. R.

18 G.E.C. Complete Peerage.

14 Son of Elizabeth sister of Sir Guy de Bryan (G.E.C. Complete Peerage").

15 Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. HI, no. 14.

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��" G.E.C. Complete Peerage. ] ' Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, no. 12. pt. i.

18 Ibid. 17 Ric. II, no. 46.

19 Close, 1 3 Hen VI, m. 4.

90 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Ric. Ill, no. 26. al Close, 4 Hen. VII, pt. i, no. 8. " Cat. oflnj. Hen. Vll, i, 431.

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