126 CAMERON— CAMOYS. CAMERON. Sec " Fairfax of Cameron," Barony [S.] {Fairfax), cr. 1G27. "John Cameron,( :1 ) of Locliyel," cr. a Baron [Qy. BARON CAMERON] in 1717, by the titular James III. See, ante, under Jncobito Peerages," vol. i, p. 69, note "b." CAMOYS. [Note. — The Barony of Camoys (i.e. that Barony which was er. by the writ of 13S3, and which, some 43 years afterwards, fell into abeyance for 413 !!! years) is one of a series of Baronies which, having been unheard of for centuries, were claimed in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign, by any coheir who possessed sufficient interest to make success probable. The claimants of such Peerages were lemon, and in the short space of A years (1838-41) the abeyance of no less than five such Baronies (Vaux, Camoys, Braye, Beaumont, ami Hastings), though the average time of their disappearance was above 300 years, was terminated in favour of some distant descend., r.t who seldom possessed even a particle of the ancient Baronial estate. See remarks on these Baronies, ante, voL i, p. 288, note " b ;" as also on " Baronies cnllcd out of abeyance," vol. i, p. 289, note " e." The effect of this method was to give the newly established Peer (whose ancestors for some three centuries Or more had been but Commoners) precedence over nearly all of Baronial rank, many of whom had inherited ancestral Peerages, enjoyed continuously for generations ; thus, in this case, the third Lord Camoys, who (thro' a series of females) descends from the 1st Lord, had precedence over the seventeenth Lord Stourton, the inheritor of a Barouy enjoyed continuously, by the male heir of the body of the grantee since 1455.] Barony by 1. Ralph de Camoys, s. and h. of Ralph do Camoys, writ. senior, by Asceh'na de Toupee, sue. his Father in (1250) 13 Hen. HI, T 1 Ti-t being then aged 40 and upwards, and was sum. to (Montfort's) Pari. as a Baron (LORD CAMOYS) 18 Dec. (1264) 49 Hen. III. He (/. 1277. II 1277. 2. Sin John de Camoys, s. and h., ageil 2G, in 1277 ; living 1281. He was never sum. to Pari, as a Baron. He<Z. before 1299. III? 1299? 3. Sm Ralph de Camoys, s. and h. Ho was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD CAMOYS] from 26 Nov. (1313) 2 Ed. II, to 1 April (1335) 9 Ed. III. He m. Margaret, da. of Mary, widow of William dk Braose. IV? 1340? 4- SiR Thomas de Camoys, s. and h., who was never to sum. to Pail, as a Baron. He d. s.p.s. 10 April 1372, his son Ralph, 1372. having d. v.p. and s.p. It was found that Thomas Camoys, s. of John Camoys (presumed to be a br. of the deceased) was his heir, virtuie rfo?n'.( b ) The will of % Margaret, late wife of Sir Thomas Camoys, Knt.," directing her burial to be at St. George's, in Tedingtou, is dat. 23 April 1386. I- 1383. 1. Thomas de Camoys, s. and h. of John de Camoys, by Margaret, da. of Richard Fouot and coheir to her br. another Richard F., which John was undoubtedly h. of Ralph de Camoys, probably the above- named Ralph, Lord Camoys, 1313-35. Ho was of Broadwater, Sussex, obtaining charter for a market there as early as 1373. He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD CAMOYS) from 20 Aug. (1383) 7 Ric. II. to 26 Feb. (1420/1) 8 Hen. V.( c ) He com- manded the left wing of the army at the battle of Agincourt, 25 Oct. 1415, soon after (») Having joined in the " rising" of 1715, he fled to the Continent, where he d. 1745. He was s. & h. of the famous Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and father of Donald (" The Gentle Lochiel") who so gallantly fought at Culloden in 1746. ( b ) See "The Camoys pedigree," by W. B. Greenfield in " N. and Q." 6th S.I, 40i ( c ) There is proof of his sitting in the rolls of Pari.
