96 DESI*ENCER. abeyance till terminated by the death s.p. of his sifter (*) iu 1788 as under. M.I. at. West Wycombe. His will pr, Jan. 1782. XVI. 178S. 10. Thomas (Stapletox) Lord Le Despencer, on the death s.p. of his cousin the only sister of the last Baron, 15 May 1788, became entitled to that dignity as heir-pen. of the 1st Lord, be being a and' h. of Sir Thomas Staixkton, 5th Hart, (of the ereation of 1679) by Mary, da. of Henry Fane, of Wormsley, Oxon, which Sir Thomas was s. and h. of Sir William Ktapleton 4th Bart, by Catherine, d. and h. of William Paw. of Braywick, Berks, by Catherine, his wife, 2d surv. da. of (whose issue in 1788 became sole heir to) John (Fane) 4th Earl of Westmorland, 14th Lord Le Despencer abovenamed. He was 4. 10 Nov. 1766 ; me. his father as 5th Bart. 1st Jauy 17S1. He in. 29 July 1791 at St. Marylebone, Elizabeth, 2d da. of Samuel Eliot, of Antigua. He d. 3d Oct. 1831 aged 64 and was sue. in the Baronetcy by his yst. and only surv. s«.n and h. male, but in the peerage as under. Will pr. March 1832, His widow d. 3d July 1848 at Bath Her will pr. same month. XVII. 1832. 17. Mahy-Fuaxcis-Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Le Despenceb, grandaughter and h. being only surv. da. and h. of the Hon. Thomas Stapleton, by Maria- Wynne, 2d da. of Henry BaNkes, of Kingston Hall, Dorset, which Thomas was 1st s. and h. ap. of the last Baron, but (/. v p. 1 June 1829, aged 36. She was b. 24 March 1822, m. 29th July 184a, at Mereworth, co. Kent, Evelyn Boscawen, who, on 29 May, 1S52 sue. as 6th VisaoUNT Falmouth. (See that dignity). He d. at Mereworth Castle 6 Nov. 1S89 aged 70. Family Estates.... Those of the Baroness, in 1S83, appear to have been 4,2">S acres, co. Kent, worth some £6,000 a year. Principal Residence.... Mereworth Castle, near Maidstone, Kent. DESPENCER, or LE DESPENCEB. Barony by l. Philip Le Despencer, () s. and h. of Philip Le Writ. Despencer, by Joan Strange, his wife, which last named Philip was s. and h. of another Philip Le Despencer, 4th a. of Hugh Le Despencer, I. 1337. juyiior, Lord Le Despencer (1314-26) as above mentioned, was in (1350) 24 Ed. Ill, found heir to his grandmother Dume Margaret de Roos, widow, relict formerly of Philip Le De3pencer, above named (da. and h. of Ralph de GousiLl), lie being then aged seven years.( c ) He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LOUD LE DESPENCER) by writs from 17 Dec. (13S7), 11 Hie. II to 3 Oct. (1400), 2 Hen. IV.('<) , He m. Margaret Codham. lie d. (1400-01), 2 Hen. IV. II. 1401, 2. Piiilip (Le Despexcer), Lord Le Despenceb, s. to and h., aged 36 years at his father's death in 1401, never 1424. appeals to have been sum. to Pari, as a Baron. He m. Elizabeth, yst. da. and one of the three coheirs of Robert (de Tibetot), Lokd Tibetot, by Margaret, da. of William (Deincourt), Lord Deincourt. This Elizabeth, who was aged two years at her father's death in 1372, inherited ( a ). This Lady, Rachel, widow of Sir Robert Austen, 3d Bart, of Bexley, Kent (who d. sp. 1743) assumed on her brother's death in 1781 the title of Baroness Le Despencer, under the (erroneous) impression that the termination of the abeyance in favour of her brother, was tantamount to its having been in favour of her mother, the senior coheir to that dignity. She d. B.p. 16 May 1788 aged 82, when the abeyance terminated as in the text. Her will as " Baroness Le Despencer " pr. 178S. ( 6 ) A good account of this family is in "Coll. Top. et Gen.," vol. vii, pp. 262-263, also (under The Life of S. William of York) in The Yorkshire Arch. Journal, vol. iii, p. 216. (°) He bore the arms of Goushill (Barry of 6, or and a;, a canton, crm) lieu of those of Despencer. See roll of arms temp. Ric. II, 1392-97. (*) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting.
