BASSET (of Sapcote) Simoni Basset.(^) On 14 June 1294 he was sum. to accompany the King cum equis et armis to Gascony. He d. before Michaelmas 1295. 3. Ralph Basset, s. and h. He was returned as Kt. of the Shire for CO. Stafford on 6 Mar. 1 299/1 300. He was lord of one of the two manors in Cheadle, co. Stafford, in 13 16. He m. istly, Elizabeth, () ist da. and in her issue coh. of Roger Colvill, [Lord Colvill] by Margaret, da. of Sir Richard Brewes. He W2., 2ndly, shortly before 21 July 1295, Margaret, () widow of Urian de St. Pierre, of Peckforton, Horsley, £s?c., CO. Chester. He is said to have d. 1322. 4. Simon Basset, s. and h., by ist wife.('^) He m., before 1309, Isabel, da. of William Boteler, [Lord Boteler of Wem]. He d. 1328. His widow w., in 1330, after 18 Mar. 1329/30, Sir Alexander Walsham, at which time she sealed a deed with the arms of Basset (barry wavy) and Boteler of Wem, on two shields side by side. (^) BARONY 5. Ralph Basset, s. and h., under age in 1330. In BY WRIT. July 1369, being then aged over 40, Q he became, by the (^) As to these writs see Preface. C") See Family of Chester of Chiche/ey, pp. 1 97- 1 99, by R. E. Chester Waters, where there is much valuable information respecting the family of Basset of Sapcote after their alliance with that of Colvill of Bytham. ("=) Genealogist, N.S., vol. xxviii, p. 128. Cf. Close Roll, 23 Edw. I, m. 8. {^) In a suit (1330) it is stated by both parties that Isabel, the plaintiff, was widow of Simon Basset of Sapcote junior (living 20 Edw. II), s. and h. of Simon, s. and h. of Ralph, who w.is seized of the manor of Cheadle temp. Hen. III. In another suit (1369) Ralph Basset of Sapcote chr., the defendant, is described by both parties as s. and h. of Simon and Isabel, and grandson and h. of Ralph, who was seized of the manor of Cheadle temp. Hen. III. In a third suit (141 1) the same pedigree is given as in 1369. {De Banco, Easter, 4 Edw. Ill, m. 64; Hilary, 43 Edw. Ill, m. 338: Coram Rege, Easter, 12 Hen. IV, m. 85). It seems necessary to mention these suits, as Gen. Wrottesley claimed that the last two " cut out " two generations from the accepted pedigree of Basset. But the accounts do not agree, and probably the first suit omits one generation, while the others omit two generations. In quare impedit proceedings such as these (all three are claims to present to the church of Cheadle) a generation to which presentation did not fall is, in fact, sometimes passed over. Another suit [De Banco, Hilary, 46 Edw. Ill, m. 242) states that Ralph Basset, the defendant, was s. of Simon, s. of Ralph by Elizabeth da. of Roger de Colville. As this Elizabeth must have been ii. not long before 1287, she could hardly have been wife of the Ralph Basset of Sapcote who presented to the church of Cheadle temp. Hen. III. {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. (') Documents in Muniment Room, Trin. Coll., Cambridge. {ex inform. W.H.B. Bird). V.G. (') Elsewhere he is alleged to have been aged 17 in 1369/70, but this does not accord with the fact that his parents certainly married before 1 309, nor with the age of his daughters at his death. See note sub Robert, Lord Colvill [1368].
