8 BASSET (of Sapcote) I- 1371 death of his cousin, Robert, Lord Colvill, one of the two to coheirs of the estates and Barony of that family, in- 1378. heriting the Castle and Honour of Bytham, co. Lincoln, Thornton Steward, co. York, tfc. In consequence, doubtless, of these acquisitions, he was sum. to Pari. 8 Jan. (i 370/1) 44 Edw. 111,0 ^nd 6 Oct. (1372) 46 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Radulfo Basset de Sapcote, whereby he is held to have become LORD BASSET. () He fought in the French wars and was one of the heroes of Cre^y. He m., istly, about 1346, Sibyl, sister of Thomas Astley [3rd Lord Astley], and da. of Sir Giles A., by Alice, 2nd da. and coh. of Sir Thomas de WoLVEY. He w., 2ndly, Alice, da. of John Derby. He d. s.p.tn., 17 July '37^>C) when the Barony fell (according to modern doctrine) into abeyance between his two daughters and coheirs. {^) "Will, as Ralph Basset, kt.. Lord of Sapcote, directing his burial to be at Castle Bytham, dat. there the Monday after the Ascension (i i May) 1377, pr. at Lincoln. His widow, who m. Sir Robert Tuchet, and afterwards Sir Anketine Mallory, d. a widow, 12 Oct. 1412,0 and was bur. at Stamford, near her last husband. Will pr. 26 Oct. 141 2, in the Bishop's court, Lincoln. BASSET OF STRATTON BARONY. I. Francis (Basset), Baron de DunstanvilleO of y Tehidy (so cr. 17 June 1796), having no male issue, was ^- ^"97- cr. 30 Nov. 1797, BARON BASSET OF STRATTON, Cornwall, with a spec. rem. of that dignity, failing heirs male of his body, (^) The only Barony of Basset of Sapcote that is capable of proof is the one which would be held to be cr. by this writ of 1 37 I and the sitting thereunder. C") There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. {^) " Radulfus Basset de Sapcote miles." Writs of diem cl. ext. 22 July 2 Ric. II. " Et dicunt quod obiit die sabbati proxima ante festum sancte Margarete ultimo pre- teritfl." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Ric. II, file 4, no. 8). {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. i^) These were (i) Alice, da. by the ist wife, then aged 30, and wife of Sir Laurence Button, afterwards wife of Sir Robert Moton, of Peckleton. (2) Elizabeth, da. by the 2nd wife, b. at Castle Bytham, I Aug. 1372, then aged 7 (sic) and wife of Richard Grey, afterwards (1393) Lord Grey of Codnor. The representatives of the Barony of Grey of Codnor represent this moiety of the Barony of Basset of Sapcote. The other moiety, after vesting in Reginald Moton, of Peckleton (the great grandson of Dame Alice Moton abovenamed, who inherited the estates of Sapcote and of Castle Bytham), became again divided between his two daughters; of whom the family of Vincent of Peckleton (at one time) represented one, and that of Pole of Radborne the other. The estates of Sapcote and of Castle Bytham were sold by the Pole family early in the seventeenth century. (*) " Alicia que fuit uxor Radulfi Basset militis." Writs of diem cl. ext. 14 Oct. 14 Hen. IV. "Et dicunt quod eadem Alicia obiit die mercurii proximo ante festum sancti Luce Evangeliste ultimo preterita." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Hen. IV, file 90, no. 15). (ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. (') The estate of Tehidy was'iacquired by the Bassets about 1 1 50 (through a match with an heiress) from the family of Dunstanville.
