BASSET (of Weldon) 1 1 his age 29 Mar. i322,(*) he did homage and had livery of his inherit- ance, 12 May following.^') He was sum. cum equis et annis against the Scots 5 Apr. (1327) I Edw. Ill, by writ directed Radiilfo Basset de Weldon, but he was never sum. on any other occasion. He tn. Joan.('=) He d. shortly before 4 May I34i.() His widow m. Robert de Fourneux, before i346,('") when both were living. 4. Ralph Basset, of Great Weldon, ^c, 2nd, but ist surv.jO s. and h., aged 15 and more at his father's death. He did homage and had liver)', to him and his wife, Joan, of Weldon and Weston, 5 Sep. I34i.(^) He w., soon after Apr. 1339, Joan, da. of Richard de la Pole, citizen of London, by Joan, his wife-C") He became a canon-regular in the Priory of Launde, co. Leicester, 23 Oct. 1368, and was thereupon sue. by his son.(') Richard de Grey, should have the custody of the lands, and the marriage of Richard, br. and h. of Ralph, and if Richard should die in like manner, the custody of the lands and the marriage of Roger, br. of Richard. (^Fine Roll, 8 Edw, II, m. 20, schedule). [f) " Radulfus Basset de Weldon filius et heres Ricardi Basset de Weldon defuncti " in the custody of Richard de Grey. Writ de etate probanda 14 Dec. 15 Edw. II. Inq. at Halesworth 29 Mar. 1322. "Idem Radulfus filius et heres dicti Ricardi Basset in festo sancti Ruffi Martiris nunc ultimo preterito fuit etatis viginti et unius annorum et amplius eo quod in festo predicto anno regni Celebris memorie domini Regis Edwardi quondam Regis Anglie [patris] domini Regis nunc vicesimo octavo natus fuit apud Huntingfeld in comitatu SufFolcie et secunda die tunc sequenti baptizatus fuit in ecclesia de Huntingfeld." Mention is made of Joan Basset, his mother, and of Ro2;er de Huntingfeld. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. II, file 72, no. i). (b) C/ose Ro/C IS Edw. II, w. II. ("=) " Da. of . . . Sturdon, of Winterbourne, co. Gloucester " (Nichols' Leicester- shire, vol. iv, p. 905). (d) " Radulfus Basset de Weldon." Writ of diem cl. ext. 4 May 15 Edw. III. Inq., Northants, 28 May 1341. "Item dicunt quod Radulfus filius predicti Radulfi Basset est heres ipsius Radulfi Basset propinquior et etatis quindecim annorum et amplius." (Ch. Inq. p. m. Edw. Ill, file 65, no. 36). (^) De Banco, 20 Edw. Ill, Easter, m. 213d, Mich., m. 285d. (') The eldest s., Richard, m. (cont. 29 Apr. 1331) Nicole, da. of Sir Robert d'Arderne [Close Roll, 5 Edw. Ill, pars i, m. i/d). He d. s.p. before Mar. 1339. (e) Close Roll, 15 Edw. Ill, pars 2, m. 6. (■•) Feet of Fines, case 177, file 75, nos. 176, 177, 178; case 287, file 40, no. 254. There was more than one Richard de la Pole living at this time, but it appears from the De Banco Rolls, Mich., 22 Edw. Ill, m. 551, Mich., 25 Edw. Ill, tn. loi, and a document in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vii, p. 335, that the citizen of London abovenamed was the same person as the King's Butler, and that he left a s. and h., William, and a widow, Joan, who m., before Oct. 1348, Thomas de Chaworth. (') " Radulfus Basset de Weldon . . . habitum religionis in Prioratu de la Laund assumpsit et in eaJem religione professus est." Writ 29 Oct. 42 Edw. III. Inq., cos. Stafford, Herts, Northants, Bucks, Leicester, 16 Nov. to 27 Nov. 1368. "Et
