34 BAVENT He was sum. to Pari. 8 Jan. (1312/3) 6 Edw. II to 14 Mar. (1321/2) I 5 Edw. II, by writs directed Rogero Bavent or de Bavent, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BAVENT. Being an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster, he forfeited his possessions, but they were restored to him, 17 Feb. 1327. (^) Again sum. to Pari. 27 Jan. (1331/2) 6 Edw. Ill to I Apr. (1335) 9 Edw. III. He m. Joan. He was living 15 July 1335. (*") 3. Roger de Bavent, of Cocking, Norton- and Fifield-Scudamore, i^c, s. and h. He was never sum. to Pari. On i July 1344 he granted all his lands, except the manors of Chiltington and Sloughterford, Sussex, to the King,() who regranted them to him for life. He m. Hawise. He d. 23 Apr. i^SS-^) ^^^ widow was living 13 Oct. 1361.0 4. John Bavent, s. and h., aged 20 and more in June 1357. He d. s.p. before May 1374,0 leaving Joan, his sister and h. She was wife of Sir John Dauntsey, of Winterbourne-Dauntsey, Wilts, who ^.31 Oct. 1 39 1, leaving Sir John Dauntsey his s. and h., then aged 34 and more.(«) BAYHAM OF BAYHAM ABBEY i.e. " Bayham of Bayham Abbey, Sussex," Viscountcy (Pratt), see "Camden," Earldom, cr. 1786. (*) In 1327 he claimed to be one of the heirs of John Giffard of Brimpsfield, as s. of Alice, da. of Piers Escudamore, s. of Maud, da. of Elias GifFard, grandfather of the sd. John. But he was of the half blood only, and in 4 Edw. Ill a verdict was given in favour of John Cailwey, who was of the whole blood. [Coram Rege, Mich., I Edw. Ill, m. 119: f/I Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 5, nos. 2, 3, file 14, no. 6). C") Ch. Inq. p. m. (on William de Grauntson), Edw. Ill, file 43, no. 4. {^) Deed enrolled on Close Roll, 18 Edw. Ill, pan 2, m. 22d. (<*) "Rogerus Bavent." Writ of extent 24 May 31 Edw. III. Inq. Sussex, 10 June 1357. "Et dicunt quod predictus Rogerus obiit xxiij" die Aprilis anno regni regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum xxix proximo preterito [i'V]. Et dicunt quod Johannes Bavent est filius et heres predicti Rogeri propinquior et etatis modo viginti annorum et amplius." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 137, no. 46). (<) Close Roll, 36 Edw. Ill, m. 43d. (') In 1374, Sir John Dauntseye and Joan his wife sued the Prioress of Dart- ford for the manors of Fifide and Trow, Wilts, as the right of the sd. Joan, da. and h. of Roger Bavent (s. of Roger) and Hawise his wife. [De Banco, Trinity, 48 Edw. Ill, m. 38). According to Vincent (as cited in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vii, p. 154), John Bavent's h. was his only sister, Eleanor, wife of William de Brewose, who were parents of John de Brewose, father of Peter. Another account (Dallaway's Sussex, vol. ii, part ii, p. 139), makes Eleanor sister of the Roger de Bavent who d. in 1355, and mother of Peter. This latter version is possibly true, but no authority is given. Peter de Brewose and Joan his wife purchased the manors of Wiston, Heene, {s'c, from the King for looo marks [Patent Roll, 31 Edw. , pars 3, m. i, under date I Nov. 1357). (e) Ch. Inq. p. m., Ric. II, file 71, no. 19.
