the sixteenth century. Harnham, once a stronghold, is now a 

 farm house, occupied by Mr. Thornton. 



Sir Bernard Babington had issue, — 



Sir John de Babington, Chief Captain of Morlais, in Bretagne, 

 under Edward III. His son, 



Sir John Babington, of East Bridgeford, Nottinghamshire, died 

 in 1409, leaving, by Benedicta, his wife, daughter and heiress of 

 Sir Simon Ward, of Cambridge, five sons and a daughter, viz., 

 (1) Thomas, his heir. (2) Sir William of Chilwell, Nottingham- 

 shire, and Kiddington, an eminent lancer. (3) Arnold, a citizen 

 of Norwich, and Merchant of the Staple. (4) Norman, of East 

 Bridgeford, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 1428. 

 He married Mary, daughter of John Lord Mowbray, Duke of 

 Norfolk, but died s.p. 1437. (5) John Babington, of Aldrington, 

 co. Devon, ancestor of the Babingtons of Ottery St. Mary. (6) 

 A daughter, Sidonia. 



Thomas, the eldest of these children, sold his patrimony of East 

 Bridgeford to his brother, Sir William, of Chilwell ; and, after 

 serving with Henry V. in the French wars, returned home and 

 purchased the manor of Kingston. It is said that the sword and 

 bow he wore at Agincourt are still preserved. He married Isabella, 

 daughter and sole heiress of Robert Dethic, of Dethic. She died 

 in 1435, ant ^ tne sa 'd Thomas in 1467. By this union the 

 Babingtons became lords of Dethic. One fragment, at least, 

 of the original home of Thomas and Isabella remains. It is a 

 doorway with a double ogee arch, with a massive but ruinous 

 abutment on the south side of it. It now forms the entrance to a 

 modern cellar beneath a dairy. This Thomas, the first of the 

 Babingtons of Dethic, and his wife Isabella, the last of the 

 Dethics, lie interred at the east end of the north aisle of Ashover 

 Church, where some years ago there was an incised alabaster 

 slab to their memory. 



Thomas and Isabella left a son and successor, — 



Sir John Babington, Kt, of Dethic and Kingston. Sheriff 

 of Derby and Nottingham in 1480. He married Isabel, daughter 



