196 The History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



leaving, as his only daughter and heiress, Sybil, who married as 

 her first husband, Sir Robert de Tregoz, in whose family many of 

 her estates became vested.' 



The Manor of Allington remained in the direct line of the 

 Tregoz family only for two generations. Sybil, the heiress of the 

 Lord of Ewyas, had, by her first husband, two sons. The eldest, 

 Robert de Tregoz, was slain in the battle of Evesham in 1265 ; 

 the younger, John de Tregoz, succeeded in due course to this Manor. 

 Dying in 1300, he left behind him two daughters as co-heiresses. 

 They married respectively Roger la Warre, and Sir William 

 Grandison, and a division of the Tregoz estates was made between 

 these families. The descendants of Sir William Grandison were 

 the St. John family, who were afterwards ennobled as Lords 

 Bolingbroke, and thepresentholder of that title is still in possession 

 of the estate at Lydiard Tregoz. 



As a portion of her share of her father's estates, Clakice, the 

 elder daughter of John de Tregoz, who was married to Roger la 

 Warre, received the Manor of Allington. In the family of La 

 Warre it remained for about seventy years. Again, by the failure 

 of male issue, it passed into another family. By the marriage of 

 Joan, sister and heiress of Thomas la Warre, to Thomas, Baron 

 West, Allington was added to his already numerous estates. When 

 he died, he was siesed of lands in Hants, Dorset, Devon, Sussex, 

 Lincolnshire, and Wilts. By his will, dated April 8th, 1405, (6 

 Henry IV.). he ordered his body to be laid in the new Chapel in 

 the Minster of Christchurch, bequeathing to the work of that 

 Church, £100, and another like sum, on the condition that the 

 Canons of that church should once a year keep solemnly the obit 

 of Thomas his father, Alice his mother, and Joan his wife. He 

 also bequeathed 28 marks (£18 13 4), for 4500 masses for his soul, 

 to be said within half-a-year of his decease. His two sons, Thomas 

 and Reginald, inherited in succession the Manor of Allington. 

 The latter was summoned to Parliament in 1426 in his mother's 

 Barony of La Warre ; the Barony of West being thereby merged 

 in the former, and older title. 



1 Amongst item was the estate of Lediab, which to this day, ia its distinctive 

 name, Lydiard Tregoz, preserves the memory of its ancient owner. 



