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remain to Walter Denys, son of Maurice, and son of the said 
Margaret.” 
A Dorset Inquisition, 1477, states :—“ That John Kemys and 
Margaret, his wife, late the wife of Gilbert Denys, and one of 
the daughters and heirs of Maurice Russell, were seized of the 
Manor of Kyngston Russell, and that John Kemys held a moiety 
of the Manor of Syston of the demise of the said Maurice Denys. 
At the death of the said John, Walter, son and heir of the said 
Maurice, entered into the said moiety.” 
Close Roll, A.D. 1479, states: —“ That John Kemys survived both 
his wife Margaret and her son, Maurice Denys. This Maurice 
married Katherine, daughter of Sir Edward Stradling, Knight, 
of St. Donat Castle, Glamorgan.” 
So far, I have not met with any document naming them, nor 
of any notification of either of their deaths, more than that he was 
dead in 1479. It has been stated that he married as second 
wife Alice, daughter of Sir Nicholas Poyntz, of Iron Acton, but 
this is an error ; it was one of his sons, as shewn in pedigree on 
Close Roll, 5th June, 1456, whom she married. 
Nicholas Poyntz es Elizabeth. 
Alice — Maurice, son of Maurice Denys. 
Patent Roll, 21st October, 1466 :—‘License for Maurice 
Denys and Alice, his wife, to grant the Manor of Alveston to 
Humphrey Poyntz and Thomas Lymeryk, so that the said 
Humphrey and Thomas can grant them to Maurice and Alice 
and the survivor of them. After their decease to remain to the 
heirs of Maurice.” 
Feet of Fines, 1466 :—“ An agreement made in the Court of 
the King at Westmister, being a grant of the Manor of - 
Alveston by above Humphrey and Thomas, to Maurice and 
Alice, etc.” 
’ Walter Denys, son and heir of Maurice, the elder, is stated 
to have married four times, and that his second wife was Agnes, 

