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daughter of William, Lord Bardolph, lies buried at Ingham, where 

 their tomb has been despoiled of its effigies in brass. ^ Their son. 

 Sir Miles Stapleton, was twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Sir Simon Felbrigg, and secondly to Katharine, daughter of Sir 

 Thomas de la Pole, son of Michael, Earl of Suffolk, and dyingl466-7 

 was buried at Ingham, where was a fine brass to his memory and 

 that of his two wives.- By the second (who re-married Sir Richard 

 •Harcourt of Ellenhall, Co. Staff.,) he left issue two daughters and 

 co-heirs, Elizabeth, second wife of Sir William Calthorpe, and Jane, 

 who married first Sir John Huddlestone, of Milium Castle, Cumber- 

 land, and secondly Sir Christopher Harcourt,^ lord of Stanton- 

 Harcourt, Co. Oxon, son of Sir Richard, above-mentioned, by Edith, 

 his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas St. Clere. Sir William and 

 Sir Christopher were jointly seised of the moiety of these manors in 

 1467-8, after which they devolved upon the son of the latter, Sir 

 Simon Harcourt, who, dying seised of them in 1547, lies buried ia 

 Stanton-Harcourt Church, beneath an altar tomb bearing the shield 

 and impalements of the Harcourt, Stapleton, Darrell, and St. Clere 

 families.* By Agnes, his first wife, daughter of Thomas Darrell, 

 ©f Scotney, Co. Salop, Esq., he had a son. Sir John Harcourt, who, 

 •.marrying Margaret, daughter and eventually heir of Sir William 

 Barentyne, the descendant of Isabel, third daughter and co-heir of 

 Walter Waleran, re-united, as has been already mentioned, thfi 

 representatives of that family. 



We now revert to the last-named lady, and proceed to trace the 

 descent of the second moiety of the manors. By her marriage with 

 Sir William de Neville she had a daughter and heir, Joane de 

 Neville, who married Jordan de St. Martin, and was mother of 

 William de St. Martin, who was found by inquisition temp. Edw. I. 

 to hold in conjunction with Sir Oliver de Ingham two knights' fees 



1 Euoravcd ia Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," vol. ii., pi. 45, p. 119, and 

 in Cotman's " Brasses of Norfolk," vol. i., pi. 22, p. 19. 

 - Cotman, vol. i., pi. 30, p. 22 

 ^ Arms of Harcourt, " gules, two bars or." 

 ^ " Architect. Antiq. in Neighbourhood of Oxford," p. 178. 



