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secondly to Margaret, daughter and heir of Nicholas Read, of Co. 

 Somerset.' By his first wife he had three daughters, Margaret, 

 wife of Thomas Hampden, of the county of Bucks, Eleanor, wife 

 of Sir John Barentyue/ of Little Haseley, Co. Oxon, and Alice, 

 wife of Humphrey Foster,' of Co. Somerset; and by his second one, 

 Elizabeth, wife of John Wadham, Esq. In the partition of property 

 the second moiety of these manors, besides lands at Popham, Long- 

 stock, and East Dean fell to Elizabeth Barentyne, whose husband 

 died seised of them in 1474, leaving a son, John Barentyne, set. 14) 

 at that date. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Stonor, of 

 Stonor, Co. Oxon, Esquire, and had a son. Sir William Barentyne, 

 who died 1549-50, leaving by his wife, ■ of Eton, relict of 



Gray, three sons, Francis, Drewe, and Charles, and three daughters, 

 of whom Margaret, becoming eventually heir to her brothers and 

 representative of her famil)', was married to Sir John Harcourt, and 

 effected the reunion of the heirs of Waleran. 



Sir John Harcourt, who presented to the rectory of Steeple 

 Langford in 1551, died in 1565, and was succeeded by his son. Sir 

 Simon Harcourt, Sheriff of Oxon and Berks, who appears as patron 

 of West Dean in 1555, and died in 1577, leaving by his third wife, 

 Maria, daughter and heir of Sir Edward Aston, of Tixall, Co. 

 Stafford, with other sons. Sir Walter Harcourt, who married Dorothy, 

 daughter of William Robinson, of Drayton Bassett, Co. Stafford, 

 and had issue, with other children, Robert Harcourt, set. 9 in 1583, 

 who married Elizabeth, rlaughter of Geoffrey Vere, son of John, Earl 

 of Oxford, and had issue Sir Simon, knighted 1627, and killed at 

 Carickmain, in Ireland, who married Anne, daugh+er of William, 

 Lord Paget, their grandson being afterwards raised to the peerage 

 as Baron and Viscount Harcourt.* 



' Beriy's "County Genealogies," Hants, p. 181. 

 2 Arms of Barentyne, " Sable, three eagles displayed argent." 

 3 The Foster family seems to have inherited a portion of the Waleran estates 

 at Steeple Langford, where, in 1477, Humphrey Foster, jun., Esq., in 1507 Sir 

 Koger Foster, in 1511 Sir George Foster, in 1548 Humphrey Foster, Esq., pre 

 sented to that rectoiy. A claim was made in 1532 by Sir George and Elizabeth 

 Foster for the manor of East Grimstead. 



^ Playf air's " Family Antiquities," i., p. 477. 



