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between Easton and the Priory. John, his son, was succeeded by 

 Sir Peter de Eston : he, by his daughter Joan, mentioned as Lady 

 of the Manor in 1332 : Edmund de Easton, clerk, occurs in 1345, 

 (the seal to his Deed dated at Oxford, bearing a cross engrailed, 

 with an illegible inscription) ; and "Walter Eston in 1483. In 

 the Kalendar of Obits kept at St. Mary's Priory (printed above), 

 several benefactors of this family are registered : as, January 17, 

 Mary late Lady of Eston ; May 7, Dame Johan of Eston, and 

 others. Who they were might have been discovered in a MS. 

 volume (had it been forthcoming), referred to by Aubrey, "The 

 Leiger Book of Tropenell at Col. "Wm. Eyre's at Neston : where 

 mention is made of Pierse and his coat, azure 5 milpecks or fusils. 

 This MS." he adds " is the best key to open the knowledge of the 

 old and lost families, which is my search."^ 



Piers was succeeded by Dc Yeovilton of Somersetshire. In a 

 Deed of about 1300, Wm. Seward of Easton grants his tenements, 

 &c,, to John dc Yeovilton and Joan his wife : and in 1306 the 

 Manor suffered a recovery to Philip de Paunton^ and his wife, who 

 was probably of the Yeovilton family. In 1361 Peter de Yeovilton 

 being about to go into foreign parts, conveys his Estate at Eston, 

 with Speckington and others in Somersetshire and Devon, to 

 Nicholas de Yeovilton and Richard his son, upon condition that if 

 he returns home safe, he is to have possession again. In 1396 Sir 

 Robert de Yeovilton was owner of Easton.^ Margaret, heiress of 

 the family, married Thomas Pain of Painshay, Co. Devon. Kath- 

 arine Pain married John Sturton of Preston, and their daughter 

 Alice Sturton was wife of William Daubcney (ancestor of Henry 

 Earl of Bridge water). The estate thus came to his son Sir Giles, 



1 Coll. for N. Wilts, p. 68. 



2 Of Dorsctsliirc. In 1299 Philip Paunton was of Chaiborough. In 1337 

 Juliana Paunton ; tlic reversion to Nicholas de Ivcltou (Yeovilton). In 1389 

 Richard Yeovilton. (Ilutchius. II. 184. 18G.) 



3 Probably the Easton Knight, of whom an exploit is preserved in the parish 

 annals of Castle Combe. (Mr. P. Scropo's Hist., p. 249.) "Roger Young, junior, 

 dwelt in Castle Combo as a clothier in the time of King Edw. III., and a certain 

 Knight, Sir Robert Yevolton, in the time of K. Rich. II., came by force of arms 

 to beat Robert Young then dwelling in C. Comix; : uud the aaid Knight lltd into 

 the Church of that place for ^afcty of his body." 



