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NOTES TO PEDIGREE. 



1 . He was a younger, apparently third, though sometimes called second, sou 

 of Sir William Darell or Darrell, of Sesay, Co. York, and who was seventh in 

 descent from William Darell, temp. John. The male issue of his elder brother, 

 Marmaduke, terminated on the decease of Thomas, son of Sir George Darell of 

 Sesay, and whose sister and heir married Sir Guy Dawney. The Darells of 

 Calehill, and of Scotney, Co. Kent, descend from John, an elder brother of 

 William of Littlecote. In 1431-5, he presented to Fittleton jure uxoris, and 

 in 1434 to Haxton, a chapel of ease, in Fittleton parish, when he appears to 

 have presented one Robert Darell. He was returned amongst the gentry in 

 1433. The office of Sub-Treasurer was that of a kind of Deputy of the Trea- 

 surer of the Exchequer, to collect cro^vm dues, &c. 



2. Her great grandfather, Roger de Calston, died seized of Littlecote, 20. E. 1. 

 and his grandfather, Walter de Calston, or Caleston, is styled "Miles et 

 Domiuus de Litelcote," 17. H. 3. The Inq. p. m., taken on her decease, 4. 

 E. 4, states that she died on the 8th of Jan. preceding. Her possessions were 

 very extensive. In London, Wilts, Dorset, Herts, and Berks. By an In- 

 qiusition, taken at Hungcrford, Jan. 28th, 2 H. 5., to show proof of her age, 

 it appears that she was born at Chelrey, otherwise Childrey, Co. Berks, the 

 daughter of Thomas Calston and Joan his wife, and baptized there on the 6th 

 of Dec, "by the hand of John Preston, Rector of the said Church." By her 

 will she desires that if she should die in London, her interment should take 

 place in the Choi-ch of the Minor Friars, but if at Littlecote, in the Cathedral 

 Churob of Sarum. From this it might perhaps be inferred, that the North 

 Chapel, or Darell aisle, at Ramsbury, was not then built. Amongst her be- 

 quests she leaves "Two pottys of silver overgylt with the armes of Laurence 

 de St. Martin," to her son George. Her great great grandfather Laurence de 

 St. Martin, died 12 E. 2, leaving Joan his daughter and heir, who became 

 the wife of Roger de Calston, previously mentioned. The property at Fittle- 

 ton came by the match of Calston with the heiress of Combe, and had been 

 held by the latter family as early as the 13th century. Axford came by 

 marriage of the heiress of the family of Loiindres with Combe. The manor 

 of Balsdon, and other estates in Kintbury, &c., came fi-omthe Chelreys, by 

 whom it was, apparently, acquired by pui'chase, in the 38 E. 3. There is a 

 chartulary of the DareU property, Harl. MSS. 1G23. 



3. Presented to Fittleton 1461. He died on the Monday next before the 

 Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin. 



4. Among the pedigrees of persons of kin to the blood-royal, printed from the 

 Harleian MSS. 1074, in the Collectanea Topographica, by the late Sir Harris 

 Kicolas, this match -wUh Stourton is given, and the issue thus described, 

 "Margery; Anne; Elizabeth wedded to Seymour, Esq^" 



