230 Notes to Pedigree of Darell of Littlecote. 



1572 ; but Don John only arrived as governor in 1576 according to Lingard, 

 and in 1579 according to Hume. Lingard appears to be the more correct, and 

 that the plot took place in 1577. What became of his widow, if she was his 

 widow, is not, at present, known. There is a letter from him, well ^viitten, 

 and signed " Egremont Eadclyff," while a prisoner in the Tower, at the State 

 Paper Office. He prays to be permitted to walk in a garden, and to have a 

 servant, but says nothing of any wife. 

 22. So much has been said of this, now notorious, personage, that a few matters 

 need only be noticed. The last we read of him, wliile living, is his MS. in- 

 dorsement of Anthony Hinton's letter in 1588, and to which there is a rough 

 copy, in his hand-wi-iting, of his reply. In PhiUpot's pedigree of Darell, CoU. 

 Arm., before alluded to, he is entered as of Littlecote, Armiger, and ' modo 

 auperetes,' viz., in 1587. A sort of monumental inscription painted originally 

 against the east wall of the North Transept of Kintbury Church, but of late 

 erased, and re-painted against the north wall, led to the supposition of his 

 interment in that Church. The inscription is as follows : — 



" In Memory of 

 Sr Wm. Darell of Little 

 Cote, Wilts, Kt., who died without 



Issue, 1st Oct., 1588. 



lie was ITnele of Sr John DarcU, 



of West Woodhay, and Balsdon, Bt., 



and nigh Sheriff for the County 



of Berks, 1625, 

 and was huried at this place." 



The meaning of this obscure and erroneous statement is, tliat Sir John was 

 Sheriff in 1625, and was buried there. When Ashmole visited this Church, 

 he made, after sketching the achievement and crest of Sir John Darell, 

 painted on a tablet and hung up against the east wall of a Chapel on the north 

 side of the Church, a note to the following effect : "The like Crest upon a 

 helme is still remaining in the said Chapel, and M'as part of the achievement 

 heretofore set up for Sir William Darrell, uncle to the said Sir John Dar- 

 rel." Symonds also in his most interesting Diary, still preserved at the 

 British Museum, in speaking of Kintbury in 1644, says, that in that Church 

 "hangs the helm and creast belonging to Sir John Darell's father, who lived 

 at Denford, now the house of Mr. Brown in this parish, and was buried about 

 60 years since." Sir John Darell was resident at Barton Coiu-t at the time 

 of Symonds's visit. A helmet still hangs up in this north Transept, but the 

 achievement mentioned by Ashmole has disappeared. The arms also of 

 Chelrey, in glass, noticed by Symonds, no longer exist. 

 23. The Inq. p. m. gives a full statement of his property. He appears to have 

 resided at West Woodhay, though sometimes, described as of llungerford. 

 In his wiU he is described as of Balsdon. He held the manors of Balsdon, 

 Kintbury Amesbury, West Woodhay, Combe next Fittlcton, and the living 

 of Wanborough. He mentions his daughter Elizabeth, his father in law 

 Richard Choke, his brother in law Alexander Choke, and his sister, probably 

 his wife's sister, Frances, wife of Clement Browne, and their son, John 

 Browne. There is an Indenture of Covenant, Oct. 1, 32 Elizabeth, lietwcen 

 Robert and Henry Clicyuey of the one part, and Thomas Darell, Esq. of the 



