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CHAMPAYNE OF SHAPWICK. 



" Radulphus de Campania of Sepwic" was living in the eighth 

 year of Henry III. (1224), and in the same reign Henry de 

 Champaigne and Ralph de Champaigne held a knight's fee in 

 " Sapwic" which had belonged to the Countess Petronilla. In 

 32 Edward I. (1307) Hugh de la Hyde held lands here of Peter 

 Champayne and Nicholas Richmond. 



The name of Roger Champayne occurs on a deed of the date 

 1327. This Roger Champayne is said to have been the son of 

 the above-named Peter and to have been the grandfather of 

 Mary Champayne, the heiress of this property, by whom it was 

 conveyed in marriage to Sir William Tourney, of Lincolnshire. 



The Arms of Champaine Argent a fess sable have been 

 borne by another Dorset family since the decease of the Cham- 

 paines. 



CHENEY OF LYTTON. 



It seems probable, though not certain, that the Cheneys were 

 never the tenants-in-chief of Lytton Cheney, which belonged first 

 to the family of De Vivonia and afterwards to the Windsors and 

 the Bonvilles ; but the Cheneys, though perhaps only tenants for 

 a long term, were, nevertheless, in evidence at this place, whereas 

 the other families named above were not living here, but resided 

 chiefly at their principal manor of Chuton, to which this was an 

 appendage. 



In 1401 Sir Ralph Cheyne, Knight, was seized of a moiety of 

 the Manor and Advowson of Lytton. Sir Ralph's grandson 

 Edmund was the last male representative of the Cheneys of 

 Lytton. He left a widow, who presented to the living in 1445, 

 and three daughters, who seem to have died without children. 



The Arms attributed to the family of Cheney vary consider- 

 ably. Those here represented are the simplest, and therefore 

 presumably the oldest bearings. They are found in the church 

 at Beaminster ; but a shield ascribed to this family in one of the 

 windows in St. Peter's Church, Dorchester, bears ''Ermine on a 

 bend sable, three martlets or : " whereas Hutchins states 

 positively that the Cheneys of Lytton bore " Gules on five 



