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1265, Argentine's lands, and those of his son Reginald, " who 

 had the honour of assisting in that insurrection," were seques- 

 trated. This Sir Giles married Margaret, daughter and co-heir 

 of Sir Robert de Aiguillon, Knight, and died in 1283, pos- 

 sessed of the manor of Great Wymondeley, Cambridgeshire, 

 which he held by grand serjeantry, viz. "to serve the king 

 upon the day of his coronation with a silver cup." 



His son and successor REGINALD DE Argentine, ist 

 Baron de Argentine, who, doing homage, had livery of all his 

 father's lands in the counties of Cambridge, Suffolk, Norfolk, and 

 Hertford. In 1293 he obtained the confirmation of the charter 

 granted to Sir Richard de Argentine in 1227 for a fair yearly 

 " on the eve, the day, and the morrow after the Feast of St. 

 Barnabas the apostle, and four days ensuing, at his manor of 

 Newmarket, in the county of Suffolk," etc. He was summoned 

 to Parliament in the 25th Edward I. (January 26, 1297). He 

 married Lora, daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford, 

 and, dying in 1307, was succeeded by his son. 



Sir John de Argentine, 2nd baron, who had livery of 

 his father's lands, but was never summoned to Parliament. 

 He married, ist, Joane, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Bryan, 

 and had issue, Joane, who married Sir John le Boteler,* and was 



* The Butler family formerly held a moiety of this manor. Davy gives 

 the following list of those lords : — 33 Edward III., A.D. 1359 . . . Botiller : 

 Hawise, widow of Ralph Botiler, for life, ob. 35 Edward III., A.D. 1361 : 

 Sir Edward Boteler, Knt., ob. 14 Henry IV. In the Inquisition, taken at 

 the death of this knight, it is recorded that he was seised of the moiety of 

 the manor of Exning and Newmarket, called Botiler's Manor, and the 

 moiety of one market, held on Tuesday every week, extending into Suffolk 

 and Cambridgeshire, and the moiety of view of frank pledge held on the 

 Feast of St. Peter de Vincula ; the moiety of two general courts to be 

 held within a month of Easter and Michaelmas ; the moiety of the profits 

 of the fair held, on St. Barnabas' Day, and that Philip Botiler was his 

 cousin and next heir, i.e. son of Philip, son of Ralph, brother of John, 

 father of the said Edward, age 24. 14 Henry IV. A.D. 1412, Philip 

 Botelier (above): Anthony Botyller ... 11 Henry VIII., a.d. 15 19, 

 Emma, his widow, remarried to Christopher Sandford, Esq. : 22 Henry 

 VIII., A.D. 1530, Sir Philip Butler, Knt., and Elizabeth his wife: 11 

 Elizabeth, A.D. 1569, William Alington, Esq., who released all his right to 

 Sir Giles Alington, Knt., ob. 1586 : 28 Ehzabeth, 1586, Sir Giles Alington, 

 Knt., grandson and heir, ob. 1638. 



