By the Rev. G. S. Master. 



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Marlborough, Devizes, Guildford, and Ellesmere, custos of Chester, 

 seneschal of Gascoyn and Aquitaine, who married Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Lord Zouch, and dying in 1843, seised of the said manors and 

 the advowsons of their Churches, was buried at Ingham, beneath a 

 curiously- sculptured freestone tomb, upon which reposes his effigy 

 with an inscription recounting his exploits — the most prominent of 

 which were the taking of Anjou and the defence of Bordeaux. 1 

 His only son, John de Ingham, having pre-deceased him, sine prole, 

 his estates would have passed to his two daughters, Elizabeth and 

 Joan, but that the first having married Sir John Curzon had died 

 during her father's lifetime, leaving an only daughter, Mary, upon 

 whom thererefore, jointly with her aunt, Joan, they devolved. Mary 

 married Stephen de Tumby, who was seised in her right of half the 

 manor of East Grimstede, in 1347-8, butxlied without issue 1349-50, 

 her inheritance reverting to Joan, then the second wife of Sir Roger 

 le Strange, Lord of Knockyn, Co. Salop, who was seised for life of 

 the moiety of these manors, but died without issue by her. She 

 re-married Sir Miles Stapleton, 2 K.G., of Bedale, Co. York, and 

 having a son by him was enabled to transmit her property to her 

 descendants. He died in 1364-5 seised, with Joan his wife, of half 

 the manor of West Dene, &c, and was buried in her Church of 

 Ingham, where they had previously founded a priory. Their beautiful 

 effigies in brass, with canopy and marginal inscription — all now lost 

 — have fortunately been engraved and described, 3 and there are 

 impressions from the originals in the British Museum. 4 Their son, 

 Sir Miles Stapleton, married Ela, daughter of Sir Edmund UfTord. 

 She survived him, and was buried at Ingham, where was a brass — 

 now lost — to her memory. 6 He died seised of the moiety of these 

 manors in 1419-20, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Brian Staple- 

 ton, who died seised of them in 1438-9, and with his wife, Cecilia, 



1 Weever's "Funeral Monuments," p. 818; Hoare's "Wilts," Hundred of 

 Heytesbury, p. 229. 



2 Arms of Stapleton, " Azure, a lion rampant or." 

 3 Cotman's " Brasses of Norfolk," pi. 4, p. 5 ; Gough's " Sepulchral Monuments," 

 vol. i., pi. 45, p. 119. Stothard's " Monument Eff.," p. 57, introduc., p. 158. 

 4 The inscription will be found in Hoare's " Modern Wilts." 

 * Engraved in Cotman's " Brasses of Norfolk," vol. i., pi. xx., p. 17. 

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