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in Deone and Est-Gryrnstede, formerly belonging to Walter Waleran, 

 and who concurred with his cousin in an application, subsequently 

 successful, for the restoration of the portion of the estate which had 

 escheated to the Crown. Dying in 1280-1 he was succeeded by his 

 eldest son, Sir Reginald de St. Martin, who married Emma, daugh- 

 ter of Adam Plugenet, but died sine prole, 1314-15, when his share 

 of the manors passed to his next brother, Sir Lawrence de St. 

 Martin, who died 1318-19 seised of it and of a moiety of the for- 

 feited portion, jointly with his wife Sibilla, daughter and co-heir of 

 Sir John Lorty, of Axford, Co. Wilts, by Maud, daughter of Lord 

 Lovell. The only son, Lawrence de St. Martin, dying sine prole, his 

 two sisters became co-heirs, of whom Sibilla, the elder, married Sir 

 John Popham, of Popham, Hants ; and Joane, the younger, Roger 

 de Calston, who died seised of the manor of Littlecote, 1291-2, by 

 whom she had issue Sir Roger de Calston, who married Felicia de Combe 

 and had issue Sir Thomas de Calston, who married Joan, daughter and 

 co-heir of Thomas Chelrey, of Chelrey, Co. Berks, 1 had partition 

 of property, receiving the manor of Axford, 1385-6, which, devolving 

 upon Elizabeth, his daughter and heir, was carried by her marriage 

 with William Darrell, Sub-Treasurer of England, 1390-1, to her 

 husband's family. Sir John Popham died seised of half of these 

 manors, 1392-3, after which West Dean was styled Popham Dene, 

 and is mentioned by Leland, under that designation, as "some tyme 

 the chief lordship or manor place of the Pophams." 2 He left two 

 sons, Sir John Popham, Constable of Touraine and Treasurer of the 

 Household to King Henry VI., and Henry Popham, Esq. Sir John 

 had a son, also Sir John Popham, set. 50 in 1448, and heir of West 

 Dean, on whose death, sine prole, in 1463, the large estates of the 

 family devolved upon the four daughters and co-heirs of Sir Stephen 

 Popham, son of Henry, above-mentioned, who had died in 1418. 

 Sir Stephen, Sheriff of Wilts 1434-5, was twice married, first to 

 Beatrix, daughter of Sir John Bovie (or Bohun, or Gawen), 3 and 



1 Vol. iv. of this journal, p. 226. 

 2 Leland's " Itiii.," vol. vi., p. 40; vol. i. of this journal, p. 173. Arms of 

 Popham, " Argent on a chief gules two buck's heads cabossed or." 



3 Hoare's " Modern Wilts," Hundred of Alderbury, p. 20, note. 



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