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UrRKE'S rOLONIAL GKNTRY. 817 I. Wiileran, ancostoi' to the Barons uf Yverv, in Xoi'niandy, wliose male line terminated in 1421. II. Eiilph (who assnnied his father's niekname of Luiiellus) Uaron of Karry, d. .1. p. III. Ilenry, snrnamed Lupellus, s. to his brother Ralph as Baron of Karry. He was ancestor of that line, which became extinct in 1351. IV. William, also surnamed Lupellus, ancestor to the Barons Lnvel, of Dock- ings, Minster Lnvel, and Tichmersh, Viscount Luvel, and Barons Jforley, whose male line expired in 1 1S7. T. RlCH.KB, surnamed do Perceval, of whom we treat. William Gouel de Perceval, <?. between 1153- 1158. His youngest son, Sir Ek'Iiaed de Perceval, Knt., Lord of Stawell, half of Bodecombe and Eastbury in the CO. of Somerset, was a distinguished commander in the holy wars. He in. a daughter of William de IMohun, Lord of Dunster, and had issue, r. EoDERT DE Perceval, his heir. II. Hamelin de Perceval, d. s. p. III. KICUAHD DE Perceval, heir to his brother, of whom presently. Sir Ricliard de Perceval d. about 1202, and was ■«. by his eldest son, Robert de Perceval, Lord of Eastbury, etc., who d. without issue ante 9 Edward I, and was s. by his youngest brother, Richard de Perceval, who was in the holy wars with his father, and d. leaving issue, I. Robert, of wliom presently. II. Hugh de Perceval, who had Corre- villc Lyndbays and Watton for his inheritance, which he afterwards made over to his yoimgcr brother John, and d. s. p. in 1277. III. John de Perceval, from whom came the Lords of Eastbury, and the Earls of Egmont, etc. The eldest son, Robert, Bakox Perceval, ia Ireland, Lord of Eastbury, Carhampton, Watton, Correville and Lyndbays, in Somerset ; being nearly related to Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke (Sir Richard de Perceval was grandson to Auberie de Bellemonte, daugh- ter of Robert, Earl of Millent, and aunt to the said Earl of Pembroke, who was son to her sister Elizabeth de Bellemonte, by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, her husband), was early engaged in the expedition to Ireland, although there is no positive men- tion of him in that kingdom before 1281 (Annul O'Dempsie, fol. 3(34) when he sailed thither with Richard de Marie, Stephen de Borgo, and near two hundred other knights, where he so behaved with so much valour, that he acquired great possessions, and seated himself wholly in that kingdom, m.aking over to his brothers, Hugh and John, all liis lands in the eo. of Somerset. Having thus deserved so well of that estate, he received summons to the Parliament held in Dublin, 1285 (cj- Hot, claus. Sibei'nics) and left issue, VOL, II. I. Richard, his heir. II. Ro»i:rt, who .t. his brother. Robert, liaron Perceval, d. 1285, and was s. by his eldest son, Richard, .second Baron Perceval, in Ire- land, wlio dying in 12S5, was.*, by his brother, Robert, third Bauox Perceval, in Ire- land, of Portlcster, in the co. of Meath. He was a man of high consideration in those parts. In two rolls of the Magnates Hiber- nia', his name is found, and in the 30 Edward T, a.d. 1301, he received letters from the King of England, recpiiring his atten- dance in the Scottisli wars, and again soon after a letter of credence was sent in behalf of G-eotfrey OeymuU, and John Wogan, the King's justiciary in Ireland, requiring him to confide in those persons and referring him, as to his conduct as to (hat expedition, to the verbal instructions which they were ordered to give him. He m. Grace, daughter of 1 Thomas Fitzmacrice, first Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw, in Ireland. (She was nearly related to him, being descended from Basil de Clare, sister to the Earl of Pembroke, before mentioned, and wife of Raymond le Gross, father of Morris Fitz- Raymond, father of Thomas Fitzmaurice, father of this lady), and had issue, Thomas, of whom ]")rcsently. But engaging in battle with the Irish, he was unfortunately slain with William de Welleslie, the 22nd October, 1303, and was buried in the priory of Youg- hal, to which he was a great benefactor, and was s. by his son, Thomas de Percival, Lord of Morieetown, in Kildare, paid ten shillings for one foirth of his services in tlic expedition to Sexenedy, under Sir John Wogan, Lord .Justice of Ireland, as appears on the great roll of the pipe 129G, and the same sum for his services in the expedition to Athissell in 1330, 5 Edward III. He was sheriff of Kildare 10 Edward II, 1316, and in 1330. He had issue two sons, I. WiLLl-lM (Sir), Lord of Morieetown, was one of the Knights who became security for ilaurice Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, in 1347, as appears in the roll of the pleas in the court of King's Bench for that year. He had issue. From him and his brother descend the Percevals of Ireland, except the Templehouse branch and the other lines of the Egmont house. II. .ToHN, of Dunbrody, co. Wexford, who ni. and had a son, Simon, of Dun- brody, 1440, who also in. and had a son, John, 1373. Sir William Betliam, Ulster King of Arms, in recording the pedigree in the otllee of Arms, after reciting the above-named generations goes on to say : " 1373-48 Edward III. On the Patent Roll of tlic Chancery of Ireland is an entry that John Percival and John Brown gave half a mark for a writ, as did also Nicholas Tallon. "After this period, the English power gradually became weaker, and the records, both the Plea Rolls, and the Pipe and 3 c.