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FALMOUTII— FALVESLEY. 315 Kent, Mary Frances Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness lk DESPEKCBR (see that title) He (/. 6 Nov. 1SS0, at Mereworth Castle, aged 70, and was bur. at Mereworth afsd. Will pr. 27 Jan. 1S90, at £137,880 gross, but £S0,717, nclt. His widow, who was b. 21 March 1S22, and bap. at Kothertield Greys, Oxon, was living 1S90. VIII. 1SS9. 7, Evelyn Edward Thomas (Boscawen), Viscotjnt Falmouth and Baron of Boscawen-Hose, s. and h., b. 24 July 1S47. and bap. at Mereworth ; ed. at Eton ; entered the Coldstream Guards, 1870, becoming Lieut. Col. in 1SS0, having served in Egypt, 1882 (medal and clasp, bronze star and 4th class Osmanich), and in the Nile expedit. 1SS4 ; C.B., 1S85. Hem. 19 Oct. 18S6, Kathleen, 1st da. of George Sholto Gordon (Douglas-Pennant), 2d Baron Pknuuyn ok LLANDEOAI, by Pamela Blanche, da. of Sir Charles ltushout RoSHOUT, Hart. She was b."2 June 1801. Family folates. — These, in 1SS3, Consisted of 25,910 acres in Cornwall, worth £35,953 a year, besides 4,690 in Kent [of which 4,258 belong to the Dowager Viscountess) worth £0,951 a year. Total 30,000 acres, worth £42,901 a year. Principal Retidencet. Mereworth Castle, near Hadlow, Kent, and Tregothuau, near Truro, Cornwall FALVESLEY. Barony by Sir John de Falveslev, of Falveslcy [i Fawsley], co. "Writ. Northampton, p. and h. of Thomas F. of the same, was aged 16 in 1342, and having m. in 13S3, Elizabeth de jure, suo jure Baroness I. loo.i, S a y ( rt ee that dignity) and being seized of her estates in Kent, Sussex, to ami Herts was sum. to Pari, as a Baron [LOUD FALVESLEY] from 1392. 20 Aug. [1383], 7 Hie. II., to 8 Sep. [I392J, 16 Hie. II., by writ directed " Jvhanni de Falveslcy, Chl'r." He attended the Duke of Lancaster in the Spanish expedition in 13S3 and was in other military services. He d. s.p. about 1392 when the Barony, if indeed it is not (tho' never ityled " Save ") to be considered as one jure uxorii(") became extinct. He was bur. in Lewes Priory. His will pr. 1392. His widow m. Sir William Heron (who also was sum. to Pari. 1393-1404, not, however, as Loud Say but as Lonu Heron) and </. s.p. 8 July 1399. See fuller particulars under " Say," Barony of. (") "Though never styled Lord Say in any writ of summons to Pari, the late Francis Townseud, Esq., Windsor Herald, says that he had seen a deed beginning thus : ' Sciaut,' &c, ' quod ego Joh'es Falwesle, Chivaler et Domiuus de Say dedi,' &c. 'Joh'j Walthatn Custodi privati sigilli.' ' Dat. : apud London 1° die Martii, A 0 . H' II' Bicardi secundi post Conq. 10°.' It is worthy of observation that Sir John Falvesley having married Elizabeth de Say, demanded the lands of her inheritance which were then in the King's hands by reason of the minority of her brother, to whom she succeeded as heir; but he was answered that she haviug married him without licence of the Crown, the lands were seized by the King until he should make satisfaction. Falvesley persisted in his claim, and the affair was decided by the King and his Council in full Parliament in the sixth year of his reign in his favour, and in the very next year he received his writ of summons H Pari. It equally admits of a doubt whether the writ was issued cx debito Justitice, in consequence of his having by that suit established the validity of his marriage with a woman who was a Baroness in her own right by descent, according to existing opinions ; or whether the tenure of his wife's lands was then considered to entitle their possessor to Bit in Parliament." It is to be noted that the lady's second husband, Lord Heron, whose death did not take place till Oct. 1401 continued to be sum. as a Baron after her decease. "If the writs issued to her first and second husbands were only applicable to the Barony by writ which had descended to her, and in virtue of which they were summoned, the issuing of such writs would, it may be thought, have ceased with her life, as in the case of Ralph de Moutheruier, Earl of Gloucester, who ceased to be so summoned as Earl of Gloucester immediately upon the death of his wife ; but Sir William Heron, who after his wife's death became, under a settlement, tenant for life of the lands of his wife's inheritance, continued to bo summoned until 1404. It would seem, therefore, that tenure of his wife's laud3 entitled Sir William Heron to a dignity which partook of the nature both of the Barony by tenure and the Barony by writ." [Courlhopc.]