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6 BASSET (of Drayton) was bur. in the Abbey of Lavendon, near Olney, Bucks. Will dat. 27 Mar. I402,(=') at Cheshunt, Bucks-C') BASSET (of Sapcote)(^) 1. Ralph Basset,() s. and h. of Ralph B., of Sapcote, co. Lei- cester, was sum. to Pari. 24 Dec. (1264) 49 Hen. Ill, by writ directed Radulfo Basset de Sapcote. Such summons having issued in rebellion, should not, however, constitute a peerage dignity,(^) and none of his successors were sum. to Pari, till 137 1. He was sum. cum equis et armis against the Welsh 24 May (1282) 10 Edw. I. He appears to have ;«., istly, ( — ). He w., 2ndly, (1231) 15 Hen. Ill, Milicent, yr. da. and coh. of Robert of Chaucombe, of Chalcombe, Northants, by Julian his wife. He d. about 1282. 2. Simon Basset, s. and h. On 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I he was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury, and on 8 June (1294) 22 Edw. I, he was sum. to attend the King wherever he might be, by writ directed admitting the recognition by the Crown of the styles of those baronies in certain letters missive of Richard III as equivalent to the determination of their abeyance by proving that similar recognition had been made in cases where the styles had clearly been wrongly assumed. He has pointed out that among "the consequences of the principle thus laid down," in 1877, "the Leicester patent of 1784, for instance, can now be invoked as determining (or proving the determination of) the Bourchier abeyance," while the recognition by the Devereux Act of Restoration (1604) of the barony of Lovayne [see above] as having been "lawfully and rightly" held by the Earls of Essex sanctions another baseless assumption. He has also, in his Ancestor article, drawn attention to the fact, which had apparently been overlooked, that when John Dudley was created Viscount Lisle, in 1542, "seigneur de Basset de Drayton" was included in his style as formally proclaimed, while the afsd. John himself included " Lord Basset " {sic) in his style in a patent issued under the great seal of his office as High Admiral in 1543. V.G. (=") Patent Roll, 31 May 1403. (•=) Test. Vet., ^. 157. (') Valuable assistance in the rewriting of this article has been kindly rendered by Josiah Wedgwood, M.P. Nevertheless, in the absence of Inquisitions, the pedigree must still be regarded as conjectural, and an examination of two of the suits mentioned in note " c " on p. 7 shows that they give absolutely irreconcilable information, while neither of them confirms the pedigree which the Editor, with much searching of heart, has thought it best to give in the text. V.G. (^) Basset of Sapcote bore Silver with 3 waves sable, [ex inform. Oswald Barron). V.G. (^) As to the writ of 49 Henry III see Preface, and as to the general question of how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see last vol., Appendix A. V.G.