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152 DE LA WARR VI. 1427. 6. Reynold (West), Lord la Warre, and Lord West, nephew of the half blood, 2nd s. but eventually h. of Sir Thomas West, of Oakhanger, Newton Valence, and Winkton, Hants, Wolveton, Compton Valence, and Hinton Martell, Dorset, Blatchington, Sussex, i^c. [Lord West], by Joan, da. (the only da. who left issue) of Roger, Lord la Warre, by his 3rd wife, Alianore, both above named: the said Joan (who d. 24 Apr. I404)() being sister of the half blood of the last two Lords. He was b. 7 Sep. 1395, and sue. his elder br., Sir Thomas West, 29 or 30 Sep. I4i6.() The King took his homage, and he had livery of his brother's lands, 22 Nov. 141 6, his fealty being ordered to be taken by the escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset:('=) he was .then a knight. He was in the wars with France. () He occurs as Captain of Saint L6 in the Cotentin in Mar. 14 17/8 and Apr. 142 IjC^) and was appointed Captain of the fort of La Mote, 5 Dec. I4i9.() The King took his fealty, 21 June 1427, his homage being respited, and he had livery of the lands which he inherited as h. general of the second Lord.(') bono statu Thome domini de la Warre." (Holies' Church Notes, Harl. MSS., no. 6829, p. 224). He used the same supporters to his arms as his brother did (Seal, Addit. Charter, no. 22005: an angel, with expanded wings, there holds the shield). (*) Ch. Inq. p. m. (on Joan, late the wife of Thomas West), Hen. IV, file 49, no. 26. See West. (b) Ch. Inq. p. m. (on Thomas West chr.), Hen. V, file 19, no. 28. See West. if) Fine Roll, 4 Hen. V, m. 7. But in the Privy Seal, of the same date, the Chancellor, the Bishop of Winchester, was ordered to take his fealty. (Ch. Privy Seals, I, file 665, no. 714). (d) Norman Rolls, 6 Hen. V, />. I, m. 37; 7 Hen. V, /. i, m. 2: French Rolls, 4 Hen. V, m. 3; 7 Hen. V, m. 4; 9 Hen. V, mm. 17, 15, 12. (°) Fine Roll, 5 Hen. VI, mm. 6, 5, 4. For the fines, Wc, under which he thus inherited, see above. In the course of the claim of Charles Longvile (1640) to the barony of Grey of Ruthin, it was stated that " Thomas Lord La Warre being seised, in his demesne as of fee tail, to him and the heirs of his body begotten, by virtue of a fine levied in the time of his ancestors, of the barony of La Warre, with divers other lands, did [sic, I. died s.p.], as appeareth by an inquisition after his death, 5 Hen. VI, wherein is found that John Griffin was the next heir general of the said Thomas of the whole blood; and that Reginald West, knight, was his next heir by virtue of the said entail. Afterwards the said Reginald West was summoned to parliament, anno 7 Hen. VI, by the name of Reginald de la Ware, knight, so that the King conferred that dignity upon the half blood, before the whole blood, clean contrary to a state in fee, and re- pugnant to the maxim of one sole heir." (Collins, Baronies by IVrit, p. 227). "The barony of La Warre" has here been substituted for "the manor of Wickwar," which was the actual subject of the fine and of the inquisition in 5 Hen. VI. And the manor of Wickwar was not held by barony, nor even of the King in chief, but, as the inqui- sition states, of the Lords of Berkeley. Also the rule of half blood, like that oi possessio fratris, does not apply to a barony, and for the same reason. For "whosoever shall make a title to a barony must resort to the record and begin his title there, and so conse- quently must make himself heir to the person first ennobled by that record." (Brampston, L.C.J., his argument in the Lord Grey of Ruthyn's case, delivered before the House of Lords, 1640/1). Now Reynold West was h. general to the ist and 2nd lords, but John Griffon was merely h. general to the brothers, John and Thomas la Warre.