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378 DINHAM d. 25 Jan. 1457/8, at Nutwell, Devon,(°) and was bur. in the Church of the Black Friars at Exeter. Admon. 31 Jan. 1457/8. (") His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 18 June 1458. (') She d. in 1497. Will dat. 26 Jan. 1496 [1496/7], pr. at Lambeth, 3 Nov. following.^) II 1467 7. Sir John Dinham,^) of Hartland, Buckland and to Denham, Cardinham, ^c, s. and h., b. at Nutwell, and I.Q 1 501. aged 24, or 24 and more, at his father's death. The King took his homage and fealty, and he had livery of his father's lands, 16 June 1458.(8) After the skirmish at Ludford, 12 Oct. 1459, he assisted Edward, Earl of March, and the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury, to said Joan Leghe. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Hen. VI, file 145, no. lo). John Dynham kt. and Joan his wife brought an action to recover these manors {Coram Rege, Trinity, 33 Hen. VI, Rex, m. 8), and in the Inq. p. m. on the said John it was found that at his death he and his wife had held them jointly, and that he had held the manors of Eythorpe, Cranwell, and Little Kimble, Bucks, "ex jure hereditario Johanne uxoris sue jam superstitis." (») " Johannes Dynham miles." Writs of diem cl. ext. 28 and 29 Jan. 36 Hen. VI. Inq., Hants, Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, Oxon, Bucks, Saturday and Monday before, and Friday after, St. Peter in cathedra, Monday after St. David [18, 20, 24 Feb., 6 Mar.], 20, and 22 Mar. 1457/8. " Et quod dictus Johannes Dynham obiit [apud Nutwell' — CO. Devon'] in festo Conversionis sancti Pauli Apostoli ultimo preterite . . . Et quod Johannes Dynham armiger filius ejusdem Johannis Dynham est ejus heres propinquior et est etatis xxiiij annorum [et amplius — cos. Oxon, Bucks] [et quod natus fuit apud Nutwell' — co. Devon]." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Hen. VI, file 170, no. 39: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 201, no. 9). C') Lambeth Reg., Bourgchier, f. 42 v. (<=) Writs de dote assignanda 18 June. {Close Roll, 36 Hen. VI, m. lo). ("•) P.C.C., 10 Home. "Jane late the wife of Sir John Dynham knight . . . my body to be buried atte Blakfreres of Exeter by my lord myne housband as use is where oure Tombe is made." («) On his seal (Cast, Brit. Mus., Ixxxv, no. 43) are the arms of Dinham: crest, an otter between two (? trees): supporters, dexter, a stag, sinister, a unicorn: legend, "... hannis : d'ni : .ynha : de : carr : dynha." (*) How far Sir John Dinham's having acted as Trier of Petitions when he sat, not in Parliament, but in the Painted Chamber, or how far his having sworn in Parlia- ment to accept Edward, Prince of Wales, as King (see text below), when others besides peers were present, would be accepted as " proof of sitting," it is not for the Editor to determine. Anyhow, counsel for the claimant in the petition of 1 9 14 airily declared that " for a period of 30 years he [Sir John] was present and sat in Parliament," a statement which he would have found very difficult to prove. He also argued that " if a man is summoned after a hundred years in respect of an ancient Barony and takes his seat, then that is deemed to relate back to the first summons that there is." Of course the great importance of proof of sitting in this case was that it might have turned a Barony cr. 1 466/7 — which became extinct at the grantee's death — into a Barony with the precedence of Edward I. See ?ihopost, p. 382, note " b." V.G. (8) Fine Roll, 36 Hen. VI, m. 4. His homage and fealty were for the manor and hundred of Hartland. His fealty was actually taken by the Chancellor, the Bishop of Winchester. (Ch. Privy Seals, I, file 774, no. 1 0491).