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TEYES—TEYNHAM.
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II. 1308? to 1321.

2. HENRY (DE TYES), LORD TYES, s. and h.; aged 22 at the death of his father; was in the Scotch wars. He was sum. to Parl. from 8 Jan. (1312/3) 6 Ed. II to 15 May (1321) 14 Ed. II. Having joined in the insurrection of the Earl of Lancaster, he was, with him, beheaded for high treason in 1321 and attainted, when the Barony was forfeited, but (says Courthope) "the attainder was subsequently reversed." He d. d.p.[1]

I. bis 1299, to 1324.

1. WALTER DE TEYES, served in the Scotch wars; had summons, 26 Ed. 1, "equis et armis," to Carliste, and was sum. to parl. as a Baron (LORD TEYES) by writs froin 6 Feb. (1298/9) 27 El. I to 26 Aug. (1307) 1 Ed. 11[2]. 

and to the coronation of Ed. H. His name as "Dominus de Stangrere" is affixed to the letter of the Barons to the Pope in 1301.[2] He m. Isabel, da, [and h. ?] of John de STANGREVE, or STEYNGREVE, of Stangreve, co. York, by lda, one of the coheirs of John de BEAUCHAMP, of Bedford, He d. s.p. 1324, when the Barony became extinct.[3]

i.e., "MONCK OF POTHERIDGE, BEAUCHAMP AND TEYES," Barony (Monck), cr. 1660 with the DUKEDOM OF ALBEMARLE, which see; cc. 1688.

TEYNHAM.

Barony. I. 1616.

1. SIR JOHN ROPER, of the Lodge[4] in the parish of Linsted, co. Kent, 1st s. and h. of Christopher ROPER[5] of the same (d. April 1559), by Elizabeth, da. and h. of William BLORE, of Rainham, in that county, was b. about 1534; Knighted 23 Feb.1587/8; had a grant from James I. of the monor of Teynham, co. Kent, and was cr. 9 July 1616,[6] BARON TEYNHAM of Teynham, co. Kent. He m. firstly, about

  1. ↑ (a) Alice, his sister and heir, m. Sir Warine de Lisle, of Kingston Lisle, Berks, and was mother of Gerard de Lisle, sum, to Parl, as Lord Lisle in 1357. See vol. v, p. 113, note "c," as to the cause of such summons being, not improbably, owing to his mother's heirship of this Barony of Teyes, which thenceforth devolved with that of Lisle.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 (b) There is proof in the rolls of Parl. of his sitting.
  3. ↑ (c) John de Pateshull was found to be his heir, according to "Courthope," but Dugdale states that Margaret, then aged 26, da. of Roger Le Teys, his br., was his next heir. His wife is sometimes said to have been the widow of Simon Pateshull, and if so, this confusion might naturally have arisen.
  4. ↑ (d) He rebuilt this mansion and enclosed the spacions park that surrounds it.
  5. ↑ (e) This Christopher was a yr. br, of William Roper, of Eltham, co, Kent (husband of the well-known "Margaret Roper," da. of L.-Chancellor Sir Thomas More, both being sons of John Roper, Attorney Gen. to Hen. VIII, by Jane (a very considerable heiress), da, of L-Chief Justice Sir John Fineaux. In Carpenter's "Peerage for the People" [1849] occurs the following remark: "Thorpe, of Bedford street, Covent Garden, pub. in 1833 a curious catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts, in p. 188 of which is described the celebrated illumined pedigree of the Ropers, from Henry III. to the creation of the Barony in the 16th [rectius 17th] century. This magnificently emblazoned Roll, considered to be the finest specimen in England, is in the possession of the present Lord Teynham. As to this roll it appears to have been at Linsted Lodge till 1824, tho' parted with soon after by the executors of the 13th Lord. It was repurchased by the second wife (possibly then the widow) of the 14th Lord, and is now [1896] in the possession of the present Peer.
  6. ↑ (f) The grantee held the valuable office of Custos Brevium, for the reversion of which, for two lives, £3,500 was offered and refused in 1604. "From the Secret history of Court Intrigues it seems that the peerage was given him as a compensation for some place [Q. if not the one abovenamed !] which Villiers, the favourite, wrested from him" [Collins]. It was, as stated by George, Lord Carew, in a letter to Sir Thomas Roe. conferred "en payant". Again, "Sir John Holles was cr. [on the 9th] Baron of Haughton, Sir John Koper, Baron of Tenem, or Ten M's, as Ned Wymarke
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