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the wife of Stephen del Wode, and her issue, and failing such
issue to Alice, the wife of Rezév/z Gez@>yn, and her issue and failing
such to Matilda, the wife of John Savage, and her heirs for
ever.
]o11N BAssET, of Drayton,§-‘ Sm THOMAS BEKE,—_I:ALICE,
co. Stafford, Lord of Knight, 6 Hen. I his first
Cheadle and Baron ofI IV, 1404. wife.
Sabcote. I I
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RALPH ;MATILDA ELIZA-Z"-STEPHEN DEL AL1c1z.=RAL1>1~1 MATILDA,
Basssw. Bram, liv- BETH, WODE,I404. GALPYN, wife of
ing 1404, 1404. 1404. john Sav-
abit. 1421. age.
. VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, 1583
Sir Thomas Beke. Arms: Gules a cross ermine.
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Sir Thomas Beke, a wealthy landowner of Staffordshire,
had four daughters of whom the eldest, Matilda, married
Ralph Basset, son of john Basset of Drayton, Lord of Cheadle
and Baron of Sabcote, who possessed extensive hereditary
estates at Melcombe, co. Dorset, near Wolland and Ibberton.
Alice, the third daughter of Sir Thomas Beke, married Ralph
Galpyn of Cheadle, and subsequently some of the Galpyn
family went to live in Dorset in the neighbourhood of Melcom be.
Not long after this time the Galpyns disappear entirely from
Staffordshire. One of the battles of the Wars of the Roses,
that of Blore Heath in 1459, near Eccleshall, was fought very
near their property. After that upheaval there is no trace of
the name in Staffordshire. Although the VVills at Lichfield
_ commence as early as 1539, there is not a single Galpyn Will
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