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THE EAST WINDOW OF THE CHANCEL. 47 Sibilla, his , and, with the consent of the said Sir John, his father, endowed the said Agnes with Manor of Northwode Chasteners at the door of the church. And of the said Sir John, the son, and Agnes, issued Sir Roger, Sir John de Northwode, Otho, Sir William, of the of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Thomas, and Robert. The said Sir John, the eldest son, died during his father's lifetime;and that the said Sir John, son of Sir John, and Agnes, daughter of Sir William de Grandisson, were married, and that the said Sir Roger was their issue, is evidenced by the records of a plea inthe Common Bench inMichaelmas term, 6 Rich. II." (Roll 508.) Kent Arch^ological Society.

The daughter of Sir John de Segrave, of Folkstone, (Elizabeth de Segrave) married Sir John de Northwode, 1331, and to obtain that {/ marriage he gave the Manors of Beansfield and Horton, near Canterbury inthe county of Kent, and a rent of nine marks inthe parish of St. Olives in Southwark, by deed sealed with his seal of arms dated of Ffollkstone, on Tuesday, on the morrow of St. John the Baptist, viz., the fifth year of the reign of Edward 111., and afterwards on the 11th day of Dec. inthe ninth year of the said Lord the KingEdward 111. ,and the year of our Lord J.335. The said Elizabeth died without issue of her body, and is buried at Shepeye, nearly at the head of Sir Roger de Northwode, the restorer aforesaid. This Sir John contracted a third marriage with Margaret, relict of Sir Nicolas de Halgeton, Knight,Lord of Wokyndon, in the county of Essex, who had two daughters, Beatrice, now the wife of Sir Ralph Seyntleger, knight ; and Margaret, who was married to Sir Roger de Northwode, son of the said Sir Roger and Juliana bis first wife. And afterwards, a littlebefore the feast of the Nativityof our Lord inthe same fourteenth year, in digging out a fox which was in an earth near Bengebery, the said Margaret was smothered but not killed on the spot ; because, after the accident, inthe year of our Lord 1340, she made her will,bypermission of the said SirRoger; and, on the last day of December next following, died without issue. And immediately after the feast of