270 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. SEPT. so, 1905. hitherto appeared in print concerning them. Perhaps, therefore, a few genealogical notes of this once important family will be of interest. The first of the name to own the manor of Dray ton was Thomas Pound, who was M.P. for Hampshire in 1450 (John de Pound was M.P. for Portsmouth 1357-8). Drayton was held from very early times by the service of providing one soldier, and keeping guard over the eastern gate of the Castle of Port- chester for five days during war time. It was held by Roger de Merley in 1250, after- wards by the De Saunfords until about 1327, and by the De Pageham family until about 1443. The Pounds held it by the same service. Thomas Pound married Mercia Uvedale, perhaps a daughter of John Uvedale, of Wickham, Hants, for Thomas was trustee under John Uvedale's will in 1439, and also one of the executors of the will of his son Sir Thomas Uvedale, who died in 1474. Thomas Pound was lord of the manor of Drayton and of Lymborne, both in Hants, and he also held lands at Bere and Southwick in the same county ; he died on " the day of St. Clement the Pope, 16 Edward IV." (23 November, 1476), leaving a son John, then thirty years old and more. This John Pound was knighted at the marriage of Prince Arthur in 1501, and his arms are given by Metcalfe as Argent, on a fess gules, between two boars' heads couped sable in chief, and a cross patee fitchee of the third in base, three mullets pierced of the field. Crest, a gourd or, leaved vert. SirJohnPound married Elizabeth,daughter and coheir (with her sister Christina, wife of Sir Edward Berkeley, of Beverstone, Knt.) of Sir Richard Holt (died 1458), of Colrith, Hants, by his wife Joane, daughter of Robert Collingbourne, of Collingbourne Kingston, Wilts. He was M.P. for Portsmouth in 1472-3, and Sheriff of Hants in 1489, 1496, and 1504. He died on 14 August, 1511, leaving two sons, William and John. John Pound, the younger son, was a Pursuivant in the College of Arms during the reign of Henry VII.; was appointed Somerset Herald, "with 20 marks a year," in 1511, and was one of the Heralds in Henry VIII.'s retinue on the "Field oi the Cloth of Gold." He was assassinated near Dunbar in ^1542, while on a journey to the King of Scotland with a message from Henry VIII. William Pound, son and heir of Sir John, was born about 1474 : he appears on the Sheriff roll for Hants'in 1511 and 1512; in 1514 he was living at Southwick, and was exempted from serving on juries, <&c. (Pat
- Hen. VIII., p. i. m. 22). He was surveyor
o Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester; in Dpm. St. Papers,' vol. ii. p. 1390, is a letter written in October, 1518, to Wolsey, in which he bishop refers to his "surveyor William Downde being a man of an hundred pound and." In 1522, on the declaration of war with France, he was commissioned, with Sir Arthur Plantagenet (of Drayton), Sir John jisle (of Wootton, I.W.), and William Uve- dale (of Wickham), to muster and array all dwellers on the sea coast near the haven of Portchester ; and in the following year he was one of the Commissioners for Hants to collect subsidy. He was twice married: first to Mary, daughter and coheir of Thomas Beynowe (died 1506), of Stenbury, in the [sle of Wight, by whom he had a son Anthony and a daughter Katherine; and secondly to Edburga, widow of William Benger, of Wilts, and daughter and coheir of Thomas Troyes (died 1508), of Marwell, Hants (her sister Dorothy Troyes was the wife, first of Sir William Uvedale, of Wick- mm, and secondly of Lord Edmund Howard,
- ather of Catherine Howard, the consort of
lung Henry VIII.). William Pound had Issue by his second wife a son William, here- after mentioned, and a daughter Clare, who married, before 1542, Ralph Henslowe, of Boarhunt, Hants, M.P. for Portsmouth in 1555. William Pound died on 5 July, 1525, and by his will (P.C.C. 36 Bodfelde), of which lie made " my Lord of Wynchester " overseer, lie left to his younger son William the manor of Hale, in the Isle of Wight, and (after the death, or remarriage, of his wife Edburga) the manors of Wilting and Holyngton, co. Sussex, and the manor of Bemond, co. Southampton. To his daughter Katherine he left "the wardship, custody, rule, and marriage of Richard Benger " (his wife Ed- burga's son by her first husband), 'with the advantages of his lands during hii nonage, and if the said Richard Benger and she can lie contented to marry together, 1 will that the said Katherine hath towards her marriage three score and eight pounds that my brother John pweth to me, and my cheyne of golde weighing xxxii. Ibs. Katherine married Richard Benger, and on his dying shortly after without issue, she took for her second husband John White, of Southwick. Hants, Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII. There is a very fine marble altar-tomb to the memory of this couple in Southwick Church, with their effigies, and those of their six sons and four daughters, engraved in brass on the flat upper slab, with shields of arms and the following in- scription :—
