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V.—On the Descent and Arms of the House of Compton, of Compton Wyniate, in the County of Warwick, Earls and Marquises of Northampton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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The name of Compton or Combe-Town, a town or place in a valley, derived, according to Dugdale, “from the situation, in a low and deep valley, the word 
in the British and 
in the Saxon importing no less,” is generally distributed throughout the southern and midland counties of England: we find it in Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire. In some of these counties there are several places of this name, distinguished by different additional designations; in Warwickshire, besides Compton-Wyniate, (or, as I find it described in a deed of the 31st of Edward III. “atte Wynd-yate,” Wind-gate,) there is Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire, Compton-Murdock, now called, from the family of its present owner, Compton-Verney, and Compton-Scorfen, corruptly pronounced Scorpion, a hamlet in the parish of Ilmington ; there is also the parish of Fenny-Compton, between Wormleighton and Farnborough, in the same hundred of Kineton wherein the other four Warwickshire Comptons are situated. The neighbourhood of this last Compton with Compton-Wyniate, or “Compton in the Sole” as it is sometimes called, has been the cause of some difficulty; and, as I think I shall be able to prove, of much confusion in tracing the descents of two ancient families who derived their names from these two villages, one still existing, the other long extinct, and neither related to each other.
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page 63 note a In the possession of Lord Willoughby de Broke.
page 65 note a By Collins in his Peerage of England.
page 65 note b viz. the family of Bracebridge, in default of male heirs.
page 65 note c Testa de Nevill.
page 65 note d Rot. P. 16 H. II.
page 65 note e Register of Kenilworth, p. 158.
page 65 note f Dugdale's Warwickshire, ed. i. p. 423.
page 65 note g Inq. per H. Not. &c. f. 71 b.
page 67 note a Sic, a mistake for William.
page 67 note b No. 4632, fol. 209–225.
page 68 note a Excerpta Historica, p. 167.
page 68 note b Dugdale's Warwickshire, p. 425.
page 68 note c There is a tradition that they were found in the moat, now partly filled up.
page 69 note a See Beesley's History of Banbury, part xix., where it is engraved. It appears to be an erection of the fifteenth century.
page 69 note b See the first paper in the first volume of the Archæologia, written by Professor Ward, in 1740, and Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1st ed. p. 703.
page 69 note c Archælogia, xxi. 550.
page 69 note d It is nowhere about the house at Compton-Wyniate, at least in any part built by Sir William ; but it is found upon a lead pipe on the church there, with the initials J. N., 16G5.
page 70 note a Thoroton refers, as his authority, to an original deed then in possession of Sir Francis Molyneux, Bart.
page 71 note a It is remarkable, however, that Dugdale records, that in the east window of the north aisle of Fenny- Compton church were these arms, Sable, a fess engrailed betwixt three helmets argent, which probably belonged to some branch of the Comptons of that place.
page 71 note b Roll of arms in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, Archæologia, xxxix. 416.
page 71 note c Todde's MS. collection.