He  was  followed  in   [408  by  his  grandson  and  namesake,  a


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soldier  of  renown  in  the  French  Wars,  who  inherited  another
Somersetshire  estate  from  his  cousin,  John  de  Bonavile,  of
Meryat.  He  first  took  the  field  in  the  retinue  of  Thomas,
Duke  of  Clarence,  under  the  victorious  banner  of  Henry  V  ;  then
as  Seneschal  of  A,cquitaine,  was  retained  to  serve  his  succes-
sor with  twenty  men  at  arms  and  six  hundred  archers  and
"merited  so  well  for  his  services"  was  "fumimioned  by  Henry
VI  to  Parliment  among  the  barons  by  the  name  of  Lord  Wil-
liam de  Boneville  of  Chuton,  honoured  with  the  Order  of  the
Garter  and  enriched  his  fon  by  marrying  him  to  the)  only
daughter  of  Lord  Harrington."  A  few  years  after,  he  was
constituted  Constable  of  Exeter  for  life,  and  Lieutenant  of
Acquitaine.
Lord  de  Boneville  was  a  zealous  partisan  of  the  House  of
York,  and,  like  many  other  nobles  who  espoused  this  cause,
perished  in  the  havoc  of  the  ensuing  Civil  War  and  none  among
all  the  fortunes  that  "withered  with  the  White  Rose"  under-
went so  cruel  and  instantaneous  collapse.  Within  a  space
of  two  months  three  generations  of  the  de  Bonevilles  had  been
swept  away.  His  eldest  son  had  miarried  the  heiress  of  Lord
Harrington  and  was  the  father  of  another  William,  who  in-
herited his  mother's  barony  and  took  to  wife  a  daughter  of
the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  Lady  Catherine  Nevill.
