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uncle was childless, and had at some time adopted
William as his heir. However, West tried to gain the De La Warr estate early by poisoning his uncle. The attempt was unsuccessful and he was in the Tower by October 1548. He was disinherited by an act of parliament in 1550, although he had been reinstated as heir by the time of his uncle's death.
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placed a private bill before parliament to disinherit his nephew
William West, first Baron De La Warr (c.1519β1595). The latter was the son of the ninth baron's half-brother Sir George West of Warbleton (d. 1538) and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Morton of Lechlade, Gloucestershire. His
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Despite the fact that he had been reinstated as heir by his uncle, when the latter died in 1554 William West was unable to inherit the barony of De La Warr as a result of the Act of
Parliament of 1550 which had deprived him of all honours. Two years later he was involved in the
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along with his cousins Thomas West (newly-appointed governor of the colony) and
Ferdinando Wenman. Arriving in 1610, Ferdinando died in the summer and William was killed in autumn or winter of the same year by Indians near the falls of the
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on charges of treason, to which he responded as 'William, Lord de la Warr', forcing the heralds to prove during the trial that he was not entitled to the barony and therefore not entitled to a trial by his peers in the
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notes, such rules are at best modern approximations to actual medieval practice. What seems clear is that some, but not all, writers treat the
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as clarifying the descent of the ancient title, rather than creating a new one, hence
William is sometimes referred to as 10th baron.
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West married firstly, before 1555, Elizabeth
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Riordan, Michael (2004). "West, Thomas, eighth Baron West and ninth Baron de la Warr (1472β1554)".
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of 1299, as though they had inherited his uncle Thomas's title. By the modern rules of the
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Elizabeth West, who died unmarried. She is believed to have had one son out of wedlock:
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Mary West, who married
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William West, who in his early twenties emigrated to
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The West Family
Register: Important Lines Traced, 1326β1928
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503:Antiquity
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99:Mary West
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61:Warbleton
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380:Virginia
359:Hawridge
321:Slinfold
276:abeyance
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179:creation
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63:, Sussex
284:Cokayne
247:Peerage
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