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Kotcs on tJje iFamilfr?^ of JSoutr antr Stoa»nir
counties of Cambridge and Huntington ;
and there is now an aisle of the
church there which contains inscriptions of many persons of the name using
the coat of arms. Mr. Swayne calls his own a "Salisbury branch." His
pedigree and arms may be found in Hoare's " Modern Wiltshire." Mr.
William Swayne who was M.P. for Salisbury founded a chantry-chapel in
St. Thomas's church there in the reign of Henry VI. He was also Mayor
of Salisbury. In a general pardon granted by Edward IV. are included
William Swayne, Merchant, and Henry Swayne, Armiger. The latter was
William's heir, and commanded "the City-contingent" in support of Henry
VI. "Their descendant William Swayne as also themselves are always
styled 'Armigeri' in the Corporation-Books." Many of Mr. Swayne's
family-documents, some of the seventeenth century, were destroyed by a
fire in the Temple, when lent to an antiquary. Mr. Swayne knows of only
one member of his family, a lady who married a Symonds, who emigrated
to America. Miss Swayne's account (1887) of her branch of the family
begins with Rev. George Swayne who came into Somersetshire with the
first Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Bristol, and was Rector of Sutton Montis
from 1671 to 1691. His son Samuel was presented with the living of
Worthy Regis and Abbotsworty in Southampton, in 1688, by Lady Rachel
Russell. He had a son Samuel. Rev. George Swayne's son Robert had
a living near Poole, co. Dorset.- The first-mentioned Samuel, or a Samuel
of a previous generation, was tutor of Lord Strafford's children, and took
them abroad after he was beheaded.
From Hutchins's "Dorset" we learn that two important branches
of the Swayne or Swaine family were established early in Dorsetshire.
One was the family of Corfe Castle, the other of Tarent Gunvill, not far
from it. Both are now extinct in the male line, and we have been unable
to make inquiries of living persons. Corfe Castle is a town on what is
called the Isle of Purbeck, on the southeast coast of Dorset, but which is
' Poole is on the mainland, only separated from the Isle of Purbeck b)' a sea-channel a quarter of
a mile wide.
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