![]() ![]() The Basings/Mackworth murder is covered in S.J. 1444/5) of Empingham, which is how Empingham passed into the hands of the Mackworth family. As with the Pashley Case, this second murder was also motivated by the desire to secure an inheritance - Alice and her son Henry Mackworth arranged the murder of her nephew, the illegitimate son of Sir John de Basings (d. Margaret de Basing's granddaughter, Alice (de Basings) Mackworth, widow of Thomas Mackworth, was implicated in another murder in 1445. Perhaps there was something in the genes. Passele's second son and heir was named John. Margaret had previously been married to William Basing, who had died in the summer of 1316. 1282, and his wife, Denise, the daughter of John de Lovetot, a justice of the common bench disgraced in 1290. ![]() After the death of his first wife Maud, Passele is found as the husband of Margaret, the posthumous daughter of Thomas de Normanville, d. 1327, lawyer and justice, son of Robert of Pashley, in Oxford DNB. An Edmund de Passelewe was serjeant from 1299 to 1323, and chief baron of the exchequer from 1323 to 1326. ![]()
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