St. Lucia, May, 1851.
_Bassenet of Eaton._--Edward Bassenet, the first married Dean of St.
Patrick's, Dublin, and who in the words of Swift, "surrendered the
deanery to that beast Hen. VIII.," was of a family seated at Eaton, in
Denbighshire. He had four sons, Richard, William, John, and George; on
whom he settled the Irish property which he acquired at the surrender,
and probably what he held at Eaton. (See Mason's _St. Patrick's_, p.
151.)
Can any of your correspondents inform me if this family be still in
existence, and in possession? or if not, how soon it failed? From the
notices given by Mason, it seems probable that the eldest son died
without issue; but even this is not certain, and beyond this I have no
clue.