Notices of the Ellises of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the conquest to the present time

20 MANOR OF HURST-PIERPOINT.
The estate of Danny, at the time of its enjoyment by the
Courthopes, shorn of the manor and advowson, and not com-
prehending many surrounding farms and contiguous proper-
ties, which by comparatively recent acquisitions have made
it more compact and extensive, was again destined, after
the lapse of about three quarters of a century, to pass into
the possession of another family. Peter Courthope, Esq.,
grandson of the first proprietor, dying in 1724, at an advanced
age, without male issue, his only surviving child and hieress,
Barbara, carried his inheritance to her husband, Henry Cam-
pion, Esq., of Comb well, ancestor of the present proprietor,
William John Campion, Esq.
This alliance was the occasion of the first introduction of
the Campions into Sussex ; though in the time of Charles I.,
as appears by the Subsidy Roll, a family of that name resided
at Broadwater, probably an offset of that stock who were
settled at Champions, or, as it is written in Budgen's Map of
Sussex 1724, Campions, an estate in West Grinstead. The
Campions of Danny had for some generations been seated at
Combwell, in Kent, whence came Sir Henry Campion, his
brother, the gallant Sir William Campion, who was slain at
Colchester, and his son, Sir William Campion. The Campions
of Combwell were a junior branch of the Campions of Cam-
pion's Hall, in Essex, which estate was carried by an heiress
into the family of Mathew, of Stanstead, in Sussex.
The arms of the Campions of Combwell and Danny are
Argent, on a chief gules an eagle displayed or ; which, though
not the ancient arms of the family, must have been borne by
them at least as far back as the time of Edward Campion, of
Campion's Hall, in Essex, which would be at the end of the
fifteenth century, as the Mathews' of Stanstead quarter that coat
in the Visitation of Sussex. The ancient coat borne by them,
as blazoned on the sepulchral monuments of the family in the
Danny chancel, were Azure fretty argent, on a canton of the last
a fleur-de-lis or ; but as depicted on Budgen's Map of Sussex,
the fretty is charged with ermine spots, the arms of the
Champaignes of Leicestershire being Or fretty sable, on each
joint a cross crosslet fitchee of the first. For it must be observed
a Campion of Danny. A conjecture as Courthope will be found at page 87 of
to the origin of the name and arms of Vol. VI. Sussex Arch. Collections.