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Besides the above, the following, not intended to be complimentary to the places named, were once current, and perhaps some of them may be still known. Uley moggies, i.e., calves, Coaley dumps, Cam ewes, and Cam crows, and

"The Dursley baboon.

As yet his pap without a spoon."

Charles Hillier the ancient Corunna veteran who died at Uley some years ago, aged upwards of 90, added to the above list:"Nimpsfield heg pegs," which the old man explained were "things" which grew in the hedges.

ED.

The Robins Family.-I have to-day seen the inscription given below in the yard of Mr. H. C. Frith, sculptor, Barton Street, Gloucester. Upon enquiry, I was informed that it was found as the hearth stone" of a farm house not far from Matson Church. That portion of the monument which was dilapidated has been restored. It will be replaced in the church. Sept. 4, 1890. H. Y. J. T.

In memory of Anne the wife of | John Robins of the manor of Matson in the parish of Upton St Leonards | in the County of Glouc Esq | She was the daughter of William Stratford | of Farmcote in the County of Glouc | Esq she was interred the 11 day of May Anno Domini 1663 also in memory of Dorothy the wife of William Robins of Matson aforesaid Gent grandson of ye above named John and Anne Robins | Dorothy was the daughter of Thomas Bacon of Manselle in ye County of Somerset Esq a Gentleman of an Ancient good Family and in the commission of the peace for that County to ye time of his death She departed this life the 26th day of May 1732 aged 32

years.

Sundial Mottoes.-Continued from No. 1772, Vol. IV., p. 397.-The following is transcribed from Mount Tabor by R. Willis], in 1639.

"Upon the Diall of the Clock in the Colledge Church of Gloucester. -In the horologue, or dyall of that Clock, in the foure Angles of that square, which lye without those circles (wherein the houres are distinguished), are pourtraied four Angels, each of

them seeming to say something to those that looke up to see what a clocke it is, the whole matter being two old Latine verses made up in rythme in this manner :—

1. An labor, an requies,

2. Sic transit gloria mundi :
3. Præterit iste dies,

4. Nescitur origo secundi;

which may be thus englished

Salterton, Devon.

Whether we rest, or labour; work or play,
The world and glory of it passe away.
This day is past, or neere its period grown;
The next succeeding is to us unknown.”

T. N. BRUSHfield, M.D.

Notes on the Trotman Family.

ROM time to time it is proposed to give in these pages,

F collections of notes respecting some of the better-known

Gloucestershire families, which will prove of service in compiling genealogies of them. They will consist of abstracts of wills, deeds, and other documents, extracts from parish registers, marriage licences, tombstone inscriptions, etc. They will be essentially miscellaneous, and strict classification therefore must not be looked for.

A commencement is made in the present part with the Trotman family.

In the "Description of the Hundred of Berkeley," by John Smyth, of Nibley, lately for the first time published under the auspices of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, are numerous references to the family. As they are scattered, it will be a convenience to collect them together, and they will form a suitable introduction to the abstracts of original documents which will follow.

Came. "Heere also is another ancient messuage and two yard land called Nasse Court, the inheritance of John Trotman, comonly called of the knapp, according to the situacon of the said messuage; which John Trotman is sonne of Nicholas

Trotman who died 19 Eliz., sonne of John Trotman who dyed about 20 hours before the said Nicholas, sonne of Thomas Trotman, who in 1 et 2 Ph. et Mar'. purchased the said messuage and lands of John Berkeley of Beverston Castle, then esquire, after knight, thereby severinge it from his manor of Woodmancote in the parish of Dursley, whereof it was parcell, and till then held by copy of Court Roll accordinge to the custome of that manor, as by the copy thereof amongst the evidences of the said which I have seene, appeareth; and the said Thomas Trotman the purchaser of this land died in A° 5 et 6 Ph. et Mar'., and was sonne of Henry Trotman who died in 18 Henry 8, sonne of John Trotman who dyed in of Elias Trotman who died in

sonne

sonne of Robert Trotman who died in 5 Hen. 5, brother and heire of Walter, sonnes of John Trotman, son of Richard, who lived in the time of King E. 2. For which purchase made by the said Thomas Trotman of John Berkeley

de ten. in Came et Slimbridge

in Trin. terme 5 Mar .. And is holden of

George lord Berkeley by knight service, sute to his hundred court of Berkeley from 3 weekes to 3 weekes, and by the yearly rent of 10s. And of 6d. more paid for other lands which longe have beene occupied therwith: Some part of which lands, viz. a messuage and one acre and a quarter of ground, are now the inheritance of Nicholas Trotman, sonne of Edward Trotman of Came, called of the Stepps, As by an Inquisicon found in the last year of Ao 14 R.' Car:', 1638, after the death of the said Edward, appeareth; and which hee the said Edward, by Deed dated 20 Junij. anno 12 R' A Jacobi, purchased of John Trotman his eldest brother, as the said Inquisicon sheweth : And for which the said John hath 40s. p' ann' paid to him as a rent charge out of the same."

p. 130. "This Nasse Court with other lands the said John Trotman hath by his deed dated 6 M’ij Ao 14 R' Jacobi, settled after the death of himself, upon Henry his eldest sonne and the heires males of his body with Remainder over, the Remainder to the heires of the said John."

p. 131.

"By an inq. in 24 Eliz. Edward Woolworth als. Webb is found to dye seised of 34 acres of land in Came, holden by sute of Court, and the yearly rent of 2d. ob....[which] shortly after [viz., after 24 Eliz.] came by purchase to Edward Trotman, of Came, who, with Edward, his sonne and heire, after aliened the same to William Hardinge and others.

p. 133.

"In 35 H. 8., the said Richard Brayne conveyed to Thomas Trotman and his heires, all those two messuages, with their appurtenants called Longfords; and one other messuage, and half a yard land in Whetenhurst, which (with release also) is inrolled with the clarke of the peace of this county; and in 1 E. 6, a fine was levied of theis lands betweene Thomas Trotman, q., and Richard Brayne, and Elizabeth Ashby, widowe, defts., by the name of 3 mess. and 180 acres, &c., in Came and Whetenhurst.

From which Thomas Trotman this land came to Richard his second sonne and his heires, against whom a title to theis lands was pretended by George Goffe, in right of Mary his wife, Jone ap Roberts, widowe, and Thomas James, as coheires to Mary Catchmay [of the family of an earlier owner], after wife of William Warren, which being ended by arbitrement, a fine (amongst other assurances) was levied in Trinity terme, 20 Eliz., betweene Richard Trotman, plt., and George Goffe and Mary his wife, Thomas James, and Jone ap Roberts, widowe, co-heirs of Mary Catchmay, defts., by the names of 3 mess. and 180 acres, &c., in Came; the Indenture leadinge the use to the said Richard Trotman and his heires, and the Arbitrement, That the question was for Woodends house in Came, and one yard land and an halfe therto belonginge; and for another house and half a yarde land thereto belonginge in Came also, called Lampland. Touching which Lampland, all I have found is that 24° Augusti 3 Edw. 6, the King granted 2s. rent p. ann. to William Saule and William Bridges and their heires, who 18 Octobr. the same yeare granted the same to Thomas Trotman and his heires, goinge out of a certaine tenement in Came called Longfords house, ad sustentandum unum lampadem in Ecclesia de Came.

The said Thomas Trotman dyed 5 and 6 Ph. & Mar., leaving this land in Came to Richard his 2nd son aforesaid, who built a faire house therupon, and after died in 35 Eliz., whereby it descended to Edward his eldest sonne who vpon maryage of Edward his eldest sonne with the widow of John Aylway, conveyed the revertion after his own life in fee or fee tayle to the said Edward his sonne, since a Reader in Court, and bencher in the Inner Temple, yet livinge. Who after sundry mortgages therof, and of other lands to Henry Prat of London, made by him and Edward his sonne and heire apparent, and to William Hill of Tuexbury, and John Wakeman, Samuell Trotman and Throgmorton Trotman, his brothers and kinsmen, upon loans of

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