profittes to the said halfe Tucke mill belonging or appertaininge as it appeare the more plainlye by the saied lease or indenture to have and to hold the same to the saied Jane Cloterbooke, and to her assignes from the feaste of St. Michaell Thearckangell, next ensuinge to the ende and expiration of the saied lease, which is xxxi yeres. Also I give to the saied Jane, my wife, one Lease or Indenture with all the claime, tytle, term of yeres, and right, that I have or may have in one meadowe called the mere medowe by virtue of the said leasse which I boueghte of John Harmer of King Stanley, to have and to hold the same to the said Jane during the yeres and tearme of the saied lease. Item I give to Thomas Cloterbooke, my brother, Richarde Cloterbooke's eldest son, my best coate. Also I give to Thomas Cloterbooke, my brother, John, his eldest son, my sworde, my dager, with my purse and my girdals. Also I give to Richard Cloterbooke, my brother, John, his sonne, my seconde best coate. Also I give to William Cloterbooke, my brother, my best satten doblett. Also I give to William Nicolsonne, my servaunte, my shotinge bowe and xij shaftes, which shafts or arrowes be in the custodie of Richard Donne, a flecher in Glouc'. Also I give to Richard Thomas, curate of Stroude, my chambelet Jacket. Also I give to Fernando Cloterbooke, my brother's sonne, my lether Jerkine. The rest and residue of all my goodes, cattells, and detts, moveable and immoveable, after my legacies fulfilled and my detts paid, I give and bequethe to Jane, my wiffe, whom I appointe, nominate, and make my sole and whole executrix, and Also I nominate and choose my two brothers, Richard Cloterbooke, of Stanley, and William Cloterbooke, of Estingtonne, overseers to and of this my testament, to ayde and assyste my saied executrixe, and see this my will proved; and I gyve to eyther of them towardes theire paynes in token of my goodwill, x'. These bearinge wittnes:

"This will is written on parchment, not signed by testator." Endorsed: "Proved at Gloucester on June xxv., an. 1563."

Gloucestershire Wills (continued).

James Macye, of Cam, 1610, mentions the poor of Cam and Slimbridge; my three daughters, unmarried, Ursula, Anne, and Deborah; wife, Anne, to be executrix; lands entailed on son John; daughter, Elizabeth Essington; to daughter, Joane Nelme's children, 100 m.; son-in-law, Richard Nelme. Overseers: Robert Essington and Joseph Harding.

Proved at Gloucester.

William Nelme, of Woodford, Berkeley, husbandman, 17 April, 1610; mentions his son, William Nelme, and daughters, Martha Elizadeth and Mary; his brother, Thomas Nelme, to be executor. Proved at Gloucester.

Thomas Nealme, of the town and parish of Berkeley, husbandman, 28 May, 1606; son, John; residuary legatee and executrix, Agnes, my lawful wife.

Proved at Gloucester, 4 Dec., 1606.

John Nelme, of Sanigar, yeoman, 14 October, 1611; daughter, Gillian; sons, Thomas, John, William, and Nicolas; cousin, Mary Nelme; brother, Thomas Nelme, and kinsman, John Hall, overseers; witnesses, Charles Erneley, clerk, John Saull, Thomas Nelme, Jerremy Nelme, George Lewis.

Proved at Gloucester, 30 January, 1611-12.

Robert Purnell, of North Nibley, yeoman, 4 February, 1615; my wife, Jane, executrix; daughter, Marie; eldest son, Robert Purnell, executor; to second son, John Purnell, a broad loom; youngest son, Francis Purnell, under 16; brothers, John Purnell, Thomas Purnell, and Francis Purnell; and brother-in-law, Maurice Androwes, overseers. Signed by testator's mark, "R.P." witnesess: Francis Purnell, Xfer Turner, Henrv Exall and John Curnocke.

Proved at Gloucester, 3 Jan. 1616.

Walter Purnell, of Hull, alias Hill, yeoman, 24 May, 13 Charles; to be buried in Barkley Churchyard; William Purnell, my brother; I owe Thomas Freeman, £3; my sister, Jane Higgs; Giles Higgs' children; Mary Purnell, my wife, to be residuary legatee and executrix; overseers, Henrie Dymerie and Ellrett Foxle, yeomen; debts named; witnesses-Nicholas Neales and Henry Heathfield.

Proved at Gloucester, 7 June, 1637.

Francis Purnell, of North Nibley, broad-weaver, 28 December, 1664; Joane, my wife; daughter, Joane, under 21; daughter,

Mary; daughter, Sara, to have lease of house at Stancombe; Sara and Elizabeth, daughters of Nicholas Trotman, of Stinchcombe. Witnesses-brother, Robert Purnell, brother-in-law, Thomas May, brother-in-law, Walter May, and William Trotman. Thomas Bushe, of Bristol, grocer, 16 February, 1637; to be buried at All Saints', Bristol, next to my children; to Mr. George Williamson, for a sermon; recites settlement on daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, and Anne; sons, Moses, John, and daughter, Elizabeth; Cicellie, my wife; mentions Christopher Cooke, alias Large, of Bristol, gent., and Susan, his wife; daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Vincent Boys; my brother, Rice Bushe; Mr. Richard Towgood and Mr. Robert Prichard ; Mr. Stanford, minister, of Christ Church; Mr. Robert Pownall; brothers, Edward Bushe and William Bushe; sisters, Elizabeth Bushe, Martha Lyne, Johane Millard; brother-in-law, Hugh Jones and John Jones; sister-in-law, Margaret Banne and Wilmot Jones; son-in-law, Vincent Bayes; bequests to servants and to the poor.

Proved, 14 May, 1637

P.C.C., Lee 24.

Anthony Trye, Passenham, Northants, clerk, land at Newent, which he holds for lives of Paul Foley, esq., called Nell Fields, to wife Judith for life; remainder to dau. Judith Sheppard; to son-in-law, Thomas Sheppard, 200; recites agreement after death of son, Anthony Trye, with dau.-in-law, Elizabeth Trye, to have use of £300 for life, which after her death is to go to grandchildren, Judith Sheppard, John Sheppard, and James Sheppard; lands in Stinchcombe, after death of Elizabeth Trye, and wife, Judith, to son-in-law, Thomas Sheppard, then to my daughter, Judith Sheppard, then to son, Thomas Sheppard, son of Thomas Sheppard, in tail; remainder to John Sheppard, another son; remainder to James, another son; books in studdy, to son-in-law, Thomas Sheppard; residue to wife, the sole executrix dated 3 Aug., 1700.

Witnesses: Richard Townsend, John Joseph, Edmund Jackson. Proved in P.C.C., 27 Nov., 1701, by Judith, the relict.

Daniel Trye, of Gloucester, gent., "in a weak state of health:' to mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Trye, 3 messuages, in parish of St. John Baptist, Gloucester; messuage and cottage, in Stinchcombe and Cam; also pasture ground near Nubbishash Turnpike, in Cam or Berkeley. Residuary legatee and executrix my mother. Dated 2 Nov., 1767.

Witnesses: Samuel Cripps, Samuel Cripps, jun., and Edward Driver. No note of probate on copy examined.

Giraldus Cambrensis in his "Gemma Ecclesiastica," cap. xxxv. "De cruce in Anglia volatum faciente," records an incident which doubtless caused much excitement in our county in the twelfth century:

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"There is also the instance which happened in the year of the Martyrdom of the blessed Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the bishopric of Worcester, in a village Stanewic* by name, and distant about two miles from the Monastery of Winchelcumbe, for when the parish priest, whose name was Roger, celebrating the Vigil of the Ascension, and pronouncing the words "Qui pridie" &c., a certain cross exhibiting the face and figure of the Crucified (and somewhat larger than that carried in processions), though firmly fixed to the woodwork, which stretched from wall to wall behind the altar, suddenly tore itself away, and raising itself, as if in flight, from the sharp ledge of wood, which lay under the feet of the Crucified, touched with its lower and very sharp point the head and crown (tonsure) of the priest.

And when it had reached the middle of the presbytery, turning itself towards the altar, it fell backward to the earth, with a great crash-the head being towards the entrance of the presbytery, and the feet stretched out towards the Altar. After Mass, the deacon raised the cross, and restored it to its place.

The priest, however, immediately betaking himself to Roger, the bishop (of good memory), son of the Earl of Gloucester, rehearsed what had happened; and he, in order that by the testimony of very many, he might have fuller information concerning this, sent to this Church certain of his attendants, one of whom was said to be Master Silvester. And the truth of the matter having been enquired into, they learnt by the testimony of the whole parish that it was true.

The Priest and Deacon further testified that on the third night after this event, they had again come to the church at day-break, and had found the cross prostrate in the same place.

Yet what this should have portended is indeed known unto God, but so far it has remained unknown to men-except perhaps that it occurred a little while before the Martyrdom of the blessed Thomas, bishop of Canterbury, [December 29, 1170,] and that this cross, by its flight, had miraculously declared so great a contumely impending over the Church of Christ and the dishonour of the Crucified." T. MELLAND HALL.

This is probably the modern "Stanway."

Notes on the Trotman Family (concluded).

TROTMAN OF SYSTON.

We now give a pedigree of the Trotmans of Syston Court, who were settled there from 1651 until it passed to the female line on the death of Mr. Fiennes Trotman in 1835. A fine engraving of this mansion, the seat of Samuel Trotman, Esq., which has remained substantially unaltered to the present day, is given in Sir Robert Atkyns' Gloucestershire.

I. Samuel Trotman, of the Inner Temple, Esq., and of Bucknell, Oxfordshire, in 1638, and Syston Court, Gloucestershire, which he bought in 1651, was the seventh son,* and the thirteenth child of Mr. Edward Trotman, the elder, of Eastwood, who "comfortably departed this life," and was buried at Cam in 1633. He was born 10, and bapt. at Cam, 17 Feb., 1599, and died 18 Jan., 1684; buried at Bucknell, m.i.; he married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Waigh, of Clerkenwell, lic., 12 May, 1638, by whom he had issue:

(1) Elizabeth, died in infancy.

He mar., secondly, Mary, dau. of Samuel Warcup, of English, Oxfordshire, by Ann, his wife, daughter of William Lenthall, of Burford Priory, and sister of William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament, lic., 4 March, 1646-7; she died 15 April, 1667; buried at Bucknell, 9 Sept., 1667, m.i., she had issue :

(2) Mary, born 1647; married Richard Osborn, lic. 2 Dec. 1672, and d. s.p.

(3) Samuel Trotman, of whom next.

(4) Hannah, born 1652, married to Robert Wadman, of Imber, Wilts, who died 1691, leaving issue [see Visitation of Wilts, 1682]:

(5) Joseph Trotman, of Bucknell, born there 12 Feb., bapt. 12 March, 1653-4; d. s.p.

(6) Susannah, born 17 Jan.; bapt. 21 Jan., 1655-6, at Bucknell; died 1722, leaving issue; mar. 29 Aug., 1689, at Syston, as third wife, to Sir Richard Holford, of Avebury, Master in Chancery; lic. 26 July, 1689.

(7) Lenthall Trotman, of whom below.

(8) Elizabeth, born 3 Feb.; bapt. 27 Feb., 1660-1; d. s.p.; bur. 4 Feb., 1661-2 at Bucknell.

Throckmorton Trotman, the famous London merchant, whose will we have already given, was an elder brother of this Samuel Trotman.