) Collections RELATING TO The Family of Trotman. Edited by W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L. <» PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION / .4 BYJOHN WHITE, STRQUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 1892 / Syston Court in 1709: From Sir Robert Atkyns' "Gloucestershire." COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE Family ? of ? Trotman. :o: rT"vHE surname of Trotman is one which has been long J. characteristic of Gloucestershire. Its origin and signifi­ cance are stillunascertained, for though Smyth, of Nibley,inhis Hundred ofBerkeley traces the family back to Richard Trotman livinginthe time of Edward 11., he gives no authority for the assertion, nor any clue as to the residence of the earlier generations of the family. We know, however, that Elias Trottman was a feoffee of the Church-house at Dursley in 1495, and it is said that Josceline, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1206-42, was surnamed Trotman. The Trotmans apparently came into prominence in the firsthalf of the sixteenth century, and owed their position, like many other Gloucestershire families, to the manufacture of cloth. Cam was the village with which they were chiefly connected, and the name is still to be found there. From the Trotmans, of Cam, it seems indeed probable that most existing families of the name have descended. " the Description of the Hundred of Berkeley," by John INSmyth, of Nibley, lately for the first time published under the auspices of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, are numerous references to the family. As they are scattered, it willbe a convenience to collect them together, and they willform a suitable introduction to the abstracts oforiginal documents which willfollow. " 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 2 The Trotman Family. Trotman who died 19 EHz., sonne of John Trotman who dyed about 20 hours before the said Nicholas, sonne of Thomas Trotman, who in jet 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 Wood­ mancote in the parish of Dursley, whereof it was parcell, and tillthen 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 Ihave scene, 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 ,sonne of Elias Trotman who died in , sonne of Robert Trotman who died in 5 Hen. 5, brother and heire of Walter, sonnes of John Trotman, son of Richard, who lived inthe time of KingE. 2. For which purchase made by the said Thomas Trotman of John Berkeley in Trin. terme 5 Mar de ten. in Came et Slimbridge 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 \os. And of 6d. more paid for other lands which longe have beene occupied therwith:Some part of whichlands, viz. a messuage and one acre and a quarter of ground, are now the inheritance ofNicholas Trotman, sonne of Edward Trotman of Came, called of the Stepps, As by an Inquisicon found in the last year of A0A0 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 40*. p* arm' 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'ijA0A0 14 R' Jacobi, settled after the death of himself, upon Henry his eldest sonne and the heires males of his body withRemainder over, the Remainder to the heires" of the said John." p. 131. Byan ing. in24 Eliz.Edward Woolworth als. Webb is found todye seised of34 acres of landinCame, holden by sute ofCourt, and the yearly rent of zd. 0b....[which] shortly after [viz.,after 24 Eliz.] came by purchase toEdward Trotman, of Came, who, with Edward, his sonne and heire, after aliened the same to William Hardinge and others. p. 133. NASSE COURT, CAM 4 The Trot?nan Family. " In 35 H. 8., the said Richard Brayne conveyed to Thomas Trotman and his heires, all those two messuages, with their appurtenants called Lonetfords; 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 i 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 Wheten­ hurst. 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, inright 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 Trinityterme, 20 Eliz., betweene Richard Trotman, pit., 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, allIhave found is that 240 Augusti 3 Edw. 6, the King granted 2s. rent p. arm. to William Saule and WilliamBridges 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 inCourt, 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 Hillof Tuexbury, and John Wakeman, Samuell Trotman and Throgmorton Trotman, his brothers and kinsmen, upon loans of The Trotman Family. 5 monies, and for their indemnification from debts as sureties for him the said Edward, they allby fine, Recovery, and Deeds in 10 ' Regis Caroli, conveyed the same to the use of Francis Webb aforesaid, and his heires.... The Epitaph of which Edward" Trotman the father is inCame Church inthese words — Heere lyeth the body of Mr. Edward Trotman the elder, late of Estwood, son of Mr. Richard Trotman of Poole Court in Worcestershire, by Katherine his wife, daughter of Edward Tindall, Esquire. Hee was borne the sth day of October A0A0 Dni. 1545, and comfortably departed this life the 6th day of June, 1633." Thus his tombe. p. 135. "Heere also is a messuage, watermill and lands, comonly called Mabson's lands, now or late the inheritance of John Trotman, holden of this Manor of Came by knight service sute of Court, and the yearly rent of 13s. 4*/., which John is son of Nicholas, who dyed 19 Eliz., son of John, who dyed also 19 Eliz., son of Thomas, who dyed 5 et 6 Ph. et Mar., son of Henry Trotman, who died 18 H. 8, having by deed dated 17 Apl., a° 3 Hen. 8, purchased the same of Henry Mabson, and whichbefore were the lands of WilliamMabson, who was in ward for the same ; From whose seisin and other of their ancestors the name ofMabson's land stillcontinueth; now the inheritance of Henry Trotman, sonne ofJohn." p.137. "Heere also is a messuage and 36 acres of land, late the Inheritance of Edward Trotman, called of the Stepps, from the greesings or staires of stone leading out of the street vp into the said messuage ; and also 7 acres of land, late James Kings, and also one close called Sparkhill, cont. 8 acres, which hee by deed dated the first of July, a0a0 9 Jacobi, purchased in fee farm , 0 of Henry, lord Berkeley... Which Edward dyed 9 Maij a0a 14 Caroli Rs. as an inquisition after his death aO.a0. 14 Rs. Car. sheweth; and the said lands remained in fee tayle generall to Nicholas his sonne by a second wife;and not to Richard sonne of William, eldest sonne of the said Edward Trotman by his first wife." p. 138. "Heere also in Came, and likewise in Cowley, are divers lands and tenements comonly called Taylor's lands, now the severall inheritances of John Trotman of Came, called of the Knapp, John Browninge of Cowley, Edward Hill,William Essington, Nicholas, son of Edward Trotman of the Stepps, which" the said Edward purchased of GriffithTrotman." p.