in silver.

Also I bequeath to the Vicar of Mordon 20s. Also I bequeath to William Dorvaunt, Vicar of Spertisbury, 40s. in silver and a pair of beads. Also I bequeath to Sir Henry, my priest, a vestment of red with the blue orphreys, and 40s. in silver to pray for my soul. Also I bequeath to Thomas Arderne a coverlet, a tester with roses, with a canvas mattress, a pair of sheets and two blankets, and 40s. in silver, and a scarlet gown trimmed with badger's fur. Also I bequeath to Robert Botillere two pieces of silver, and one maser. Also I bequeath to William Wittham, a coverlet, a tester with the appurtenances, and 40s. Also I bequeath to William Kybbard a coverlet, a tester with the appurtenances and two marcs. Also I will that my boys (pages) should be rewarded, to each according as they have deserved at the discretion of my executors. Also I desire that if necessary for the purposes of my will my executors should sell my attire my pearls with roses (?) and stars, my fillet (seed?) pearls and diamonds. Also I desire that all my vestments should be employed where most need shall be in prayers for my soul at the discretion of my executors. And I desire that the residue of my goods not bequeathed should be given and bestowed as they think proper, and best to be done. Also I pray my executors that all my servants shall be maintained by them in the place where I may die, until the day of the month (after my decease?) and in case my executors shall be able to recover the goods which I ought to have of right from my two lords (whom may God assoile) one half should be given to my son Richard to pay part of his debts, and the other part should be divided by my executors between my servants at the discretion of my executors. Also I wish that my burial should be celebrated according to the discretion of my executors, and not at great cost save as to the poor (?). Also I appoint Sir William Dorvaunt Vicar of Spertisbury, and John Quynton, my executors to perform my will. Also I nominate and entreat my entire son Richard Arondell and Master John Tytyllyng, to be overseers and aiders, that my will should be fully performed.

No. VII.

NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF COBHAM OF STERBOROUGH.

(The following notes have been kindly furnished to me by Charles Spencer Perceval, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A., to whom I am also indebted for much other valuable assistance.)

The following, among other authorities, have been used in the compilation of this Pedigree, and are thus cited :

Glover.-A collection of extracts, &c., from Charters at Cobham, made by Robert Glover, Somerset, in 1574, and printed from the original MS. in the Library of the College of Arms, in vol. vii. Collectanea Topog. et Genealog., pp. 320-354. The numerals indicate the page re

ferred to.

Thynne. An account of the Cobhams, by Francis Botevile, alias Thynne, Lancaster Herald, made in 1586, which will be found printed in vol. iv. of Holinshed's Chronicles, p. 777, 1st ed. He seems (independently or not) to have drawn from the same sources as Glover.

Segar. Pedigree by Sir William Segar, in a MS. Baronage compiled by him, and preserved in the Library of the College of Arms.

Dugdale.-The Baronage.

The names and statements in the Pedigree, which are included in brackets, are to be taken as supported at present by no better evidence than the bare assertion of one or more of the above authorities.

(1.) Henry, son of Serlo. See grant (circa 1200-1220) to him, printed 2 Archæologia Cantiana, 226.—" Terra quæ fuit Serlonis de Cobbeham, in villâ de Cobham."-Glover, 320, from charter presently mentioned. For charter of confirmation, see Rott. Chart. p. 178 b.

(2.) By a charter sans date (Glover, 320), John, William, and Reginald, sons of Henry de Cobeham, partition his lands. John takes (inter alia) the capital messuage of Cobham and all Serlo de Cobham's land there; land and marshes called Rundale in Shorn; and lands and rents in Burdefeld. William is named next; therefore probably the second son (Dugdale makes him the third). He and Reginald take the residue of the lands (at Hoo, Grean, Clyve, Shorn, Strood, Rochester, and elsewhere in Kent).

(3.) Simon de Delham dat Johanni de Cobeham manerium de Coulynge, &c., pro summa quatuor centum marcarum præ manibus solutis. -Glover, 347.

(4.) "Hugo Nevill, fil. Hugonis, dat terras Johanni, filio Henr. de Cobham, s. d." (Glover, 344). And this grant included West Chalke; for on an Inquisition (ad q. d.), 20 Edw. II. num. 25, as to the right of Henry de Cobham to a weir or fishery (gurges) in the Thames the jurors find that one Hugh de Nevill, in the time of Henry, grandfather of our lord the King, had a fishery in a certain place called Weston Mersh, pertaining to his manor of Westchalke, where the said fishery in question is now situated which Hugh sold the said manor, with the appurtenances, to John de Cobeham, grandfather of the said Henry de Cobham. (The manor was then held of Hugh de Neville, by service of half a knight's fee.)-Vide etiam, Rot, Hund. i. 222 b, Shamele Hundred,

(5.) Ceased to exercise judicial functions in 35 Hen. III., and died soon after.-Dugd.; and see Foss. Lives of the Judges, sub nomine.

(6) (7.) Dugdale quotes Glover for both marriages. Thynne corroborates him. I find no record. There probably were two marriages.

(8.) Segar unsupported.

(9.) Third son (Dugd.); but see above (2): dead in 50 Hen. III. (Glover, 346). A charter (sans date, but witnessed by Stephen de Pencestre, two of which name lived temp. Hen. III. and Edw. I.) of Johanna de Hegham, daughter of William de Cobham, who, in her widowhood, grants to James, son of Sir John de Cobham, four mares of rent, &c., descended to her on the death of her uncle Reginald, and Mary his wife, gives us the fact of this William de Cobham's marriage (Glover, 336). Another entry (p. 337) makes it probable that his wife was named Hawesia.—See also Mus. Brit. Add. MSS. 14,311, p. 24.

(10.) Second son (Dugd.), but see above (2).

(11.) 1 Excerpt. è Rott. Fin., p. 328.

(12.) William de Cobham, by deed sans date, gives to John, son of John de Cobham (i. e. John junior, of Cowling), his share of a messuage on the death of his brother Reginald, or of Maria, formerly wife of Reginald (Glover, 343). Segar calls her Maria de Valognes. See also (9).

(13.) This Sir Reginald is confounded by Dugdale, first with Roger de Cobbeham (of the Kentish branch), to whom, and not to Reginald, Edward I. (anno 32) granted freewarren in Pipardsclive, co. Wilts; and,

secondly, with his own son, Sir Reginald, K.G., whose exploits Dugdale recounts as those of Reginald, son of John, and of his wife Joan, daughter of Hugh de Nevill. But John de Cobham died in 1251 or 1252, as shown above, and Reginald, K.G., in 1361; therefore, another generation is clearly wanted. And see post (15).

(14.) Thynne gives James, William, and another Reginald, as brothers of Sir Reginald of Orkesden, and half-brothers of John of Cowling, As to the other Reginald, quære; but Thynne, in other respects, is borne out by Glover, 321, who notes a fine levied 54 Hen. III., where rents in Burdefeld and Shelve, pasture in Halesgroeste, in the hundred of Hoo, were settled by a John de Cobham to James de Cobham and his brother William, successively in tail; remainder to their brother Reginald. James and William appear to have died without issue, and the remainders to have successively taken effect; for in 14 Edw. II. a William de Cobham (Esch., ej. an., n. 17) dies seised of manors of Shelve, Orkesdene, and Mondefeld (quare Burdefeld), which he held of Henry de Cobham, Knt. (that is, as I take it, of Henry of Cowlinge, son and heir of John), and leaving Reginald de Cobham his heir then 25 years old and upwards, Their relationship is not stated; but the dates well support the opinion that this was his nephew Sir Reginald, K.G., whom we find afterwards seised, inter alia, of Shelve and Bordefield, and also of Chidingstone, of which this William as above died seised.

(15.) Rot. Fin., 13 Edw. I., m. 6, “Et de gratiâ suâ speciali concessit (Rex) Reginaldo filio Johannis de Cobham, qui Johannam filiam et heredem Willelmi de Evere defuncti duxit in uxorem, quod," &c. (license to pay a debt of £50 due from W. de Evere by annual instalments of ten marks). This William is probably identical with William de Heure, who, 9 Edw. I. (Rott. Cart., ej. an.) had a grant of freewarren in Heure, Chidingstone, and Lingfield, of lands in all which places Reginald, K.G., was subsequently seised. Hever Castle is close to Chidingstone, and appears to be the place described as Heure and Evere; but if so, there remains to be solved this problem-how this William de Evere acquired that castle, which was built by Stephen de Pencestre (license to crenellate, 54 Hen. III., Gentleman's Mag., 1856, p. 209), father or grandfather of the heiress who married Henry de Cobham, founder of the Kentish branch of Roundal. The lands in Chidingstone cannot have been those which, as above, William, uncle to Reginald, K.G., possessed. Note, that there were also lands in the Roundal family (but of the old Cobham inheritance) called Hever, in Hoo.

(16.) As to this Sir Reginald, see Dugdale, who, however, quoting Glover, is mistaken in calling his wife daughter of Maurice Berkeley. She was daughter of Thomas Lord Berkeley and sister of Maurice, as Dugdale himself (under Berkeley) has stated.

I give no authorities in support of the rest of the Pedigree, as the later steps are sufficiently clear. A few corrections are given in the body of Mr. Flower's paper.

The present Table may, I think, be relied upon as far as it goes. More than one female name has still to be inserted in its proper place.

C. S. P.