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AT GREAT CHALFIELD, WILTSHIRE.
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ff Lord of Hill Deverell. In the last year of Edward IV. Mr. Tho s Tropenell, ”
ff of East Chalfield, was living, which was in y e year 1483, who probably lived ”
£f raany years after.”* Ilere the author imagines the pedigree to be incomplete,
as the Thomas Tropenell who married the fourth daughter of William Ludlow,
butler to the kings, Henry IV., V., and VI., must have been the projector of
the Manor-House at Great Chalfield, and had livery of the estate from King
Henry VI. and King Edward IV. He recovered it, after infinite litigation, in
the 24th year of the reign of Henry VI., a.d. 1446; whereas the Thomas Trope-
nell, who was father to Jane married to Mr. John Eyre, we find patron of the
living, a.d. 1535, eighty-nine years afterwards, which would make him about
one hundred and fifty years of age ; in 1526, a John, and in 1528, a Thomas,
presented to the living; both of whom must have been sons to Thomas who
married Miss Ludlow. The former must have been the elder, and died sine
prole, and the latter must have been father to Jane, married to Mr. John Eyre,
who jointly presented to the living in 1555. Thomas married Elianore, daughter
of Thomas Englefield, of Englefield, knight,f and ff had issue together, two sons, ”
ff Humphrey and Christopher, and two daughters, Anne and Mary. John Trope- ”
ff nell of Sherstone (this is second son to Philip Tropenell) had issue, John and”
£f Agnes, wedded to Thomas Ivy, Lord of Sherstone, which had Issue together ”
ff John Ive, otherwise named himself John Trapnell, and Harry a younger son. ”
ff But Tho s leaving behind him Issue, only one Son & two daughters, the son,”
ff being at Mans estate dyed by an unfortunate accident as he was hunting : he”
ff put a pair of dog couples over his head, persued his sport, &, leaping over a”
ff hedge, the end of the dogg couple, w ch hung at his back, took hold of a”
ff bough, kept him from ground untill he was strangled. His two sisters, ”
ff Ann & Mary, coheirs, the eldest married Mr. John Eyre, the other, Mr. ”
ff Young, of Little Dunford,J in the County of Wilts, w ch estate went to the ”
ff Youngs by y 1 marryage. Mr. Eyre, by y e eldest sister, had a son, William, ”
ff and six daughters.§ The eldest daughter marryed Mr. Green, of Milton in ”
ff Somersetshire ; another, Mr. Beausham, of Cottles, in y e parish of Attward, ”
* He died a.d. 1490; was feoffee to Robert, Lord Ilungerford, a.d. 1487; and had a son named Christofer.—.
See Sib Thomas Phillipp’s Institutions in Wiltshire, pp. 170, 174.
f See pedigree of Thomas Englefeld, at p. 83, Ph. 9, in College of Arms, which varies much from this MS.;
as Thomas de Tropnelle ar., who married Eleanore Englefeeld, had four daughters : viz. Anne, mar. to Ayere, of
Wiltshire; Elizabetli, mar. to W m. Ogane, yoman ; Mary, mar. to John Younge, of Wiltshire, and Eleanore, mar. to Andrew
Blackmor, yoman, and only one son, viz. Giles de Tropnelle, who died younge.
} Ina pedigree of Younge, of Dorneford, this marriage is given ; hut Egidius Trapnell de Chaufield, and not Thomas,
is given as the name of the father of Mary. This, however, must he a mistake; as the pedigree of Englefeeld, cited
ahove, clearly shews it is the same person—See 1. C. 22, 26 b. in College of Arms.
§ In Bukke’s History of the Commoners of Great Britain, four daughters only are mentioned.
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ff Lord of Hill Deverell. In the last year of Edward IV. Mr. Tho s Tropenell, ”
ff of East Chalfield, was living, which was in y e year 1483, who probably lived ”
£f raany years after.”* Ilere the author imagines the pedigree to be incomplete,
as the Thomas Tropenell who married the fourth daughter of William Ludlow,
butler to the kings, Henry IV., V., and VI., must have been the projector of
the Manor-House at Great Chalfield, and had livery of the estate from King
Henry VI. and King Edward IV. He recovered it, after infinite litigation, in
the 24th year of the reign of Henry VI., a.d. 1446; whereas the Thomas Trope-
nell, who was father to Jane married to Mr. John Eyre, we find patron of the
living, a.d. 1535, eighty-nine years afterwards, which would make him about
one hundred and fifty years of age ; in 1526, a John, and in 1528, a Thomas,
presented to the living; both of whom must have been sons to Thomas who
married Miss Ludlow. The former must have been the elder, and died sine
prole, and the latter must have been father to Jane, married to Mr. John Eyre,
who jointly presented to the living in 1555. Thomas married Elianore, daughter
of Thomas Englefield, of Englefield, knight,f and ff had issue together, two sons, ”
ff Humphrey and Christopher, and two daughters, Anne and Mary. John Trope- ”
ff nell of Sherstone (this is second son to Philip Tropenell) had issue, John and”
£f Agnes, wedded to Thomas Ivy, Lord of Sherstone, which had Issue together ”
ff John Ive, otherwise named himself John Trapnell, and Harry a younger son. ”
ff But Tho s leaving behind him Issue, only one Son & two daughters, the son,”
ff being at Mans estate dyed by an unfortunate accident as he was hunting : he”
ff put a pair of dog couples over his head, persued his sport, &, leaping over a”
ff hedge, the end of the dogg couple, w ch hung at his back, took hold of a”
ff bough, kept him from ground untill he was strangled. His two sisters, ”
ff Ann & Mary, coheirs, the eldest married Mr. John Eyre, the other, Mr. ”
ff Young, of Little Dunford,J in the County of Wilts, w ch estate went to the ”
ff Youngs by y 1 marryage. Mr. Eyre, by y e eldest sister, had a son, William, ”
ff and six daughters.§ The eldest daughter marryed Mr. Green, of Milton in ”
ff Somersetshire ; another, Mr. Beausham, of Cottles, in y e parish of Attward, ”
* He died a.d. 1490; was feoffee to Robert, Lord Ilungerford, a.d. 1487; and had a son named Christofer.—.
See Sib Thomas Phillipp’s Institutions in Wiltshire, pp. 170, 174.
f See pedigree of Thomas Englefeld, at p. 83, Ph. 9, in College of Arms, which varies much from this MS.;
as Thomas de Tropnelle ar., who married Eleanore Englefeeld, had four daughters : viz. Anne, mar. to Ayere, of
Wiltshire; Elizabetli, mar. to W m. Ogane, yoman ; Mary, mar. to John Younge, of Wiltshire, and Eleanore, mar. to Andrew
Blackmor, yoman, and only one son, viz. Giles de Tropnelle, who died younge.
} Ina pedigree of Younge, of Dorneford, this marriage is given ; hut Egidius Trapnell de Chaufield, and not Thomas,
is given as the name of the father of Mary. This, however, must he a mistake; as the pedigree of Englefeeld, cited
ahove, clearly shews it is the same person—See 1. C. 22, 26 b. in College of Arms.
§ In Bukke’s History of the Commoners of Great Britain, four daughters only are mentioned.