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Introduction	Introduction
Tracing	Tracing the Rolles
	My mother's mother's mother was Susan Bevan, grandaughter of William Prout Bevan and Mary Ann Darke. And Mary Ann Darke was the daughter of Edward Rolle Darke - the 'Rolle' already pointing to a connection the Darkes were proud of, no doubt. Edward Rolle Darke even had an uncle named 'Rolle' Darke, and he was the son of Roger Darke and Sarah Rolle.
	This Sarah Rolle can be found in the Visitation of Devon at the bottom of a pedigree which stretches back through Robert Rolle, Maurice Rolle, Edward Rolle, another Maurice Rolle, to George Rolle who was a lawyer and court official in the reign of Henry VIII, and who made a fortune out of his office of 'Keeper of the records of the Common Pleas', his clients in legal matters (especially Edward Plantagenet, Lord Lisle, Lady Lisle, and Honor Basset), and land transactions - particulary those arising from the dissolution of the monasteries.		V_1620
	George Rolle's career is written up in the History of Parliament published in 1982, and on-line.		HoP
	Tracing the Rolles therefore consisted mostly of trying to confirm the information in the Visitation and the History of Parliament, and to add detail where possible,.
	The main difference, I find, to most websites and the HoP, is with the marriages of George Rolle. The mother of his 11 children was certainly Eleanor Dacres,		W_1563
	but he would seem to have had 4 wives - Jane Orchard (?-c1518), Eleanor Dacres (c1518-c1543), Elizabeth Ashton (1544-c1551), and Margery (c1552-1552).		PP_15648
Proofs	Proofs
PP_489	That Sarah Rolle (489) was the mother of John Darke (244)
	John the son of Roger and Sarah Darke was baptised in Holsworthy on 19 February 1740.		PP_488
	Roger and Sarah Darke baptised 11 children in Holsworthy between 1723 and 1745, of which John Darke was the 9th - Thomas in 1723, Honnour in 1725 (dies in 1725), Susan in 1726, Rolle in 1728, Sarah in 1729 (died in 1732), Sarah in 1732 (died in 1745), Roger in 1735, William in 1737, John in 1740, Dennis in 1742 (died in 1750), and Honor in 1745 (died in 1750).
	Roger Dark of Holsworthy and Sarah Rolle daughter of Robert Rolle, gent. Married in Meeth, Devon on 10 February 1723.		M_1723
	John Darke (and his brother Rolle Darke) is mentioned in the will of his uncle Edward Rolle in 1791.		W_1791b
	Elizabeth Rolle mentions her husband Edward,  her nephew Roger Darke, and her brother Joseph Eyre, in her will of 1791.		W_1791a
	Edward Rolle and Elizabeth Eyre married in 1755.		M_1755
	Edward son of Robert Rolle gent. was born in 1703 and baptised in Merton, near Meeth, Devon.		B_1703
	Sarah daughter of Robert Rolle and Margaret was born in 1700 and baptised in Huish, near Meeth, Devon.		B_1700
	Robert Rolle gent. and Mrs. Margaret Marten married in Meeth in 1699.		M_1699
	So the mother of John Darke (244),
	Sarah Rolle (489), born in 1700 in Huish,
	married to Roger Darke (488) in 1723 in Meeth,
	died in <1791 in , was the daughter of
	Robert Rolle (978), and Margaret Marten (979).		PP_978
PP_978	That Robert Rolle (978) was the father of Sarah Rolle (489)
	Sarah daughter of Robert Rolle and Margaret was born in 1700 and baptised in Huish, near Meeth, Devon.		PP_489
	Robert Rolle and Margaret had 2 children between 1700 and 1703, Sarah in 1700, and Edward in 1703.
	Their son Edward Rolle had his Sacrament Certificate and was rector of Monkokehampton, Devon in 1732.		C_1732
	Edward Rolle was a good friend of Joseph Spencer, historian, scholar, author of Anecdotes, who mentions Edward Rolle's parents in a ltter to his mother.		L_1732
	Robert the son of Maurice Rolle gent, & Mary his wife was born in Meeth in 1656.		B_1656
	So the father of Sarah Rolle (489),
	Robert Rolle (978), born in 1656 in Meeth,
	married to Margaret Martyn (979) in 1699 in Meeth,
	died in 1735 in Monkokehampton, was the son of
	Maurice Rolle (1956), and Mary (1957).		PP_1956
PP_1956	That Maurice Rolle (1956) was the father of Robert Rolle (978)
	Robert the son of Maurice Rolle gent, & Mary his wife was born in Meeth in 1656.		PP_978
	Maurice Rolle and Mary had at leat 2 children, Robert in 1656 and Thomas in 1664, both baptised in Meet.		B_1656
	Mary the wife of Maurice Rolle died in Meeth in 1695.		D_1695
	Maurice Rolle died in Meeth in 1696.		D_1696
	Maurice Rolle left a will in 1696 which was lost to in WW2.		W_1696
	Maurice Rolle, esq., son and heir of Edward Rolle, esq., deceased was named as a feoffee in Cornwall in 1648.		L_1648
	Maurice Rolle, son and heir of Edward Rolle, esq., deceased was named as a feoffee in Cornwall in 1649.		L_1649
	Edward Rolle was reported as alive in the 1620 Visitation of Devon, married to Agnes Crymes, with a son Maurice aged 3.		V_1620a
	So the father of Robert Rolle (978),
	Maurice Rolle (1956), born in  c1617 in Meeth,
	married to Mary ? (1957) in c1655 in ?,
	died in 1696 in Meeth, bur. Merton, was the son of
	Edward Rolle (3912), and Agnes Crymes (3913).		PP_3912
PP_3912	That Edward Rolle (3912) was the father of Maurice Rolle (1956)
	Edward Rolle was reported as alive in the 1620 Visitation of Devon, married to Agnes Crymes, with a son Maurice aged 3.		PP_1956
	Edward Rolle and Agnes Crymes had 3 children by 1620, Sara, Joane, and Maurice aged 3.		V_1620a
	Agnes Crymes was mentioned in her father Philip's will in 1595 as the eldest of 4 daughters, so could hardly have been born later than 1590.		W_1595
	Edward Rolle and Agnes Crymes were probably married around 1610.
	Edward Rolle of Meeth was buried in Plymouth in 1643.		D_1643
	Edward Rolle is mentioned in the will of Maurice Rolle of 1605, along with his mother Margaret, and the parish of Meeth - confirming the information in the Visitation of 1620.		W_1605
	Of Maurice Rolle's children in 1605, only Edward and Richard are aged over 21, so Edward was probaby born around 1575.
	So the father of Maurice Rolle (1956),
	Edward Rolle (3912), born in c1575 in ?,
	married to Agnes Crymes (3913) in c1610 in ?,
	died in 1643 in Plymouth, was the son of
	Maurice Rolle (7824), and Margaret (7825).		PP_7824
PP_7824	That Maurice Rolle (7824) was the father of Edward Rolle (3912)
	Edward son of Maurice Rolle and Margaret was probaby born around 1575.		PP_3912
	Maurice Roll of Stockleigh and Margaret had 6 surviving children in 1605: Edward and Richard aged over 21, and Henry, Mary, Margaret and John aged under 21.		W_1605
	Maurice Rolle married Margaret daughter of ? Brier of Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex according to the information from their son Edward in 1620. This marriage must have been around 1670.		V_1620a
	Maurice Rolle was owed £100 by Francis Clyfford and Anthony Wright,, brother servant of the Earl of Cumberland respectively in 1584.		A_1584
	Morris Rolle is named as the 6th son of George Rolle (my brother Rolle) in the will of Anne Pakington in 1563. She mentions 4 daughters, and we know of a fifth from George Rolle's will - so George could be the 9th or 10th child of his parents. Anne Pakington née Dacres was the sister of Eleanor Dacres, so Maurice's parents were George Rolle and Eleanor Dacres.		W_1563
	The eldest son of George Rolle, John Rolle, was born in 1519, so Maurice as the 9th or 10th child must have been born around, say, 1537.		B_1519
	So the father of Edward Rolle (3912),
	Maurice Rolle (7824), born in c1537 in ?,
	married to Margaret Brier (7825) in c1570 in ?,
	died in 1604c in Stockleigh, was the son of
	George Rolle (15648), and Eleanor Dacres (15649).		PP_15648
PP_15648	That George Rolle (15648) was the father of Maurice Rolle (7824)
	Maurice son of George Rolle and Eleanor née Dacres was born around 1537.		PP_7824
	George Rolle and Eleanor had at least 11 children between 1519 and around 1540.
	George Rolle remarried in 1544, so Eleanor must have died around 1543.		M_1544
	George Rolle appears to have had another wife, Jane Orchard, who died before her father, who died in 1519. There was no issue from this marriage, as her father's heir was his nephew Lawrence Prous.		I_1519
	George Rolle died in 1552 and was survived by a fourth wife, Margery, who he may have married only about 6 months before his death.		I_1553
	George Rolle was installed as Keeper of the records of the Common Pleas, for life, in 1523.		A_1523
	George Rolle first appears in the records in a legal dispute around 1515.		L_1515
	This would mean that he is likely to have been at least 25 at the time, so born before 1490.
	George Rolle's parentage is unknown.
	He did, though, name his eldest son John, and his eldest daughter Christian (or Christine).		W_1563
	This might have something to do with a certain John Rolle gentleman of London and his wife Christine who were involved in a dispute in 1576, though I have found nothing to say that they had children. Christine was the widow of John Drayton, citizen and mercer of London.		L_1476
	Or, the same or another John Rolle in Devon in the 1480s, and Isabel his wife, and Isabel his daughter, wife of John Berehouse.		L_1515
	Or, the George Rolle who witnessed a document in 1486 involving a John Ford ('our' George Rolle's son John married a Ford) might be his father.		A_1486
	So the father of Maurice Rolle (7824),
	George Rolle (15648), born in c1480 in ?,
	married to Eleanor Dacres (15649) in c1516 in ?,
	died in 1552 in Stevenstone, was, possibly, the son of
	John Rolle (31296), and Isabel (31297).
Records	The Records
L_1480	1475x85 Dispute (TNA, C 1/67/56)
	Short title: Berehouse v Taylour.
	Plaintiffs: John Berehouse, husband of Isabel, daughter of John Rolle.
	Defendants: Thomas Taylour, executor of Isabel, executrix and late the wife of John Rolle.
	Subject: Ten pounds. Devon
	Date: 1475-1480, or 1483-1485
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
I_1481	1480x1 Inquisition Post Mortem (TNA, C 140/75/44)			Family (15648)
	John Orchard, Devon
	He died seised of the Manor of Dodescombe, parish of Bampton Devon. His son and heir was William Orchard.
I_1491	1491-05-01 Inquisition Post Mortem (TNA, C 142/6/15; CIPM 1485-1496 Henry VII, Vol 1, p. 248)		1491	Family (15648)
	Joan Calwodlegh (Calverleigh) late the wife of John Orchard
	She died seised of the Manor of Dodescombe, parish of Bampton Devon for the term of her life, with reversion to William son and heir of the said John Orchard		I_1481
W_1512	1512-03-18 Will (TNA, PROB 11/17/173)
	Testator: George Shotbolt of Guilden Morden in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
	Executors: son John Shotbolt and John Godfrey
	Date: 16 February 1511, proved 18 March 1511
	Witnesses: Robert Morgan, John Crede, Robert Warboys & others
	- Henry Godfrey
	- brother William Shotbolt
	- Alice & Elizabeth daughters of Henry Cole
	- son John Shotbolt
	- daughter Johane Godfrey
	- Robert Shotbolt
	- Thomas, Robert & Elizabeth Geoffrey
	- daughter of Richard Malden
	- Constance Warboys
	- George Shotbolt Aleyn Frannceys Godfrey and Henry Godfrey
	- John Shotbolt of Aryngton & John Godfrey
	- Johane daughter of John Shotbolt the younger
	- son [John] Shotbolt "all lands I bought off Wilson"
	- wife Elizabeth
	- Henry son of John Godfrey
	- Thomas Godfrey
	CRW: The land bought off Wilson was the subject of a later dispute with George Rolle of London.		L_1515
L_1515	1515c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/440/18)			George (15648)
	George Rolle of London, gentleman. v. Isabel, late the wife of George Shotbolt, and another.: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and land called `Wylsons' in Guilden Morden.: Cambridge. 1515-1518
	CRW: Isabel is presumably the 'Elizabeth', wife of George Shotbolt in 1512 above.		W_1512
	Could Isabel also be the daughter of John Rolle and wife of John Berehouse in around 1480 above?		L_1480
A_1518a	1518x29 Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/600/33)			George (15648)
	Short title: Rolle v [Unknown].
	Plaintiffs: George [Rolle?] and Jane, his wife, daughter of William Orchard.
	Defendants: ...
	Subject: Reversion of Doddiscombe manor in the parish of Bampton. Devon
	Note: Mutilated and partly illegible. Cf. C1/565/10.
	Date: 1518-1529
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
A_1518b	1518x29 Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/565/10)			George (15648)
	Short title: Rolle v Proucz.
	Plaintiffs: George Rolle, son-in-law of William Orchard.
	Defendants: Laurence Proucz, cousin and heir of the said William.
	Subject: The manor of Doddiscombe in Bampton, devised by the said William to complainant for life. Devon
	Date: 1518-1529
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
A_1519c	1501x1600 Legal Dispute (TNA, C 4/54/118)			George (15648)
	Description: George Rolle v. Laurence Ferons: answer.
	Date of document: Sixteenth century
	Date: 16th century
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
I_1519	1519 Inquisition Post Mortem (11 Hen. VIII, Ser. II, Vol. 34 (85))			Family (15648)
	William Orchard, Bampton, Devon
	next heir, Lawrence Prouz, son of Joan, William's sister
	CRW: from the above dispute we known that a certain George Rolle with a connection to Devon (which can only be 'our' George Rolle) had a wife Jane, daughter of William Orchard.		A_1518a
	William Orchard was the heir of John Orchard and Joan Calverleigh.		I_1491
	As William Orchard's heir when he died was the son of his sister, his daughter Joan must have already died leaving no heir herself, otherwise her child would be the heir, or a proviso would have been included for any future child of Jane.		A_1518b
	That is, Jane Orchard was George Rolle's first wife, and she died before 1519.
M_1518c	1518c Marriage ()			George (15648)
	George Rolle & Eleanor daughter of Henry Dacres, merchant taylor and alderman of London			Eleanor (15649)
	This marriage must have happened in time for their son John's birth late in 1519.		B_1519
	1518c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/495/17)			George (15648)
	John Dryver. v. George Rolle, gentleman.: Duplicate payments obtained by defendant on a statute staple given on behalf of Richard Philippes.: Devon. 1518-1529
	1518c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/558/57)			George (15648)
	The same, and Robert Fissher, guardian of Nicholas Fissher, son and heir of Ceicly Hunt. v. George Rolle of London, gentleman.: Exchange made by defendant with William Hunt, deceased, brother of the said John Hunt and Ceicly, while not of sound mind, of lands in Sutcombe, Milton-Damarel, East and West Putford, Buckland Brewer, and Thornbury, for a rent payable to the said William and the heirs of his body out of lands in Tendring and Thaxted, to which defendant had no good title. 1518-1529
L_1518a	1518c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/563/21)			George (15648)	1518x29
	George Rolle and Eleanor, his wife, late the wife of Rauff Dawes of London, grocer, son and sole executor of John Dawes, alderman of London. v. Henry Lomnour of London, grocer.: Delay in an action removed into Chancery by certiorari, concerning the bequests of the said John to his other sons Alexander, Edward and Averey, for whom as orphans defendant was bound to the chamberlain of London. 1518-1529			Eleanor (15649)
L_1518b	1518c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 4/20/28)			George (15648)
	George Roll and his wife Eleanor v. Henry Lomner: replication			Eleanor (15649)
	Date of document: Sixteenth century
	Covering dates 1501 Jan 1 - 1600 Dec 31
	1518c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/563/23)			George (15648)
	George Rolle, late of London. v. Roger Ascheley and Anne, his wife.: Detention of deeds relating to lands in West Cheam and Cuddington bought of John Puplett.: Surrey. 1518-1529
	1518c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/564/17)			George (15648)
	George Rolle.: Petition for a commission to examine witnesses as to a conveyance of lands in Poughill, Upton Helion, Drewsteignton, Chagford, and Roborough, late of William Assheley, of Sidbury, gentleman. Subpoena and commission.: Devon. 1518-1529
B_1519	1519-12-20 Birth (TNA C 142/98/3)			George (15648)
	John Rolle son of George Rolle and Eleanor his wife		I_1553	Eleanor (15649)
			W_1563
A_1523	1523-04-15 Act of Parliament (BHO, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1867)			George (15648)
	Held at London, 15 April 14 Hen. VIII., and prorogued to Westminster, where it was held on Friday, 31st July 15 Hen. VIII. On Wednesday, 15 April 14 Hen. VIII., the King being present in the Great Chamber at Blackfriars, Cuthbert Tunstal bishop of London declared the causes of the summoning of parliament, in an eloquent and learned speech, in which he extolled justice.
	30. For George Roll, keeper of the records of the Common Pleas in the King's Treasure House at Westminster, called Hell. [c. 35.]
I_1524	1524 Inquisition Post Mortem (BHO 2003)			George (15648)
	Thomas Buck, merchant tailor of London
	Inquisition taken at the Guildhall before Thomas Balldrey, Mayor and escheator, 14 March, 15 Henry VIII [1524], after the death of Thomas Buck, merchant tailor of London, by the oath of John Wallshe, Thomas Sutton, William Sherwyn, Thomas Knyght, Robert Hide, Humfrey Cordall, Robert Tumlinson, John Adams, Arthur Holme, Thomas Wanles, John Tyler, William Molle, Thomas, and Pakyngton, who say that
	Thomas Buck was not seised of any lands or tenements within the City of London, but that George Rolle, John Oliver, John Cowlerde, and Nicholas Trotter, were seised of a capital messuage, with gardens, cellars, solars, conduits, and other houses and easements to the same belonging, in the parish of the Blessed Mary in Aldermanbury, of 4 other tenements adjoining the said capital messuage, and of a parcel of land with a chapel thereupon built in the said parish, to the use of the said Thomas Buck and his heirs.
	So seised, the said Thomas by his will declared that the said George Rolle, John Oliver, John Cowlerde, and Nicholas Trotter, should be seised of £10 of the issues and profits of the said premises to the use of Matthew Buck, his brother, for his life in part payment of an annuity of £20 which the said Thomas was bound to pay to the said Matthew. As to the residue of the issues and profits, to the use of Alice Buck, wife of the said Thomas, during her life. If the said Matthew happen to die during the lifetime of the said Alice, then the said £10 shall remain to her for life. After the death of the said Matthew and Alice, all the said premises shall remain to Richard Buck, son of the said Thomas, and to his heirs; for default, then to the heirs of the said Thomas. If he die without heirs, then the said premises to remain to the said George Rolle and Robert Dacres and their heirs.
	The capital messuage and the 4 tenements aforesaid are held of the Prior of the Monastery of Holy Trinity next Aldgate, London, by fealty and the yearly rent of 13s. 4d., to be paid at the feast of St. Michael. The said parcel of land is held of the Chamber of London by 1 lb. of wax to be paid yearly to the Vice-Chamberlain of the Church of St. Paul's in the feast of Pentecost, and by 1 rose fashioned upon a rod which shall be carried every year before the Mayor of London when he goes to the church of St. Pauls on Monday next after the feast of Pentecost.
	All the said premises are worth per ann., clear, £19.
	Thomas Buck died 20 November, 15 Henry VIII [1523]: Richard Buck is his son and next heir, and is aged 2? years.
	Inq. p. m. 15 Henry VIII, No. 116.
	CRW: Thomas Buck was the first husband of Alice Dacres (her second husband was Robert Cheseman). Alice Dacres was the sister of Robert Dacres (mentioned above) and of Eleanor Dacres, wife of George Rolle.
W_1526	1526-01-30 Will of Thomas Rolle			George (15648)	1526
	Testator: Thomas Rolle
	Executors: William Rolle and George Rolle
	Date: 19 July 1525, proved 30 January 1525
	Witnesses: Sr Roger Standisshe, William Sharp, Nicholas Slendon and others
	- 6s to the church of Wimbourne Minster in Dorsetshire where I was born
	- £20 to Agnes now the wife of Walter Goddard my natural mother to pray for my soul
	- £5 to my cousin William Bell
	- the residue of all my goods chattels debts and portions my funerals and legacies fulfilled wholly I give to Master William Rolle my uncle parson of Wychampton and George Rolle of London
W_1529	1529-12-12 Will (TNA, PROB 11/23/317)			George (15648)
	Testator: John Fenkyll, Cowper, Citizen of London
	Date: 12 December 1529, proved 11 July 1530
	Witnesses: Maister Willm Webster Clerk parson of Bleacheley? Berks, George Rolle of London, Thomas Baker,  John Walronde
	1532c Legal Dispute TNA, C 1/822/44-45			George (15648)
	Thomas Heyll of Exeter. v. John Champnes, knight, alderman of London, son and heir of Walter Champnes of Exeter, merchant, and George Rolle, gentleman.: Retention of a messuage called `Heyll' and land in Brushford long after payment of the sum for which it was pledged to the said Walter, and sale to the said George. 1532-1538
W_1536	1536-01-15 Will (TNA, PROB 11/27/489)			George (15648)
	Testator: Henry Dacres, Citizen and late Alderman of London
	Date: 15 January 1536, proved 14 June 1539
	Witnesses: Robert Dacres, John Pakyngton, Robert Cheseman, George Rolle and Sr John Robyns clerk
	20. Item I bequeath to every my children that is my daughter Packyngton my son Robert Dacres my daughter Rolle and my daughter Cheseman to every of them a standing cup gilt with a cover gilt by the discretion of my executors And to every of their husbands a black gown
L_1536	1536-03-26 Letter (BHO, Henry VIII: March 1536, 26-31', Letters & Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII: January-June 1536, Volume 10 (1887), pp. 217-240)			George (15648)
	559. John Husee to Lady Lisle.
	Mr. Basset is merry, and learns like a diligent student. I have shown Mr. Danastre that my Lord and you will retain him of your counsel at 40s. fee. If your book of the indenture had been here, we might have known ere this what might have been done in the extremity. Let it be sent with all speed—at least that I may have it at Dover. George Rolle wrote his mind to you and my Lord, but the surest way would be to redeem the lands and take it in fee-farm. Lord Daubny may sell wood at Bekynholt and Warham as he pleases, and your Ladyship has the annuity of 26s. 8d. Geo. Rolle will do his best to find the office. I have been at lord Dawbney's several times, but cannot yet meet with Seller. Your Ladyship's woman has made me half a grant. I think she will be with you by Easter. And where the lady Whetehill has behaved so unlike a gentlewoman towards my Lord and you, I never expected other, for dissimulation and cloaked malice cannot be long hidden; but they will certainly be disappointed. I would have sent your kirtle by Fyssher, but Worley (fn. 1) would not deliver it till he hear from you. I cannot tell what he means. Touching all other matters I hope to write from Dover. London, 26 March.
	Hol., p. 1. Add.
	1537-10-14 Memo (TNA, SP 46/124/fo 150)			George (15648)
	[John Husee to Lord Lisle]: George Rolle has paid £19 by his warrant; Bonham is not yet come. The lords sit daily in council, among them Shrewsbury, but seldom the bishop of Winchester. Forman is mayor elect but is absent; London; 14 Oct. [1537].
	1538c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/1012/2)			George (15648)
	John HANDFORD and Joan his wife, of Sombryge (i.e. Swimbridge), v. George ROLLE and William PASLEW, feoffees to the use of Patrick Bellewe, clerk, deceased.: Loan repayable out of lands in Norton Ferrers, South Molton, Cruwys Morchard, West Anstey and Stoke Rivers. 1538-1544
	1539-07-13 Letter (BHO, Letters and Papers: July 1539, 11-15', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII: 1539, Volume 14 Part 1 (1894), pp. 554-561)			George (15648)
	R. O. 1263. GEORGE ROLLE to LORD LISLE.
	Lord Daubeney has sent him a message that if Lisle will suffer him to sell and fell Warham wood, he will not meddie with Bekynholte wood. Thinks, however, Lisle had better provide for him 40l. or 50l., which Roger Gifford says would satisfy him, letting him have at least 20l.in hand, with a gentle letter. Intends to go into Devon on St. Anne's day. London, 13 July.
	1539c Building (http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/110370/1.html)			George (15648)
	Devon Libraries Local Studies Service
	Saint Giles-in-the-Wood community page
	George Rolle, one of the many successful Tudor lawyers, bought the Stevenstone estate shortly before 1524, and built himself "a right fair house of brick" (Leland) which was probably completed by 1539 when we find him writing to Lady Lisle from "my poor house" of Stevenstone
	Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300-1500: Southern England by Anthony Emery – “Brick was used no earlier than the 1620s at Ince ‘Castle’, but Leland records its occurrence a century earlier when the lawyer George Rolle used it to build ‘a right faire house’ in place of the medieval one at Stevenstone near Torrington”.
	1541 London Subsidy Roll (BHO, Farringdon Ward Without, St. Dunstan in the West)			George (15648)
	George Rolles assessed for £6 13s. 4d. on 400 marks
	John Pakyngton gent. assessed for £8 6s. 8d. on 500 marks
	Mr. Robert Southwell Master of the Rolls assessed for £16 13s. 4d. on 500 marks
	John Baker knyght Under-Treasurer assessed for £16 13s. 4d. on 500 marks
	Alyce Dakers widow assessed for £6 13s. 4d. on 400 marks
	and many others …
	CRW: John Pakyngton was George Rolle's brother-in-law; Alice Dakers (Dacres) was widow of Henry Dacres, George Rolle's father-in-law
	1542-10-20 Grant (Worcestershire Record Office: Hampton (Pakington) of Westwood Park, Droitwich, Worcestershire [705:349/12946/477720 - 705:349/12946/473628])			George (15648)
	Creator(s):
	Hampton family of Droitwich, Worcestershire
	Pakington family of Westwood Park, Droitwich (Worcs).
	WORCESTERSHIRE PROPERTY.
	HAMPTON LOVETT AND DISTRICT.
	GENERAL.
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  705:349/12946/476865  - date: 20 October, 34 Hen. VIII 1542
	Grant from John Pakyngton of Hampton Lovett, co. Worc., esq., to George Rolle, esq., and Henry Jones, of the Manors of Hampton Lovett and Feckenapultre [Fickenappletree], with appurtenances; messuages, lands, bullaries of salt water and premises in Hampton Lovett and Feckenapultre, Droitwyche [Droitwich], Caueruge [Keybridge], Horton, Upperhalle [Upper Hall] and Fibdon [Fibden], co. Worc., the advowson of the Church of Hampton Lovett, and the advowsons of two Chantries in the said Church; the Manors of Westwo[o]d and Clethall [Clethale, ? in Westwood Park], with appurtenances and messuages, lands, bullaries of salt water, rents, premises and appurtenances in Westwo[o]d, Clethall, Droitwiche, Horton, Caueruge, Wichebolde [Wychbold], Markeley [Martley], Northpedule [North Piddle], Coderige [Cotheridge], Hadsor [Hadzor], Hyll [Hill], Feckenham, Hanbury, Salwarpe, Hodyngton [Huddington], Astwo[o]d and Bromesgrove [Bromsgrove], all in co. Worc., with the advowsons of the Churches of Westwo[o]d, Coderige and St. Nicholas in Droitwyche, and the tithes and oblations of Coterige [Cotheridge] and Westwo[o]d, to hold for uses recited.
	1542 Indenture (Worcestershire Record Office: Hampton (Pakington) of Westwood Park, Droitwich, Worcestershire [705:349/12946/477720 - 705:349/12946/473628])			George (15648)
	Creator(s):
	Hampton family of Droitwich, Worcestershire
	Pakington family of Westwood Park, Droitwich (Worcs).
	WORCESTERSHIRE PROPERTY.
	HAMPTON LOVETT.
	GENERAL.
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  705:349/12946/476859  - date: Michaelmas term, 34 Hen. VIII 1542
	Indenture of fine between [?George Rolle] esq., and Henry Jones, plaintiffs, and John Pakyngton, esq., deforciant, of [the Manors of Hampton Lovett] and Feckenappultre [Fickenappletree], with appurtenances, messuages, lands, bullaries of salt water and premises in Ha[mpton Lovett], Horton, Upperhall and Fybdon [Fibden], and the advowson of the Church of [Hampton Lovett] and the advowsons of two Chantries in the said Church.
	1543-04-12 Final Accord (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office: Throckmorton of Coughton [DR5/842 - DR5/3407])			George (15648)
	Creator(s):
	Throckmorton family, baronets, of Coughton Court, Warwickshire
	Documents of title: deeds
	WORCESTERSHIRE
	Belbroughton
	Moor Hall Manor
	FILE - Deed - ref.  DR5/1348  - date: 12 April 1543
	hit[from Scope and Content] Exemplification of fine between George Roll' esq. and Richard Cupper pls. and Roland Hill knt., John Pakington esq., and Humphrey Pakington citizen and mercer of London, defs. of the manor of Moor Hall, 10 messuages and a water mill called a 'sythemyll', 13 salt vats in Droitwich and lands in Belbroughton, Hanbury and Chauson.
	1543-07-04 Deed (Devon Record Office: Courtenay of Powderham, D1508M/Moger/164)			George (15648)
	NEWTON ABBOT.
	Deed of Richard Andrewes of Hayles, Co. Gloucester, Esq, and Nicholas Temple, reciting that Hen. 8. by Letters Patent dated 4. July, 35. Hen. 8. (1543) granted to Richard and Nicholas a messuage and tenement late in tenure of Thomas Gaverok and after of John Gaverok another messuage and tenement now in tenure of said John Gaverok and others in tenure of Nicholas Huchyn, Richard Mylward, John Ilberd, Gervaise Ilberd, all in Forde in Parish of Wolburroughe, late belonging to the Monastery of Torre, now dissolved, with all liberties and franchises lately enjoyed by the Monastery in the said tenements and witnessing that with the King's licence Richard and Nicholas now sell the premises to said John Gaverok.
	Attorneys. Barnard Golde. Gent.
	Thomas Colcott.
	Dated 6. July. 35. Hen. 8. (1543)
	2. Seals.
	Wits. George Rolle.
	John Talcarn.
	William Harvy, Cleric.
	John Wychehalse.
	Humphrey Watkyns.
	John Seyer.
	Language:  Latin
M_1544	1544-01-27 Marriage Licence (Allegations for Marriage Licences at the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, 1543-1869, Armytage, 1886, p. 1)			George (15648)
	George Rolle & Elizabeth Aysshton of St. Olaves, City of London
	1544c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/1099/8)			George (15648)
	Honor, late the wife of John BASSETT, knight, and Henry ROBYNSON, clerk, v. John BERE, clerk, Richard ROSEKARYK and George ROLLE, attorney of the said Honor.: Presentation to the church of Camborne, belonging to the manor of Tehidy (Hedde in Heddey).: CORNWALL. 1544-1551
	1544c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/1260/21-22			George (15648)
	George ROLLE (Rols) of London v. Richard, son and executor of John CHAMOND, knight.: Loan.: LONDON, CORNWALL. 1544-1551
	1546 Sale (Devon Record Office: Wollocombe of Bridestowe, Catalogue Ref. 189M)			George (15648)
	Wollocombe family of Bridestowe, Devon
	ESTATE AND FAMILY
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  189M/E22  - date: 1546
	Sale by George Rolle of Stevenstone, gent. to Roger Dennys of Loddisworth, co. Sussex, gent, of wardship and marriage of Henry Bidlake, son and heir of Thomas Bidlake of Bidlake, dec.
	1546 Deed (North Devon Record Office: Rogers, Warren and Griffiths Families, Catalogue Ref. B177)			George (15648)
	Title deeds
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  B177/1  - date: 1546
	George Rolle
	1547 Deeds & Leases (North Devon Record Office: Crosse and Wyatt, Solicitors, Catalogue Ref. 2309 B)			George (15648)
	Crosse and Wyatt, South Molton, Devon, solicitors
	TITLE DEEDS, LEASES and RELATED DOCUMENTS
	Parracombe - ref. 2309 B/T51
	Uphill (alias Southill)
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  2309 B/T51/11  - date: 1547
	1. George Rolle of Stevenstone, esq.
M_1552c	1552c Marriage ()		I_1553	George (15648)
	George Rolle & Margery widow of Brinklow d. 1546 and Stephen Vaughan d. 25 Dec 1749
D_1552	1552-11-20 Death (TNA C 142/98/3)		I_1553	George (15648)
	George Rolle
	1552c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 4/120/88)			George (15648)
	John ?Guwill v. George Rolle and Margery [?]: replication Sixteenth century
W_1553	1553-02-09 Will (PRO, ref. PROB 11/36 Image 29)		1553	George (15648)	1553
	Testator: George Rolle -1552, Stevenstone, Devon		1553-2		1553-2
	Executrix: wife Margery
	Date: 11 November 6 Edward VI (1552), proved 9 February 1553
	Witnesses: John Prydiaux, Edmund Yeo
	Will: - 500 marks to daughters Jackett?, Besse and Mary paid out of income from manors and property in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall
	- wardship and marriage of Margaret Marrye, to pay £19 to her parents Edmond and Margaret
	- rest to wife Margery
	- 2 tenements in Wandsworth to daughter Mary, if she dies to daughter Elizabeth
	- to William Sheldon esq., John Tawe? gent. and John Prydiaux gent. executors of obligation to brother-in-law Sir John Pakington of Hampton Lovett to pay them £100 per year for their lives or any male heirs
I_1553	1553-04-12 Inquisition Post Mortem at Crediton, Devon (TNA C 142/98/3)			George (15648)	1553
	Deceased: George Rolle 12 April 7 Edward VI (1553)	1
	[-] marriage John Rolle son and heir apparent of George Rolle & Margaret Ford Indenture 8 July 35 Henry VIII (1543)	7
	[-] Indenture George Rolle & George Ford, 10 August 38 Henry VIII (1546) John Rolle & Margaret his wife	14
	[-] Indenture George Rolle & Elizabeth his wife 4 March 36 Henry VIII (1545), Elizabeth died in London	16
	[-] Indenture George Rolle & George Ford, 10 August 38 Henry VIII (1546)  John Rolle  & Margaret his wife	30
	[-] Indenture George Rolle & Margey his wife 7 Oct 6 Edward VI 1552	33
	[-] Indenture 26 May 6 Edward VI (1552) George Rolle & Margey his wife [-]	33
	George Rolle died 20 November last past (1552)	73
	His son & heir John Rolle was aged 33 on 20 December last past (1552)	73
	1553c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/1314/78)			Family (15648)
	John ROLLE v. Margaret ROLLE.: Manor of Buckland Brewer and lands in Wyke, Lankfforde, Roborough, Great Torrington, West Putford, Pilton, Taunton, and elsewhere, late of George Rolle, esquire, deceased, father of complainant and husband of defendant.: DEVON, SOMERSET. 1551-1553
	1556c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/1464/39-41)			Family (15648)
	John ROLLE, gentleman, v. Thomas CLOTWORTHY and John his son.: Waste of lands in Winkleigh during a lease by George Rolle, esquire, deceased, father of complainant.: DEVON. 1556-1558
	1556c Legal Dispute (TNA, C 1/1465/59)			George (15648)
	John, son and heir of George ROLLE, esquire, and Margaret his wife v. William SCOURRIER, merchant of Taunton.: Detention of deeds relating to houses, burgages and gardens in Taunton.: SOMERSET. 1556-1558
W_1653	1563 Will (PRO ref. PROB 11/47 Image 93)			Maurice (7824)
	Testator: Anne Pakington -1563, widow late the wife of Sir John Pakington knight deceased
	Date: 26 April 1563, schedule 12 August 1563, proved 10 March 1564
	Will: - …
	- every of my brother Rolle children John Rolle Henry Rolle George Rolles Christopher Rolles Robert Rolles Morris Rolls Christian Courteney Margaret - Jacket Roolls and Elizabeth Roolls a ring of gold of 20s
	- …
	- Morris Rolle gent a ring of gold of 20s, hour glass with dial of mother of pearl
	- …
	CRW: Anne Pakington née Dacres was the sister of Eleanor Dacres, the first wife of George Rolle. George Rolle was her brother-in-law.
	1578 Indenture (TNA, C 202/1			George (15648)
	Indenture: George Rolle to Henry .... Form of oath of supremacy  21 Eliz.I
A_1584	1584-11-23 Bond (East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records Service: Chichester-Constable Family [DDCC/111 - DDCC/135])			Maurice (7824)
	Records of the Chichester-Constable family
	Catalogue Ref. DDCC
	BONDS - ref. DDCC/132
	FILE - Bond in £100 - ref.  DDCC/132/7  - date: 23 Nov 1584
	[from Scope and Content] George, Earl of Cumberland to Henry Constable esq to indemnify H.C. Against a bond in £100 in which he with Francis Clyfford esq. (brother of the Earl) and Anthony Wright (servant to the Earl) are bound to Maurice Rolle of London gent. for payment of £50. Witn. Anthony Wright.
W_1605	1605 Will (Copy of abstract )		1604	Maurice (7824)	1604
	Testator: Maurice Rolle, Stockleigh, Devon, Gentleman			Margaret (7825)
	Executrix: wife Margaret			Edward (3912)
	Date: 26 November 1604, proved 16 January 1604/5
	Witnesses: -
	Overseers: cousins Robert Rolle & William Rolle of Heanton
	Will: - silver cup & cypress desk to son Edward
	- silver cup & cypress desk to son Edward
	- £70 to son Henry at 21
	- £80 to dau. Mary at 21
	- £85 to dau. Margaret at 21
	- £60 and lands in Lamport Weston, Somerset and Acton, Middlesex to son John at 21
	- son Richard to pay £4 per year or give lease of Blackawton to son Henry
	- rest to wife Margaret
	- wife Margaret to be executrix if she enters into a bond for £400 to pay legacies, else son Edward to be executor
	- £20 to cousin Gabriel Rolle
	- 5s to poor of Meeth
	- to servant Phillip Sheppeard
	- 3s 4d to poor of John Downe, Herd & Legge (?) if with him at death
V_1620	1620 Pedigree (The Visitations of the County of Devon comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620 with additions by Lt-Col. J. L. Vivian, Eland, Exeter, 1895)		1620
	George Rolle of Stevenson, d. 1552, Will, IPM, m. Ellinor 2. dau. Of Henry Dakers of London			George (15648)
	Moris Rolle, 6th son, m. Margaret, da. of … Brier of Harrow on the Hill in Com. Misddlesex			Maurice (7824)
	Edward Rolle of Meth [Meeth], living 1620, bur. 9 Jan 1643/4 at St. Andrew, Plymouth, married to Agnes d. of Phillip Crimes of Mevy ]Meavy]			Edward (3912)
	Morice Rolle, 1 son, aged 3 in 1620, bur. 1696 at Meeth, m. Margaret, da. of …, bur. 23 Oct 1695 at Meeth			Maurice (1956)
	Robert Rolle, bapt. 3 Jan 1655/6 at Meet, m. Margaret, da. Of … Martyn 19 May 1699 at Meeth			Robert (978)
	Sarah Rolle, mar. 10 Feb 1722/3 at Meet to Roger Dark of Holsworthy			Sarah (489)
V_1620a	1620 Pedigree (The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1620, Colby, 1872)
	CRW: This pedigree is 'signed' at the bottom 'Edward Rolle', so presumably he is the informant for the details on his close family.		1620a
D_1643	1643-12-09 Burial in St. Andrew, Plymouth (FindMyPast, 2014)			Edward (3912)	1643
	Edward Rolles of Meeth gent.
L_1648	1648-07-10 Lease (Cornwall Record Office: Rashleigh of Menabilly, Tywardreth [R/1 - R/1850])			Maurice (1956)
	Rashleigh of Menabilly, Tywardreath			Edward (3912)
	Catalogue Ref. R
	TITLE DEEDS & LEASES.
	MANOR OF LANGUNNET.
	LEASES.
	St. Veep.
	Mountscombe.
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  R/772/1,2  - date: 10 July 1648
	[from Scope and Content] Hen. Rolle, Justice of Pleas, Rob. Rolle, s. of Sir Sam. R., Kt., decd., Hugh Fortescue, esq., Hugh Boscawen, esq., Jn. Carew, esq., Rich. Erisey, esq., Francis Godolphin, esq., Wm. Rolle, esq., Maurice Rolle, s. of Edw. R., esq., decd., Jn. Rolle, merchant, and Jn. Yeo, esq., feoffees of Sir Rich. Carew, bart., decd., to Roger Wilcock of Lanreath, yeo.
L_1649	1649-10-17 Lease (Cornwall Record Office: Croft Andrew, ref.  CA/B41/11)			Maurice (1956)
	Catalogue Ref. CA			Edward (3912)
	(MAINLY RASHLEIGH)
	ESTATE ADMINISTRATION
	Leases
	FILE  [no title] - ref.  CA/B41/11  - date: 17 October 1649
	[from Scope and Content] Hugh Fortescue, esq; John Carew, esq; Hugh Boscawen, esq., son and heir of Hugh Boscawen, esq. (decd.), Richard Erisey, esq., Wm. Rolle, esq; Francis Godolphin, Maurice Rolle, esq., son and heir of Edwd. Rolle, esq. decd. John Rolle, merchant and John Yeo. esq. (Feoffees appointed by Sir Richard Carew, Bt. for the levying of certain portions, pensions and sums of money for his sons.
B_1656	1656-01-03 Baptism in the parish of Meeth (Devon Record Office, Copy)			Maurice (1956)	1655
	Robert the son of Maurice Rolle gent. & Mary his wife was born the fourteenth day of December & was baptized the third day of January 1655			Mary (1957)
				Robert (978)
	1664-06-21 Baptism in the parish of Meeth (FamilySearch)			Maurice (1956)
	Thomas son of Maurice Rolle & Mary			Mary (1957)
D_1695	1695-10-23 Burial in the parish of Merton (Visitation of Devon ref. to parish record, Copy)			Mary (1957)	1695
	Mary Rolle (wife of Maurice Rolle)			Maurice (1956)
D_1696	1696-04-15 Burial in the parish of Merton (Visitation of Devon ref. to parish record, Copy)			Maurice (1956)	1696
	Maurice Rolle
W_1696	1696-04-15 Will (lost) in the parish of Meeth (Visitation of Devon ref. to parish record, Copy)			Maurice (1956)	1696
	Maurice Rolle
A_1696	1696 Enfeoffment & Appointment (Devon Record Office: Meeth Parish, Catalogue Ref. 2388A)			Maurice (1956)
	Meeth Parish
	Creator(s):
	Church of England, Meeth Parish, Devon
	CHURCHWARDENS
	Church-house
	FILE - Re-enfeoffment and appointment of attorneys - ref.  2388A/PW 11  - date: 1696
	[from Scope and Content] 1. Maurice Rolle
M_1699	1699-05-19 Marriage in the parish of Meeth (Devon Record Office, Copy)			Robert (978)	1699
	Robert Rolle Gent. and Mrs Margaret Marten were married May the 19th 1699			Margaret (979)
B_1700	1700-11-20 Baptism in the parish of St. James, Huish (IGI; FamilySearch, 2020)			Robert (978)	1700
	Sarah the daughter of Robert Rolle gent. & Mars. Margaret his wife was baptizer the 20th day of November 1700			Margaret (979)
				Sarah (489)
B_1703	1703-05-07 Baptism in the parish of Merton (FindMyPast, 2020)			Robert (978)	1703
	Edward the son of Robert Rolle gent. was born April 27th and baptized May 7th 1703
M_1723	1723-02-10 Marriage in Meeth, Devon (DRO)			Roger (488)	1723
	Roger Dark of the parish of Holsworthy & Sarah Rolle daughter of Robert Rolle Gent. of this parish were married by Licence from the Court of Exon Feb 10 1722			Sarah (489)
L_1731	1731-03-01 Letter from Joseph Spence in Dijon to his mother (Joseph Spence: The Grand Tour, Klima, 1975)			Family (978)
	[-] Today morning, just as the servant had lighted the fire in my chamber, and before I cared for stirring out of my bed, in came the postmaster with an armful of letters. Among the rest I had the pleasure of receiving on of yours (dated January 30), one from my brother Dick, and another from my brother Rolle. [-] Your being acquainted so well with my dear deputy at Oxford (Cap. Rolle) and owning him for your son in my absence is just what I shihed. I beg you'd write to him on all occasions, for you know what, just as you would to me if I were at Oxford. [-]
C_1732	1732 Sacrament Certificate (Devon Record Office, Reference: QS/21/1732/20)			Family (978)
	Edward Rolle, rector of Monkokehampton; (at Meeth)
L_1732	1732-11-16 Letter from Joseph Spence in Florence to his mother (Joseph Spence: The Grand Tour, Klima, 1975)			Family (978)
	[-] Capt. Rolle [Edward Rolle 1703-1791] has got a pretty little living [Monkokehampton] by the interest of his cousin [Henry Rolle, M. P. for Devonshire] (he tells me), which he can hold with New College. ‘Tis in Devonshire, within three miles of the place he was born, and there’s a pretty little new-fashioned house upon it. He has been over there and seen his father and mother [Robert Rolle, gent. 1656- who married ‘Mrs’ Margaret Marten in 1699 in Meeth] settled in the house which they like mightily, and ‘twill be a great convenience not only for them but a variety too for himself the summers when he is in Devonshire, for ‘tis but nine miles from his cousin’s great house, and he can amble over from one to the other mighty conveniently. [-]
L_1752	1752-3 Portrait (Christie’s Catalog, Portrait of John Rolle Walter, 2007)			Family (978)
	John Rolle, was the second son of John Rolle, M.P. of Stevenstone in Devon and his wife, Isabella Charlotte, daughter of Sir William Walter, 2nd Bt., of Sarsden, Oxfordshire. His ancestor, George Rolle, had bought Stevenstone in the reign of King Henry VIII. Rolle's elder brother Henry, who succeeded their father in 1730, sat, in the Tory interest, as member of parliament for Devon in 1730-41 and for Barnstaple from 1741 until 1748, when he was elevated as Lord Rolle, Baron of Stevenstone. John followed his elder brother to New College, Oxford, in 1729. On the death of his maternal uncle, Sir Robert Walter, 4th Bt. in 1731, he inherited Sarsden and took the name of Walter. He succeeded to the Rolle estates on the death of his older brother in 1750. Rolle Walter was elected unopposed as member of parliament for Exeter in 1754 and retained that seat until 1772, thereafter holding one of the two seats for the county of Devon until his death. A Tory, he is not known to have spoken in the House: he was in the early 1760s a supporter of the government, but voted with the opposition in the parliament of 1768. An observation in connection with the contractors' bill of 12 February 1779 records him as 'pro, absent, query doubtful', and he clearly epitomised the independent-minded country member. He was succeeded by his fourth brother, Denys Rolle (?1725-1797), M.P. for Barnstaple in 1761-1774, whose son John (1756-1842), followed John Rolle Walter as member for Devon in 1780, and was elevated as Baron Rolle in 1796, a year before the father's death. Lord Rolle's heir was his wife's nephew, the Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle, formerly Trefusis: in 1883 the Devon estate was of 55,592 acres.
	John Walter travelled in Italy in 1752-3 with his older first cousin, the Rev. Edward Rolle (1703-1791), son of Robert Rolle of Meeth, who had matriculated at New College in 1723 and eventually became Prebendary of Salisbury. Edward Rolle was a friend of the much- travelled Joseph Spence (1699-1768), whose Anecdotes are so informative. The two cousins, presumably after a preliminary visit to Rome, were at Capua en route to or from Naples on 12 November 1752: they lodged at the Casa Guarnieri, Rome, at Easter 1753 and subsequently visited Florence, Padua and Venice, reaching Mainz on 12 July. In addition to securing this previously unrecorded portrait, Walter apparently ordered two landscapes from Richard Wilson, who was then in Rome, the Rome from the Ponte Molle at Cardiff and a Diana and Acteon in a private collection.
	As Spence's correspondence establishes, Edward Rolle's party was to be joined at the Casa Guarnieri by the great-nephew of Rolle Walter's grandmother, Sackville Tufton, Lord Tufton, subsequently 8th Earl of Thanet. Others staying there for Easter 1753 included Frederick, Lord North, subsequently Prime Minister, and his stepbrother, William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. They and Lord Thanet were also painted by Batoni (A.M. Clark, ed. E. P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, Oxford, 1985, nos. 177, 192 and 195), while Dartmouth too was also an early patron of Wilson. The rediscovery of this portrait makes it possible to identify Rolle Walter as the subject of the related portrait head, measuring 18 by 13? inches at Copenhagen (Statens Museum for Kunst; Clark, no. 290), previously dated circa to 1765. Both portraits presumably date from 1753, and thus are among the group of works which helped to establish Batoni's credentials as the portrait painter most in demand with English visitors to Rome.
D_1735	1735-05-12 Burial in Monkokehampton (FindMyPast, Devon Burials, 2020)			Robert (978)	1735
	Mr. Robert Rolle
D_1754	1754-06-13 Burial in Monkokehampton (FindMyPast, Devon Burials, 2020)			Margaret (979)	1754
	Mrs. Margaret Rolle
M_1755	1755-09-22 Marriage in the parish of Wooton St. Lawrence, Hampshire (IGI)			Family (978)
	Edward Rolle m. Elizabeth Eyre
W_1791a	1791-10-08 Will (PRO, ref. PROB 11/1210 Image 80)		1791	Family (978)	1791
	Testator: Elizabeth Rolle -1791, wife, Berwick, Wiltshire			Roger (488)
	Executor: husband Edward Rolle
	Date: 2 June 1782, admon 8 October 1791 to nephew Roger Darke, executor of husband Edward Rolle who did not execute the will while he lived
	Witnesses: James Foot, Samuel Foot
	Will: - £300 to brother Joseph Eyre
	- £100 each to brothers' sons John & Joseph Eyre
	- £200 each to nephews James, Thomas and Robert Serle and niece Mrs. Yalden
	- £196 5s to very old and faithful servant Mary Wise
W_1791b	1791-10-08 Will (PRO, ref. PROB 11/1210 Image 79)		1791	Family (978)	1791
	Testator: Edward Rolle -1791, Reverend, Berwick, Wiltshire			Roger (488)
	Executor: Nephew Roger Darke
	Date: 13 April 1789, proved 8 October 1791
	Witnesses: James Foot, Samuel Foot
	Will: - confirms wife's will, mentioning £1500, and £1000 held in trust to him
	- out of that £1000 and other amounts saved
	- £100 to New College in Oxford
	- £100 each to nephews Thomas, Rolle, William, and John Darke
	- £5 a year to servant Mary Wise for her lifetime
	- £10 each to other 2 servants
	- £10 each to the poor of his 2 parishes Berwick and Moorlinth
	- £5 to the Clerk of Berwick
	- £21 each to Revd Mr. Richard Ford and Revd Mr. Thomas Smith
	- rest to nephew Roger Darke
	1822 History (BHO Parishes: Farringdon - Goodleigh', Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. 237-50)
	St. Giles, or Stow St. Giles
	ST. GILES, or STOW ST. GILES, commonly called St. Giles in the Wood, in the hundred of Fremington and in the deanery of Torrington, lies about two miles and a half from Torrington. The villages of Kingscot, High Bullen, and Healand, are in this parish.
	The manor of Stevenston, or Stephenston, in this parish, was conveyed by Michael de St. Stephen, in the reign of King John, to Richard Basset. Elias his son alienated it to John De la Lay, whose son John took the name of Stephenston: the heiress of this family after three descents married Grant: a co-heiress of Grant brought this estate to Moyle: Sir Walter Moyle possessed it in the reign of Henry VI. In the reign of Henry VIII. it was purchased of the Moyles by George Rolle, Esq., ancestor of the Right Honourable Lord Rolle, who is the present proprietor. Stevenstone House, which is one of the seats of Lord Rolle (fn. 30) , was taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax on the 16th of February, 1646, he being then on his march to the attack of Torrington: after the successful issue of that attack, he returned to Stevenstone on the 19th. (fn. 31) There is a deer-park at Stevenstone, in which are some red deer.
	1822 History (BHO General history: Nobility', Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. LXXXIII-XCV)
	Rolle, Baron Rolle. — The ancestor of Lord Rolle, settled in Devonshire, in the reign of Henry VIII., having made considerable purchases of abbey lands, and among others the manor of Stevenstone, which he fixed on for his residence. Sir Henry Rolle, grandson of George Rolle, Esq., who purchased Stevenstone, married the heiress of Watts, of Somersetshire; his son, Sir Henry, married the heiress of Dennis, of Bicton and Holcombe Burnell, in this county, and had a son, Dennis Rolle, Esq., who died in 1638, leaving an only son, who died in his infancy. Henry Rolle, Esq. of Beam, near Torrington, being a nephew of the first-mentioned Sir Henry, inherited the family estates, but died without issue in 1647, when they devolved on John Rolle, Esq. of Marrais in Cornwall, grandson of George Rolle, (second son of George first mentioned,) who married the heiress of Marrais, of Marrais, and settled at that place. This John Rolle, was afterwards K. B., and many years one of the representatives for this county: he married one of the co-heiresses of his relation, Dennis Rolle, Esq. of Bicton, and at the time of his death, in 1706, was possessed of upwards of forty manors in Devonshire, besides large estates in Cornwall, Somersetshire, and Northamptonshire. His great grandson, Henry Rolle, Esq. was, in 1748, created Baron Rolle, of Stevenstone: dying unmarried, in 1759, the title became extinct: it was revived in 1796, when his nephew, John Rolle, Esq. was created a Peer, by the same style and title. His Lordship's principal seats are at Stevenstone, near Great Torrington, and at Bicton.
	Henry, a younger son of George Rolle, Esq., first mentioned, having married the heiress of Yeo of Heanton-Sachville, settled at Heanton, and was ancestor of the Rolles of that place. Robert Rolle, great grandson of Henry, and son of Sir Samuel Rolle of Heanton, married one of the coheiresses of Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln, in consequence of which marriage, Margaret, the only daughter of his son Samuel, who had married Robert Walpole, the second Earl of Orford, became Baroness Clinton in her own right.
	Dennis Rolle, younger brother of Robert above mentioned, was settled at Hudscot, in Chittlehampton; his grandson died without issue, and bequeathed Hudscot to the present Lord Rolle's father. Henry, a younger brother of Sir Samuel Rolle above mentioned, was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, at the time of King Charles the First's death, and continued in that high office during the government of the Commonwealth; his posterity became extinct after three generations.
	Arms of Rolle, Baron Rolle: — Or, on a bar dauncettee, between three delves, Az. charged with as many lions rampant of the first, three bezants.
	Crest: — An arm couped, Az. the hand, Or, holding a flint, Proper.
	Supporters: — On either side a leopard regardant, Gules, spotted, Or, each crowned with a coronet flory of the second.
OtherDocs	Other Rolle Documents, possibly not relevant
A_1421	1421x2 Deed (TNA, E 210/4870)
	Walter Rolle to John Langerthowe and Thomas Broun: Grant of his messuages and land in ... Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Ancient Deeds, Series D. Walter Rolle to John Langerthowe and Thomas Broun: Grant of his messuages and land in Bodowe, Trencruk, Middelhille and Collewo and in the waste of Maneley: Corn. Collection: Records of the Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
A_1464	1464-02-10 Pardon (CPR, Edward IV, Vol. 1, 1461-1467, p. 259)
	John Barlyng late of Cryxhethe, co. Essex, 'gentilman', for not appearing to answer John Drayton, citizen and mercer of London, touching a debt of 60s.
A_1465	1465-03-15 Pardon (CCR, Edward IV, Vol. 1, 1461-1468, pp. 303-4)
	Henry Waver citizen and draper of London to Master Robert Kirkeham clerk keeper of the chancery rolls. John Catesby one of the serjeants at law and William Morland clerk, their heirs and assigns. Gift indented with warranty of the wholemessuage now built with garden enclosed, and the other messuage adjoining wherein Peter Carpenter lately dwelt, both in the town of Chelchith [Chelsea] co. Middlesex between messuages of John Pargrave on the east and John Drayton on the west, rendering yerly 4d. at Michaelmas. Witnesses: William Massenger clerk, John Wilkyns, John Yonge, John Matthews the elder, Andew Staunton.
W_1467	1467 Will (Guildhall MS 9171/6, f. 2v)
	William Essex also acquired property from John Drayton of London (d. 1467). Drayton's will instructed the feoffees of his lands and tenements in Chelsea to grant the property with the profits to his wife Christine for life, and if she married then to convey it to William Essex.
L_1467	1467x72 Dispute (TNA, C 1/41/272)
	Short title: Boteler v Staunton.
	Plaintiffs: Richard Boteler, executor of John Drayton, and John Rolle and Christian his wife, executrix and late the wife of the said John Drayton.
	Defendants: Andrewe Staunton.
	Subject: Tenements in Chelsea (Chelchyth). Obligation propounded by defendant.
	Date: 1467-1472
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
L_1473	1473 Dispute (TNA, C 1/49/47)				1473
	Short title: Rolle v Boteler.
	Plaintiffs: John Rolle, of London, gentleman, and Christine, his wife, late the wife of John Drayton.
	Defendants: Richard Boteler, obligee of a bond given by William Essex.
	Subject: Purchase money of land in Chelsea (Chelchy), sold by Drayton to Essex. Middlesex
	Date: 1473
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
	In 1476 Christine, now the wife of John Rolle, claimed that Essex had purchased from Drayton a messuage called a brewhouse, two cottages, 60 a. land, 6 a. meadow, and 12 a. pasture in Chelsea for £53 6s. 8d., of which he still owed part.
L_1473a	1473 Dispute (TNA, C 4/57/65)
	Description: John Rolle and his wife Christine v. Richard Boteler: answer.
	Date: 1473
	Held by: The National Archives, Kew
	1481 Inquisition Post Mortem (A2A 2005)
	Delivered into court 22 November by John Wyvil, Inquisition taken at Torrington 29 Oct, 1481 before Thomas Brown escheator after the death of William Yeo, esq by the oath of Robert Batyn, esq Richard Eyer, Richard Yeme, George Vyell, John Stevyn, John Pytteford, Richard Wauell, Walter Stevyn,William Drewe, Richard Rolle, William Yooe was seised of the manor of Heanton Sachevyle and 16 messuages, 8 carucates of land, 30 acres of meadow, 50 acres of pasture etc and 20s rent there, held of the King`s honour of Okehampton by knight`s service. worth by the year clear £10 6 messuages 1 toft, 2 carucates of land, 15 acres of meadow and 10 of wood in Westansty held by Thomas Selinger knt of his manor of Southmolton by night`s service, worth etc £2 By charter dated 15th June 1481 he granted the premises to Thomas Graynfield, John Monke, esqires and Thomas Talcarn who are yet seised thereof.
	Richard Yeo, John Bylhole and John Toker were seised of the manor of Bradwill held of the abbot of Cleff by faulty worth £10, 12 messuages and 533 acres in Nymet St George and Holecombe Jewe by Credition held of Philip More of his manor of Ayshley by fealty, worth £2, a moeity of 120 acres in Northcote held of the honour of Okehampton by 1/4 of a knight`s fee worth £3 By charter dated at Bradwyle Wednesday 19th November, 1455 they granted the same to William Yeo named in the writ, Leva Yeo his wife and their heirs. Leva is still living William Yeo died Tuesday 24th July 1481. Robert Yeo, son and heir age 36 years (Calendar of Inquisitions, C80 (38))
A_1486	1486 Deed (A2A, 2008)
	North Devon Record Office: Chichester of Arlington
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	Chichester of Arlington
	Catalogue Ref. 50/11
	Creator(s):
	Chichester family of Arlington, Devon
	FILE - BROADHEMPSTON - ref.  50/11/12/24  - date: 1486
	[from Scope and Content] Underneath (in English) is a Memorandum that the above is a true copy of the 2 original deeds, which were to be delivered by John Rowe, seriaunt at the lawe, to Wylliam South. Witnesses: George Rolle, John Eston', Walter Colshyll', Baldwin Malet, Edmund Larde', Humfrey Colles, Nicholas Wyhigsly. And another memorandum, (also in English), by John Ford, that the said deeds were delivered by William South to John Ford, who delivered them to William Barnehous, esq., on agreement being had between them concerning the said lands, in the presence of John Rowe, seriant at the lawe.
C_1732b	1732 Sacrament Certificate (Devon Record Office, Reference: QS/21)
	COUNTY OF DEVON - QUARTER SESSIONS: SACRAMENT CERTIFICATES  QS/21  [n.d.]
	Arrangement: It should be noted that no clergyman could administer the Sacrament to himself and that it was taken frequently (e.g. by officers of the Excise and Customs) at churches other than their own parish church. As far as possible this fact is shown by the formula "(at ---)".
	Administrative history:
	Between 1673 and 1828 the holding of public office was open only to members of the Church of England. The crucial test was considered to be that of partaking "the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper", and a certificate of having done so was expected to be submitted yearly by all office holders to an appropriate Court of Quarter Sessions.
	Attention is drawn to the group of certificates relating to Foreign Protestants (i.e. Huguenots), having received the Sacrament according to their own rite, see the lists for 1709, 1710 and 1711. These were submitted under legislation permitting foreign nationals to become naturalised.
	Contents:
	Those certificates for the City of Exeter, over 2800 in number, have been indexed for some time. A start on listing those for the County of Devon, 1684-1775, (over 4000 at a rough estimate) is made here.
	From 1673-1683 and in 1685 no certificates service.
	QS/21/1776 - 1828 are unlisted.
	QS/21/1699/23  1699 John Willett, lieutenant in Thomas Docton's Company in the Hon. Samuel Rolle's regiment of foot; Bideford
	QS/21/1699/24  1699 John Row, ensign in Thomas Docton's Company in the Hon. Samuel Rolle's regiment of foot; Bideford
	QS/21/1699/26  1699 Captain Thomas Docton of the Hon. Samuel Rolle's regiment of foot; Hartland
	QS/21/1702/22  1702 Samuel Rolle, esq; Petrockstowe
	QS/21/1703/17  1703 Samuel Rolle, esq; Petrockstowe
	QS/21/1703/54  1703 Denys Rolle of Beam, esq; (at St Giles in the Wood)
	QS/21/1707/15  1707 Denys Rolle of Moortown esq; St Giles in the Wood
	QS/21/1707/16  1707 Robert Rolle of Stevenstone; St Giles in the Wood
	QS/21/1714/9  1714 Henry Rolle justice of the Peace for Devon; Bicton
	QS/21/1717/77  1717 Samuel Rolle of Heanton esq; Petrockstow
	QS/21/1730/20  1730 Samuel Rolle rector of Padstow, Cornwall; (at Exeter St Mary Arches)
	QS/21/1731/4  1731 Henry Rolle esq. Stevenstone; St Giles (in the Wood)
	QS/21/1732/20  1732 Edward Rolle, rector of Monkokehampton; (at Meeth)
	QS/21/1736/10  1736 Samuel Rolle of Hescott (i.e. Hudscott), Sheriff of the County of Devon; Chittlehampton
	QS/21/1740/10  1740 Samuel Rolle of Hudscott, esq.; Chittlehampton
	QS/21/1742/18  1742 Henry Rolle, Bicton, esq., justice of the peace for the County of Devon; Bicton
	QS/21/1750/12  1750 Denys Rolle, Hudscot esq.; Chittlehampton
	© C. R. Watts 2020 created 03.01.2006, revised 29.06.2020
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