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GLEANINGS OF THE ROBINS or ROBBINS FAMILY OF ENGLAND.

WITH LITHOGRAPH OF ARMORIAL WINDOW AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS. BY THE REV. ttlLLS ROBBINS, HOLY TRINITY VICARAGE, WEST CHOBHAM, SURREY. DEVIZBS : C. H. WOODWARD, MACHINE PRINTER, 4, ST. JOHN STUKET. 1908. THIS LITTLE WORK IS DEDICATED TO THE AFFECTIONATE AND CHERISHED MEMORY OF MY UNCLE SAMUEL BOBBINS. FOUNDER OF HONEYSTREET, WOODBOROUGH. MAKER OF THE ROAD FROM KENNETT TO AMESBURY ; AND IN OTHER WAYS A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR TO THE COUNTY OF WILTS. DIED NOVEMBER 27TH, 1869, AGED 82 YEARS. BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD AT WOODBOROUGH. CONTENTS.

1 PAGE Preface .to First Edition ... ... 7 Introduction to First Edition ... 8 Preface to Second Edition ... 9 Introduction to Second Edition ... 10 Notes on the Name "Robin" ... 11 Jersey... ... ... ... 12 England—Bedfordshire ... ... 16 Buckinghamshire ... ... 17 Cambridgeshire... .... ... 18 Cheshire ... ... ... 19 Cornwall ... ... ... 20 Derbyshire ... ... ... 24 Devonshire ... ... ... 25 Dorsetshire ... ... ... 29 Essex ... ... ... ... 30 The Gloucestershire Family .. 31 Gloucestershire... ... .. 32 Hampshire ... ... ... 45 Hertfordshire ... ... ' ... 48 Kent ... ... ... ... 50 Leicestershire ... ... ... 52 Middlesex ... ... ... 54 Norfolk ... ... ... 59 Oxfordshire ... ... ... 61 Shropshire ... ... • ... 62 Somersetshire ... ... ... 63 Staffordshire ... ... ... 65 Suffolk 84 Surrey ... ... ... 85 Sussex ... ... ... 86 Warwickshire ... ... ... 87 Wiltshire ... ... ... 90 Worcestershire ... ... ... 104 Yorkshire ... ... ... 107 Authors ... ... ... 108 Addenda ... ... ... 109 Wills ... 110 LIST OF ILLTJSTEATIONS. PAGE Arms of the Eobins or Bobbins Family of England ... ... Frontispiece. Matson House ... ... ... 32 The Old Manor- House, Woodborough 97 Woodborough Church in 1861 ... 102 PEDIGEEES. Eobins, of Plymouth ... ... 25 Eobins, of Gharlton Kings ... 42 Eobins, of Himley, Kinver, &c, ... 74 Eobbins, of Wilcote and Woodborough 95 Eobbins, of Bulford ... ..

100 PEEFAOE TO THE'MUST EDITION. The origin of this little work is the result of an attempt to trace as far back as possible the branch of the Bobbins family of which I am a member. !• had not proceeded very far before I found I was obliged to extend my researches more widely than I had intended. Thinking, therefore, that these notes might be of some interest to other members of the Bobin, Bobins, or Bobbins Family, I determined to publish a few copies of them merely for private circulation. In doing so, I do not claim any special merit for my work, as I have not been able to obtain access to the wills of several families. Therefore the work must remain, to some extent, circumscribed. I am greatly indebted to many members of the Family for the valuable information they have so kindly afforded me. The other chief sources from which I have collected my notes have been the rent rolls from the close of the 12fch century, and the hundred rolls of Ed\yard I., &c., to which I obtained access in the Bodleian Library. In any matter of doubt, I have had the kind assistance of my esteemed friend, the eminent historian and antiquary, Mr. James Parker, M.A., Oxon, son of Mr. John Henry Parker, C.B., F.S.A., M.A. M.B. Oxford. 1880. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE Eobin, sometimes Eobins Family, are supposed to be descended from the ancient tribes of the Bobini, who inhabited the district of Venaissin, in Italy, and from whom sprang the Counts de Eobin, who lived at Eome in the 10th century. Guy Eobin was the founder of the Family in France in the beginning of the 13th century. Payne, in his Armorial of Jersey, says:

"This branch of the Family has been settled in the island from time immemorial.." The Family appears in England at the end of the 13th century, where • the name is commonly spelt " Bobyns" (y and i being frequently interchanged) : " Bobbins" does not appear till the end of the 15th century. The Family appears in Wales in the 16th century, and in Ireland in the 17th. PEBFAOE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PBKHAPS no country, but our own, can fully grasp the meaning of that magic word " Home." It was the affection for the old home, nestled in that charming and secluded spot under the Wiltshire Downs, not far from the source :of the river Avon, with its quaint old Church and Manor House—their many associations and memories—which led the author to: spend many a pleasant hour in his youth, in searching old registers and documents in the desire of knowing something more of his" Forebears " and their doings. The result of these labours was the venture of the little edition of the " Gleanings of the Eobin Family," when the author was resident at Oxford in the year 1880.

And now, after a quarter of a century, an appeal has been made to him to re-write the work with the accumulated information; but being absorbed with a large scattered country parish and having lost somewhat of the enthusiasm of youth, he has reluctantly consented, [after a promise from Mr. P. C. KOBINS to give every assistance in the work, and with the joint consent that Mr. EDWARD KITE, the well-known historian on parish registers, should also supplement their labours,] to issue the Second Edition. M. B'. I N T E O D U C T I O N TO THE SECOND EDITION. There seems but little to add to the information of the First Edition. The Bobinses of Cornwall appear to be quite a distinct branch from the Eobinses or Eobbinses hailing chiefly from the Midland Counties. This impression seems borne out by the distinct armorial bearings of these two branches. The question has been raised as to the derivation of the name in England. Did the name originate from some bold outlaw, like " Bobin, Hood," or, as the armorial bearings strongly point, to French extraction ? One interesting advance has been made towards a more complete history being written, in the desire of the various branches to claim connection with Bobins of Matson, who had the honour of succouring Charles I. and the two young princes in their hour of adversity ; thus the romances which surround the White King and the ill-fated House of Stuart are treasured in the annals of the family. Further, the alliance with the House of Selwyn, of world-wide fame, adds further interest.

All Members of the Family will join in congratulating the Bev. Canon W. Bazeley, M.A., in still being Bector of Matsbn after a period of twenty-eight years, to whom they owe a debt of gratitude for his ready help and valuable information. 11 NOTES ON" THE NAME EOBIN. The Latin form of the French diminutive " Eobin" is not unfrequent in the Close Eolls of the time of King John, and would readily come into a surname. Misee [expenses] Boll. Anno 1210 [12th John]:— " Bobino and Michel & alio Robino cu x leporar' e'ntibz ad Willm de'Nevill p' j die: xjd." Anno 1212 [14th John]. The King commands payments to be made to about twenty persons, amongst them:— Et Robino, nomini Vic. de Tuwaro: ... 5s. Anno 1214 [16th John].

An order is given to Peter de Maulay that he should find a vessel for Alano Wombe, et Eobino, nunciis domini Winton, et Magistri Eicardi de Marisco, for going across the sea into England, and find also salt meat and wine. The Robinus who was messenger to England seems to have been retained for the same service in King Henry III.'s reign. A.D. 1222. Robinus Nuncius Leulini Principis Walliee. pd. 2s. A.D. 1222. A second journey pd. 2s. A.D. 1223. Robinus Nuncius, Eadulfi Comitis Oes trite • pd. 12rf. A.D. 1223. Robinus Nuncius Willelmi de Sancto Albino pd. 10s. A

 2 JERSEY. EOBIN OF JERSEY. Arms.—Azure a chevron or between 3 marigolds closed of the last, slipped and leaved proper. Motto.—Vivit post funera virtus. In reference to a difference in the flowers [marigolds], Payne,1 in his "Armorial of Jersey" (1870),has the following note:—"A very ancient seal in the possession of John Robin, Esq., and a painting of the arms of Councillor John Robin, of the Parliament of Paris, elected llth May, 1618, depicted in a MS. entitled " Catalogue, et Blazons de tons les Conseilleurs du Parliament de Paris dcpuis 1600 jiisfjiie la 1719," decides the point clearly." He also adds:—" The family of Robin is said by de la Chesnayedes- Bois, in his Armorial, to be descended ' ex Comitibus Rolrini, of Rome,' 'vivans dans le x siecle avec eclat et splendenr' [living in the 10th century in great eclat and splendour]. Guy Robin, the founder of the family in France, accompanied Philip Augustus to the Holy Land. He was buried at Vienne, in Dauphine, in a costly tomb, bearing the inscription:— '

^7 yvsk Le Preux Chevalier, Guy Robin, dit le Italyen. Priez pour 1'alme de li, 1223.' [Here lies the noble Knight, G.uy Robin, surnained ' The Italian.' Pray for his soul, 1223.] " The Jersey branch of the family has been settled in the island from time immemorial. By the Extcnte of 1331 it appears 1 Payen-Payne, J. B., "Armorial of Jersey. An account of all the principal families, with their pedigrees." Rietstap, in his " Armorial General" (1884—7), gives "D'azur au chev. d'or ace. de trois viellets [pinks or ffilliftowers'] au nat." that Raulin Robin was a landowner in the parish of St. Brelade. and one of the Jurymen deputed to ascertain the Crown dues in that parish. The same record shows Richard and Raulin Robin to have performed the like office in the parish of St. Laurence.

"In 17 L5 Raulin Robin was Lieutenant Bailey of Jersey. For several centuries this family has been located at St. Brclade, in the Church of which parish are monuments to many of its members. " On the south wing of the General Hospital of St Helier's are sculptured the arms of Robin, which was built at the cost of this house." The members of the family living in the island (1870) do not appear to have interested themselves in their genealogy, or to have supplied Payne with information on the subject, the result being that Robin is the only family mentioned in the work, of which no pedigree is given. It is now many years since they left St. Brelade's parish.

In 1840 James Robin, Esq., was President of the Benefit Society for the Merchant Seamen of Jersey. From the burial register of St. Brelade's, Jersey :— Elizabeth Magdalen Robin ... ... ...

1785 Elizabeth Pipon, wife of John Robin, Gent 1787 John Robin, Esqre. ... ... ... ... 1793 Ann Pipon, wife of Ph. Robin Esqre. ... ... 1807 Emily Jane, daughter of Jas. Robin, Esqre. ...

1820 (5 months) Phil. Robin, Esqre., Jurat 1821 Elizabeth Robin 1824 Charles Robin, Esqre 1824 A search through the earlier registers may perhaps give more information as to their ancestors. 14 Inscription on a tablet in St. Brelade's Churchyard (translation): " In this vault are deposited the mortal remains of three brothers, the sons of Philip Robin, Esq., and Miss Anne D'Auvergne, his wife. " Philip Robin, Esq., died 14 July, 1821, aged 83 years. "John Robin, Esq., died 7 June, 1793 aged 53 years. " Charles Robin, Esq., died 10 June, 1824, aged 80 years. " As also those of several of their ancestors and their families." Falle's " Ccesnrea, or an account of Jersey," published in 1734, mentions some of these ancestors.

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"3 fl *2 !7. Michael Browne, ge The residence of Trewa S t-4 22 There were also influential families of Robins, or Robyns, in St. Ewe, and St. Winnow. Stephen Robins, Esq., of the latter place, was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1701, on the accession of Queen Anne, and the parish register records his burial within the Church there on 25th Feb., 1720. The same register also contains an entry of the marriage of Jane Robins, in 1654, with a gentleman named Richard, whose surname is left blank.

 In 1703 Frances Robins and William Green were also married at St. Winnow. At St. Ewe, the Barton of Tregenna was held for many years by the Robins family. The communion plate here, which is massive and of good design, was presented to the Church by Jacob Robins, of Tregenua, in 1695. The Church is interesting from its spire, and rood sereen, of the Perpendicular Period—both being rare features in the Churches of Cornwall. Corrected from pedigree at p. 34 in first edition. Thomas Robins, tin merchant, of Higher= Quarter, St. Austell. Thomas, only son (tin=Caroline, dau. of Stephen Harper.

She merchant); married 26 Sept., 1759; bur. mar. secondly, in 1771, Henry Lakes, of Trevarrick,St.Austell. Bur.9 Nov.,1772. 8 May, 1769. Henry Lakes. Dorothy. Thomas, of Liskeard, = Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bobbing, of Edw. Coode of St. Austel. mar. 6 Feb., 1809. Liskeard ; bur. 16 Jan., 1826. Elizabeth Robins. Caroline Robins, born 4 May, = 1814, mar. 16 June, 1836, Thomas S. Bolitho, died 6 Jan., 1875. Their grandson of Trengwainton, = John Coode, of Penzance. Richard Foster,of Lostwithiel, Polcarne, St. 4> born 6 June, 1808 died 27 Austell, 1879.

Jan., 1869. Is*sue Eight sons and five daug

hters. Mrs. Bolitho and Mrs. Foster, as daughters and co-heirs of Thomas, claimed to represent Robins of St. Ewe, which is some live miles south of St. Austell. 23 Mr. John Coode, writing 4th August, 1878, says:— " I have never been able to trace the Robins family further than the Thomas (tin merchant, above), although there, are several entries of Robins in the St. Austell registers, and perhaps these, with the wills in the Registry at Bodmin, might enable one who had plenty of time to trace it further. " There has always been a tradition in the family that our Robins were the same family and have the same arms, as the Robins of St. Ewe (now represented by the Hopes), and with a certain Stephen Robins, of St. Winnow, who was Sheriff' of Cornwall, and a man of large property, but neither I nor Dr. Drake have been able to prove it." In the parish of Roche were three families of Robins, who, so far as could be traced, were quite distinct from each other. The name is also found in other parishes within the county. In 1620 we find a marriage of Robins with Alice, daughter of Henry Maynard, Esq., of Milton, co. Devon.

 In 1628 John Cavell, of Trehaverock, married Jane Robins at St. Mabyn ; and in 1655 (1st October) John Robins took to wife Jane Williams, of Trevro [Truro ?], at Tywardreath. There are also two marriages of Vivian, with females of the Robins family ; viz.:— 1631. June 8. Richard Vivian, of St. Collomb, and Grace Robins, at St. Mervyn, and 1671. June .SO. Sir Viel Vyvyan,1 of Trelowarren, and Thoniasine, daughter of James Robins, gent, at Constantino. Tart of the manor of Treguitha St. Hilary, which had been for some time in possession of the Robins family, was sold by them in 1706.

Trevaniau and Robins.—Deed between Charles Trevanion, of Carhay, in the co. of Cornwall, and John Robins, Ruan-Lainghorme, in the co. of Cornwall, with signature of John Robins, dated 1660. 'Arms of Vyvyan—Argent a lion rampant gules, armed sable ; crest, a horse passant furnished proper. 24 DERBYSHIRE. 1331.—Oct. 12. Commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by Walter de Newton, vicar of Bankwell, co. Derby, that Nicholas Eobyn with others, assaulted him there, and carried away his goods. Patent Rolls. ROBINS OF PLYMOUTH. Arms.—Party per pale argent and azure, a fess nebulee between three robins all counterehanged. Crest.—" A tilting spear ereet, two marshall batons in saltire, banded with a riband in fess nebule£, the whole on the usual wreath." Motto.—Dives qui contentuS. Thomas. Clock and= watch maker.

1 Living 1768. Thomas. Dyer,of Fleet Ditch,= a Freeman of the City, and the Dyers' Company, London. =Dickenson. Francis. = Born March, 1750.2 1 Eol of Plymoi. =WelIs. i =Mary Robftrts. ....Fletcher. Ofthe=Ham Born Sept., 1749. Prerogative Office, ! Doctor's Comons. ; Issue. ins= ith. John. Dyer, ofc= . . . . dau. of=Cookworthy, = Duck Lane, .... Fox, of Plymouth. Plymouth. of Plymouth. (1st wife.) =A daughter. (Znd wife.) \ \ Issue, lah. John. William. Dr. Cookworthy, s.p. s.p. of Plymouth. Sutton.=Susanna. Lovelock. =Eleanor. Bo'rn Sept.,

 1779. First to introduce steam propulsion on Canals. Born 25 Jan.,

1790. Mar. 20 Jan., 1814. John = Mary Anne Snell. Born 5 June, 1793,

Francis. Born 6 Nov., 1814. Bap. at home. Died 20 Nov., 1814. Aged 14 days. Mary Anne. Born 16 June, 1819. Bap. 28 Sept., 1819. Eliza Snell. Born 14 June, 1816. Bap. at St.Botolph Oh. Died 7 Jan., 1817. Aged 6 months and 24 days. John. Born 18 Seplt., 1820. Bap. 24 Jan., 1821. Charles, C.B. Born 29 Setft., 1821. Bap. 1 Jul$, 1822. Louisa Margaret. Born 6 May, 1824. Bap. 25 July, 1824. Julia. Born 16 June, 1827. Bap. 12 May, 1829. Died 25 Dec., 1829. Frederick. Born 7 Nov., 1825. Bap. 23 April, 1826. Died 14 Jan. 1882. Alfred. Born 5 Jan., 1829. Bap. 12 May, 1829. Edward Cookworthy, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., Prime Warden of the "^orshipful Company of Dyers in 1879. Born 13 Sept., 1830. Bap. July, 1832. Emily. Born 9 Sept., 1831. Bap. July, 1832. Died of Cholera at Plymouth^ July,1832, buried there. Ellen. Born 1 July, 1834. Bap. 19 July, 1834. Jane Elizabeth. Author of the Sculptor caught Napping, etc. Born 27 Sept., 1835. Bap. 8 Dec., 1837.

 Henry Cook. Head Master King Alfred Grammar School. Exported them to Turkey and the Leva'nt. 1 In 1768 he was apprentice to Richard Austin, flax dresser, of No. 1, Old Bethlem, Bishopsgate Street. 25 DEVONSHIRE. Arms—Party per pale argent and azure a fess nebule& between three robins, all counterchauged. [See also under Surrey,"]- Crest.—On a wreath a tilting spear erect—two marshall batons in saltire—banded with a riband in fesa nebulee. Motto.—Dives qui contentus [Bush are those who are contented]. " The following account of the Family of Robiiis [of Plymouth descent1] is copied for the information and use of the children of John Robins, of London, by their father, 1849. " John Eobins was born in January, 1790, at No. 8, Great S. Thomas Apostle, Queen St., Cheapside, London. Baptised at S. Mary Aldermary Church, Bow Lane.

 Married Mary Anne Snell (who was born in June, 1793) at S. Botolph, Bishopsgate, "Without, on 20th January, 1814, the date of birth and names of his family are given on the other side of- this sheet, [see p. 27.] "Francis Eobins, father of the above, was born in March, 1750, whose baptismal register is expected to be found at S. Ann's, Black!riars. Married, Mary Roberts (who was born in September, 1749) at S. Sepulchre's Church, Snow Hill, he had also a daughter named Eleanor, born in September, 1779, who married a Lovelock. •' Thomas Eobins, father of Francis, was a dyer at Fleet Ditch, and married a Wells;

he had also issue an elder son Thomas, who was a watchmaker—the business of his grandfather Wells. He married a Dickenson and had issue a daughter, Susanna, who married a Sutton. Also Hannah, sister of Francis Eobins, who married a Fletcher, of the Prerogative Office, Doctors Commons, some of whose descendants are now law stationers in Knight Eider Street. The elder Thomas Eobins had a brother John, 1 From a document in the possession of Edward Oookvrox-thy Kobins, F.S.A., F.E.I.B.A., Tower House, St. John's Wood, London. B 26 who was also a dyer, at Duck Lane, Plymouth, and had two sons, John and William. The said Thomas had also a sister, who married a Cookworthy, of the Society of Friends, and had two sons, Joseph and John, the father of whom was connected by marriage with the Fox's, of Plymouth, also of the Society of Friends. " Thomas Eobins, of Bratton Clovelly, in the hundred of Listen, in the County of Devon, ancestor and representative of the family in the reign of Queen Anne, as appears upon record at the Heralds' Office, the family being of antiquity and of consequence in the county at the time the visitation took place of Families bearing Arms, he disclaimed them either to avoid expense or not entering pedigree, but the family can at any time obtain a re-grant upon the payment of the usual fees,

£70 or £80, if they should require it. " There was an ancient relique in the family that had descended through many generations from father to the eldest son in the shape of a gold seal ring of the arms of the family which had been presented by the Government to an ancestor of the family for some meritorious exploit or service rendered to the country; this had descended to Thomas Eobins, the watchmaker, as above, as an heirloom of the family, who by some means most unfortunately lost it; at least it could not be found at his death, although anxiously sought for and a reward offered for its restoration. "

 One of the Eobins family married an heiress of the name it is believed of Kobinson, in the County of Gloucester, and quartered her arms with the family arms of Kobins, as appears on record at the Heralds' Office. The Bobins's of Yenu Hall, Tavistock, and some other parts of Devon, are of the same family. " Also the Eobins's of Liskeard and several parts of Cornwall are all of this family. The above first-named John Eobins gives this copy to his children shewing their descent as far as ascertained, should any of them have the opportunity or the wish to make further researches that they may have the above information to assist them, with the names of the whole of the family of John Eobins, and a wax impression of the arms which has been received as the arms now used by the family, requesting that this may form a record from father to son in their generations to come, with all additions that may from time to time be obtained."

 JOHN EOBINS.

John Eobins, born 25th January, 1790. Married 20th January, 1814, to Mary Ann Snell (who was born 5th June, 1793), at the Church of S. Botolph, Bishopsgate. CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE. Francis Eobins. Born 6th Nov., 1814. Baptized at home and registered at S. Botolph, Bishopsgate. Died 20th Nov., 1814, aged 14 clays; buried in the family grave. Eliza Snell Eobins. Born 14th June, 1816. Baptized and registered at the Church of S. Botolph, Bishopsgate. Died Yth Jan., 1817, aged 6 months and 24 days; buried in the family grave. Mary Ann Eobins. Born 16th June, 1819. Baptized Sept. 28th, 1819. John Eobins. Born Sept. 18th, 1820. Baptized 24th Jan., 1821. Charles Eobins. Born 29th September, 1821. Baptized 1st July, 1822. Louisa Margaret Eobins. Born 6th May, 1824. Baptized 25th July, 1824. Frederick Eobins. Born 7th Nov., 1825. Baptized 23rd April. 1826. Died 14th Jan., 1832; buried in the family grave. Julia Eobins. Born 16th June, 1827. Baptized 12th May, 1829. Died 25th Dec., 1829 ; buried in the family grave. Alfred Eobins. Born 5th Jan., 1829. Baptized 12th May, 1829. Edward Cookworthy Eobins. Born 13th Sept., 1830. Baptized at Plymouth, July, 1832. Emily Eobins. Born 9th Sept., 1831, at 5, Elm Cottage, Hornsey. Baptized at Plymouth, July, 1832. Died of cholera at Plymouth, 29th July, 1832; buried there. Ellen Eobins. Born 1st July, 1834. Baptized 19th July, 1834. B 2 28 Jane Elizabeth Eobins. Born 27th Sept., 1835. Baptized 8th Dec., 1837. The family grave is situated in S. Botolph, Bishopsgate Churchyard, at the west end of the Church. It has a ledger stone over it with the name of

" Eobins' Family Grave " upon it. The late John Kobins, of the firm of Robins, Mills, & Co., canal carriers between London and Manchester, at his own expense, first introduced steam propulsion on canals, and was the author of a prize essay on the improvement of canal navigation. He also held the appointment of traffic manager of the Eastern Counties Eailway. His son, Charles Robins, C.E., was a pupil of John Brathwaite, engineer to the Railway, and another son, Edward Cookworthy Robins, F.S.A., &c., a pupil of Sancton Wood, architect to the same Company. The following pedigree apparently represents descendants of the Bratton Clovelly branch of the family.:— John Robbins=I I """ "" """ "| John, youngest child, born 14 Mar., 1824, in St.=Louisa, A brother: Thonms-by-Launceston, co. Cormv. Manu- M., living facturing Chemist.

Died 8 Aug., 1902, in 1902. London.1 I Alfred Bobbins, of Brixton, 1902. 1 Fellow of the Royal Institution, Chemical, and other scientific societies. Master of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights, 1892. Formerly Master of the St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons, N'o. 281. Member of the correspondence circle of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076. DORSETSHIRE. In the will of Sir John Hody, of Pillesdon, Knt.,

Chief Justice of England, dated 1441, are the following bequests:— Item, lego William Robynys—vjs. viij'i. Item, lego Richard Robyns—iij". iiijd. 30 ESSEX. Thomas Gent, Esq., of Moyno Park, Counsellor to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and held in high estimation, for his learning, by Queen Elizabeth, married secondly, in 1586, Elizabeth, sister of Morgan Robyns, Esq., and widow of Robert Hogeson, Esq., of London—but by her left no issue.

 81 THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE FAMILY. ARMS.—Per pale, sable and argent, two flaunches and three fleur-de-lis in fess, all counterchanged. CREST—Between two dolphins haurient respecting each other, or a fleur-de-lis, per pale argent and sable. MOTTOES.—Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos ? And ! Esse quaiu v'ideri. 1 When this mark * is placed before a name it means that this Motto belongs to that family. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. From the Subsidy Eolls of Gloucestershire in the year 1327 we get the following names :

Robert Eobyn, xiiid. Walter Eobines, xv4-8- Eichard Eobines, xvd. ob. Matson. The Manor of Matson is pleasantly situated on a Hill called Robin's Wood Hill (derived from a wealthy family who lived here), two miles from the City of Gloucester. In the year 1346, Edward III. granted it to the Abbey of S. Peter, Gloucester. It was held by Humphry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and others. In the year 1326, Abbot Parker granted a lease of the Manor for seventy years to Thomas Robins and Joan, his wife. The Family of Robins continued to hold this Manor as lessees after it had been allotted by Henry VIII. to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral as part of their endowment. Members of this family appear on many occasions subsequently as freeholders of Matson. John the son of

Thomas Robins took possession of the Manor of Matson in the year 1553, and left it to his son Thomas, who married Joan, daughter of Lawrence Singleton, Esq., of Singleton Hall, Lancashire. Richard Robins gave the Living of Matson to Lewis Evans in the year 1570. Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Joan, married Jasper Selwyn Esq., January 13th, 1591, at King's Stanley, and as heiress brought him certain lands at Matson, in dowry. Sir Ambrose Willoughby appears to have lived at Matson House about this time, for he is said to have built the present Manor House in the year 1594.

In the year 1597, Matson House passed into the hands of Jasper Selwyn, Esq., who married the heiress of Thomas Robins. t - © But part of the Manor was still in possession of the Eobins Family, for in 1626 John Eobins, by grant of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester, gave the Living of Matson to William Ansell, M.A. He married Anne, daughter of William Stratford,1 Esq., of Farmcote. She was buried in Matson Church May llth, 16632, and until very lately the slab was to be seen in the Church. The inscription is thus given in Bigland's Hist, of Gloucestershire (1790):—

" In memory of Anne, the wife of John Eobins, of the Manor of Matson, in the parish of Upton St. Leonards, in the County of Gloucester, Esq. She was the daughter of William Stratford, of Farmcote, in the County of Gloucester, Esq. Ob. 11 May, 1663. Also in memory of Dorothy, the wife of William Eobins (grandson of the above John), of Matson, gent. Dorothy was the daughter of Thomas Bacon, of Mansell, co. Somerset, Esq., a gentleman of an ancient good family.

 Ob. 1732 set. 32." Arms—Rollins impaling Stratford. The Rev. William Bazeley, M.A., the present Rector of Matson, in a paper read by him at Gloucester, January 25th, 1878, on the history of Matson, says :— " It was during the time of William Sehvyn, son of Jasper and Margaret, that Charles I. resided for twenty-six days at Matson House. (A Mr. Robins was living close by Matson House at this time.) " Matson House has been little altered since that time, and it is easy to picture the White King, as he was called on account of his virtuous character, seated in the old dining hall, with the young princes, Charles and James, or joining his courtiers in-his favourite game of bowls on the level green. Here was Chillingworth the divine, engaged in the most unclerical pursuit of making battering rams to demolish the city walls. Here also was Falkland, amiable 1 Arms of Stratford—Barry of ten, over all a lion rampant. • The following apparently refers to a second marriage

1671, of this same Mr. John Robins:—"Eobins, John, Esq., of Mattsdon, co. Gloucester, widower, and Elinor Chamberlayne, of Mangersbury, said co. spinster, about 28, daur of Edmond Chamberlayne, of same, Esq., who consents, at St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, or Great St. Bartholomew, London.

30 May, 1671." From Col. Chester's Marriage Licensee 34 learned, and liberal beyond his age, lamenting the internecine strife, which was devastating the land and hindering the spread of knowledge. There are some marks on the window-sill of a room in the north-western gable, which tradition assigns to the swords of the young princes. Wraxall, in his memoirs, tells us that King James II. mentioned this feat to one of the Selwyns, amongst other recollections of Matson. The little Church was used for storing ammunition; and Charles, probably, made use of a room, now called the Chapel, for his daily devotions. The King's Chamber and Kitchen still retain their names. There are several letters extant which were written at this time from Matson House, one from the King begs the Marquis of Newcastle not to forget his 200 barrels of gunpowder.

 Tradition says that on the 5th of ' September, 1643, Charles and his sons rode sadly away down the lane, which leads by Snedham Green to Brookthorpe, then up across the fields to Sponebed Hill. It was whilst they were resting for a while at the ancient camp, called Kimsbury Castle, or Castle Godwin, that one of the princes asked, "When are we going home ?" and he answered, " Alas, my child, we have now no home to go to!"

 "Jasper Selwyn died in 1634, and was buried at Matson. His monument describes him as ' Counsellor at law and one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Gloucester.' From his will, which I have examined at the Gloucester Probate Court, it appears that he left his plate and other moveables to his daughters, Margaret, Sarah, and Dorothy, and certain fittings of the house, which he describes as ' wainscot and glass,' to his son William, stipulating that his widow, whom he makes his sole executrix, should have the use of them during her life-time. The will is a very short one, and more than half of it is a solemn declaration of his Christian faith. Margaret Selwyn survived her husband only two years." William Robins, of Crum Hall, married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Bacon, Esq., of Mansell, Somerset.

 She died May 26th, 1732, and was buried at Matson. William was the grandson of John and Anne Eobins, and was a freeholder in Matson in 1734. 35 He was High Sheriff for Gloucester in 1738. As late as 1790, George Augustus Selwyn,1 Esq., possessed the Manor of Matson. He made several alterations in the old family mansion of the Eobins'. It is recorded that the original entrance to the mansion'was an old-fashioned doorway, with heavy folding gates, thickly studded with nails, which opened into a courtyard, and was the principal entrance to Matson House.

 On the 18th of January, 1603, Henry Eobins, apparently of the Matson family, was elected Town Clerk of Gloucester. It is recorded that he lived to a great age, and is buried in the north transept of the Cathedral. Upon his tomb is the following inscription:— " Here lieth the body of Henry Eobins, Esq., who departed this life the llth day of November, 1613." And on a brass plate on the same tomb is the following:— " Catistoictts ftteram, twm me mea fata stttefrant

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Thomas Bobbins, Esq., formerly of 1'ilewell in this parish, who died 25th April, 1838, in the 49th year of his age. Patri suo dilectissimo hoc nionunientum pietatis clamorisposuit filius unicus. J. B. Bequiescat in pace." Arms.— Bobbins impaling argent, a fess, and in chief three mullets of five points gules—Ireson. Motto—Esse quam videri. 48 HERTFORDSHIRE. St. Mary's, Stocking, Pelhani. John Robyns was instituted to the living here, on the presentation of Henry Hert, the patron, on the 14th November, 1439. He resigned it four years later, in 1443. St. Allan's. In the Church of St. Stephen, on the floor of a South Chapel, is a brass with the figures of a man in armour, and his wife, their four sons, and five daughters.

The inscription is now lost, but Weever, in his Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631), thus transcribes it. There is also a copy in the Parish Register:— " fiic Jacet Willelmus Robins, flrmigcr, niiper Clericus Signet! €du>ardi quart! nuper Regis Jlnglie, et Katberina uxor ejusdetn Willelmi, qui quidem Willclmus obiit iiij'° die mensis Rovembris flnno Domini mcccclxxxij. quorum animabus propicietur Deus. flmen." [Here lieth William Robins, Esquire, formerly Clerk of the Signet1 to Edward IV., late King of England, and Katherine wife of the same

"William, which said William died the 4th day of the month of November A.D. 1482. On whose souls may God have mercy. Amen.] The following document apparently belongs to a later member of the same family:—" Charter from Thomas Robyns of St. Alban's, confirming to "William Marston, Robert Marston, and William Bayle, certain land, &c., called Sprotte Grove, in the parish of St.

Michael next St. Alban's, with signature of Thomas Robyns. Dated 18 Henry VIII. [1526]." "Weever describes the Clerk of the Signet as "An officer continually attendant on his Maiestie's Secretarie, who always hath the custodie of the Privie Signet, as well for sealing his Maiestie's privie letters, as also such grants as passe his Maiestie's hands by Bill assigned. Of these there be foure that attend in their course, and were used to have their diet at the Secretarie's table. More largely you may reade of their office in the statute made Ann. 27 Hen. VIIL, ca. ii." 49 Still later in the days of King George I. [1717], and again in 1728, a Thomas Bobbins was Mayor of St. Albans. Norshaw.

On the floor of the Church is the following inscription :—" 'Here lyeth interred the body of Helen Eobins, wife of Elisha Eobins, mercer, daughter of William Boulton1, Esq., who departed this life the 31st day of March, 1647, aged 32 years." See pedigree from the Herald's Visitation of London, 1633—

4, under Middlesex. Sertingfordbury. In the churchyard of St. Mary's, several members of a family of Eobins—date about 1700—are buried. Eoyston. In the middle aisle of the Church is the following:—" Here lieth the body of Ann Eobins; she died June 1st, 1761, aged 47- years." Bushey. A tablet in the Church of St. James records a George Manners Eobins. He died 18th June, 1865. Wheathamstead. In the Church of St. Helen is a marble cross erected to the memory of Helen, the wife of George Upton Eobins, who died 15th January, 1875, aged 54 years. 1 Arms of Boulton.—A hawk belled. Crest.—

On a wreath a hawk belled. 50 KENT. Arms. — Barry wavy of six sable and azure, in chief three fleursde- lis argent, on a canton, or, a bend gules, charged with a crescent of the third. Crest. — A cubit arm erect, vested bendy sinister wavy or and azure, cuff 'argent, the hand proper grasping by the -beard a man's head affronte'e proper.

 [These arms and crest were granted by Lawrence Dalton, rTorroy King of Arms, to John Bobbins, of Dover, a Captain, 19th December, 1558. See Earl. MS., 1, We find mention, in the year 1279, of Geoffrey, the son of Dera Hobins, respecting a messuage and land which the father of the then possessor, had bought of Geoffrey, who had inherited it from his mother Dera, who had it from the Priory of Bernewell.1 1321 — October 3rd. John de Eedenesse came before the King on the aforesaid day, and sought to replevy2 to Henry Kixe, of Estgate, and Agnes his wife, their land in the suburbs of Rochester, which was taken into the King's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Mabel, daughter of Henry Eobyn. Close Rolls.

1322— May 22nd. In an assignment of the manors of Berlynge and JBurgham [co. Kent] to Idonia, late wife of Geoffrey de Say ; among rents of assize of tenants is " from John Eobyn 17|d." Close Bolls. 1 Bernewell at Barnewell Priory, begun in Cambridge in 1092, but removed to Batnewell by Pain de Peverel, standard-bearer to Uobert, Duke of Normandy, 1112. 2 Eeplevin, or Keplevy—the bringing a writ called replegiare facias, for the releasing of things distrained. .51 .1334—April 6th. Commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by Alice late wife of Eobert Sharstede, and Eichard le Smyth, executors of Eobert, that John Eobyn the younger, Matilda Eobyn, and others, carried away goods of the said Eobert which were in their custody at Dudynton, co. Kent. Patent Rolls. 1389. The King [Eichard II.] granted to John Brokeman land others, in fee, the manor of Pery, in Kent, thirty-six 'acres of land and pasture in iQuldroune and Midle, sixty acres of pasture for •sheep in :Stouting, a quarter and two bushels of barley in the hands of William Bollinge, and one quarter of barley of Edmund Eobyn in Grundale, late the property of Eobert Belknap, Knight, attainted. Patent Molls. Amongst the 262 contributors in Kent to a loan to the King

 [iEenry VIII.] in 1542, we find the name.of "Eobert Bobyns, of Lidde, .£5." See Zay Subsidies, .Kent, No. ||| Pub. Rec. Office. John Robins the grantee of the arms and crest given ;above,was M.P. for Dover in the first and fifth Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth. Thomas Eobins was Eector of Otterden in the year 1682, and Vicar of Lenham in 1684. He died 1701, leaving a bequest of £20 per -annum to St. John's College, Cambridge, for the benefit of two scholars, educated in the school. Francis Bo bins, M.A., his son., also Vicar of of Leuliam, left, in the year 1720, the sum of £3 per annum to the most industrious poor of Lenham, to be distributed by the Minister or Churchwardens yearly on the llth March. 52 LEICESTERSHIRE. Aahfordby. In the year 1337 a messuage and bovate of land in Frisby were given to the Prior and Convent of Launde, by John Eobyn, of Ashfordby, and Alice Burhead. The following license for its alienation in mortmain is found among the Patent Rolls

:— 1337—December 16th. License for the alienation in mortmain to the prior and convent of Lannde,1 in satisfaction of eight marks of the twenty marks yearly of land and rent which they have licence to acquire, of the following:—by Robert de Dodyngton a messuage and a bovate of land in Tilton, with a release of seven marks of rent which they render for certain lands at Skeftington, and by John Robyn, of Asfordeby, and Alice Burheved, the reversion of a messuage and a bovate of land in Friseby, held for life by Matilda Bakester. The said messuages and lands are of the yearly value of 9s. as appears by the inquisition. Os/jatrtorpn. In a list of freeholders at this place—five miles north-east of Ashby-de-la-Zouch—we find the name of William Robins, in the year 1630. The following inscriptions in Markfield Church, on the floor of the nave, commemorate some later members of the same family:— " Here lyeth the body of Dorothy Robins, wife of William Robins, of Osgatborpe, gentleman.

 She died in 1708, aged 67 years." " Here lyeth the body of Thomas Avery, gentleman, who married Dorothy, the only daughter of William Bobbins, of Osgathorpe, by whom he left issue one son and three daughters. He departed this life May 27th, 1705, aged 33 years." 1 Lavmde, or Lodington, co. Leicester, a priory of Austin Canons, founded bv Richard Basset, and his wife Maud, about the year 1125. 53 " Here lieth interred in the same grave, Dorothy, the relict of the said Thomas Avery. She died November 3rd, 1731, aged 56 years.

" Edward Willis, Lieutenant in the 37th Regiment of Infantry, son of Kichard Willis, Esq., of Halsnead Park, married Harriette, daughter and co-heiress of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Eohbins,1 12th May, 1831. 1 Lieut.-Colonel Price Bobbins, 69th Regiment, died at Bangalore, 6th December, 1816. He married at Fort St. George, Madras, 18th February, 1807, Miss Ann Brownrigg. 54 MIDDLESEX. Arms.—Gules, four demi-fleurs-de-lis divided paleways and issuing from the top, bottom, and sides of the escutcheon, the points following each other, argent1. Crest.—A spaniel, or talbot's, head couped argent. [These arms and crest were entered by Elisha Robins, mercer— descended from Robins, of Rislip, co. Middlesex—at the Herald's Visitation of London, in 1633—4. Harl. MS. 5,869.] From Visitation of London, 1633—

4 Broad Street. John Robins, of Bislip, = Joan, daur. of ... in co. Middx.2 Cogges. 1 Rafe Robins, 2 John Robins. Elisha Robins =Ellen, daur. of ob. s.p. = of London, ^ mercer, 3rd sonne 1634 [Silkman in Boulton pedigree]. William Boulton, of London, grocer [bur. at Norshaw, Herts, 1647. See M.I.,p.49]. Elisha Robins. ELISHA KOBINS. AVilliam llobyns, Alderman of London, had a daughter Anne (co-heiress) married to Mark Warner, of London.

 See Visitation of London, 1568. Other London marriages from 1588 to 1694, included in the following list, are found in the late Colonel Chester's Allegations for Marrinyc Licenses, in the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office, London :— 1 In Visitation of London the fleurs-de-lis are tricked Or. '- Robins, Henry, of Riselipp, co. Middlesex, blacksmith, and Isabel Winchester of the same, spinster, daughter of Henry Winchester, of the same, yeoman, at St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, 8th May, 1598. From Co/. Cheater's Marriage Licenses,

00 Rollins, John (Eobyns) yeoman ; and Lisettc Weaver, now of the City of London, widow of William Weaver, late of Rumpton, co. Warwick, blacksmith, deceased. Gen. lie., 3 Nov., 1588. Robins, Edmund (Eobyns), taylor; and Elizabeth Prescott, of London, spinster, daur. of Henry Prescott, late of . . . . co. Norfolk, husbandman, deceased. Gen. lie., 17 Jan. 1591—2. Robins, Thomas, of St. Bartholomew the Great London, tallow chandler; and Elizabeth Dayge, of St. Swithin, London, spinster daughter of ... Dagge, late of Worcester, yeoman, deceased —

at St. Swithin aforesaid. 9 Aug., 1605. Robins, William (Eobyns), gent., of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, widower, 50; and Jane Smartfoote, of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, widow, 40—at St. Sepulchre, or St. Faith, London. 12 Aug., 1626. Robins, Edward (Eobyns)1, grocer, of St. Botolph, Billingsgate ; and Elizabeth Harrison, spinster, of St. Ben net, Gracechurch, daughter of John Harrison, late of Wellington, co. Salop, yeoman, deed.—at St. Bennet, Gracechurch, 29 Jan., 1585

—6. Robins, Richard, of Christchurch, London, haberdasher ; bachelor about 23 ; and Sarah Clerke, of Edmunton, Middx., spinster, about 20—consent of her father, Felix Clerke, of the same, Esq.—in Church or Chapel of Edmunton aforesaid. 16 June, 1662. Robins, Josias, of St. Dunstan in the West, gent., bachelor, about 27; and Elizabeth Old field, of St. Martins in the Fields, spinster, about 27, and at own dispose—at Great St. Bartholomew, London. 13 May, 1672. Robins, George, of St. Michael, Wood Street, London, dyer ; and Martha Crosse, of St. Lawrence, Old Jewry, spinster, daur. of Stephen Crosse, late of same, draper, deceased'—at St. Lawrence, Old Jewry aforesaid. 24 April, 1598. 1

 In 1569 we find the name of Edward Robyns as witness to a deed between William Younge, of Cranfield, co. Bedford, and Thomas Busshbye, of London. 56 Eobins, Edward, of St. Saviour, Southwark, cheesemonger, bachelor, about 23 ; and Sarah Fletcher, of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, spinster, about 24, at own dispose—at St. Mary, Savoy, St. Paul, Covent Garden, or St. Clement Danes. 13 Oct., 1666. Bobbins, Henry, of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, London, salter ; and Elizabeth Fludd of same, spinster, daur. of David Fludd, late of same, cordwaiiier, deceased—at St. Bennett Sherehog, London. 26 Feb., 1613—14. Westminster, City:— Bobbins, Richard, City of Westminster, drawman ; and Elizabeth Lyddyes, spinster—

at St. Peter, Paul's Wharf, London. 29 Apr., 1624. Robbins, Thomas, of City of Westminster, gent., bachelor, 30; and Christian Jones, of same, spinster, 20—consent of her mother, Alice Jones, widow—at St. Clement Danes, or St. Giles in the Fields. 22 June, 1640. 1694. 19 April. Administration of the goods, &c., of Margaret Robins, of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, widow, deceased, granted to her son, James White. In the Journals of the House of Commons, vol. vi., p. 150, we find the following :— A.D. 1648. Isabel Eobins—her pardon read and agreed to.

Order for passing it under the Great Seal. Next follows a religious enthusiast of the Commonwealth period, in the person of John Robins—a small farmer, who sold his land and came to London, where he was known as the Ranter's god, and claimed power to raise the dead. He was thrown into Clerkenwell prison in 1651, but, on recantation, was set at liberty in the following year. A deed of 1671 between Edward and William Peck, William Longville, Esq., Symcm Eobins, gent., and Richard May, all of the city of London, relates to land, &c., at Enfield.

57 Among the names of Robins which occur from time to time within the city of London, many no doubt, were natives of other counties, with which it is now difficult to identify them. Of those who have settled in London, one of the best known is, perhaps, Henry Eobins, already mentioned as a member of the Oharlton Kings branch of the Gloucestershire family (see pedigree facing p. 42). Born in 1753, he must in early life have adopted the business of an auctioneer in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, for in 1785, when at the age of 32, we find a printed "catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby, and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms under the Piazza, Covent Garden."

He died loth September, 1821, at the age of 68. His son, George Henry Robins, born in London 1778, began to exercise his father's business at the age of 19, and through his ready wit and power of repartee, was in much request as a leading auctioneer throughout the next half century. Two of his notable sales were the contents of Wanstead House, Essex, including the magnificent furniture, paintings, books, plate, &c., the property of Mr. W. Long Wellesley, a 32 days' sale, in June and July, 1822 ; and the classic collections of Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill, a 24 days'sale in April and May, 1842.

He married first, 17th September, 1800, Isabella Gates, who died at Turnham Green, 19th December, 1828 ; and secondly, 13 August, 1831, Marian Losack. He died at Regency House, King's Road, Brighton, 8th February, 1847,1 and was buried at Kensal Green ; leaving, among other children, three sons :— George Augustus, Rector of Eccleston, co. Cheshire. Arthur, Rector of Holy Trinity, Windsor, Chaplain in Ordinary to the late Queen Victoria. Gilbert, a solicitor of Pancras Lane, London. 1 In 1845 we find him engaged in a law suit versus Burke and Grubbe, respecting the right of an auctioneer to claim commission upon the sale of an estate which the defendants themselves had at the eleventh hour sold to the Duke of Buckingham. D 58 Contemporary with George Henry Eobins, the auctioneer

 [1818 —1828], we find a firm of London

 publishers—James Eobins & Co. Amongst the works bearing their name are :— " The Newgate Calendar : being interesting Memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the Laws of England during the 18th Century, brought down to the present time; by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, Attorneys at Law." London, printed and Published by J. Bobins $• Co., Albion Press, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. Six volumes. [No date, but about 1818.1 A later edition, in four volumes (1824) bears a similar imprint.

The same firm were also publishers of some of the most important works illustrated by Cruikshank:— " The Humourist; a collection of entertaining tales, anecdotes, epigrams, &c.," with forty coloured plates by George Cruikshank. J. Robins/^ Co. Four volumes, 1819—1822. " Greenwich Hospital, a series of naval sketches, descriptive of the life of a Man-of-War's Man, by an Old Sailor," with illustrations by G. C. London, published by James Robins 4'Co., Iry Lane, Paternoster Row, and Joseph Robins ;'««.,' 4" Co., Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin, 1826.

The first editions of other works of Cruikshank, viz.:—Illustrations of Time (1827); Phrenological Illustrations (1827) ; and Scraps and Sketches (1828) are all published by the Artist, 22, Middleton Terrace, Pentonville, and sold by the London firm of James Eobins & Co. 1 Joseph Robins, late apprentice of Edward Wynne, of 57, Tooley Street, Borough, Stationer, &c., had his freedom of the Drapers' Company of London, 20th February, 1817 ; and Samuel Eobins, apprentice of Joseph Robins, the younger, of 181, Tooley Street. Printer,

also had his freedom of the same Company 28th February, 1826. 59 NORFOLK. 1328—April 5th.—Commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by Nicholas de Teronte and others, merchants of Flanders, that whereas they had lately laded two ships of Flanders, William Eobyn, with many others, in breach of the truce between the King [Edward III.] and the Flemings, boarded the ships at sea, near Great Yarmouth, and carried away their goods and merchandise, conveying them, with the ships, to Blakeneye, where they divided the property amongst them.

 Patent Rolls. June 23rd. The like, on apparently the same matter. 1333—November 20th.—Pardon to William, son of John Robyn, of Sahara, for the death of Boger, son of John Eobyn, of Saham, as it appears by the record of the Justices appointed to deliver Estderham [East Dereham] gaol. Patent Rolls.

1448. Sir1 William Kobyns was Eector of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, Wramplingham.

1514. The name of Sir Thomas Robyn appears as a landowner in Stiskey [Stivekey ?]. 1531. A deed of this date [23 Henry VIII.] between Andrew Eobyns, otherwise called Martyn, of Norwich, and John Chapman, of Eston [co. Norfolk] relates to a mansion and land at Brandon, near Barnham-Broom.

1638. John Eobins and Henry Davy were Bailiffs of Yarmouth. In Tanner's MSS. is a letter from them to Bishop Wren,2 dated 26th March in this year, denying certain claims made by Miles Hull, the Parish Clerk. 1 The title of Dominns, or Sir,was at this date used by a priest who had not taken the degree of Master of Arts, when he became Hfuptsteror Master. - Matthew Wren [the friend and contemporary of Archbishop Laud, and uncle to Sir Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's Cathedral] successively Dean of Windsor, Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, and Ely.

He died 16*57. D 2 60 1728. A deed between William Brereton and Edmund Bond, botli of Brinton, relates to land here, and at Beningsham, late the land of William Eobins. Among the memorials in the Churchyard at Itteringham we find the names of Thomas Kobins, bur. 1726. Mary, his wife, bur. 1725. Thomas Eobins, bur. 1732. Mary, his wife, widow of Eev. J. Fletcher, and daughter of ... Jefferies, bur. 1747. Eichard Eobins, Esq., was lord of Mower's Hall Manor, Itteringham, 1 in the year 1769. He inherited it from his father William, who had it from his uncle, Eichard Eobins. A ...

 Robins, Esq., also possessed the Manor of Bintre in 1769. Held of the Crown at a quit rent of 3s. 6d. per annum. 61 OXFORDSHIRE. A John Robin held a cottage in Dunstew in the year 1279. A Walter Robyn, of Sypford, is mentioned in the same year. 1327. March 12th. Commission of oyer and terminer, on complaint by the Abbot of Eynesham,1 and brother Nicholas de Stanlake, of the same Abbey, that William Robyn, with others, assaulted the said Nicholas, at Hampton Pule, co. Oxon., and maltreated him.—Patent Rolls, 1 Edvxml III. William Robyns, Chaplain, was presented by the Abbot and Convent of Ensham to the Church of Sulthorn, May 18th, 1415. William Masey quitclaims to Robert James, Esq., Edmund Rede,

John Faynel, Sen., and William Robyns, all his right in one toft and one virgate of land in Hedynton, which the said Robert and others had by the gift and feoffment of John Dalberd (Clerk), Robert Bruns, and John Hore, dated, Hedynton August 6th, 1418. A John Robyns was Vicar of Ambrusden in the year 1510. He resigned the living December 31st, 1513. In the reign of Henry VIII., John Robyns was Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and S. George's Chapel, Windsor. [See under Staffordshire.']

 In 1541, Thomas Hall, receiver of the temporalities of the See of Lincoln due on the Feast of S. Michael, received the sum of £77 12s. 3id. from Richard Robyns and Thomas Barons, of Banbury, who held certain lands or manors of the Bishop. A George Robins was Mayor of Banbury in the year 16.".2 ; his son George was a mercer, and belonged to the Company of Mercers in the year 1669. On the 16th of July, 1662, Thomas Robins, Mayor of Banbury, with nine Aldermen, all the six Capital Burgesses, and other officers of the Corporation, took oaths of allegiance and supremacy.

Thomas Robins is again mentioned in the year 1677. 1 Eynesham, or Ensham, was a house of Benedictines, founded bj Athelmare, or Ailnaar, Earl of Cornwall, before 1005. 62 SHEOPSHIBE. 1327. April 16th. Commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by William, son of William Eeynald, of Aff'ecote, that John, son of Kichard Bobyns, and others, carried away his goods, and 40s. of his money, at Affeeote, co. Salop.—Patent Rolls 1 Edward III. 63 SOMERSETSHIRE. Arms and Crest, same as the Gloucestershire family. [See page 31.] 1331. March 22nd. Commission of over and terminer on complaint of Robert Gyene, of Bristol, king's merchant, that a ship In Mariote of Hook, freighted at Bordeaux by him and other merchants, with wines and merchandise for Bristol, was stranded at Goldcliffe ; and that part of the cargo having been washed ashore there and at Asslie, Elmedon, Walton, Weston, and Portseved [Portishead], co. Somerset, was thereupon carried away as wreck by the Prior of Goldcliff'e and others—Joan and John Robyn being among the number—notwithstanding that those on board had escaped alive, and that, at the time of cairying away, it was claimed for the said Robert.—Patent Rolls,

 [1334. Mar. 13 and Nov. 3. Two other commissions of oyer and terminer in the same matter.] A- John Robyns, of the same family as " Kobyns," of Matson, co. Gloucester, was Mayor of Bristol in the reign of Henry VI. [1422—1461]. One of his descendants was Thomas Bobbins, who, about the year 1770, settled at Pilewell Park, near Lymington. [See under Hampshire, p. 45, and pedigree p. 46.] Marriage Licences, Diocese of Bath and Wells. Hendy, of Weston, by Bath, clothier, whose father and mother consent, and Elizabeth Robins, of SS. Peter and Paul, Bath. At Bath 26 Dec.,

1680 [James Hendy, of Twerton, and Elizabeth Robince, married on the following day, 27 Dec. Bath Abbey Bey-inter.] Hoare, Joseph, of Bleadon, gent., and Jane Robins, of Hutton, widow, llth May, 1715. 64 Benjamin Eobins, born at Bath, in the year 1707, became distinguished in early life as a mathematician, and afterwards as a pamphleteer, F.E.S. 1727, Copley medallist 1747. He published in 1742 his best known work " New Principles of Gunnery, continuing the Determination of the Force of Gunpomhr," an edition of which was issued as late as 1805. It was translated into German by Eufer. He went to India, as Engineer General, to repair the forts of the East India

Company in 1749, and died in Madras 1751. His "Mathematical Tracts" were published in 1761, by James Wilson. A Rev. Dr. Robbing was Rector of South Petlierton in 1789. In 1801 was published " Hobbins's Hath Itirertvry," corrected t<> date with an Appendix containing the Titles of the Nobility, and names of the Gentry, and where they reside—extending altogether to 150 pages, small octavo. It was most probably well patronised in its day, Bath, at this time, being the centre to which all the highest rank and fashion of the country, up to royalty itself, congregated during the season; and where, in the old Assembly Rooms—which stood near the present Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, and were destroyed by fire in 1820— took place the many scenes of gaiety and frivolity so vividly described by Smollett, Fielding, and other of our old novelists.

 65 STAFFORDSHIRE. Arms and Crest, same as Gloucestershire and Somersetshire. [Berry gives the coat as belonging to " Robyns, or Robbins, Staffordshire, and Netherhall, Worcestershire." Papwortb says " John Robyns, co. Worcester V.1 Robyns, co. Stafford. Also to the name of White." For date of the original grant to John Robins, see Woreestershire.] Co. Stafford. Subsidy Roll A.I). 1332—;). Con/ton. William Robyn—if. 1391. William de Uuddeley, in his own person, sued Henry Robines, of West Bromwich, for breaking " by force and arms " into his close there, and treading down and consuming his grass, with his cattle, to the value of 100 shillings. Henry did not appear, and the Sheriff was ordered to distrain, and produce him at Hilary Term.—Plea Rolls, 14 Hie. II. 1403. Dispute concerning property. William Robyns mentioned as holding lands for life.—Plea Soils, 4 Hen IV. 1416. Richard Robyns, yeoman, of Swynnerton, with others, sued for breaking into a close.—De Banco Soils,

3 Hen. V. 1420. John Robyns, of Ricardiscote, sues for debt of forty shillings.—Ibid, 7 Hen. V. 1422. William Leveson, of Hampton, co. Stafford, gentleman, sued John, son of Richard Robyns, and others, that by a conspiracy made between them at Bruwode, he had been accused, with others, of stealing in the night time four cartloads of hay belonging to John Robyns, of the value of 20/-.—Cor am Rege Roll, 9 Hen. V. 1 V. refers to Glover's Ordinary, MS. Tiberius D. 10. Harleian MS. 1392 and 1459, British Museum. 66 1426. William Eobyns, husbandman, of West Bromwich, sued to render account for time he was bailiff to William Freeman.— De Banco Roll, 4 Hen. VI. 1459. William Eobyns mentioned in Plea Roll, 37 Hen. VI. 1539. From the certificate taken at this date, by virtue of a Royal Commission from Henry VIII. for a general muster of the people, and view of harness and weapons,1 we find the name of Anthony Robins, of Sondon, who, for the defence of his country, was in readiness to furnish " a harness complete, with bows and 24 arrows." 1616.

 Richard Robyns purchased, for £41, some twenty six acres of land, &c., in Edgall, &c., from Robert Bullock.—Feet of fines, 13 James I. Bilston. Kobyns, says Mr. Lawley, in his " History of Bilston " (1893), was one of the most ancient of the Bilston families, their origin being lost in the darkness of antiquity. The first of the name of whom we have any account was Clement Robyns, who, in 1350, was witness to a grant made by John Mollesley to his son John, of Bilston. The next was Thomas Robyns2 who in the second year of Richard II. [1378], with his wife Juliana, surrendered to Sir William Poort, the then priest of Bilston, and John Robyns, a messuage, water mill, &c. For a heriot was given a cow, value 6s. 8d., and for admittance 8s. William de Bovebrok, witness to the deed, is described as husband of Maude Robyns.

'Upon receipt of information that the Pope had, by means of Cardinal Pole, incited the Princess of Christendon to invade England. The King, on this occasion, visited the coasts in person, caused block-houses and fortifications to be made, put the navy in readiness at Portsmouth, and issued commissions throughout the kingdom for a military muster and view of armour and weapons. 1 See Plea Rolls, 16 Ric. II. [1393], Thomas Robyns, of Bilston, sued and fined for trespass, &c. 67 In another deed, of the same date, this Juliana, late wife of Thomas Eobyns, of Bilston, gives to her son William a certain parcel of meadow " in the fee of Bradley, in a certain field called Bovebroke field."

In a third deed, dated I. Henry IV. [1399—1400] one William Nycolas surrenders a messuage and land adopusJoh'is Eobyns fil's Clcm'ts fil's Johi's Carpenter did' [to the use of John Robyns, son of Clement, son of John called Carpenter]. In 6 Henry V. [1417—18] John Peppard "Chaplain" and prebendary of Monmore, conveyed his lands in the prebendal court to William Kobyns, of Bylston, reserving to himself the fish in the marl-pitts, for the space of 26 years next following. The ground mentioned is said to be in two fields called the Middel- Horwall, and the Nether-Horwall. William Eobyns gave for fine seisin, and heriot 10s. By another indented writing, of the same date, Robyns agreed for himself and his heirs, during the term of 26 years, to pay said John Pipard 8s. yearly, and one competent carriage of land coales to be drawn by five horses, for the said ground.

The Eev. Eichard Ames, curate of Bilston [1684—1730], who has chronicled in the Parish Eegister much information of local and historical interest, tells us that " one of ye family of ye Eobyns' married an heiress of ye Waters's, of Willenhall, for among Mr. Kobyn's writings is ye will of Roger Waters, dated 7th of the Kalends of August, Anno Dom. 1471, wherein he bequeaths his soul ' to God the Father Omnipotent, and the Blessed Mary, and all His Saints.'" He gave to the use of the Church of Wolverhampton 12d., and to the Chaplain of the Chapel of Wyllnale 12d. In 1460 — 61 [1 Edw. IV.

] a son of John Eobyns, the son of Clement, William by name,1 with others, surrendered land in Windmill field, in Bilston, near the way to Wolverhampton, to Sir Thomas de Erdington then joint lord of the manor of Stowheath, as part of the endowment of a Chantry, dedicated to St. 1 1472. William Robyns, of Bilston, yeoman, sued, with others. Plea Roll, 11 Edw. IV. 68 Leonard, which he had founded within the Chapel of St. Leonard in Bilston. Mr. Ames tells us that there was "in ye custody of Mr. Tho. Bobyns an indulgence granted to Clement Kobyns and Agnes his wife, and their issue ; dated at London Ano. Dom. 1449."

In 1491 there was a priest named William Eobyns whose orders were dated at Lichfield, January 8th, of that year, and his letters of sub-deacon's orders May 28th following. In 1496 Nycolas Eobyns was appointed trustee under the will of Thomas Perry, and his son Humphrey was, says Mr. Ames, " of ye monastery of Hales Owen1, an acolyth, as appears by a certificate under ye hande and scale of ye Abbot and Convent, dated ye 10th of December, 1524. This Humphrey was ordained June 10th, 1525, and was admitted chaplain to say mass in the College of the B.V. Mary, at Newport, for the salary of seven marks per annum.

He appears to have embraced the Protestant religion, and afterwards became minister of Newport, as is evident by a feoffment under his hand and seal dated 4 Edward VI. [1549—50] in which he styles himself Clericus de Newport. His will, dated 20th March, 1552, is as follows :— Homfre Eobens, clerke, " hoole in mynde and remembrans, allthogh so'wat [somewhat] dredyng deathe." Soule unto Almyghty God my maker and redem', and to all the Blessed company of heaue,' and my body to be buryed w't'in the Churche of Newport, To Thurston Tylston, my god-sou, my house, &c.—to Ales [Pensker ?] my gowne of brystoy frysse—to Anne Benet one augell noble—to Ales Gylbert one angell noble—to Thomas Burton my black cloke—to ye blynd whomau of the almes house my old fetherbed—to Alexander Wudds one angell noble—to Richard Aspley one angell noble—to every one of my god-children ltd., first, Mr. Wudcock's son, Mr. Peryn's son, John Hall's daughter, Homfrey Bachey son, Eichard Mathewe son,

Eaffe Wenewryth's daughter, Eichard Lenard's son—to Mr. "Wyllm, of (Lenton ?), Esq., my clothe p'sse—to Eichard Barnefeld one booke called the vyrgyll—to Thomas Wudcock 3 books called tytus 1 In Shropshire; an establishment of Premonstratensians, or White Canons, dating from 1218. 69 lyvyus—to Robert Barnfeld of the money that cometh unto me for my pentyon of the Kyng, at or ladye next 6s. 8d—rest of goods to my brother William Eobyns whom I make executor.

 Witnesses Alexander Wud', Rychard Aspley, and Hugh Ley my gostely father. Proved 1 July, 1552. Inventory dated 14 June, 1552, by Thomas Bendbowe and John Hall.— Lichfidd Wills. [Nycolas] Eobens.= Humphrey Robens, clerke, will 20 Mar., pr. 1 July William exor. to 1552. To be bur. in Ch. of Newport.

 [He was brother Humphrey, cousin to John Robins, Chaplain to Hen. VIII. and Queen Mary—and appears to have had a small pension from Edw. VI.] A cousin, and contemporary of this Humphrey, was John Robins, born in Staffordshire about the year 15001. He was entered a student of All Souls, Oxford, in 1516, of which College he became Fellow in 1520, took his M.A. degree, and was ordained. His favourite study appears to have been astrology, then much in vogue among the learned. Robyns, says Anthony a Wood, made such progress in mathematics and astrology that he became the ablest person of his time for these studies.

 In 1531 he took his B.D. degree,and was appointed one of Henry the Eighth's Chaplains. In 1532 he was made a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1543 preferred to the dignity of Canon of Windsor. On the accession of Queen Mary he was appointed Chaplain to her Majesty. He died at Windsor on 25th August, 1558—the Queen's own death happening in less than three months after—and was buried in St. George's Chapel, where a monumental brass, with effigy, in canonical habit, was placed to his memory. The effigy itself has long been lost, but the following inscription still remains affixed to the wall in the Rutland Chapel:—

1 Mr. Ames says " There was one John Robyns, who was placed at Windsor, and had a prebend in Wolverhampton (Monmore); for in a letter to his brother William he desires him to look after the profits of the prebend, and speaks of Mr. Hall keeping a court for him." "©rate pro anima Jlagtstri Sotjannis Robins, Sacre EJjeologie Baccalauret, nuper tujus i&egise Capete Canonict, et quontiam Capellam tarn 3&egis H?enrici ©ctabi, quam serentssitne i&egine JHarie, qut obitt rcb. lite &ugttsti &nno Bommi jliUesima quingentesimo quinquagestmo octabo. (Cujus anttna ut in caclo reqtttrscat. Seus opttmus suam mismcortiiam conceliat." [Pray for the soul of Master John Robins, Bachelor of Theology, late Canon of this Chapel Royal, and formerly chaplain, first to King HenryVIII., and afterwards to the most serene Queen Mary. He died the 25th day of August A.D.

1558. God of His great mercy grant that his soul may rest in Heaven.] In the middle was his effigy, and, on either side, scrolls with the following sentences:— Fibit post fctiura btrtus [Virtue lives after death] Eetirmptor incus btbtt [My Redeemer liveth] In it Uominc spnrabt

[In Thee Lord have I trusted] J3c terra Eesurrecttonts sum [I am the Resurrection of the earth] And beneath the following verses—describing him as learned in astronomy, physical science, and divinity ; knowing the laws of nature, searching out the secret causes which obscure the sun, whence the moon has her light, whence roar the winds, whence the snow and thunder, lightning, hail and frost; why the tide ebbs and flows. He knew how truly to discern the virtue of metals, precious stones and gems. Who taught diligently in the Church the written books of Jerome, and all that Ambrose testifies, and much accustomed to search out the stars and celestial objects, now sees more certainly the heavenly places. '• Qui jacet augusta sub saxo hoc clausus in area ? Johannes Robins nomine dictus erat. Jure hominis docti vivens cognomen habebat

71 Cultor virtutis semper ab unguiculis Claruit arte ilia, bene qua numerate docemere Nee qua metirnur, nescius artis erat Novit natura tacitas exquirere causas Quid solem obscurat, luna ubi lumen habet, Unde ruunt venti, inare cur flint atque recurrat Nix unde et tonitru, fulmina, grando, gelu Scivit fucatis veras discernere gemmas, Quas adamas vires, quasque pyropus habet. Sedulus in sacris docuit qui scripta libellis, Hieronymus quicquid, quidque ait Ambrosius. Qui multis solitis riniari sydera terris, Jam videt Etheriis certius ilia locis." Anthony Wood mentions five learned treatises written by him, in Latin, and now preserved in manuscript in the Bodleian Library. In 1552—

3 [7 Edward VI.] when the Chantry of St. Leonard, at Bilston—founded by Sir Thomas de Erdington—was finally dissolved, the Commissioners appointed by the Crown for this purpose, in the county of Stafford, delivered to William .Robins then churchwarden of Bilston, four small bells in the steeple,1 safely to be kept to the use of the Crown. Md. Delivered by the Eight Honorable Walter Viconte Heieforde, Lorde Ferers, of C'hartley,

Thomas Gyft'orde, Knight, ;uxl Edwarde Lyttleton Esquire, Commissioners fur Churche goc.xles within the Counti of Stafford, to William Kobins Churc-he warden there, iiij small bells in the steepul, safeli to be kept u n t i l l the Kinges Majesties pleasure be therein furder knowen. In wittencs whereof as well we the sayd Commissioners as the sayd Chim/ho 1 One of these bells is said to have been inscribed :— " I am callede ye Curfewe belle, I ryngen att VIII or more, Too sende ye alle too bedde And waken ye up at IV." It was bought by Sir Thomas de Erdington from the monks of VTenlock Abbey (where there was anciently a bell foundry) for XV marks, and given to St. Leonard's Chantry at Bilston, to be tolled " for ye soule of ye donor." 72 wardens to thes presents interchaungeabli have putt our handes the xiiii of May anno vcgni Edwardi Sexti septimo.

 WYLLYAM EOBYNS. Endorsed " BlLSTOXE." A piece of land in Bilston, known as Mourner Croft, was purchased by William Eobyns, 30 Hen. VIII. [1538], of Richard Wall, of the Heath. The latter also leased land to a Richard Rohyns 14 Hen. VIII. [1522]. About the year 1594 John Bobbins became Curate of Bilston. He had been educated at Windsor, and was prebendary of Monmore. He was descended from the ancient Bilston family, and through the influence of his relations was able to do much in improving the Church and town. He held the curacy for nearly 34 years, and, dying in 1629, was buried on the 20th March in " Our Lady's Chancel" at Wolverhampton. In 1618 one Nycolas Eobyns was steward for the lord of the manor of Stow Heath, and bailiff of Bilston. After the Restoration, in 1664,

William Robyns, the then representative of the family at Bilston, went to reside at Compton, near Wolverhampton, and it was from documents in his possession that the Rev. Richard Ames, Curate of Bilston, already noticed, obtained his notes respecting the family. In concluding his extracts from them Mr Ames says:— " But many of his writeings are embezell'd, for many I took remarks from ab't 8 yeares agoe are gon, and no wonder, for ye house standing voyd ye last yeare and ye doores being open ye box wherein they were was burst open, and ye writeings thrown about ye room, and many taken away by children as I was informed." In 1699 Thomas Robins, gent, paid quit rent to the lord of the manor of Stow Heath, and at the same date we find that

"William Robbins, gent., holdeth a customary messuage or tenement, being the chief house in Bilston, where his ancestors did dwell." 73 The mansion of the llobyns family was a fine and noble structure of the Tudor period, with carved gables and front, and arabesque ceilings. It stood until the beginning of the 19th century, and occupied the site of St. Luke's Vicarage (Lawley, p. 49). Mr. Ames says that in 1700 not one of the name was left in Bilston. In 1716 Mr. Will. Kobins is in a list of serving bailiffs in the manor of Stowheath ; and in 1730 a William Robyns resided in what was called the " Croft House " there. One branch of the family went to Byshbury, and another to Stafford. Among the principal landowners in 1770 we have the names of Kobyns and Crutchley, who occupied together more than 223 acres. P. C. C. [83 Penn].

Will of William Robins, of Bilston, co. Stafford, gent., 26 Oct.. 1668—weak in body &c.,—towards funeral charges £30. To Thomas Robins, son of my brother Thomas £50, to remain iu the hands of my brother till of age. Whereas I have surrendered certain copyhold lands and tenements in the manors of Stowheath and Wolverhampton Deanery, and charged the same with payment of £150 to and amongst the children of my three sisters, Margaret, Mary, and Priscilla, and my lands within the manor of Stow Heath with the payment of £300 to my brother

John Robins, to be paid in such manner, &c. Now my will and mind is that my said brother Thomas shall pay unto my said In-other John the sum of £50, part of the said £300, and the rest, being in all £400, to be divided amongst the said children of my said three sisters, share and share alike, viz., £133 6s. 8d. to the children of my sister Margaret Whitehouse, the like sum to the children of my sister Mary Linton, and the like sum to the children of my sister Priscilla Lowe, &c. My brother in law William Gibbons to be executor. Rest to be divided amongst the children of my said three sisters equally. Signed William Robins. Witnesses Michael Turton, John Robbing, Roger Stokes, Isaac Hinckley. Codicil without date, but same witnesses.

To my brother Thomas Robins, my freehold lands and tenements in the manor of Bradley, and the half of one close in Xechells, called Crossebritch. Proved 1st June, 1670. E 74 Kobins.=. "William, of Thomas. = John. Margaret.=:Whitehouse. Bilston. Will 1668. Mary.=Linton. Prisoilla=Lowe. Pr. 1670. | (All had issue.) Thomas. Himley. By indenture dated 25th March, -1683, John Paston, of Himley, clerk, Edward Eobins, and others, leased about three acres of land, called "The Poor's piece"—belonging to Lycldyat's Charity— to Nicholas Eobins, for 99 years, at a yearly rent of 30 shillings. Charity Report, 1823, vol. ix., p. 616, This Nicholas was apparently the testator of 1708, who married Agnes Tranter in 1680.

 Edward was baptized at Womborne in 1640 (see pedigree). From HimUy Register. A.D. 1674. Edward Eobins, jr., and Margaret Weaver married 9th June. 1692. Edward Eobins died, age 92. 1676. Silvanus Eobins bapt, 6th December (buried at Enville, 1759). [Womborne parish adjoins Himley]. Liclifield Wills. Will of Nicholas Eobbins, of Himbley, co. Stafford, weaver. 6 Jan: 1708—sick and weak in body. To my son by law John Hardwick and his wife Sarah Is.

To my daughter Susana the lease of one house at Shut End, and one piece of land called the Hobaccers, both in possession of John Millner—to my daughter Betaridge £40—to my two daughters Susana and Betaridge those goods which are mentioned in a writing witnessed by Thomas- More and John Hardwiqk, and Sara Eobins, to be equally divided • between them. My brother Thomas Eobbins, and Edward Tongue, to be my executors.

Witnesses Eobert Thomas (?), Thomas Moore > Ealph Tranter. Proved 27th May, 1709. KOBINS OF HlMLEY, KlNVEK, STOUlilUilDGE AND BIRMINGHAM [1640 1908]. Edward Robins, died 1092, aged !>2 ; buried a I Ilimley:=Ka,thorine. Hannah (1st wife), bur.=Edward Robins, bapt. at= Margaret Weaves- (2nd w;fe), — J- ¥ 1 * 1 4 sn-rn ,,r , , -. * . ° - - _~ . „ ... at Hiiuley 1672. Womborne 1640. 2nd Aug., I married at June, 1674. Uimley 9th John Itobins, bvipt. at Womborne 6th Sept., 1041. Elizabeth Robins, bapt. at Wotuborne, 16th Sept.,

1649. Elizabeth=William, mar. at Steward. Himley, 12 May, 1690. Edward Robins, of Himley, yeoman, =Jban Kgginton, bur. married there 1702; buried 1729. at Hhnley, 29th Will proved at Lichfield 1730. Aug., 1728. I John Robins, bapt. at llimley, 2nd May, 1675. Silvanus Robins, bapt. ut = Mary Addenbrooke, mar. llimley, 6 Dec,, 167(5; | at Kingswinford, 2nd bur. at Knville Dec., 1759. Feb., 1709 ; buried at Knville 9 April, 1748. \VilliaiuKobins, bapt. at Himley

, IB Jan., 1681. I I I Margaret, biipt. 1679, married Richard Hughes. Hose, bapt. 1084. Jane, married John Cartwright. I Edward Robins, bapt. at Kingswinford, 29th Oct., 1710. ~l I I Thomas Itobins, of Dunsley Hall, Kinver, bapt. at Kingswinford, l l th June, 1712, —Elizabeth, daughter of Julm Hale, gent, of Enville died 20th May, 1769, aged 56, buried at Knville. Will dated 20th May, 1769. bipt. 1723, married 17J9, died 1801. I Joseph Robins, of Stourbridge, = Mary, died 1839, Solicitor, bapt. aft Enville 27th April, 1750, died 23rd Mar., 1823, aged 72. I

. ! Thomas Robins, William aged 85. Robins, of Iliiirlev, d i e d 1850, High Sheriff of co. Staffo aged 70, s.p. died 1860. utred 73. 1 Mary Christiana, mar.=Very Rev. Geo. David 1861, died at Salis- Boyle, Dean of Salisbury, 7th Jan., 1907. burv [formerly Rector of Kidderminster], died 21 March, 1901. Mary, bapt. at Enville, 1751, Benjamin Rol )ins, of Duns1ey=;Felicia, died unmarried 18ol<. Hull, born 12lh Jan. ,1755, \\"alk< Betty, born 1752, married died 28th Dec., 1812, buried bury, John Devey, died 1826. at Enville. Ann, born 1753, married George Collis, of Stourbridge, died 1838. 1

I Banker, r=Christiana Matv, Tliomas. ,1 rd 18-145, daur. of W. J. Thomas. Fdensor, d i e d Botlidied 1856. young. Emma=:Cnpt. AY. C.' John Robins,— -Judith Stiindish. born 16th Mamiox Feb., 1828. - &&. / ii / * " <'£^^ 1 1 1 Hubert, born, 1862, Charles Peyton Robin>, Benjamin Percy, born died 1863. born 20th May, 186:i. 15th October, 1864, /• died Feb., 1901. laughter oi Thomas •. of Kyrewood, 'J'enjorn Kith May, 1756, died 1st March, 18 10, buried at Enville. 1 ohn Itobins, of Dunsley j lall.=;Ann, daur. of born 2 » Elvaston Pontridge Stoneley 276 505 606 8 43 566 756 1006 1136 114 1195 161 79 1436 1586 149 1536 366 41 101 1006 1336 54 85 146 2116 1 In N. Staffordshire, four miles from Eccleshall. 2 Albrighton ?

3 Pentrich, in Derbyshire. 84 SUFFOLK. 1283—Oct. 4. Commission of oyer and tevminer on complaint, by Ralph de Bonevill " xerviens" of Otto de Grandisone and of Peter de Chaumpvent that Thomas Kobin, with many others, assaulted the said Ralph, at Ixeworth, co. Suffolk, while the said Otto and Peter were with the King in Wales, and committed depredations on their goods which were in the King's protection. Patent Eolls,

11 Edv. I. Ashlockiiiy. Against the south wall, on the outside of the chancel, a large mural monument of stone for Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles Robins, of the Middle Temple, Esq., daughter of William Buncombe, of Bathesden, co. Bedford, Esq.; died Feb. 5th, 1728, ret. 42. Arms (same as Stafford), impaling per chevron engrailed gu. and sa. three talbots' heads erased counterchanged—DUXCOMHE. 85 SUEEEY. Arms.—

See under Devonshire. In Ashmole MS. 1137, fol. 123, is a shield of nine quarterings— "belonging to the family of Scot, of Carnberwell,1 one of them being the arms of Eobins—Party per pale argent and azure a fess nebulee "between three robins, all counterchanged—the coat referred to •on p. 25. John Scot, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Gamberwell, married, in 1540, as his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Eobins, of London, a merchant of the staple at Calais. He died 15th August) 1558, and was buried in the Chapel of our Lady in the Church of St. Giles, Cainberwell.

In the wall of the south aisle of this Church is a monument of two arches, in which are the effigies of an old man in a gown, a second figure in armour, and that of a female between them. On •a black marble slab is the following inscription:— "Sofjn .Scot, iLortr of t|)e fEanor of ffiamfterfoell, Qie son anti fjeire of Sfofyn Scot, Sheriff of Sttrreg anl< Sussex in ge gear 1520, one of ge -Barons of l&cfjequer) in %$ gear 1.548, Mng married to Ulsafte ye Haunter anti fjetre&f of Uoljn of 3LanKon, JEerdjant of tfje Staple at Calais, &g lie ijati issue,

 Sfofjn, Eicfjartf, EtifoarU, SEilltaw, anti 1 The quarterings include Soot, Biokwell, Bridinghurst, Skynner, Oolcock, Quech, Robins, Cherey, and ,Stokesley; but from whence the shield was •copied does not appear. SUSSEX. > . The name of Ealph Robynes occurs as Eector of Eede, in this county, temp. Henry VIII. [1509—1546]. 87 WARWICKSHIRE. 1288—26th Aug. Commission of oyer and terminer, on complaint by Nicholas cle Segrave the elder, and Matilda his wife, that John Robin, with many others, assaulted the said Matilda at Eccleshale, co. Warwick, and violently threw her out of her cart \_currv~

] in which she was riding, and took away her long cart [carectam"] laden with victuals and other goods. Patent Soils, 16 Edw. I. 1428. From the ledger book of the Guild of Holy Cross, our Lady, and St. John Baptist at Stratford-on-Avon, it appears that John and Matilda Eobyns, of Lamcote, were, at this date, admitted into the fraternity of the guild for a fine of 135. -id. and four bushels of corn. A John Eobyns lived at Framton in the reign of Edward VI. [1547—1553]. P. C. C. [71 Hayes].

Will of Thomas Robins, of Weston, co. Warwick, 23rd March, 1604. My brother John Robins—my kinsman John Robins, and to his sister—to children of my brother William Robins deceased —my kinsman Thomas Courte—my kinswoman Mary Stoakes— my kinswoman Anne Courte—my sister Margery and her children —my kinsman Anthony Robins and his sister—my kinswomen Margery and Joane Cordywaine—my kinsman John Courte to be executor. Proved 160"). Robins.— Thomas, of Weston, co. John. William, = . Warw. Will 1604. dead in 1604. A Margery. = . . . . Issue. Issue. 88 P. C. C. [171 Coventry].

Will of George Bobbins, of Lapworth, co. Warwick, yeoman, 25th April, 1638. Soul to Almighty God—body to be buried in the Parish Church of Lapworth. My daughter Isabell Robins—my sous George, Nicholas, and John Robins—my daughter Elizabeth Smith. My wife Alice Eobbins to be executrix, John Askew and Edward Glover to be overseers. Proved 1st Dec., 1G40. George Robbing, of Lapworth, co. Warw.,=AHce, yeoman, will 1638; proved 1640. Extrix. I l l ! I George. Isabell. Elizabeth.=Smith. Nicholas. John. P. C. C. [180 Berkley]. Will of William Robins sen. of Studley, co. Warwick, gent., 18th June, 1655.

My daur Mary—Trustees Edmund Court, of Studley, gent., and Thomas Holleocke of the same, gent.—my son John Robins—my son William Robins—my son Thomas Rollins —my son George Robins, and his children—my daur Elizabeth, wife of the above Thomas Holleocke—my wife Isabell Robins. Proved loth May, 1656. Wm. Robins, sen., of Studley, co. Warw.=Isabell. gent. Will 1655. M i l | | John. George.= . . . Mary. Elizabeth=Thomas Holleocke, Win. | of Studley, gent. Thos. 4^ Issue. P. C. C. Will of Thomas Robins, of Brownsover, co. Warwick, yeoman, 13th Dec., 1655.

My wife Dorothy Robins—my daughter Anne Robins—my son Edward Rollins, when of age. Christopher Harvey, clerk, my brother in law Mr. Thomas Marriott, and my In-other Robert Robins to lie overseers—my son Thomas Robins to be executor. Witnesses Christopher Harvey, Margaret Harvey. Proved 21st May, 1656. 89 Bobins. = I Thos., of Brownsover, co. Warw., — Dorothy ' Bobert. yeoman. Will, 1655. Thos,, exor. to Edward, under age Anne, his father. ' in 1655. P.O. 0. [244 Pell]. Will of Henry Bobins, of Corley, co. Warwick, yeoman, (no date).

 Bichard Bobins, son of my brother Bobert Bobins—Eleanor, daughter of Giles Bobins my brother—To Sarah Johnson—my son in law Peter Johnson, (husband of my daughter) to be executor. To William Weigham of Fillongley and William Smith, my neighbours, and they to be overseers. Witnesses Jeffrey Jephcote, William Weigham. Proved 1659. Eobins. = 1 Henry, of Corley, co. yeoman. Will pr. 1 1 Warw., = Kohert = Giles = 1659. Sarah = Peter Johnson. Eiohard. Eleanor. Silvester Bobins, of Warwick, married the widow of Bichard Bludd, in the year 16—.

 Roland Bobbins Esq., of Pillaton, married Margaret, third daughter of John Woodward, of Avon-Dasset, in the year 16—. A Bobins, of Etington, married Johanna Fulwood, in 16—. In 1619 we find the name of Bichard Bobins, Esq.,1 as a Town Councillor of Coventry. A member of this family flourished as a woolstapler about this time, and a small estate is still in possession of a descendant. J. Yeoman Bobins, Esq., of Myton House, Warwick, son of the late J. Bobins, Esq., is related to the above.

The Rev. Thomas Bobins, of Streltou, completed his studies for the Church, under Dr. Doddridge, in the-year 1756. He died in March, 1810, in his 78th year. 1 For Arms see Gloucestershire, p. 31. 90 WILTSHIEE. 1310.—The name of Peter Robyn appears as one of the jurymen on an inquisition taken at this date, after the death of Alexander Cheverel, who was owner of the manors of Little Cheverell and Hardenhuish, and rents in Shrewton. Ing. post mortem 4 Hdw. II. 1522.

John Eobyns, and Eowland Robyns, occur in the Court Rolls of Bratton, 14th Henry YIII. 1539. In the military musters of this year [30 Henry VIII.] for several of the hundreds in North Wilts1 we find the following names:— Robert Robyns, and John Robyns, were two out of the eight archers which the tything of Hullaviugton was ready to supply in case of emergency. At Purton, William Robyns, and five others, were to find a harness, a bow, a sheaf of arrows, a sword and dagger.

At Highworth, Walter Robyns—a billman—and two others, were to find a harness, bill, sword and dagger; and at Westrop, Thomas Eobyns was to find a bill. • At Mordon, in Rodbourne Cheney, William Robyns was to find a bow and arrows. . 1544. Roger Hopkins conveyed to Lodowick Eobins messuages and lands in Marlborough, .the consideration paid for the fine being £100. Wilts Fines 36 Hen. VIII. 1!' A Certyfyeatt of the vewe of abull men, as well Arehars as Byllmen," taken by virtue of a Royal Commission, 10th April, 1539, and preserved in the Public Record Office.

The muster of the citizens of London, on the 8th May following, was inspected by the King in person. See also p. 66, note. • 91 Salisbury. 1562. By an inquisition taken at Salisbury, in this year, ib was found that, among others, Mrs.' Braghfcwood Eobyns, wife of John Bobyns, of that city, clothier, had infringed a certain statute of the realm1, by wearing, on the previous 26th of September, in the said city, " a gown, commonly called a kassocke, of black cloth, with a cape of Hack velvet in the same gown "—her husband, on the said 26th of September " not having, finding, keeping, or maintaining of his own proper costs and expenses, one gelding able and meet for a light horseman, with sufficient harness and weapon for the same, according to the form of the statutes in such ease provided." The result does not appear, but at. the haiids of the Justices of the Exchequer, to whom the matter was referred, we may easily imagine that the full penalty was enforced.

 A later John Eobins was elected Mayor of Salisbury in 1729, which office he again filled in the following year. Wootton Bassett. A numerous branch of the Eobins family seems to have resided here from an early date. The interesting registers of the Parish Church of All Saints contain the. following entries :— 1595. April 6;—John, son of Thomas Eobyns, was baptised. 1607. Nov. 29th.—Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel Eobyns, was baptised. 1 By a statute passed in 33 Hen. VIII. [1541] it was enacted that " if the wife of any person wear any velvet in the lining or other part of her gown, other than in the cuffs or purfels, or else wear any velvet in her Idrtell, or wear any petticoat of silk" that then the husband of every such wife shall find one entire horse, in height 14 " handfMis " [hands] or incur the above penalty, and forfeiture of ten pounds.

This was confirmed by a later Act of 4 & 5 Philip & Mary. The horse was " for the better furniture and defence of the Bealm," and the weaving of velvet, on the lady's part, was of course taken as a sign of the husband's ability thus to contribute towards it. In pursuance of these statutes Queen Elizabeth, in 1662, issued the commission of enquiry here referred to. 3? 2 92 ' 1613. July 4. — Joane, daughter of Jeffery Eobyns, was baptised. 1618. April 5. — Anne, daughter of William Eobyns, was baptised. In the copy of a perambulation of part of the great park of Fasterne, in this parish—formerly the residence of the Despencers, favourites of Edward II.—taken 18th May,-1602, and now in the library of the Wilts Archaeological Society, at Devizes,-the name of Thomas Robyns appears as the eldest of the jurors.

He was 100 years old. Christopher Kobins, great uncle to William Eobins, who was then a tenant at Baynard's Ash, is also mentioned as having always been warned to the Fence Court, and served on the jury, as were also his predecessors time out of mind. Ashton Keynes. In the Wiltshire Freeholder's Book, temp. Edw. Bayntun, K.B., Sheriff, 13 Charles I. [1637], we find— Eichard Eobins, of Ashton Keynes, gent. From- Col. Chester's Marriage Licenses. Eobins, Sommersett, of Ashton Keynes, co. Wilts, yeoman, bachelor, about 21, and Elizabeth Cooper, of Waltham [Walton], on Thames, Surrey, spinster, about 15, her parents dead. Alleged by Edward Eobins, of St. Saviour, Southwa,rk, cheesemonger.

At St. George, Southwarlc, or St. Clement Danes. 8th Oct. 1666. (See also under Middlesex (p. 56) the marriage of Edw. Eobins a few days later). Brolceriborough. Eobins, William, of Brokenbrow, Wilts, gent., bachelor, 30, and Mary Harper, of same, spinster, 30, at St. Mary Somerset, London. 17th February, 1674-5. Col. Chester's Marriage Licenses. The following inscriptions in the Church here are from Sir Thomas Phillipps's "North Wilts Inscriptions," of which six copies 93 only were privately printed in .1821. The originals are now, in many cases, either lost or partly illegible. Against South Wall of Ohancel:— " Here -lyefch the body of Margarefcfc, the daughter of William Robins, gent., and Mary, his wife, who was buried the 25th day of December, Anno Dom., 1675."

" Neere under this wall was [buried] the body of Joana Eobins, daughter of William Eobins, gent., and Mary, his wife. Interred the 22nd of December, 1668." " Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Eobins, the sone of Eichard Robins, and Joanna, his wife, gent., who departed this life the 13th of Jan., 1665." 1695. A deed of this date between the Et. Hon. Thomas Lord Howard, Viscount Andover and Earl of Berks, and John Hearne and William Eobins, relates to land in Brokenborough. [John Hearne was apparently an ancestor .of Thomas Hearne, the well-known draughtsman, who was born at Brinkworth, close by, in 1744 and died 1817- See Memoir in Gents' Mag., Ixxxvii., part i, p. 372.] MalmesMry.

 Here we find the name of Robins—apparently some members of the Brokenborough family—residing for many years (at least from about 1680 to 1730) at the Abbey House1 on the north-east 1 This interesting old mansion, the upper part of which dates from the time of Edward VI. or (Queen Elizabeth, is supposed to have been built by Sir James Stumpe—whose father had recently acquired the Abbey site by purchase from the Crown, after its dissolution in 1589. The substructure, with its stone vaulting, which forms the present cellar, was part of the conventual building.

A newel staircase, built like that of a Church tower, but with blocks of solid oak, instead of stone, reminds us of the days of the great forest of Braden, close by, where oaks of great size must through ages and centuries have grown and flourished. Two shields of arms over the principal doorway have been described as those of Sir James Stumpe and his wife, who was a Baynton, of Bromham, but the appropriation of the latter seems somewhat doubtful. In an upper room are also the arms of Ivye, of Hullavington and West Kington—a family who became later owners of the house. 94 of the Abbey Church.

William Eobins was High Steward of the borough in 1685. Their monumental inscriptions in the beautiful Norman porch of the Abbey Church, are now partly obliterated, but were thus transcribed for the late Sir Thomas Phillipps about the year 1821 :— " Underneath that stone resteth the body of William Eobence, of the Abbey, gent., who ended this life Nov. the 5th A. D1. 1700, -ZEtatis suaj 57." " Under this Stone lieth the body of William Bobins, son of William Eobins, of the Abbey, who was interred the 24th of April' Anno Dom. 1689." " Richard B. Eobins, sen., Ob. 21st June, 1766, aged 57 years; also Eichard Eobins, jun., Ob. 21st Dee., 1816, aged 63 years,1 " Here lyeth the body of Henry Eobins, of Malmesbury Abbey, gent., who died June the 19th, A.D. 1728, aged 54 years." Other later inscriptions are:— Eichard Eobins, died 10th July, 1836, aged 69 years. Hester, his wife, died 21st August, 1843, aged 79 years. The names of Eichard Eobbins, and E. B. Eobins, appear among the trustees of a Charity vested in the Borough of Malmesbury, left by Joseph Cullerne, Esq., in 1764.

 Moffat's History of Malmeshury. A Mr. Henry Eobins resided at Westport in 1769. Other members of the same family appear atBroughton Gifford and Melksham. About the year 1720 we find a marriage between a Mr. Eobbins of Broughton; and Hester, third daughter of John Bythesea, Esq. of Week House, near Trowbridge. 1 6fch April, 1806. On Tuesday, J. Pill, convicted at Salisbury Assizes of robbing Mr. Eobins, of Malmesbury. on the highway, was executed at Ifisherton Gaol. He was a tall powerful man, advantages which he had long abused, by frequently adding to his robberies personal illtreatment, a circumstance which, on his last conviction, precluded all hopes of mercy. Salisbury Journal, BOBBINS, OF WILCOTE, AND WOODBOBOUGH, Co. WILTS [1587—1908].

 William Robyns, of Wilcote, Co. Wilts, A.D..1587.= John Eobins, of Wileote, 1624-30=Margerie. Frances, bap, at Wileote 15th March, 1587. John, bap. 1624.

William, bap. 1628. Francis, bap. 1630. [bur. at Woodborough, 1681 ?]

Thomas, bap. at Beechingstoke 1675,=Susanna Bell, Margerie, bap. 1627.

 Henry, Churchwarden of Woodborough,=Margaret. 1669, landowner there. • | Issue. [See Woodborough Parish Reg., p. 99]

Thomas, of Beechingstoke.=ParneIla Eawlins, mar. Overseer there 1676. at Woodborough 1674, died 1709, bur. there. mar. at Woodborough 1699 [died 1744?]. ofjWoodbojrough.

 Henry, bap. 1678, mar. 1706,=Martha Martin, of Woodborough, at Beechingstoke. died 1748, bur. there. Sarah, bap. 1682, mar. 1710, to John Burgess, of Lavington. I I Thomas, buried at Alton=Ann, bur. at Alton Berners, 1777. | Berners, 1783. Issue. I [See Alton Berners Parish Beg., p. 98]

Samuel, born 1708, bap. at Woodborough,=Elizabeth lies, of Wilcote, 1710. A maltster at Wileote. 1786, aged 76. Bur. at Wilcote. Died mar. 1771, there. there aged 1741, 58. died Bur. William, bap. at=Mary. Woodborough, I 1704. .

I Thomas, = Jane born | 1742. 4. Wifiilllliiaam, of Manningford, bap. = Jane Mathews Moore, 1747, mar. 1777, died 1797, I died 1790, (iged 32, buried at Woodboro'. | bur. Woodb|>ro'.

 John, born 1750, of Fosbury, = Anna, removed to Bulford 1794, died 1824, aged 74. Bur. at Bulford. [See Pedigree No. 2., p. 100] daur. of Matthews. Harry, born 1753, mar. 1785, = Catherine, daur. of Anthony took the Manor Farm, Woodborough, 1802, died 1822, bur. there.

MX I Samuel, born at Wilcote, 1787. = (1) Sarah, died 1831. Founder of HoneystreetWharf, aged 36. 1811. Died at Manor House, = (2) Ann, daur. of Daniel Woodborough, 1869. Aged82. Hur. there. He married (3) Matilda, wid. of Lewis Bieley, and daur. of James Willis, of London. [See Pedigree No. 3., p. 100] Mills, of Buckleaze Estate,

Pewsey. Died 1826. Bur. Woodboro'.1 Mary, born 1744, mar. • . . Puckridge. Ann, born 1756, mar. in 1787 to James Puckridge. Thomas, Lieiit. E.N., born 1789, served on Fowle, of Stan ton

St. Bernard, died 1854. Aged 58. board H.M.S. "Brilliant," &' Arrow," Cretan." Died in Hav^nnah of yellow fever, 1816, aged 25. |

William, of Manor Farm, Woodboro1, born 1791, died 1840. Bur. there. M.I. Elizabeth, only daur. of . . .'

Williams. She mar. (2) James, son of John Haines,of Erlestoke, and died at Witney, Co. Oxon., 1876, aged 74. Bur. at Woodborough.

John, bora 1793, died 1813. Henry, born 1802, died 1814. Both bur.at Woodboro'.

Frederick, born at = Elizabeth, eld. Manor House, Woodboro', 1804,2 Died at Devizes, 1896, aged 92. Bur. at Woodboro'. daur. of Josh. Hibberd, of West Lavington. Living in Devizes, 1908. Ann, born 1786, died 1820, bur. at Woodborough. Catharine, born 1795, mar. Wm. Sheppard, of Collingbourne Kingston. He died 1856, aged 64; she 1866, aged 70; both bur. at Great Bedwyn. Martha, born 1800, died 1814, bur. at Woodboro'.

Samuel, born=Jane, 5th daur. of 1836, died James Lord, of 1876 Bur. Newington Bag- Woodboro'. path, Co. Glouc. Ann, mar. Ebenezer, youngest son of Thos. Willington Lane, of Haselor, Co. Warw.

Harry, of Nbrthfield = Emma, daur. of Farm, Witney, Co. Oxpn, born 1836, rnak 1860. F. Johnson, of Witney. Thomas. Amy. Both died young. Charlies William, born 1861,

Tomi Wiltshire, born 1866. J I I I I I Frank, born 1849. Mills, born 1857, Author of Gleanings of the Rolin Family, 1880. Owen, died an infant. Owen, born 1865. Louis, born 1867

. Ernest died an infant. Ellen, born 1851. Laura, born 1853. Ehoda, born 1855. Bertha, born 1861. Alice, born 1863, died 1878. Lily, born 1869. 1 In Pewsey Church, on the north side of the_ nave, is a stained glass window, representing the Nativity, with the following inscription :-!•"

 To the glory of God, and in loving memory of Catherine Robbins, second I daughter of Anthony Mills, of Pewsey, and wife of Harry Robbins, of Wooijborough. Died December 3rd, 1826, aged 61 years." ' j 2 In early life Mr. Bobbins settled for a while in one of the islands on the north coast of Tasmania, which is still known as " Robbins' Island,'1 and the narrow passage separating it from the mainland, as " Bobbins' Passage." The island is 24,450 acres in area, and contains a volcano. At Devizes, near St. James's Church, a piece of ground belonging to his late residence at Spifcalcroft (on which now stands a pump and drinking fountain) was presented to the Borough in his memory, 18th November, 1898. 95 Henry Eobbins, baptised 17th December, 1734, at Melksham, was admitted a Winchester scholar in 1748.

 The following inscriptions in Melksham Church were copied in 1821:— On a flat stone in the North Aisle:— " Here lieth the body of Esther Eobins, second wife of Eichard Buntur Eobins, who died July the 6th, 1780, aged 80 years." Brass Plate:— " Here lyeth the body of

Henry Eobins, gent., who departed this life the 31st January in the year 1778, aged 88 years." Quaker Marriages—Melksham. 1712—1—5.

John Eeeve, of Bromham, husbandman, son of "William Eeeve. of Blackland,

Calne Parish, to Elizabeth Bobbins, of Bradford, dau. of Matthew and Elizabeth Bobbins, late of Calne, at Melksham. 1665—10—9. John Eobins to Jenevera Summers. 1667—

3—5. John Eobins, of Titherton Kalloways, to Susanna Jeffery, of Bremhill. John and Ann Eobins were wounded, among many others [two killed, thirty wounded], in a serious affray between the inhabitants of Langley and Ghippenham, 7th September, 1822. See " Wilts Notes and Queries," ii., 470. Woodborough.

The branch of the family found here soon after the Eestoration is apparently of the same stock as Eobyns or Eobbins, of co. Gloucester, some of whose members probably migrated into North Wilts in the early half of the 16th century. We find them in the Pewsey Vale, as well as in the town .of Malmesbury and its immediate neighbourhood. In 1587 a William Eobens was living at Wilcote, near Pewsey, where he had a child baptised in that year. The baptisms of several children of John and Margerie Eobins are also found in the 96 Parish Register here between the years 1624 and 1630—their son Francis, born in the latter year, being apparently the same individual as the Francis Eobbins who was buried at Woodborough in 1681.

Henry Eobbins was Churchwarden of Woodborough in 1669, and in 1691 the same name again appears, being probably that of his son.

 Thomas Eobbins (apparently a brother of Henry, of 1669) married, in 1674, Parnella Eawlins, of Woodborough, by whom he had several children. In 1676 he was overseer of the neighbouring parish of Beechingstoke, where his eldest son, of the same name, was baptised in the following year, and other children in 1678 and 1682, at Woodborough. Harry Eobbins (great grandson of Thomas) became occupier of the Manor Farm at Woodborough in 1802, where, on his death in 1822, he was succeeded by William, his younger son, who died 1840.

 Samuel, the eldest son of Harry, was founder of the extensive business of timber merchants, chemical manure works, &c., now carried on under the firm of Eobbins, Lane & Piuniger (Limited), at Honey Street Wharf, in the parish of Woodborough, and Baltimore Wharf, St. Philip's, Bristol. The wharf at Honeystreet was commenced in 1811, on the completion of the Kennet and Avon Canal between London and Bristol—the site being at that time merely a ploughed field. Its history is thus briefly recorded on a stone panel, built into one of the chimney shafts:—

" Kennet and Avon Canal finished ... 1810 This wharf commenced ... ... 1811 Kennet and Amesbury Road made 1842 Part of wharf burnt ... ... 1854 Ee-built and enlarged ... ... 1855 This chimney erected 1859." 97 Another stone in the wall of the " Barge Inn," close by, built by Mr. Bobbins for the accommodation of his workmen, also records as follows:— "Burnt down 12 Dec., 1858. Ee-built in six months by Samuel Bobbins. Ben. Biggs, architect." It was principally owing to the endeavours of Mr. Bobbins, as well as at a considerable cost to himself, that the new road from Amesbury to Kennet was planned and carried out in 1842. He died at the Manor House, Woodborough, 27th November, 1869, in his 82nd year, his only son, of the same name, born in 1836, surviving him only four years. The descent of this branch of the family, with its surviving members, is more fully shown by the accompanying pedigrees and extracts from Parish Begisters. From Wilcote Parish Begister:— Baptisms. 1587—Mar. 15, Frances, daughter of William Bgbens. 1624—Mar. 13, John, son of [John] and Margerie Bobius. 1627—

Dec. 5, Margerie, daughter of do. 1628-9—Feb. 1, William, son of do. 1630—May 20, Francis, son of do. 1692—March 23, Henry, son of Henry and Bridget Bobbins. 1693—May 27, Debora, daughter of do. 1696—Mar. 29, Jane, daughter of do. 1703—Oct. 5, Henry, son of do. „ „ „ Bichard, son of do. „ „ „

Deborah, daughter of do. 1744—July 18, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Bobbins. 1746—Oct. 2, William, son of do. 1747—Oct. 19, William, son of do. 1750—June 11, John, son of do. 1753—June 18, Harry, son of do. 1756-7—Feb. 8, Ann, daughter of do. 98 1759—Sept. 23, Thomas, son of William and Sarah Eobbins. 1761—Sept. 27, Sarah, daughter of do.' 1762-3—Mar. 28th, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Jane Eohbins. 1764—

Mary, daughter of William and Sarah Bobbins. „ —Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Jane Bobbins. 1766—Thomas, son of do. 1766—Ann, daughter of William and Sarah Eobbins. 1769—Elizabeth, daughter of do. „ —Jane, daughter of Thomas and Jane Eobbins. 1770—Martha, daughter of William and Sarah Bobbins. 1771—Anne, daughter of Thomas and Jane Eobbins, 1772—William, son of William and Sarah Bobbins. Marriage. 1741—

Samuel Bobbins and Elizabeth lies, both of this parish, were married July yt 8th. From Wilcote Churchyard:— In memory of Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Bobbins. She died August 2nd, 1771, aged 58 years. In memory of Samuel Bobbins. He died January 26th, 1786, aged 76 years. From Alton Berners Parish Begister:— Baptisms. 1654—Jan 29th, Eobert, son of Henry Bobbins. 1731—Thomas, son of Thomas and Ann Bobins, baptised Oct. 24th, buried Dec. 19th. 1732—William, son of do., born Nov. 19th, baptised 21st. 1743—Samuel and James, sons of do., 'baptised June 24th.

James was buried July 22, Samuel Sept. llth. 1748—Michael Bobins, son of do., baptised April 17th. 1780—Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary Bobbins, baptised May 14th. 99 Marriages. 1605—Anne Bobines married, of Eowde (sic). 1758—William Bobbence married Sarah Holloway. 1768—

Martha Bobins married William Fowles. 1791—Elizabeth Bobbins married William Hailstone. 1796—Martha Bobbins married John Burden. Burials, 1777—Thomas Eobbins buried, July 21st. 1783—Ann Eobbins buried, Feb. 28th. „ —William Eobbins buried, July 10th, 1802—Sarah Eobbins buried, May 26th. From Alton Priors Parish Eegister:— Baptisms. 1762—Harry, son of Harry and Elizabeth Eobbins, Dec. 7th, 1764.—

Thomas Eobins, son of do., Jan. 8fch. 1766.—Michael Eobance, son of do., July 27th, 1769.—Elizabeth Eobines, daughter of do., Nov. 19tb. From Woodborough Parish Eegister :— Baptisms. 1666—Jane, daughter of Henry and Margarett Eobbins, Jan. 6th. 1668.—Joannis, daughter of do., Sept. 20th. 1678—

Henry, son of Thomas and Parnella Eobbins. 1682—Sarah, daughter of do., March 18th. (?) 1685—Anna, daughter of Henry and Anne Bobbins. 1686—Constance, daughter of do. ' 1687—Sarah, daughter of Michael and Sarali Eobbins, Feb. 15th. 1689—Eobert, son of do., Feb. 9th. 1691—Anna, daughter of Henry and Anne Bobbins June 6th. 1693—Frances, daughter of do., Feb. 4th. 1698—William, son of do., June 13th. 1704.—

William, son of Thomas and Susanna Eobbins, Nov. 2. 1710—Samuel, son of do., Mar. 29. 100 Marriages. 1674—Thomas Bobbins, of Beechinstolce, and Parnella Bawlins, of Woodborough, May 4bh. 1679—Joseph Smith and Mariam Bobbins, of Woodborough, ISTov. 16th. 1684—

Henry Bobbins, of "Woodborough, and Anna Watson, of Beachinstoke, Sept. 14th. 1699—Thomas Bobbins and Susannah Bell, of Woodborough, July 3rd. 1712—John Burgess, of Lavington,and Sarah Bobbins, of Woodborough, Sept. 2nd. 1712—Bobert Bobbins and Jane Brunsden, of Woodborough, Dec. 1777—William Bobbins, of Maningford, and Jane Matthews Moore, May 22nd. [Pedigree No. 2.] BOBBINS, OF MANNINGFORD, AND MARDEN, Co. WILTS.

William Bobbins, of=Jaae Mathews Moore, Manningford, bap. 1747, died 1797. died 1790. William of Marden,=Sarah, dau. of Joseph Jane Mathews, born 1786, born 1784, mar. 1810; died 1850; bur. at Woodborough. Hayward, of Beech- died 1815; mar. John, ingstoke; born 1789, son of Boger Sfcratton, died at South Nor- 1805. Both bur. at Woodwood, aged 96; bur. borough. at Woodborough. Three other children, died young.

William, of Marden, born Joseph Hayward, Sophia, born 1811, 1813, died 1863. Un- died 1822, aged died 1870. Marrcarried. Bur. at Beech- 8. Bur. at ried Harry, son ingstoke. Beechingstoke. of JohnHayward, 1842. 1824—William Shepperd, of Collingbourne Kingston, and Catharine Bobbins, of Woodborough, Nov. 8th. (Signed)

 John Edmonds, Samuel Bobbins, William Bobbins, Ann and Hester Shepperd. . 1832—William Bobbins and Eliza Williams, July 29th. [Pedigree No. 3.] BOBBINS, OF BULFOKD, Co, WILTS. ' John Bobbins, of Fosbury, born 1750, removed to Bulford 1794,=Anna, dau of . .{ . Matthews, died 1824. William, born 1775, died young. John, bom 1776, died young. • John, born 1782. Thomas, bom 1784, died William, born 1787. John, born =Elizabeth, 1816, mar. 1856. dau. of • Eaynold Eandoll, young. 1 1 1 1 William, 1827. Joseph. Thomas, of Bulford, born=Hannah, dau. of 1786, retired to Hursley, Co. Hants, 1857, died 1876, aged 90. Bur. there. John Jackman, of Tidworth. born Thomas, =Mary born 1832. Six other chil- ' of Broad dren, died Chalke. Born 1829. young Ursula, dau. of William Garrett; born 1842. 1 1 1 1 1 Jane, born 1821, at Hursley.

Sarah, born 1823 Mary Ann, born Elizabeth, born Elizabeth, = Joseph, of Bulford, =Sayah, dau. of John Anne, born 1778, married (1) . . . dau. of Groome* died 1877, bur. . 1826. 1829, married born 1790, died 1875. Buried at Amesbury. John. 'David, s. of William Sturgess. =Marth? Spademan, of Brom- Williams, (2) ... Gilbert ; mm, died 1$64, aged died 1859. '2. Bur. Amesbury. Elizabeth, born 1780, married William Hayden, of Durrington. Mary, born 1783. Ann, Eliza Sealey.=Edward Stratton, of Bodenham. dau. ;of Sarah Anne. =Frederick James Eieley. Bobtl Cole- Emma=

Thomas Hayden, of Durrington. man* of Tilshead. Diedis.p. Anna, born 1836, married John Self, s. of Eaynold Eandoll. She died 1868, aged 27. 1 1 1 Thomas John, bom 1861. Francis Joseph, born 1865. Donald William, died an infant. Frederick William Howard, horn 1871. I I I I Viva Mary, born 1857, married Alfred E. Nicholls. Laura Lucy, born 1858. Eva Annie, born 1860. Elizabeth Eandoll, born 1862. Thomas Williafai, born 1873. Annie Mary, born 1869. Kate Ursula, born 1870. 101 Burials. 1681—Francis Bobbins, died Feb. 12th. 1709—Parnella, wife of Thomas Bobbins,died July 3rd. 1709—Sarah, wife of Michael Bobbins, died July 27th. 1748—Martha Bobbins, widow, died Jan. 1795—

William Bobbins was buried Nov. 8th. 1813—John Bobbins, aged 20, buried July 14th. 1814—Henry Bobbins, aged 12, Dec. 31st. 1814—Martha Bobbins, aged 14, Oct. 5th. 1820—Ann, buried 21st June. 1821—Harry, buried Mar. 6th. 1830—Sarah Bobbins, of Honeystreet, was buried April 20th, aged 36. 1839—William Bobbins was buried Juno 19th, aged 49. 1840—Amy Bobbins buried Dec. 12th,aged 19 months. 1854—Anne, of Honeystreet, July 29th, aged 58. Tablets in Woodborough Church:— Sacred to the Memory of John, son of Harry and Catharine Bobbins, who died July 9th, 1813. Martha, their daughter, died Oct. 1st, 1814 Henry, their son, died Dec. 27th, 1814. Thomas, their son,

Lieut. B-IST., died ac Havauuah, Aug. 18th, 18161. ^ 1 Served on board H.M.S. Arrow, Brilliant, and Cretan. He died at the age of 25, the following lines being dedicated to his memory :— Poor adverse youth, by hapless fortune led, Far from thy home, and from thy kindred dear, Ho friend to close thy dying eye, or shed, O'er thy pale corse, affections bitter tear. By honour called, to sultry India bound, Jamaica's pestilence thou coulde'st not brave. Thy gentle frame the fatal fever found Bowed thy meek head and brought thee to the grave. What! though thy friends were absent from the scene, When death's dread summons stopped thy mild career. What I though the rude Atlantic rolled between

And held them from the form they loved so dear. Angels supplied their place; and bore thee where Celestial transport beaming in her eyes. Thy sainted sister waited in the air To bear thee to thy place of rest, the skies. And still (while busy mem'ry shall survive, Or stern affliction has an eye to weep). Shall all, who loved thy virtues, when alive, Of thy sad fate the dear remembrance keep. 102 Also of Anne their daughter, who died June 17th, 1820. Likewise to the memory of the above Harry Bobbins, who died March 1st, 1822. And of Catharine his wife, who died Dec. 3rd, 1826. Sacred to the memory of William Bobbins, of this parish, who died the 12th day of June, 1840, in the 49th year of His age.

Also of Thomas and Amy, infant children of William and Elizabeth Bobbins. In Woodborough Churchyard:— Sacred to the memory of Jane Matthews Bobbins, wife of William Bobbins,' who departed this life March 16th, 1790, aged 32 years. Also in memory of three of their children, who all died in their infancy. Also in memory of William. Bobbins, husband of the above Jane Matthews Bobbins, who departed this life Nov. 3rd, 1797, aged 50. Also of William Bobbins, of Marden, their son, who died June 2nd, 1850, aged 66 years. Sacred to the memory of Sarah Bobbins, wife of Samuel Bobbins, of Honeystreet Wharf, who died April 15th, 1831, aged 36 years.

William Bobbins, 1840, aged 50. In affectionate remembrance of Samuel Bobbins, of Honeystreet Wharf, who died Nov. 27th, 1869, aged 82. Also of Ann, wife of Samuel Bobbins, who died July 25th, 1854. Also of Samuel, their son, who died Nov. 21st, 1873, aged 37. Also of Frederick Bobbins, who died November 17th, 1896, aged 92. 103 ' From Beechingstoke Parish Eegister:— Baptism. 1675—Thomas, son of Thomas and Parnella Bobbins, born March 22nd, baptised March'28th. Marriage. 1706—Henry Bobbins and Martha Martyn, both of Woodboi;ough, were married Sept. 30. Mere. In the Churchwardens' accounts here we find the following names:— 1558—Item of John Eobyns for a seate iiijd. .

 Item of Thomas Bobyns

for a seate vja. 1569—John Biobyns was one of the executors of Thomas Luke, who gave xxs. to the building of a Church house at Mere. 1581—Thomas Eobyns charged with xx Arms—Per pale, sable and argent, two flaimches and three fleurs-de-lis in fess, all counter-changed. Crest—Between two dolphins haurient respecting each other or, a fleur-de-lis per pale argent and sable,. i These arms and crest, the same as borne by the Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Staffordshire branches of the family, were granted by Sir Christopher Ba-rker, Garter King of Arms (probably about 1540) to John Eobins, of JSTetherhall, in Stolceton, co. Worcester. Stowe MS. 692. Grazebrook, in his Heraldry of Worcestershire (1873), says " Robins, or Eobyns, of Staffordshire and ISTetherhall, Worcestershire.

These arms are attributed in the Harleian MS. 588, fol. 283, to John Kobyns, of Netherhall, and in the Harleian MS. 1041 they are tricked as the bearings of Margaret, wife of Jasper Selwyn, of Co. Gloucester, and daughter and coheiress of Thomas Eobins (See Gloucestershire). The same arms and crest were borne by the late William Eobius, of Hagley, High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1843. Mr. Eobins, who was a banker at Stout-bridge^ was the son of Joseph Eobins, of that place, solicitor, by Mary, his wife, and the descendant of a respectable yeoman family which has been resident at Dunsley, near Kinver, Co. Stafford, for several generations. See pedigree at p. 74 of the present volume.

1 The fleurs-de-lis and dolphins apparently suggest a French origin. The dolphin, as the emblem of the Dauphine, was adopted, with the name, by the heirs apparent of the old French monarchy, who quartered with the fleur-de-lys azure a dolphin haurient or. 105 Co. Worcester. Subsidy Eolls.

 circa 1280 — Duddeleye [Dudley] . < De Johanne Eobyn ............ xijd. De Willielmus Eobin ........... iijs. Radmercleye. De Eicardo Eobyn ........... xxijd A.D.

1327. Besforde. Thoma Eobines ....... , .......... yiij^- • Blaclcwell, Alicia Eobynes ................. . vjd Isolda Eobyns ............. , ....... ijs. "Willelmo Robyns ............... ~vjd. Johanne Eobyns ................. xij<#. feckenham. Willelmo Eobyns . . ....... ,...xijd!. Mathine. Waltero Eobins . . ............. ijs. ob. Rugge. Willelmo Eobyns ............ xviijcZ.

A.D. 1340. Wcdcote-cum-Memlins. De Johanne Eobyns ............... ijs.

 A.D. 1603. Stockton, . Humfridus Eobins in bonis...iiij&. vjs. vnjfi?. from Visitation of London

1638-4- Tower Ward. William Deacon, Co. Woro.=Mary, dau. of John Hays. William Deacon, of London, Barber=Susan, dau. of Mary Deacon, Ohirui'geon, now living 1633. I Thos.

 Stookwood. wife to Bdw. | Bobins, Co. | Wore. John, eld. son and heir. 106 From Broadway Register:—

1734. Joseph Bobbins and Mary White married. Teddinffton, Go. Wore.:—

1769. Richard Eobius, buried 10th August. 1824. Esther Eobins, buried 30th June, aged 36 years. Wills and Administrations in the Consistory Court of Worcester: File 4. No. 440 William Eobins „ 36 William Eobyns „ 151 John Eobyns „ 30 Thomas Eobyns „ 81 John Eobyns „ 101 Thomas Eobyns „ 6 Eobert Eobyns „ 92 Margery Eobyns „ 223 Eliz. Eobyns „ 252 William Eobyns „ 66. William Eobyns „ 76 Thomas Eobyns, Husbandman „ 442 John Eobyns Vicar, of „ 572B William Eobins „ 261 Eobert Eobyns Husbandman „ 112n Leonard Eobyns W.T. Maysey Hampton A.D. 1538 St. Nicholas,, Warwick „ 1538 Oxhill „ „ 1538 Much Malvern „ 1542 Pynven „

 1543 Flyford Flavell „

 1544 Pynven ' „ 1544 Eydmarley „

1545 Stone „

1546 Wilsborne „ 1552 Butler's Marston „

1553 Bratforton „ 1557 Whitchurch (Admin.) „

1557 Studley „

1558 Welsborn „

1559 107 YOEKSHIEE. In this county we find the name of Eobin of Eedesdale, who in the time of Edward IV. flourished as a rebel captain, and led a rising in Yorkshire against the king, instigated by Warwick and Clarence, in 1469. He was doubtless either Sir William Conyers, of Marske, who died in 1495, or his brother, Sir John Oonyers, of Hornby, who afterwards made his peace with Edward IV., and was a favourite of Henry VII. Later, in the reign of Henry VIII.

 [1509—1546] a John Eobyus was Vicar of Baffen. G 2 108 .AUTHOES. Among the names of Eobins as authors the following do riot occur in the preceding pages :— Eobins. Edward.—" Echoes of the Playhouse," 1895; " The palmy days of Nance Oldfield," 1898 [with thirteen portraits including Mrs. Oldfield, Gibber, Oongreve, Mrs. Bracegirdle, Addison, Vanbrugh, Steele, and Booth]. "Life of Benjamin Franklin, printer, statesman, philosopher, and practical citizen, 1706—1790 " [with numerous portraits], 1898. Eobins, Elizabeth.—A contributor to the "Anglo Saxon Eeview," edited by Lady Eanclolph Churchill. Eobins, E. "S.—" Chronicles of the Nineteenth Century (red and black), by Marie-Henri Beale.

" Translated from the French by Eobins. 1898 (2 vols.). Eobins, Helen H.—" Our First Ambassador to China." An account of the life of George, Earl of Macartney, 1737 — 1806, with extracts from his letters, and the narrative of his experiences in China, as told by himself. 1908. Eobins, Leopold, G-. Q-.—Jarman on wills ; fifth and last edition, by Eobins, 2 vols. 1893. Eobins, Sanderson, 1801—1862.—Divine, M.A. Exeter College, Oxon. Published pamphlets on education, advocating in his letter to Lord John Eussell (1851) State education on the lines subsequently carried out in the Act of 1870. Eobins, Eev. S.—" An Argument for Eoyal Supremacy." 1851. Eobins, William.—"Paddington past and present." 1853

. To which may, perhaps, also.be added as an authoress the name of'Elizabeth Eobins Pennell. 109 ADDENDA. Cornwall (pp. 20—23). Arms.—Party per pale, argent and azure, a fess nebulae between three robins all counterchanged1. Motto.—Dives qui contentus. Arms.—Or, on a bend argent three plieons of the field, a crescent for difference. A Mr. Eobins by his will, bearing date 1768, gave the interest of stock, amounting to nearly £7 per annum, for the support of a school in the parish of S. Burdock. Deed between Charles Trevanion, of Goram, gent, and Patience his wife, and Stephen Eobyns; relates to land, &c., in Veiyan, co. Corn wall; dated 1706. Simon Bobbins, jun., of St. Austell, who died 9th June,

1886, had a brother Christopher, who went to America about 1846, and ten years later was residing at Ohio. Two' sisters, one Grace Thomas, nee Robins, the other Julia Ann Fleming nee Robins, also went respectively, with their children, to Australia about 1856. Gloucestershire (pp. 3'2—44). Deed between Richard Coats, of Chedworth, and Daniel Robins, of the same place, relating to land there—dated 1696. Middlesex (pp. 54—58). 1540. John Robins, of London, was a Merchant of the Staple at Calais. See under Surrey, p. 85. 1629. George Robins was Master of the Vintner's Company of London in this year. 1848. .September 28th, Charles Robbins, apprentice of Robert Bessingham, of No. 2

, Cambridge Row, scale maker, had his freedom of the Draper's Company of London. 1 A copy of these arms was found in one of the Ashmole MSS. 1187, fol. 123, dating about the year 1600. See p. 86, under Surrey. 110 WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS AT SOMERSET HOUSE. COMPLETE LIST 1605 TO 1650. EOBINS—EOBYNS—BOBBINS. [Those marked with an asterisk are here printed.] Mfi05 1JL\6J \0J\8J 1J. UfWiOJft 1 A1 Q iV)i»J 1617 1621 1621 1625 1626 1627 1629 1 fi^1 1632 1635 1636 1636-8 Thomas Eichard Eichard Adam John Eichard Ralph Alexander Richard John ... - • * ... ... ... ... ... July June Nov. April Jan. Oct. 71 48 105 36 9 64 52 90 42 10 98 Hayes Windebanck Windebanck Capell T ^ Lawe Weldon Dale Dale • Clark Hele Skynner alias Peryman, Eichard Agnes -E*-ou^fofer James Paul :

Thomas 1639-40 Thomas 1640 1640 *1640 1641 1641 1642 1645 1646 1646 1646 1646 1646 1647 1647 1647 1647 1648 John Timothy George Richard Augustine George John Eichard Agnes Geoi'ge George Obedience Henry Edward John Henry John ... ... Somerset Somerset Somerset Bucks London Oxford Norfolk London Warwick Liohfield Northants Oxford Wilts Bucks Glouc. Mddx. Devon London Glouc. Parts1 Bucks Somerset Kent Oct. . • • * • • i • • * • » * * . • • . . . • • • • > • • » * * • * * • ... , , , Feb. June May Sept. Nov. Nov. Jan. Sept. Oct. Nov. 88 15 7 116 85 2231 52 131 171 31 68 27 61 67 55 133 157' 149 37 133 198 162 124 Ridley St. John Awdley Sadler Pile Adm. Adm. Coventry Coventry Coventry Evelyn Evelyn Campbell Eivers Adm. Twisse Twisse Twisse Adm. Fines Adm. Tines Adm. Essex 1

 Regions beyond sea. Ill 1648 1648 1648 1648 1649 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 John Oornw. Walter Parts John Bucks Henry Parts Elisha London alias Sherwood Somerset John Devon William Parts George Middx. Lionel Wilts Eichard Glo.uc. 157 Essex 89 Adm. 132 Adm. 144 Adin. 191 . Fairfax ... Adm. 44 Pembroke 80 Pembroke 133 Pembroke 119 Pembroke 185 Pembroke WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS AT SOMERSET HOUSE 1651—1718. Local and such as have no location given in Calendars. 1652 1653 1653 1654 1654 1654 1655 1655 1655 1656 1656 *1656 1656 *1656 1657 1657 1657 1658 1659 1659 1659 1659 *1659 1659 1660 1660 Eobins, a ti it i: )t j) >t )t y ) l t i t t it it il :t tt » Sarah Alice Leicester Warwick • • • i • • June 77 Adm. Brent Thomas (will,see Calendar) July Eichard Mary Stephen Thomas Margaret Hunifrey Sampson alias Bouchei Thomas Thomas William Robert Eichard Robert William John Anne Thomas Worcester Glouc. Warw. Warw. Warw. Glouc. Warw. Warw. Warw. Wore. Glouc. Warw. yeoman Glouc. Glouc. Eobin, William Eobins, » tt tt Henry Anne Anthony Barbara Warw. Jan. Dec. Feb. Feb. May May May . . . . . * ... . , , Oct. Nov. Jany. Feb. May Dec. June May Aug. 113 168 176 20 168 440 51 56 152 158 180 37 31 346 651 472 550 244 472 90 Alchin Alchin Alchin Adm. Aylett Aylett Berkley Berkley Berkley Berkley Berkley Euthven Ruthven Euthven Wotton Adm. Pell Adm. Pell Pell Pell Nabbs Adm. 112 1660 1661 1662 1663 1663 1663 1665 1666 1666 1667 1667 1668 1669 *1670 1670 1672 •1677 1677 1679 1679 1681 1683 1684 1684 1686 1690 1694 1703; 1707 1712 „ Samuel „ George Glouc. „ Anne Glouc. „ Elisba, p'bac' duplex p' 1649 „ John July Adm. Feb. 30 May. Aug. Land pro.Feb.1658 bac' prior mense decemb. Feb. Juxon Oct. Adm. „ John, p'bac' antea meuse martii 1663 see Juxon „ John „ Mary „ Anne „ Isaac , „ William „ Thomas „ Richard Bobbins, William Staff. Robins, Susanna Warw. „ alias Mcholls, Richard „ Elizabeth • „ John „ Andrew „ William „ Richard, senior „ Anne Glouc. „ Joshua „ Henry „ William Wore. „ James - „ Margaret „ Thomas Warwick [Calendars for 1704, 5, 6 „ Jane Warwick [Calendars for 1708, 9, „ Ralph July Adm. - Feb. ' Adm. Mar. Adm. July Adm. •Nov. Adm. Feb. Adm. Mar. Adm. June 83 Peun Dec. 180 Penn June Adm. July Adm. Aug. Adm. Jan. Adm. Aug. Adm. Mar. Adm. 472 Pel'l Sep. Adm. June Adm. Nov. 154 Lloyd May Adm. April Adm. June Adm. , not searched]. April 92 Poley not searched.] June Adm. [Calendars for 1714, 15, nob searched.] to 1718. 0. H. Woodward, Printer and Publisher, 4, Saint John Street, Devizes.