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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Britannia, but do not find Sir W. Butts, or indeed 

 Shouldhani Thorpe, mentioned at all. Many thou-. 

 sand Deeds and Court Rolls, from the time of 

 King John and Henry III., relating to the Should- 

 hams and neighbouring parishes are in my custody, 

 and I think I must have met with the name of 

 Butts had it been of the least note. By referring 

 to my note-book again I find it occurs somewhat 

 earlier than I before stated, but without the dis- 

 tinction of " armiger," " generosus," or even yeo- 

 man, till the time of Henry VIII. 



« 24 Hen. VI. William But of Garbesthorp,* is men- 

 tioned in a Deed. 



" 17 Edw. IV. William But, witness to a Deed. 



« 21 Edw. IV. William But, is amersed Foston C. R. 



" 16 Hen. VII. By Deed John Godesou conveys to 

 Thos. Harple, Edmd. Whyte and William Butte, 3 roods 

 of land. 



"3 Hen. VIII. William But did fealty for a messuage 

 and 12 acres of land, Foston C. It. 



" 7 Hen. VIII. William Butts of Garbesthorp, party 

 to a Deed. 



" 1 Edw. VI. William Buttys of Watlington occurs." 



The notices now become frequent. 



The following is the pedigree given in Berry's 

 Kentish Genealogies, taken, I presume, from a 

 visitation made in 1619, and sworn to by Leonard 

 Butts, who appears to have sold all his lands in 

 Norfolk, and gone to reside at Bromley, in Kent: 



Will. Butts of Shouldham Thorpe, CO, Norfolk.= daughter of Kernill (1). 



William Butts of S.Th.= daughter of Conesbyc. 



Will. Butts of Sh. Th.=Ursula (2), daughter of Sir Jolm Tindall, Kt. 



Margaret, married Edw. Morrys (.&) 

 ofSh.Th. 



(3) Will. Butts of Sh. Th.=Jane, daughter and heir of Will. Cockett 

 I ofBesthorpe. 



{<) Will. Butts of 

 Sh. Th., eld. 

 son. 



Leonard Butts, living=Jane, daughter of 



at Bromley, 1619. Leonard 



of CO. Suffolk. 



Frances, married 

 Thos. Steward. 



Jane, married 

 Jarvis Violett 

 of Bromley. 



Henry Butts, maiTied 

 Elizabeth, daughter 

 and co-heir of Jolm 

 Bell, CO. Kent. 



Upon this I would observe, — 



(1.) This should probably be Kerville, a good 

 family at Wigenhale and Watlington, and of 

 which there was a decayed branch at Shouldham 

 Thorpe, not above the degree of yeomen. 



(2.) Ursula, relict of Richard Gawsell, and ac- 

 cording to the Gawsell pedigree daughter of Ro- 

 bert Walbut, of Oxburgh. William Butts held 

 his Court jure uxoris, for Gawsells M. in Wat- 

 lington, 34 Hen. VIII. In 32 Hen. VIII. he held 

 his first Court for M. of West Derham Abbey in 

 Watlington, as Fii-marii Dom. Regis. He died 

 10 Elizabeth, Shouldham, C. R. 



(3.) William Butts held his first Court for his 

 M. in Garbesthorp, late Gawsells, Sep. 27, II 

 Elizabeth. His will is dated 27 Elizabeth, proved 

 May 9, 1585. 



(4.) Under age in 1585. Held his first Court 

 for M. of Russell in Garbesthorp, 1612. Will 

 dated 1623. His brother Henry his executor. 

 He had another brother John, who probably died 

 young, as he is not named in the pedigree of 1619. 



(5.) The family of Morris were yeomen at 

 Garbesthorp. 



About the same time that the Butts family ("ac- 

 cording to the above) flourished at Garbesthorp 

 there was a Sir William Butts, chief physician to 

 King Henry VIII., to whom the king, in his 

 twenty-eighth year, granted the M. of Thomage, 

 in Norfolk. He married, it is said, Margaret, 

 daughter and heiress of Bacon of Cam- 

 bridgeshire. He had three sons, Sir William Butts, 



* Garbesthorp, alias Shouldham Thorpe. 



Lord of the M. of Thomage, slain at Musselburgh 

 Field, 1 Edw. VI. (Query, the origin of Mrs. 

 Sherwood's tale of Poictiers), Thomas Butts, 

 Lord of the M. of Ryburgh, and Edmund Butts 

 of Barrow, co. Suflblk, whose only daughter Anne 

 married Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave. 



The connexion between this brsinch and those 

 of Shouldham Thorpe I should be glad to learn, 

 as well as to obtain any information of their de- 

 scendants. 



Should E. D. B. have any evidence of the fa- 

 mily possessing and inheriting lands at Should- 

 ham Thorpe so early as Edw. II., I should be glad 

 to learn it. As it is.'it seems to me clear that 

 they only began to make their way to any notice 

 about Hen. VIII.'s time. The M. was but a small 

 one, and was held by the Harpleys previously to 

 the purchase of it by Gawcell, the Harpleys being 

 in the rank of yeomen. With regard to the 

 origin of the name of But (this being, by the 

 way, the earliest orthography) or Butts, I pretend 

 not to decide, but feel inclined to think that it 

 arose before surnames became common and here- 

 ditary, from some John or William residing utte 

 the But, or near the Butts. We have numerous 

 similar instances ; there is scarcely a parish in 

 this neighbourhood of which I have any early 

 deeds, but what had its Robert at the Tunes-end, 

 or John or Thomas, &c., as the case may be. 



The following may interest Mr. Lower : 



" 13 Edw. III. Ric. ad portam. 

 " 11 Edw. III. Walter attenewhale, Thos. atte Fen. 

 " 15 R. II. Rob. Hurlebat, Thos. Hurl le batte of Gar- 

 besthorp. 



