294 “Notes on the History of Great Somerford. 
Somerford Maltravers otherwise Broad Somerford with the rights 
and appurtenances in the county of Wilts.” The whole property 
made up of three farm houses and one hundred and twenty-three 
acres of land was in 1810 (with the manorial rights and subject to 
certain leases) sold by the Marquis of Bath to Mr. John Parsloe 
for £2,470. One of these houses is now in occupation of Mr. Edwin 
Matthews and owned by Mrs. Charrington, another adjoining 
“Sargents” is now two cottages, owned by the late Mr. H. Parsloe, 
while the third, owned by Mr. W. Lewis, is also two cottages. 
THE JASONS. 
The lordship of the manor and presentation to the living passed 
on to the Jason family in 1623 and in 1637 the King presents 
for Robert Jason. The Jason family resided at Enfield at the 
end of the 16th century. We have, in 1588, the original grant 
of arms to Robert Jason, of Enfield, who is there stated to have 
come from the north and quarters a coat with the Lyon coat, his 
wife having been a Miss Lyon, whose family had come from over 
the sea. This Robert died in 1610. His widow, Susan, marrying | 
again a certain John West, survived him for many years, dying at | 
Somerford in 1637. She left all her property to her grandson, — 
Robert, whose father, Robert, had predeceased in 1634. This last 
Robert married Cecilia, daughter of Sir Henry Rowe. The Jasons — 
seem to have espoused the Royalist cause. A Jason was killed at — 
Edgehill fighting for the King, and may have been a relative of _ 
Robert. Anyhow, we find the name of Robert Jason among the 
list of compounders, he petitioning through his father-in-law, Sir — 
H. Roe, of Shacklewell, Hackney. On the restoration he received — 
his reward. In May, 1661, a grant was made to Robert Jason, of 
Broad Somerford, county Wilts, of the dignity of a baronet, with — 
tbe usual discharge for the fine of £1,095. Sir Robert died 28th 
March, 1675,1 and was buried in Great Somerford Churech.? Before 4 
his death he had purchased property at Hinton on the Green, 
' He had married the previous year Ann Raves, of Dunstew, Co. Oxon, who 
married, secondly, Sir Christopher Eyre, and thirdly, Capt. David Warren. 
2 T have in my possession two silver coins, one an Edw. III. groat, the other 
a Queen Eliz. sixpence dated 1579, found on the occasion of Mr. Demainbray’s : 
funeral under the chancel floor, in the Jason tomb it is said. 
