102 Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Farleigh. 



Jeremiah, in 1785, and the family tree shews that this title has, in 

 fact, never left the family, and still abides in it. 



The passage from gentleman to yeoman carries with it no degra- 

 dation, and the representative of the family, James Jeremiah Cottle, 

 still in the parish, is a fitting type of the straightforward independent 

 yeoman of the period, cultivating and living upon his own freehold 

 at Farley- Wick. Curiously enough his wife was a Selman, perhaps 

 a descendant o£ those very Selymans who succeeded the Cotels at 

 Atworth. 



The manor house at Cottles- Atworth is still called after the family. 



Next in order of date is the family o£ the Grants. They were 

 yeomen, and from the Christian names and the proximity of the 

 place I think they must have come from Bradford. There in 1585, 

 1596, and 1600 were certain Daniel, Walter and Francis Grants, 

 who were considerable copyholders and freeholders. 



The following is the family tree, as appearing in our own registers. 

 There were apparently three families, and several offshoots :— 



Family I. 

 Jolin.=Joan, who d. a widow, 1639. 

 George, b. 1577. 



Walter, 



b. 



1610. 



Ann, 



b. 

 1613. 



Henry, d. 1665. 



George, 



b. 



1616. 



Cybill, 

 d. 1622. 



L 



I 



Francis, 



b. 



1616. 



Ann Baker, 

 1640. 



Joan,=Mr. William 

 Richmond, of Prior 

 Stanton, 1651. 



Catharine, 

 b. 

 1617. 



Edmund, 

 b. 1619 

 d. 1644. 



Joan, d. 

 widow, 1669. 



Edmund, 



of Bradford, 



b. 1641. 



^ I 

 George, 



d. 

 1726. 



Family II. 



George, = Amy, d. 1609. 

 I 



Walter, b. 1586. William, b. 1609. 



I I 



Joan, b. 1628. Francis, d. 1669. 



