368 Bradford-on-Avon. {Old Families & Worthies. 
estate, a moiety of the latter having come to the ‘ Halls’ about 150 
years before, in the way we have already indicated. The property 
thus acquired seems to have lain at Bradford, Comberwell, and at 
Holt, many of the deeds, still preserved at Kingston House,! having 
reference to lands and houses at these several places. From these 
documents we also infer that the Lordship of the Manor of Holt 
belonged to some members of the Rogers family. 
From Henry, a second son of William Rogers by Joan Horton 
(whose son, by the way, married a daughter of Thomas Hall, of 
Bradford) descends a family that settled at Heddington, and after- 
wards at Rainscombe. Of this branch of the ‘Rogers’ family, 
F. J. Newman Rogers, Esq. of Rainscombe, near Marlborough, is 
now the representative. 
Tomas RocErs, the ‘Serjeant-at-Law,’ the founder of the Brad- 
ford-on-Avon branch of his family, married, on the death of Cecilia 
Besill his first wife, Catharine, daughter of Philip Courtenay of 
Powderham, Devon, and relict of Sir Thomas Pomeroy, knight. 
By this second wife he had two sons, each of whom left descen- 
dants, several of whom rose to distinction and kept up the 
‘knightly’ character of their house. The younger son, ‘John,’ of 
Sutton Valence,—called in one manuscript ‘ Thomas’ of Kent,—had, 
as the pedigree shews, representatives in that county for many ge- 
nerations, and, amongst them, one at least attained the honor of 
knighthood. The edder, George Rogers of Luppit, Devon, had a 
son, Sir Edward, of Cannington, who rose to be a member of the 
Privy Council, and Comptroller of the Household to Queen Eliza- 
beth. Possibly it may have been he who built the large house in 
Pippet street, of which mention has been made (p. 52) described 
by Aubrey as “a faire old built house of the family of Rogers, of 
Cannington,” and the older parts of which (for it has been very 
much altered in the course of successive years) seem to be of the 
date of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. I have seen a deed, how- 
ever, in which it is recited that, in the year 1557, Henry Rogers, 
of Cannington, whose place in the pedigree we are not able to give 
1 Wilts Archeological Magazine, i, 290, 
