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with accuracy, leased a house,! in what is now called the Shambles, 
to ‘John Horton’ of ‘The Devizes.’ 
This line of the ‘Rogers’ family, which continued for six or 
seven generations, during which it numbered several knights 
amongst its members, terminated in Helena, daughter of Hugh 
Rogers, who was married to Sir Francis Popham of Littlecote, 
created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II. The 
issue of this marriage was an only son, Alexander, who, on the 
decease of his father in 1674, became the representative of the Pop- 
hams of Littlecote and also of the family of ‘Rogers,’ of Cannington.” 
Tue ‘YerRBurY’ Fmity. 
This is the only family, with a pedigree recorded in the Herald’s 
Visitation of 1623, whose direct male descendants still continue 
resident in Bradford-on-Avon. The sudden decease of its gallant 
and worthy representative almost whilst these sheets are passing 
through the press, gives an additional interest to the account we are 
about to lay before our readers, a portion of the materials having 
been kindly furnished by himself to the writer of this sketch. 
The earliest member of the Yerbury family mentioned in the 
Visitations is ‘LAURENCE YERBERIE,’ described as of Batcombe, So- 
merset, who was settled there, about the middle of the fifteenth 
century. Connexions by marriage with some of the leading fami- 
lies of Wiltshire brought them soon afterwards into this county, 
' The house is the one now occupied by Mr. W. Taylor, Jun. 
*There is some difficulty in reconciling the various authorities in their 
statements concerning the pedigree of Rogers. Aubrey gives, under ‘ Head- 
ington’, a pedigree, in which is included a memorandum, said to be from the 
Herald’s college, from which it would appear that ‘George Rogers, of Luppit’ 
was a brother instead of a son of Thomas, the Serjeant-at-Law. I have tried 
to reconcile the various statements, but have been unable. The pedigree I have 
compiled is that which certainly has the greater weight of authorities in its 
fayour, and I have added the sources of information, in doubtful cases, on which 
I have relied. Canon Jackson tells me, that the pedigree in Aubrey’s MS., 
is on a separate leaf and not in Aubrey’s own hand-writing. He says, more- 
over,—‘‘ Three of the Rogers family were successively Rectors of Headington 
(Wilts Inst. 1605,—1670—and 1724) and it is most likely that Aubrey received 
the pedigree from ‘ Henry Rogers,’ Rector from 1670—1724, who also held the 
livings of Leigh Delamere, and Yatesbury.” 
