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the honour of knighthood. After being chosen Sheriff for the 

 counties of Somerset and Dorset, he probably lived chiefly at 

 Milton to the time of his death in 1565." 



Sir Thomas Arundel, of the Cornish Arundels, was, together 

 with Sir John Tregonwell and others, appointed in 1535 to be a 

 Commissioner for the suppression of all religious houses " of 

 the sume of ccc marks and under " ; and an account of the 

 rough reception which they met with at the Priory of St. 

 Nicholas, Exeter, may be read in Dr. Oliver's Motiasttcon 

 Diocesis Exoniensis, p. 116. 



The descendants of Sir John Tregonwell continued at Milton 

 for some generations. His son Thomas, who died in his father's 

 lifetime, married firstly Lady Villiers, secondly Anne, daughter of 

 Robert Martyn and sister to Nicholas Martyn, of Athelhampton, 

 and left issue, John Tregonwell, who died in March, 1585, 

 leaving two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, and a son, John 

 Tregonwell, who was Sheriff of Dorset, 1604 and 1617 ; he 

 married Katherine, daughter of Anthony Brown, first Viscount 

 Montague. This John founded the Anderson branch by 

 purchasing that manor of Sir George Morton (the unlucky 

 friend of Sir George Horsey, of Clifton Maubank) September 

 2oth, 1620, and building Anderson House in 1622. In 1624, 

 when his eldest son, John, married Jane, the third daughter of 

 Sir Thomas Freke, 1 he left Milton to him and took up his resi- 

 dence at his new house. Later he divided his estate between 

 his two sons. He made Thomas Tregonwell, 2 born February 

 2nd, 1603, who, on his marriage with Lady Dorothy Ryves in 

 1625, had lived at Abbot's Court, his successor at Anderson, and 



1 Another of whose daughters, Elizabeth, married Sir George Horsey, of 

 Clifton. Jane Tregonwell presented a pair of large silver barrel -shaped Flagons 

 to Milton Abbey (February 2nd, 1765), which are still in use. Her daughter 

 Mary (see next page) at about the same time presented a silver chalice and paten, 

 with the Tregonwell arms engraved in a lozenge, to Anderson Church. 



2 Mentioned in a deed 20th March, 10 Chas. I. (1634), as "Thomas Tregonwell, 

 of Abscourt, Dorset, Esq.'' Deed also mentions "John Tregonwell, Esq., 

 father of the said Thomas." No. 79, Dorset Deeds, Somerset and Dorset N. and 

 Q., p. 125, vol. x. 



