56 THOMAS GERAED OF TRENT. 



I. 



The early history of Trent has been very fully recorded 

 by Mr. J. Batten and Mr. T. Bond.* It will suffice to state 

 here that on the death of William de Braose, temp. Hen. III., 

 his great property, including Trent, was divided between 

 his three sisters : Eleanor wife of Humphrey de Bohun, 

 Eva wife of William de Cantilupe, and Maud wife of Roger 

 Lord Mortimer of Wigmore. Eva Cantilupe's third was 

 bestowed on the Priory of Studley in Warwickshire ; Eleanor 

 Bohun's third eventually passed to the Young family ; and 

 the fortunes of Maud Mortimer's share are the subject of this 

 part of the notes. In the reign of Edward III. it was the 

 property of Sir Thomas West, who exchanged it with 

 John de Testwood and Mary his wife for the Manor 

 of Testwood, in the parish of Eling, near Southampton, 

 in 1358. t Sir Thomas was descended from a younger 

 branch of the Cantilupes, and used the arms of 

 that family on his seal " yet circumscribed with his own 

 name," as Gerard had noticed on a seal in his own custody. f 

 The author proceeds : "As for John Testwood de Trent by 

 his exchange, he was father of a second John, and he of a 

 third John whose inheritance fell by his only daughter and 

 heir Isolda unto Thomas Lane, and this in the same manner 

 to John Storke, whose predecessors had long remained in 

 Dorsetshire." 



It is difficult to add anything to this account of the family. 

 Some references will be found in the V. C. H. of Hants, IV., 549. 

 In 1378 John and Mary Testwood released to John Harewelle, 

 Bishop of Bath and Wells, an acre of land and the advowson 



* Som. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. Proc., XX., ii., 113; Trent; 

 J. Batten ; XXI., ii., 28, Honor of Odcomb and Barony of Brito ; 

 T. Bond. Henceforward simply Proc. 



t Dorset Records, XVIII., 153 ; Ped. Fin., divers cos., 32 Ed. III., 

 545. 



J Particular Description, Somerset Record Soc., XV., 176. 



