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tingtoii served that office in 1517, and "William Whittington so late as 

 the reign of George I. in 1 7 14. Pauntley remained in the family as late 

 as 1546, when Thomas Whittington, the last male of his branch died, 

 and the estate passed to the youngest of six daughters, co-heiresses, 

 who married Sir Giles Pole. A brass, commemorating her death, 

 is placed against the wall of the south aisle of Pauntley Church. 

 They had besides, in later times, possessions in other parts of 

 the County, as Tainton, I^otgrove '' Eodborough, Stroud, Cold Ashton, 

 Saint Briavels, Piisington, Pitchcombe, and Podmarton.' The Eev. 

 Hugh Whittington* was rector of Saint Mary de Crypt, and Saint John 

 the Baptist, Gloucester, in 1551. A collateral branch of this family 

 possessed an estate at Saint Briavels, in the Forest of Dean, and 

 another branch of the family still possesses a considerable property 

 at Hamswell, in the parish of Cold Ashton, in this County. The Eev. 

 William Whittington was Ecctor of Saint Mary de Ciypt, Gloucester, 

 and died 1G84. Leland, the antiquarj^, in his Itinerary, written in 

 the reign of Henry YIIL, speaks of one Whittington, whom he 

 calls a Gloucestershire gentleman, as being at that time proprietor of 

 the Scilly isles, off the coast of Cornwall; ^ upon such evidence there 

 appears to me no doubt that "WTiittington was a Gloucestershire man. 

 The family of Whittington was one of those of old landed proprietors 



h There are some very interestiug monuments of the Whittington family in 

 Kotgrovo Church, probably John "Whittington and his son iUesandcr in the 16th 

 century. 



i The "VVycs and "Whittingtons were Lords of Eodmarton in veiy early times, 

 and "William Fitzwarren held the manor at the beginning of the reign of Hen. "\*I. 

 — Atkyns' Gloucestershire. 



Thomas "Whittington, great nephew of the Lord Mayor of London, became 

 possessed of the Manor of Rodmarton, by marriage with the only daughter of 

 John Edwards, and possibly built the Manor House there. There is an interesting 

 brass in that Church to the memory of John Edwards. 



k This fiimily served the office of High ShcriflP for this County no less than 

 eight times, which is more than any family in the County, with the exception of 

 the Bcrkelcys and Poynty. 



I " One Davcrs, a Gentilman of Wilshirc whose chief house is at Daimdescy : 

 andWhitington, a Gentilman of Glocestreshire be owners of Scylley but they have 

 scant 40 markes by ycre of Rentes and Commoditcs of it."— Lclaud's Itinerary, 

 Hcame's Etlit., Hen. VIII., vol. 3, p. 19, fol. 6. 



