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first year of Richard II. (when the handwriting changes) was 

 one Daniel Rough or Row, who seems to have combined an 

 occupation requiring considerable education and learning 

 with that of a dealer in fish in a large way of business, holding 

 office in later years as a Jurat, but never again as Common 

 Clerk, and dying about 1385. The record of the death of 

 Edward III. and the coronation of his grandson Richard II. 

 is almost the last entry in his handwriting. The latter half 

 of the book was e\ddently used by him during his term of 

 office as a " Common-place " Book for the entry of miscel- 

 laneous matters, including the recording of conveyances and 

 other deeds, not directly concerned with the government of 

 the town. Amongst these latter on folios 84a to 86a are a 

 number of leases and conveyances concerning tenements and 

 land in the neighbourhood of New Romney and made between 

 Sir Richard de Totesham or Dotisham of West Farleigh and 

 Adam Adam of Bromhill in Romne}' Marsh. At the foot of 

 folio 84/j is a note in Latin, of which a translation reads : 



" Mark on the beak of the Swans belonging to Sir Richard de 

 Tot'[esham], knight, in the marsh of Romeney, as set forth" 

 [here follows the mark]. 



None of these conveyances, as was often the case, bear any 

 date, but an entry two pages back is dated November 1366. 



The Totesham family lived at Totesham Hall in West 

 Farleigh, near Maidstone, so far back at any rate as the 

 reign of King John and down to about the end of that of 

 Henry VHI., and were evidently in the fourteenth century 

 the owners of considerable property in Romney IMarsh, where 

 they maintained a game of Swans. 



