294 Notes on the History of Great Somerford. 



Somerford Maltravers otherwise Broad Somerford with the rights 

 and appurtenances in the county of Wilts." The whole property 

 made up of three farm houses and one hundred and twenty-three 

 acres of land was in 1810 (with the manorial rights and subject to 

 certain leases) sold by the Marquis of Bath to Mr. John Parsloe 

 for £2,470. One of these houses is now in occupation of Mr. Edwin 

 Matthews and owned by Mrs. Charrington, another adjoining 

 " Sargents " is now two cottages, owned by the late Mr. H. Parsloe, 

 while the third, owned by Mr. W. Lewis, is also two cottages. 



The Jasons. 



The lordship of the manor and presentation to the living passed 

 on to the Jason family in 1623 and in 1637 the King presents 

 for Eobert Jason. The Jason family resided at Enfield at the 

 end of the 16th century. We have, in 1588, the original grant 

 of arms to Eobert Jason, of Enfield, who is there stated to have 

 come from the north and quarters a coat with the Lyon coat, his 

 wife having been a Miss Lyon, whose family had come from over 

 the sea. This Eobert died in 1610. His widow, Susan, marrying 

 again a certain John West, survived him for many years, dying at 

 Somerford in 1637. She left all her property to her grandson, 

 Eobert, whose father, Eobert, had predeceased in 1634. This last 

 Eobert married Cecilia, daughter of Sir Henry Eowe. The Jasons 

 seem to have espoused the Eoyalist cause. A Jason was killed at 

 Edgehill fighting for the King, and may have been a relative of 

 Eobert. Anyhow, we find the name of Eobert Jason among the 

 list of compounders, he petitioning through his father-in-law, Sir 

 H. Eoe, of Shacklewell, Hackney. On the restoration he received 

 his reward. In May, 1661, a grant was made to Eobert Jason, of 

 Broad Somerford, county Wilts, of the dignity of a baronet, with 

 the usual discharge for the fine of £1,095. Sir Eobert died 28th 

 March, 1675, 1 and was buried in Great Somerford Church. 2 Before 

 his death he had purchased property at Hinton on the Green, 



1 He had married the previous year Ann Raves, of Dunstew, Co. Oxon, who 

 married, secondly, Sir Christopher Eyre, and thirdly, Capt. David Warren. 



2 I have in my possession two silver coins, one an Edw. III. groat, the other 

 a Queen Eliz. sixpence dated 1579, found on the occasion of Mr. Demainbray's 

 funeral under the chancel floor, in the Jason tomb it is said. 



