100 Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Far high. 



House of Parliament, and for many years a Cabinet Minister under 

 the Whig party. 



But, if remembered at all by posterity, it will probably be rather 

 in connection with literature than with politics, as the friend and 

 fellow-traveller of the poet Byron, and the spirited annotator of 

 that poet's best work. 



To him in the baronetcy succeeded (1869) Sir Charles Parry 

 Hobhouse, the present proprietor of our manor house and lands. 

 He was for twenty -six years in the Civil Service, first of the East 

 India Company, and then of the Crown in India, and after holding- 

 various offices of some importance there — the last as a judge of Her 

 Majesty's High Court of Judicature at Calcutta, he devotes such 

 leisure and health as he has left to the ordinary duties of a country 

 gentleman and magistrate. 



CHAPTER V. 

 Parish Notables. 



Here terminates the history of the manor house and of the families 

 connected therewith, but we have had other notable families in the 

 parish, and I proceed to give some account of the most remarkable 

 amongst them. 



I begin with the Cottles, and although I cannot attempt to con- 

 nect our parish with the early founders of the family yet I shall 

 put together, for the benefit of any future writer, something like an 

 historical account of them. 



The first mention that I find is of one Beranger Cotel, who, ac- 

 cording to the Exon Domesday (c. 1086), held one hide of land at 

 Fontel, now Fonthill Gifford, in Dunworth Hundred. 



Then appears a certain Sir Richard Cotell, who (c. 1100) is 

 settled by the then Abbot of Glastonbury on a manor at Camerton, 

 in Somerset. 



This manor, on Sir Richard's death (c. 1120), reverted to Glaston- 

 bury, and a series of Cottels remained in tenancy, viz., Richard (c. 

 1166); after him, Sir William; and after him, Sir Elias, orElleys. 

 He, A.D. 1289, seventeenth Edward I., is entered in the list of 

 " Chevaliers et Homme du Mark," in Co. Somerset, and in 1336 he 

 presented to the living of Camerton. 



