A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
last possessor having suffered a long imprisonment,beside, in Edinburgh and Carlisle Castles, William Trotter, an ancestor, is recorded to have fallen atthe battle of Flodden ; and in corroboration of the fact, a gold ring was found, about the middle of thelast century, upon the site of the field… … The Pawsons, a family of great antiquityin Yorkshire, are first mentioned in the reignof Henry IV. anno 1405. Reginald Pawson, by Edith his wife, adescendant of Simon Montfort, the greatEarl of Leicester, had a son, Hugh Pawson, father, by Elizabeth hiswife, of Henry Pawson, who died in 1617,…
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