The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Totelles : Totel in Duchesne's copy. This may be a Norman name, but it is suspiciously like Tothill in England: and is certainly not entered in the Nobiliaire. In the Testa de Nevill (the earliest mention of it that I have found), Robert de Totehal holds one fee of the old feoffment of the Honour of Hanslap, and Walter de Totehale part of another of the new. "Ric° Totella" witnesses a deed of Reginald de Courtenay, Baron of Okehampton in Devonshire: and some Tothills subsequently appear in the county history. Peamore, near Exeter, one of the Bonville estates that fell to the crown on the attainder of the Duke of Suffolk, was bought by Jeffrey Tothill, and afterwards shared by two co-heiresses. Constance Totel was of. Kent, and Roger Tothull of Oxon, c. 1272.—Rotul. Hundredorum. Roger de Totil (can this have been the same?) was one of the burgesses for Lincoln in the parliament of 1311. The seal of "S' Rogeri Totel junioris" is preserved in the muniment room at Stow-Bardolph, Norfolk; and bears either a bend or two bendlets—a coat entirely dissimilar to that of the Devonshire family. In Yorkshire nearly the whole town of Fixby (Morley Wapentake) was acquired either by grant or purchase by Thomas de Tothill. "He enfeoffed William his son during his lifetime of all his lands, which William left at his death to his daughter Margaret, who in 1343 was 'in the custody of Earl Warren by reason nonage.'" of her She married William de Thornhill.—Yorkshire Archaeologia, vol. 7.