TRUSELL

The Trussells were of knightly rank from their first establishment in England. The most distinguished personage of the name was the famous William Trussell, who was in such estimation with the Commons in convention assembled, as to be chosen their organ to pronounce the deposition of the unfortunate Edward II., which duty he executed in the following words:-

"Ego William Trussell, vice omnium de Terra Angliae et totios Parliamenti procurator, tibi Edwardo reddo homagium prius tibi factum et ex tunc difiido te, et privo omne potestate regia et dignitate, nequaquam tibi de caetero tanquam regi periturus."

The subsequent career of this distinguished statesman occupies a prominent place in the history of the eventful time in which he lived. At one period, an exile from the hostility of the Mortimers, he was at another the trusted favourite of the King, from whom he received the dignified office of Admiral of the Fleet, and had summons to Parliament as a Baron, 25th Feb., 1342. His Lordships seems to have left no descendants.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll)