Edward Nott of Braydon

CRICKLADE MUSEUM, CALCUTT STREET, CRICKLADE, has a NOTT pedigree. As seen on WDYTYA Aug 2013

From: Materials for a History of Cricklade, Ed by T R Thomson,

P. 78

Under date 25 November 1645, Colonel Nicholas Devereux wrote to William Lenthall of 'a most malevolent man one Lieut.Col. Nott, he, as I am persuaded, drew the King's Forces into our quarters at Cricklade where we lately lost 40 horse.'

Also p.78

'It has been stated, I do not know on what authority, that Charles II stayed a night at Abingdon Court after the battle of Worcester. If this has a shadow of truth, the possibility of such a shadow is as follows. The king spent the night of Thursday, 11 September, at Cirencester and reached Abbots Leigh three miles west of Bristol shortly before dusk on Friday 12 September. It is possible that instead of going by the shortest way he preferred to go to Malmesbury by way of Cricklade and Bradon Forest. It is probable that if indeed he did proceed thus, he broke his fast at Abingdon Court which he and his father are said to have used as a hunting box. His Bradon lessee, Edmund Nott, probably the man mentioned above as Lieut.-Col. Nott, might have provided a safe change of horses.' (Footnote: 'See pedigree of Nott of Bradon, in the (Cricklade) museum.')