Person:Ambrose Rotton (4)

Built Stratford House, Camp Hill (2nd oldest house in Birmingham)

On the Quindene of Easter. 25 Elizabeth, Between Richard Greves, Walter Eotton, Ambrose Rotton, and William Hawkes, complainants, and Eichard Bioivne, deforciant of 14 messuages, 3 cottages, 6 gardens, 6 orchards, 60 acres of land, 20 aTes of meadow, 60 acies of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 10 acres of furze and heath, 10 acres of moor, and 6 acres of land covered with water in Eamsour, Mason Ridware ami Hill Ridware. EichaTr] Browne remitted all riglit to the complainants, and to the heirs of Eichard Greves, for which the complainants gave him £40.

On the Morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Mary. 40 Elizabeth. Between Ambrose Rotton, complainant, and Edmund Sedgwicke and

Mentioned in father's will.

Birmingham City Archives: Smalbroke family of Birmingham TITLE DEEDS

FILE - Bargain and sale of a messuage in Birmingham, formerly in the occupation of the Guild of Birmingham, then of Humphrey Bromwich but now of Richard Smalbroke, formerly prior of Studley; a meadow in Edgbaston Street in Birmingham formerly in the occupation of William Symondes; a tenement in Mercer Street [later Spiceal Street] now or formerly in the occupation of John Shilton; a tenement and two gardens in New Street, Birmingham now or formerly in the occupation of William Bodgy; a garden in Birmingham now or formerly in the occupation of Mary Vernon; a croft in Park Street, Birmingham now or formerly in the occupation of Richard Smalbroke; a shop and house in High Street, Birmingham next to the Cock now or formerly in the occupation of John Willyes; a stable and garden in Mercer Street [later Spiceal Street] in Birmingham now or formerly in the occupation of Thomas Marshall - ref. MS 1098/10 - date: 1576 [from Scope and Content] (Edward, Earl of Lincoln and William Raven of Horsepole Grange (Leicestershire) to Thomas Smalbroke of Birmingham, mercer and Ambrose Rotton of Bordesley, tanner)

FILE - Deed to lead the uses of a fine, with the related indenture of fine, relating to three closes of land called Colmans at Yardley; closes called Small Heath Closes near Small Heath in Bordesley; a close of pasture called Hall Croft at Bordesley; a messuage called The Talbot where Richard Smalbroke now lives in High Street, Birmingham with two gardens and the buildings lately erected on one of them, fronting onto New Street; a messuage called the Brokehouse and Brookhouse Barn, with a parcel of land adjoining, at Bordesley; closes of pasture called Conygree or Wall Croft, a new orchard and a little meadow adjoining Brookhouse Lane, a close called Sandpits and another called Stony Croft or Poole Croft with the ponds therein, all in Bordesley; a close called Poole Pitts in Bordesley, now in the occupation of Thomas Billingsley; closes called The Hollies in Bordesley; a close now divided into two parts called Whitknave Lande; closes in Bordesley near to Damford Lake in the occupation of Thomas Rotton; a croft called Long Croft adjoining the Coventry Road and another close adjoining the Coventry Road formerly in the occupation of Ambrose Rotton; a meadow called Garbolesuche in Bordesley; a three-cornered close between the last and Small Lane; all the closes in Bordesley called Longfields, late in the occupation of Ambrose Rotton; a messuage and lands called Ravenhurst in Bordesley, formerly occupied by George Kenrick but now by Elizabeth Smalbroke, aunt to Richard Smalbroke; a messuage next to the Talbot in High Street, Birmingham in the occupation of Edward Lewes; another messuage in High Street, Birmingham in the occupation of John Stonhurste; a close of land late Sporryers in the foreign of Birmingham near to Phillipps pool now or late in the occupation of William Mitchell; a messuage, and barn in Bordesley late in the occupation of William Bloxwich; messuage formerly Sporryers in High Street, Birmingham now in the occupation of Robert Smalbroke and Elizabeth Smalbroke, widow, mother of Richard Smalbroke; a messuage adjoining Sporryers [in High Street] and a little parcel of land belonging thereto now or late in the occupation of Richard Clarke; a messuage in New Street now or late in the occupation of Johanne Greensed, widow and William Bankes; a messuage late Sporryers in Moor Street now in the occupation of William Somner als Kethermuster and the messuage adjoining it, now in the occupation of Roger Michell; a messuage in Edgbaston Street in the occupation of Robert Wood, pewterer, formerly part of the possessions of the Guild of Aston Cantlow (Warwickshire) - ref. MS 1098/20 - date: 1619-1620

Birmingham City Archives: Smythe Etches and Co, later Lee Crowder and Co, solicitors of Birmingham [MS 3375/435810 - MS 3375/432752]

YARDLEY-GENERAL

GREET. Other estates.

FILE - Grant from Richard Smalbroke of Ravenshurste in Bordesley, gent., to Ambrose Rotton of Bordesley, yeoman, of a messuage and land in Greete Greet. - ref. MS 3375/427330 - date: 1 April 7 Jas I 1609

FILE - Deed poll whereby Richard Smalbroke of Ravenshurst in Bordesley, gent., grants to Ambrose Rotton of Bordesley, yeoman, a messuage and land in Greete Greet. - ref. MS 3375/427333 - date: 24 June 7 Jas I 1609

Birmingham City Archives: Toulmin Smith collection

FILE - Bond. - ref. MS 3881/34 - date: Dated 20 September 31 Elizabeth I 1589 |_ [from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Thomas Smalbroke, Robert Smalbroke, Richard Smalbroke, junior, Ambrose Rotton.

FILE - Bargain and sale. - ref. MS 3881/35 - date: Dated 20 September 30 Elizabeth I 1589 |_ [from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Thomas Smalbroke, Robert Smalbroke, Richard Smalbroke, junior, Ambrose Rotton.

FILE - Gift. - ref. MS 3881/36 - date: Dated 24 September 31 Elizabeth I 1589 |_ [from Scope and Content] Witnesses: Thomas Smalbroke, Robert Smalbroke, Richard Smalbroke junior, Ambrose Rotton.

Birmingham City Archives: Digby family of Meriden Hall, Warwickshire

Bordesley. Manorial general

FILE - Counterpart - ref. MS 3887/257.B26 - date: 4 February 1595/6 |_ [from Scope and Content] Bargain and sale from Thomas Holte to Ambrose Rotton of land in Bordesley called Fawcombe Feildes.

Dugdale Society Publications: Vol 4 Records of King Edward School, Birmingham p62 Grant to the Earl of Lincoln, 1576: .....divers lande, purchased by me, Thomas Smalbroke, by assurance made to me and Ambrose Rotton....

Aston parish registers 1592: "The XIIth day of November Ambrose Rotton, Richard Bloxishe and Thomas Walderne gave up their accounts of their churchwardenship, then were chosen churchwardens Simon Holden, Raphe Forest and Ambrose Davenport the day and yere abovewritten"

FINAL CONCORD. TEMP. ELIZABETH. On the Quindene of Easter. 25 Elizabeth,

Between Richard Greves, Walter Eotton, Ambrose Rotton, and William Hawkes, complainants, and Eichard Bioivne, deforciant of 14 messuages, 3 cottages, 6 gardens, 6 orchards, 60 acres of land, 20 aTes of meadow, 60 acies of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 10 acres of furze and heath, 10 acres of moor, and 6 acres of land covered with water in Eamsour, Mason Ridware ami Hill Ridware.

EichaTr] Browne remitted all riglit to the complainants, and to the heirs of Eichard Greves, for which the complainants gave him £40.

FINAL CONCORDS. TEMP. ELIZABETH. On the Morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Mary. 40 Elizabeth.

Between Ambrose Rotton, complainant, and Edmund Sedgwicke and Margery his wife, deforciants of a cottage, 2 barns, a garden, an orchard, 2 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture and an acre of land covered with water in Great Barre and Wallsall.

Edmund and Margery remitted all right to Ambrose and his heirs, for which Ambrose gave them £100.