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

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Rastoke : I met with a name somewhat resembling this in Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs. Ralph de Rostack, in the fourteenth century, was "manucaptor of Otto de Bodragan, knight of the shire for Cornwall."—He probably held the manor of Ros-teage (as it is now spelt) in Gerans; derived from two Celtic words, signifying "valley house," or "fair valley." William de Roscaet is entered in the Testa de Nevill among the tenants of Henry de la Pommeray at Tregony. If, however, this Celtic local name is the one here intended, it must of course be an interpolation.