TROTT, Bartholomew, of Bodmin, Cornw.

Mayor, Bodmin 4 Oct. 1447 – 48, 1453 – 54, ?1454–5. CP40/750, rot. 103d; 778, rot. 315d. The evidence for Trott’s final mayoralty is dubious. J. Maclean, Trigg Minor, iii. 683 added it as an afterthought, citing a deed in private hands. A modern manuscript list among the Bodmin records (Cornw. RO, Bodmin bor. recs., B/Bod/302, f. 4) suggests that Trott served a further term of office in 1450–1, while another list in the same collection, previously in the possession of a Mr. Bell, town committee clerk, is ambiguous in naming Thomas Bere as mayor in 1450, and assigning the mayoralty of 1451 to both Trott and James Flamank.