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this sort on the part of the King could hardly be called a 
wrongful alienation. It seems more likely that the alienation 
was an act of the tenant, and that he passed it on to the De 
Mandevilles for some consideration. As the manor was always 
held of the King in capite it follows that such a transaction, if it 
took place, was winked at by those in authority, and their indul- 
gence would be more readily obtained by a relation of the King 
than by another. It is possible that the manor was given by 
Henry I. to his natural son, Reginald, created Earl of Cornwall, 
in 1141,) and that the Earl sold it to Roger de Mandeville 
who held three knights fees under him in Cornwall, when the 
Inquest of Knights was made in 1166.” 
There is very little doubt that Erlestoke should be translated 
“the place of the Earl,” though it is important that the spelling of 
the prefix should be Erle, as it was in 1227, and as it continued to 
be for three hundred years after that date, but there is not sufficient 
~ evidence available to establish the identity of the Earl whose place 
it once was. 
1 J. H. Round, in the Dict. Nat. Biog. 2 Red Book of theExchequer. 
