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part in the administration of Exmoor. Neither, so 

 far as we know, did Thomas Chaucer, his son, though 

 the latter was connected with West Somerset. He 

 was Constable of the Castle at Taunton, and married 

 Maud de Berghersh, niece of Joan, wife of John de 

 Mohun, of Dunster. 



Joan de Mohun survived her husband and left 

 three daughters : Elizabeth, who married William de 

 Montacute, Earl of Salisbury ; Philippa, who married 

 Edward, Duke of York ; and Matilda, married to Sir 

 John Strange. It was this Joan who sold Dunster to 

 Sir Hugh Luttrell. 



William Wrothe and Thomas Attwood were the 

 first officers appointed under the Dukes of York ; 

 the former was probably one of the family of de 

 Wrotham who had for so many years been foresters 

 in fee. 



Sir William Bonville, who with Richard Luttrell 

 was appointed deputy in 1450, had an intimate 

 connection with the district and with staghunting, 

 for he had married Elizabeth, widow of the fourth 

 Lord Harrington, and the lady of the manors of 

 Porlock and Brendon. She is the lady who, with 

 her first husband, is buried under the fine carved 

 monument in Porlock Church. The Manor of 

 Porlock was, with the exception of that of North 

 Molton, the only one abutting on Exmoor 

 which contained a deer park. The right to hold 

 two fairs annually and a market on every 

 Thursday, and leave to impark " his demesne 



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