PARISH OF OTTERHAM. 263 



Survey and the date at wliicli our public records commence. 

 The earliest holder of the manor of which we have any note is 

 described as " Matilda, the Lady of Oterham," but what her 

 estate in it was, whether in fee of her own right or in dower, 

 does not appear, nor is her family name stated. She presented 

 to the benefice in 1278, and was probably the ancestress, perhaps 

 the mother of Robert the son of William who presented Robert 

 de St. Genesio (St. Gennis) in 1309,* (see post, p. 269) and 

 Simon, the son of John de Genesio in 1311. It is, we think, 

 not unlikely from the fact of two clerks of the name of St. 

 Gennis having been presented in succession, that the patron was 

 also of that family. 



The Manor of Otterham, however, not long after the date 

 mentioned above, had became vested in the family of Burdon, 

 by whom it was held together with the Manor of Penros-Burdon, 

 in the parish of St. Breward, which had been granted to Robert 

 Burdon by Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, who died in 1175, hence 

 the grant must have been made before that year, and this grant 

 was confirmed to Peter Burdon, son and heir of the said Robert, 

 by King John, on 5th January, 12U0-1, for which confirmation 

 the said Peter gave the king 60 marks and a palfrey. The Manor 

 of Otterham, however, is not mentioned in this confirmation, and 

 we conclude the Burdons must have acquired it by marriage, and 

 by marriage it was carried by Johanna, daughter and heir of 

 Nicholas Burdon, to William Tremblethou, alias William Fitz 

 Wauter or Fitz Walter, who died on the 10th May, 1385, 

 seized, inter alia, of the two said manors, the former being 

 held of the King in capite by the 8th part of one knight's fee 

 of the Castle of Launceston, and the latter of John Serjeaux 

 by knight's service, and the jurors add that it is of the value 

 per annum of five marks. They also found that the nearest 

 heir of the said Sir William was his son Thomas, then aged 

 11 years and more, and they add that John Sergeaux had 

 occupied the Manor of Oterham with the custody and marriage 

 of the heir from the time of the death of the said William to 



* Robert, son of William, was one of those returned as liolding lands or rents 

 in Cornwall of the value of <£20 a year or upwards. 24 May, 24 Edw. I (1296), 

 Harl MS.,1192, fo. 50, 



