266 PARISH OF OTTERHAM. 



to him the Manors of Penrose Burden and Otterham, of which, 

 inter alia, he died seized 16 October, 1472, and upon the 

 inquisition taten thereupon Ralph Copleston, his son, was found 

 to be his nearest heir, and to be aged 17 years and more.*' 



Ealph Copleston presented to the church of Otterham on 20 

 August, 1487, an intermediate presentation having been made 

 in 1474 by G-eorge, Duke of Clarence and Earl of Warwick, 

 during the minority of the said Ralph, to whom probably the 

 wardship of the minor had been granted. Ralph married Ellen, 

 daughter of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, and being seized, 

 inter alia, of the Manors of Penrose Burden and Otterham, he 

 demised the same to Sir William Courtenay and others in trust 

 to the use of himself and his wife for the term of their lives 

 respectively with remainder over to his sons Nicholas, Thomas, 

 Richard, and John the younger in successive tail male. He 

 died on 3rd September, 8 Henry vij (1492), and John Copleston, 

 his son, was found to be his nearest heir and to be of the age 

 of 16 years and more. The jurors found that the manor of 

 Penrose Burden was held by knight's service of the Castle of 

 Launceston, and that the Manor of Oterham was held of the 

 Prior of Tywardreath by fealty, and was worth per annum four 

 marks, f 



We have not succeeded in finding the inquisition post 

 mortem of John Copleston, and we do not know the date of his 

 death, but he would appear to have settled the Manor of 

 Otterham upon his younger son Richard, who, as the true patron, 

 presented to the church in 1549, and in the Herald's Visitation 

 of 1564, he is described as of "Otterham." As early as 23 

 Henry viij (1531), he suffered a fine, inter alia, in this and 

 several other Manors to Humphry Colly s, Esq., Humphry 

 Keynes, Esq, Humphry Prideaux, Esq., Thomas GifPord of 

 Halsbury, Esq., John Kelly of Kelly, Esq., and John Pers of 

 Launceston for the nominal sum of 500 marks. J This was of 

 course for purposes of settlement probably upon the marriage 

 of his daughter and heir Isota or Isolda with Richard Wood, 

 son of Alexander Wood, who, probably as a trustee, presented 



*Inq. p.m., 13 Edw. IV, No. m 

 f Inq. p.m., 8 Henry, vij., No. 7. 

 :j:Ped. Fin. 23 Hen. viij., Mich. 



