268 PAEISH OF OTTERHAM. 



and also the advowson of the church of Otterham, for which 

 remise, quitclaim, and warrant the said John Saltren gave the 

 said John and Christopher Wood the sum of £500. 



John Braddon held the Rectory fifty-four years, and dying 

 in 1675, the vacancy was filled upon the presentation of John 

 Saltren, as were all subsequent institutions upon the presentation 

 of members of this family down to the year 1737 inclusive, but 

 the next presentation in the following year was made by William 

 Betenson of Grylls, in the parish of Lesnewth, gent., and the 

 following one in 1779 by John Betenson of Tiverton, in the 

 County of Devon, gent. From this it would appear that as 

 early as 1737 the advowson of the church had been alienated 

 from the manor to which it had always pertained, and was at 

 this time held by the Betenson family in gross. The manor 

 itself still continued vested in the Saltren faraily down to 1757,* 

 when John Saltren and Mary, his wife, suffered a fine therein to 

 Richard Welch, Joshua Thomas, and John Teage, in which it is 

 described as containing fifteen messuages, ten tofts, one mill, 

 thirty gardens, two hundred acres of land, one hundred acres of 

 meadow, twenty acres of pasture, five hundred acres of furze 

 and heath, two hundred acres of moor, and an annual rent 

 of 30/- ; and also seven-twelvths parts of one messuage, two 

 acres of land, and two acres of furze and heath, and moreover, 

 of common of pasture for all manner of cattle, with app"^^ in 

 Otterham, and divers messuages in that parish and in the 

 parishes of Egloskerry, Alternun, Laneast, Davidstow, and St. 

 Ive, from wtiich it would appear that divers tenements in those 

 parishes, in which the Saltern family had property, had by them 

 been annexed to this manor. This fine remise and quitclaim 

 was made by the said John Saltren and Mary, his wife, to the 

 aforesaid Richard Welch, Joshua Thomas, and John Teage to 

 hold to the use of the said Richard and his heirs for ever, and 

 for this remise and quit-claim, the said Richard Welch and the 

 others gave the same John Saltren and Mary the sum of £700. f 



The manor thus vested in Richard Welch still continues in 

 his descendants. 



* King's Silver Book, 31 Geo. II, Mich. 

 -*-Ped. Fin. 31 Geo. II, Michs, 



