COBNISH LANDOWNERS, 1256. 293 



Henry de Traai, of Toddington, who died about the year 

 1246, leaving a daughter, Margery, wife of Maurice de Stanlich, 

 and two sons, Henry, his heir, and Thomas, who became '■'jure 

 uxorus Isoldce de Vardmau^^^ of Eestorm el Castle, Cornwall. 



This Thomas de Tracy is the one named in our record. He 

 married Isolda the heiress of the ancient baronial family of 

 Cardinan. In r256. certain proceedings were taken in the king's 

 court respecting the dower of Ela, relict of Andrew de Cardinan, 

 when Thomas de Piidias (Prideaux) was appointed attorney for 

 Isolda, wife of Thomas de Tracy Andrew de Cardinan, the 

 father of Isolda, was the son and heir of Eobert de Cardinan, 

 who held the baronies of Cardinan and Botardel, consisting of 

 71 knight's fees. In 1264, Thomas de Tracy surrendered the 

 castle of Eestormel, and the barony of Cardinan, to Ealph 

 Arundell, to be held on behalf of Simon de Monf ort, as a security 

 against his enemies who had threatened him with destruction. 

 In 1266, Thomas de Tracy witnessed a grant of Lanesley, in 

 Grulval, by Simon de Als to the Prior of S. Germans. He died 

 before 1269, for in that year, Isolda de Cardinan, as she styled 

 herself, who had been the wife of Thomas de Tracy, conveyed the 

 manors of Cardinan and Botardel to Oliver de Dinaunt ; and 

 also in the 54th Henry III (1269) Hugo de Treverbyn, quit- 

 claimed the said manors to Oliver de Dmaunt for one sore hawk 

 — unum austurcum sorum : a hawk of the first year. It is evident 

 that Thomas de Tracy left no descendants. Lysons gives an 

 ancient seal, appendant to a grant, without date, from Isolda de 

 Cardinan to Henry de campo Arnulphi (Champernowne) of her 

 manors of Tywardreath and Ludwon. On the seal is a coat of 

 arms, three bendlets, with this inscription " S. Isonte de 

 Cardinan." It is probable that the coat of arms on this seal was 

 that of Tracy, the husband of Isolda de Cardinan, one of the 

 coats commonly ascribed to the family of Tracy, being 2 bendlets. 



2. Roger de Mesy — 16 librates. 



De Mesy is a name not known in Cornish history. The 

 nearest approach to it is De Meules or Moels. Roger de Meules 

 was returned, in 1297, as holding lands in Cornwall of £20 a 

 year and upwards, but as he is stated to have died in 1294, his 

 name must have been still retained in the king's books. This 



