CORNISH LANDOWNERS, 1256. 295 



Benherton (Biiinerton in Orowan and lands held of Robert 

 Carminow. Alice, wife of Le Petit, with her sister, Emma, were 

 coheirs of Mirabell {nee Beauchamp ?) once wife of Roger 

 Durhull. Fed. fin. 33 Henry III. (1249). 



The manor of Binnerton, the Bennartone of Domesday, 

 belonged in the reign of Richard II to the Beauohamps ; after- 

 wards to the De Spencers. There was formerly a chapel at 

 Binnerton dedicated to S. Augustine. One of the enclosures on 

 the estate still bears the name of the chapel field. 



(4.) Henry, son of Henry de la Pomhre — 30 librates. 



We find the name of Henry de Pomerai or Pomeroy, in the 

 records of 1165, and ] 213-20, of which we have given an account. 

 This is an instance of the transmission of the same christian 

 name through several generations of the same family ; — a com- 

 mon practice in many Norman families, notably in that of the 

 Grenvilles, all the heirs-male of which, until 1295, bore the 

 christian name of Richard. 



It was to the Henry de Pomeroy, mentioned above, that Henry 

 III, in 1266, granted a fair at Tregony on the festival of St. 

 Leonard, (Nov. 6) which is still held. 



According to tradition, Tregony Castle, of which there are 

 now no remains, is said to have been built by Henry de Pomeroy 

 (father or grandfather of Henry, of this record,) on behalf of 

 John, Earl of Cornwall, at the time that king Richard I was in 

 the Holy Land ; it was standing, and was the seat of the 

 Pomeroys, in 1478, when William of Worcester thus describes 

 it — " Castellum Tregheny stat, pertinet Pomereys, in Tregeny lurgagio 

 super le south P 



(5.) Rohert de Carmeneu — 16 librates. 



This Robert was, possibly, a son of that Roger de Carminow, 

 who, about 1220, was witness to an undated charter relating to 

 Trenant, and another charter, dated 1235, was witnessed by 

 Rohert de Carminow himself. 



There is also in the muniment room at Coker Court, county 

 Somerset, an undated deed, which, from internal evidence, would 

 seem to have been made between the 20th and 30th Henry III, 

 (1235 to 1245.) By this deed, Robert de Kayrminou gives 

 and grants all his lands of Trewynian and of Bodanan which he 



