300 CORNISH LANDOWNERS 1256. 



(9.) Jordanus de Hacuml — 14 librates. 



Haccombe is two miles east of Newton Abbot, in Devon, and 

 gave name to a family which, at a very early period, possessed 

 this property. It is a question whether the original name of the 

 family was Fitz- Stephen, or Be Haccombe. In 35th Edw. I (1306) 

 at the Assizes then held at Launceston, William (VI) de 

 Botereus (Botreaux) recovered from Gecelia de Haccomle, Stephen 

 de Haccomle, and others, one water-mill, &c., in Castelboterel, 

 which Cecilia claimed as a part of Worthefala (Worthevale), 

 which she held in dower of the inheritance of the said William 

 de Botereus, and by his assignment. John Lerchedekne, 2nd 

 baron Archdekne, who was born in 1306, married Cecilia, daugh- 

 ter of Jordan Fit%-Stephen de Haccombe. This Cecilia, it is evident, 

 could not have been the claimant of dower in 1306, mentioned 

 above. By this lady, his lordship had nine sons, of whom 

 Warine succeeded him as 3rd baron. Dying in 1400-1, his 

 second daughter and coheir, Philippa, born 1386, in 1407 was 

 second wife of Sir Hugh, second son of Edward Courtenay, of 

 Godlington, who was second son of Hugh Courtenay, second 

 Earl of Devon. By Philippa, Sir Hugh Courtnay had an only 

 daughter, Joane, whose first husband was Nicholas, Lord Carew, 

 of Mohuns Ofctery, and thus Haccombe became the property of 

 the Carews, resident there for the last 450 years. Sir Nicholas 

 Carew, Knight, commonly called Lord Carew, died in 1449. 



Returning to Sir John Lercedekne, Knight, husband of 

 Cecilia de Haccombe, we learn that in 1341, he endowed the 

 chantry of Haccombe with the great tithes of S. Hugh de 

 Quedyoch, in conformity to the wishes of Sir Stephen de Haccombe, 

 Knight, who had applied to Bishop Grandison (cons. 1327, ob. 

 1368.) to erect the parish church of St. Blaize at Haccombe, the 

 burial place of his ancestors, into an Archpresbytery, but, before 

 his request could be complied with, the good knight died. In 

 Oliver's Historic Collections is printed the foundation deed of 

 this college. The community, besides the Archpriest, consisted 

 of 5 clergymen, called Socii. They were bound to sing the 

 canonical office, and to celebrate obits. All dwelt under the same 

 roof, and lived in common. The archpriest had to pay annually 

 six marks to the treasurer of the cathedral of Exeter. The 

 living of Quethiock is a vicarage ; the tithes were commuted 



