154 LANDOWNERS IN CORNWALL, 1165. 



i.e. "defeod Ric. de Lusti." Lysons supposed Peverel to have 

 held these fees as trustee, probably, for Rohesia de Lucy, and 

 he states that the mother of Fulbert de Dover, Rohesia' s husband, 

 was one of the co-heiresses of Pain Peverel, of Cambridgeshire. 

 Adam Malherbe, of whom de Lucy held 9 fees, was of a family 

 settled at Penyton, near Honiton. This manor they continued 

 to hold, from this date, for thirteen generations, until the reign 

 of Henry VII, when the family terminated in an heiress, who 

 married Perrers. Geoffry de Malherbe, temp. Edward III, 

 acquired from the Dean and chapter of Rotomagus (Rouen) 200 

 acres of land at Ottery, St. Mary, parcel of the manor of 

 YynetoD -Malherbe. The manor and hundred of Ottery, St. 

 Mary, were given, by King Edward the Confessor, to the 

 cathedral church of St. Mary, at Rouen. John Grandison, 

 Bishop of Exeter, having procured it of the Dean and Chapter 

 by exchange, in 1334, founded here a college of secular priests. 

 Richard Malherbe, great grandson of the above-named Geoffry, 

 had a daughter and heir, Margery, who married Thos. Carhurta, 

 of Devon, gent. 



3. Robert Fitz-William holds 51 knights' fees; and of 

 "Walter Hay, 20 fees. This Robert was grandson of Richard, 

 steward of the household, who, in 1086, held 29 manors in 

 Cornwall, and whose son, William Pitz-Richard, had large 

 possessions in the county ; the daughter of this William was 

 married to Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, consequently Robert 

 Fitz-William was brother-in-law of the Earl. These descendants 

 of Ricardus, of Domesday, were all possessors of the manor of 

 Tywardreth, and benefactors to the Priary there ; which, 

 probably, was founded by Ricardus Dapifer himself, son of 

 Turold. In 1169, only three years after the date of this 

 record, Robert Pitz- William joined in a deed with Agnes, his 

 wife, and Robert, his son, granting the glebe of St. Austell to 

 the priory of Tywardreath. Robert, the son here mentioned, 

 died, probably, sine prole. Richard Pitz- William, whose name 

 occurs later in this record, was probably a younger brother of 

 Robert, who married Agnes ; the sole heiress of Robert, 

 Ysabella, appears to have brought the whole of his fees to 

 Robert de Cardinan. 



