LANDOWNERS IN CORNWALL, 1165. 157 



William de Boterel (II) is supposed to have died very- 

 early in the 13th century, circa 1211. The following particulars 

 of his career are from Maclean's Trigg Minor, Vol. I, p. 632. 

 "In 12th Henry II (1166), William (II) de Boterell rendered 

 an account of £32 of " Old mercy," for which he originally owed 

 the King £60, and in the 33rd year of the same King (1 187) he 

 paid scutage for twelve knights' fees in Cornwall, because he 

 had not accompanied the king in his expedition into Gralway in 

 the preceding year. In 1199, he gave King John £200 and two 

 goshawks for having seizin of his land in Penhal, and half the 

 ville of Alencestre, and for the confirmation of the charter which 

 he had of Earl Reginald'; but it is stated that £100 is required 

 of William Fitz-Alan in Shropshire, his attorney, for a fine 

 made between the said William de Boterell and William the son 

 of Alan " (or Fitz-Alan). 



It may be here noted that Isabel, daughter and heir of 

 Helias de Say, the Lady of Clun, had been the wife of William 

 Fitz-Alan, who died some time before 1160 ; his son, of the same 

 name, dying about 1172, was succeeded by his son William Fitz- 

 Alan, who, iu 1199 was attorney for William de Boterell in 

 Shropshire, for which county he was at that time Sheriff. 

 " William (II) de Boterell was sheriff of Cornwall from 1205 to 

 1209, and paid £233 4s. per annum for the farm of the county. 

 In 1205, he gave the king two horses for the great saddle and 

 one Norway goshawk for license to marry Albreda, widow of 

 John de Ingeham and daughter of Walter de Waleran, in 

 addition to 300 marks which she had previously given to have 

 her own marriage." 



"In 12th John (1211), William (II) paid scutage for twelve 

 knights' fees, in Cornwall, for both the Scottish and Welsh 

 expeditions," and died shortly afterwards. The Lady Isabel, 

 his first wife, died in 1199. She was married three times — first 

 to William Fitz-Alan, sheriff of Shropshire ; secondly to Geoffrey 

 de Yere, who died in 1170; and thirdly to William (II) de 

 Boterell, who survived her 12 years. The property, represented 

 by 12 fees, continued in the family of Botreaux from the time of 

 Henry II till the reign of Edward IV (1462), after which it 

 passed, by successive female heirs, to Hungerford and Hastings, 

 and was sold to various persons by the Hastings, Earls of 

 Huntingdon, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 



