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14. Allan de Dunstavill, I knight's fee. 



The Scutage-roll as given by Carew, states Alan de 

 Dunstanville held one knight's fee. Eyton in his "Antiquities 

 of Shropshire," says that in 1187, he, Alan, was returned as 

 holding twelve fees in capite, in Cornwall, (Lib. rub. Scaccarii, fo. 

 xlix). In 1185-1186, Alan de Dunstanvill appears as having 

 to wife the co-heiress of Emma de Langelot, which Emma, then 

 aged 60 years, was of the race of " Chedney and Joceline Crispin.'''' 

 Her lands were in Buckinghamshire. The wife of Alan was 

 then aged 30 years. This Alan's father, also Alan, seems to 

 have been largely enfeoffed in Cornwall ; probably during the 

 time when the earldom was held by Eeginald de Dunstanville 

 (1140-1175). 



In 1200, Alan de Dunstanville, son of Alan de Dunstanvill, 

 Lord of Idsall, &c. in Salop, was lord of the manor of Tehidy, 

 and granted a lease of Minwinnion, now the home farm within 

 the park, to Paul Guyer. On the 5th September, 1216, King 

 John empowers his beloved and faithful Alan de Dunstanvill to 

 sieze the lands of William Basset which are of his fee, the said 

 William being with the king's enemies. These lands appear 

 to have been in Cornwall. Tehidy remained with the elder 

 branch of the family long after the era of Alan de Dunstanvill 

 (Eylon's Antiq. of Shropshire, Vol. II). This William Basset, 

 lord of Ipisden and Stoke-Basset, county Oxford, married 

 Cecilia, daughter of Alan de Dunstanville, with whom he is 

 said to have had Menalida, in Cornwall, as a marriage portion. 

 She was dead in 1208, consequently William Basset was a 

 widower in 1216, when with the enemies of King John. By his 

 wife, Cecilia, whom he married circa 1205, he had one son, 

 named Alan, after his grandfather. This Alan Basset, knight, 

 married Lucia Peverel ; and acquired the great manor of Tehidy 

 by an exchange with his cousin, William de Engelfend, who, as 

 well as himself, was grandson of Alan de Dunstanvill. In Boll 

 B, Walter de Dunstanville succeeds his cousin, Alan, who, we 

 may consider, was dead before 1220, the latest date assignable 

 to that roll. 



1 5. Roger Anglicus, 1 knight's fee. 



