136 EAELY HISTORY OF THE MOUNT EDGCUMBE FAMILY. 



nyghtly in the wodys and hegges at Cotehele " so that Richard 

 and his household durst not " at the said place to abyde," and 

 stole "at dyvers tynies " " Bedynges, Blankydds, Schyrts, 

 Bowys, a hatte and a typet, a huntynge home " " brass pots and 

 pans," " a broche, a payre of hosys, sporys, &c." Then Robert 

 "chasyed" Richard, so that he was forced to "lie dayly and 

 nyghtly in his wodys for safe garde of hys lyffe to the grete 

 hurte and grefe of hys body." 



Another time, Richard recounts, that he had been "upon 

 the see " and intending to land at Fowey was so threatened by 

 Willoughby that he was afraid to do so, ' 'but was f ayn to take the 

 see " and keep away six weeks. Again at " Tauystoke " Robert 

 and his men with " Jakkes, Saletts, toygenders, bowys, swerdys, 

 and byllys made a gret aifray an a sawte " upon Richard who 

 "was in hys bed nakyed safe his shurt " and wounded his 

 servants, and at " a comyn Ostry at Calyngton" two of Robert's 

 servants " bete and wounded " one of Richard's. Lastly 

 "Willoughby's men came to Cotehele and there " wold have sold 

 both drye corn and wete " and other goods, " and forbode my 

 brother Dr. Eggcombe ys man that he shuld have do with no 

 man's stuff there uppon jup"*^ of hys lyfe." 



Each charge against Willoughby is headed " Item^' and 

 ends with a valuation of damages, as thus : "to the hurte and 

 damage of the same Richard of 201b. and more." 



This feud between the adjoining Squires may have originated 

 in party hostility inherited from the Civil wars, but all fighting 

 had long been over, nine years at least having elapsed since the 

 Earl of Warwick had been killed at Barnet, and the Red Rose 

 crushed at Tewkesbury. 



Within a few years this Willoughby (as Lord de Broke) 

 and Richard Edgcumbe held high places together in the Com-t 

 of Henry YII ; and 300 years later the estates of Willoughby 

 having passed into the possession of Lord Buckingham's line, 

 came to Richard 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe on his marriage 

 with Lady Sophia Hobart. 



In 1483 Richard Edgcumbe is said to have joined the rising 

 against Richard III, which was headed by the Duke of Bucking- 

 ham, and of which one of the principal centres was Exeter. 



