A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



done that single leaves belonging to one tenant were in several cases mis- 

 placed among the booklets belonging to other tenants. Before the binding 

 took place some whole booklets and leaves containing the fiefs of Robert Bastard, 

 Richard son of Torolf, Hervei de Helion's widow, and Alvred the Breton, 

 had entirely disappeared, as also a leaf containing the last five manors 

 and a house in Exeter belonging to Ruald Adobed (Exch. fol. 115). In 

 addition a leaf containing six of Walter de Dowai's estates (fol. 347) was 

 long missing, having apparently been annexed previous to 1508 by Dean 

 Willoughby. This leaf at the beginning of the nineteenth century was 

 accidentally discovered among the papers of Sir John Trevelyan, bart. (in 

 whose family it had found a home since at least 1656, when the heiress of the 

 Willoughbys married a Trevelyan), and was by him restored. But whatever 

 may have been lost. Sir Henry Ellis was wrong in saying that the lands of 

 Godbold, Nicholas the Crossbowman, Fulcher and Haimeric, together with 

 eleven manors of the king's serjeants [servientes regis), are omitted in the 

 Exeter Book. There are no such omissions ; only instead of appearing under 

 separate headings as in the Exchequer Book the entries referring to these 

 officials are all grouped together in the Exeter Book. On the other hand 

 the Exeter Book names ' Sotrebroc,' the land of Floher (fol. 459), which the 

 Exchequer omits to mention. In 1 8 1 6 the binding of the two volumes was 

 broken up ; the booklets were rearranged and rebound in one volume which 

 received a fresh numbering of the pages. Unfortunately in the process one 

 leaf got misplaced. It is now numbered fol. 401, but it ought to come 

 before fol. 400. 



As at present arranged the volume begins with the returns of the land- 

 tax collectors for Wiltshire, of which it contains no fewer than three copies 

 (fols. I, 7, 13). A description of Shaftesbury, Dorchester, Bridport, and 

 Wareham in Dorsetshire follows on fol. 1 1 , Shaftesbury not being called by 

 that name, but ' the town of St. Edward ' ; otherwise the description is given 

 in the exact terms of the Exchequer Domesday. On fol. 17 come the land- 

 tax returns for Dorsetshire and a description of a few manors in that county ; but 

 no fewer than forty titles of tenants-in-chief are absent. The returns of the land- 

 tax collectors for Devonshire follow (fol. 65), for Cornwall (fol. 72), and for 

 Somersetshire (fol. 75), preceded by two distinct lists of Devonshire hundreds 

 (fol. 63), neither of which observes the same order as that followed in 

 the text. After a detailed description of the estates of these three counties on 

 fols. 83 to 494 comes a list of 'Lands entered upon' {terrae occupatae) in 

 Devonshire (fol. 495), in Cornwall (fol. 507), and in Somersetshire (fol. 508). 

 On fol. 526 is the land-tax collector's return for two Somersetshire hundreds 

 which had been omitted in the earlier portion and an account of the tax paid 

 by the manors of 'Torna' and 'Torleberge' and by Mauger de Cartraio. 

 At the end is a summary of the property of Glastonbury Abbey in Wiltshire, 

 Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, and of the property of St. Petroc in the 

 county of Cornwall ; the like of the lands of Ralf de Mortuo mari and Miles 

 Crispin in Wales, of Robert son of Girold in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and 

 Somersetshire, and of the count of Mortain in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Devon- 

 shire, and Cornwall. An analysis of the sections relating to Devonshire has 

 been printed by Mr. Whale in the Trans, of the Devon Assoc. (1896), xxviii, 

 402-63, but a few of the identifications need reviewing. 



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