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Dodbrooke, and Saulf's at Sowton to the honour of Okehampton.^ Adret's 

 holdings at Wick and Goodamoor {in Bicheforda, fol. 488^), Saulf's at 

 Ashford Peverel {Manneheua, fol. 490), Al ward's at Kismilton, and all 

 Edwin's, Odo Edric's son's, Alveva's, Aldric's, and Leuric's estates to the 

 honour of Plympton.^ Alnod's to the honour of Stoke Curcy/ Alwin's, 

 Alvric's, Algar's, AlfiUa's, Ulf's, and those of the priests of Bodmin do not 

 appear at all in the fee lists. 



Adret or Eldred held North Wick, Manaton, and Godamoor {Biche- 

 forda), and the GeldroU shows that one Aderet the forester, presumably the 

 same, held some other estate in Exminster hundred,* possibly the detached 

 section of Kenton manor.^ Ansgod was another Englishman who was 

 allowed to retain his manor of Meddon and Diptford, and received in addition 

 Farley, the estate of the dispossessed Done, which in 1251 was Jordan de 

 Esse's.* Alward Merta, who held Kismilton [Colsouenescota, fol. 481), 

 besides J virgate in Ashreigney given to him by the queen in alms, was 

 probably the Alward, described as a freeman, whose second name survives 

 in Merdisnymet, alias Wolfsnymet (fol. 390^), of which he was unfortunate 

 enough to be dispossessed in favour of Walter de Clavil. 



Donne, who held Newton St. Cyres and Nutwell before the Conquest, 

 was one of those who contrived to keep his estates under William. 

 Holding Newton of the bishop he tendered his fee-farm rent to the 

 crown, and although the bishop produced his charters proving that he had 

 been seised thereof before the Confessor's reign, and brought forward 

 Normans (Jrancigenae) in support of his claim,^ Donne was entered by the 

 commissioners among tenants of the crown. Alwi or Alwin, who had the 

 small estate of Middlecot, may possibly be the dispossessed Alwi Bannesons 

 whose lands Alvred of Spain or fipaignes enjoyed.* Odo son of Edric, 

 Edrit, or Adret, who held Southwood and Uggarton, besides other manors, 

 may possibly be the son of Adret the forester, but his successors took their 

 name from Down Ralf, and were known as de Dun. Alveva, the lady who 

 held St. James's Church (fol. 487), may have been the same Alveva who held 

 Withycombe Raleigh before the Conquest, and it is possible that there was a 

 church there also, if the tradition is of any value that before the settlement 

 of parishes in this county the inhabitants of what are now four parishes used 

 to resort to a church at Withycombe with the invocation of St. John in the 

 Wilderness of Egypt. She is described as a freewoman, and had property 

 also at Ash Thomas, assuming the Alveva at Ash to be the same. Godeva, 

 who held Torbryan, together with Dodbrooke and Portlemouth, was 

 Brictric's widow.' She had estates in Teignbridge," Haytor," and Coldridge^** 

 hundreds. 



Outside the general system of land tenure," and independent of the 

 regular divisions of hundreds, tithings, and manors, are the county and market 

 boroughs and the land reserved for the king's pleasure, the forest. Only four 



1 Testa de Nevill^'Siec. Com.), i8o^. ' Ibid. iSitf, 182. ' Feud. Aids, 326. 



* GeldroU, fol. 69, A 10. ' Polwhele, ii, 165 ». 



^ Held of the honour of Berry, Testd de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 182*. Feud. Aids, p. 342, says that it 

 was held of Mohun, Mohun being one of Briwere's heirs, and Briwere being the purchaser of the North Devon 

 section of Pomeray's honour. 



' Exeter Domesday, fol. 1 1 7. ° Freeman, Norman Conquest, iv, 31. 



' GeldroU, fol. 69, A 10. '° Ibid. " GeldroU, fol. 6()b, A 1 2. 



" Ibid. fol. 69, A 4. '' Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, p. 178. 



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