A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



estates.^ In his person the honours of Plympton and Okehampton were 

 united. 



Foremost among the estates held of the honour were those enjoyed at 

 the time of the Domesday Survey by ' Ruald Adobed ' (Rhiwallon the dubbed 

 knight)/ consisting of thirty-two manors, assessed at 14 hides, and con- 

 taining more than 13,000 acres under cultivation. When Ruald entered 

 religion these estates reverted to the crown, excepting the church-manor of 

 Poughill, which he gave with himself to St. Nicholas' Priory.^ Apparently 

 Roger, son of Stephen de Mandevil, * then held them at pleasure, but before 

 1 160 thirteen and a half fees were held of the honour by Walter Giffard and 

 Eustace his son,^ and continued in that family until 1276, when Emma, 

 daughter of Walter GifFard and Alice his wife, died a lunatic, leaving, by 

 Hugh de Widworthy, her husband, an only daughter, Emma, who married 

 Robert de Dinham, and died without issue.* 



Another group, consisting of twenty-one manors, formerly held by the 

 Saxons Alric, Brismer, Heche, Ulnod, and Ulward, assessed at 14J hides, 

 with about 13,000 acres under cultivation, was held at the time of the 

 survey by William de Poillei. By two charters, dated respectively 1093 and 

 1096, he gave the tithe of them all to St. Martin and the monastery of 

 Sees. '' He had a son Robert,^ but his estates were at a very early time 

 dispersed. Apparently Poillei's estates formed a group of ten fees.* 



Another group of estates, afterwards held of the honour of Plympton, 

 were the sixteen manors acquired from the dispossessed Saxons Ulward, 

 Bristold, and Wadelo, assessed at 11 hides, with some 10,500 acres under 

 cultivation, which Robert de Albemarle held at the time of the survey. 

 They formed a group of fourteen fees, which continued for many generations in 

 his family,* but eleven were quit-claimed to his overlord by Ralph Damerleigh.^" 



Robert Bastard held at the time of the survey nine manors, assessed at 

 2f hides, with about 2,000 acres, acquired from the Saxons Alvric and 

 Alwey. Goislen Bastard held them in 11 60," Nicolas Bastard in 1243," 

 Baldwin Bastard in 1286.^* They formed a group of three and a half fees.^* 



' According to ' the case in the House of Lords, 1832,' Hugh II de Courteney, the first earl of the new 

 line, died 14 Edw. III. His son, Hugh III, second earl of Devon, died 51 Edw. Ill, and was succeeded by 

 his grandson. Sir Edward Courteney, Sir Edward's uncle being Sir Philip of Powderham. On the death of 

 the third earl in 7 Hen. V, his son. Sir Hugh, succeeded as fourth earl, but died 10 Hen. V. Thomas 

 Courteney, his son, succeeded as fifth earl, and died 36 Hen. VI. The sixth earl was his grandson, Thomas 

 Courteney, who was attainted, and beheaded I Edw. IV. In I Hen. VII the earldom was revived in favour 

 of Sir Edward Courteney, who died in 1509. His son William and grandson Henry having both been 

 attainted, a new grant of the earldom was made by patent on 3 September, 1553, to his great-grandson. 

 Sir Edward Courteney, without reversal of the attainder of his ancestor. On his death, on 1 8 September, 

 1556, the four daughters of Sir Hugh Courteney of Boconnoc in Cornwall, married respectively to W. Mohun, 

 J. Arundel, J. Trethurfe, and J. Trelawny, were found to be his next of kin, but the attainder barred his 

 and their succession to the lands anciently held with the earldom. 



' Freeman, Norman Conquest, iv, 173 ; iii, 233. ' Oliver, Men. 119. 



* He gave the church of Aveton Giffard, one of Ruald's estates, to Plympton, ibid. 135. 



' Ibid, shows that in that year Walter Giffard gave to Plympton Priory lands formerly Ruald's at 

 Yealmpstone, Awton Giffard, also North and South Brentor, Longstone, Rawdon, and Waterfall in Lamerton 

 parish. Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, p. 176, gives Giffard's fees as fifteen. 



^ Wrottesley, The Giffards, 13. ' Cal. of Doc. France, 23 J. 



' Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, p. 176; ten (unspecified) fees held by the heirs of William de Brywere, and ' they 

 ought to find a crossbowman in Plumpton Castle at their own cost.' 



' Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 465, ». 28 ; Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, p. i-jS. 



'" Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 541. " Oliver, Mm. 135. 



" Testa (/i? iVm// (Rec. Com.), pp. 189^, 191^, 192^, i94<?. 



" feud. Aids, pp. 340, 341, 350. " Cal Inq. Hen. Ill, p. 176. 



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