FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Of the estates subsequently held of the honour of Plympton, Ralf 

 Paynel, had in 1086 ten manors,^ all previously held by Merlesuein, sheriff 

 of Lincolnshire, assessed at 12. hides, with over 6,000 acres at the time 

 of the survey. These estates had been given to his father, William Paynel, 

 in 1069, when Merlesuein was dispossessed of them after his rebellion;^ 

 the same William Paynel subscribed a charter to Bayeux Cathedral in 

 1073, and died in 1084.' Ralf Paynel married Beatrice, daughter and 

 heiress of William, son of Ansculf, and had a son, Fulk Paynel, but 

 his Devonshire estates, as well as Roger de Buslei's, passed at an early 

 date to William Peverel and his sister Maud,* who bestowed Sampford 

 Peverel, AUer Peverel, and Karswell upon Hugh Peverel in the time of 

 Henry I, and suffered a forfeiture in the reign of Henry II for supporting 

 Stephen against the Empress Maud/ Throwleigh and Edginswell then 

 passed to Fulk de Ferrers, * Ilsington and Ingsdon '' to Beaumont. 



A second, part of whose estates were afterwards held of the honour 

 of Plympton, was Osbern de Salceio, or de Salceid. He held five manors, 

 assessed at 5I hides, with rather more than 2,000 acres, which had belonged 

 to five different Saxons. Two at least of these were afterwards Hugh de 

 Sausey's, * but Clyst Gerard went to Mandevil.' 



A third baron was Roger de Buslei. He had only one manor in Devon, 

 Sampford Peverel, which had been Brictric's, with an assessment of 3 J hides and 

 about 1,000 acres under cultivation. It went to Peverel, being given to Hugh 

 Peverel, by whose descendant it was held in 1286.^° A fourth, whose estates 

 went to the honour of Plympton, was Ralf de Fougeres. He held two manors 

 assessed at 6 hides all but half a virgate, with some 2,000 acres under cultiva- 

 tion at the time of the survey from which the Saxon Goda had been dis- 

 possessed. Ralf is stated to have been the youngest and only surviving son 

 of Alfred, son of Maen II, baron of Fougeres in Brittany. He succeeded his 

 father in 1084, and by his wife Alice, daughter of Richard de Bienfaite, had 

 seven sons." One of these was ancestor of Ralf de Meulent or MuUond,^^ who 

 forfeited Ipplepen and Galmpton in King John's time," when they were 

 bestowed successively on Henry, the earl's son,^* Nicholas del Estre,^* and 

 Americ de St. Amand." 



The fifth and last of the ' French knights ' who held of the honour of 

 Plympton was Girard, who held two manors in chief, Pole Antony (the 

 ' Manelia ' of Domesday) and Northcot, with an assessment of half a hide and 

 rather more than 300 acres under cultivation. He held besides two other 

 manors. Little Tiverton and Little Washfield, as under-tenant of Ralf Paynel. 



' In Dunchideock (fol. 457), Karswell and Dulford, AUer Peverel, Throwleigh, Wonston (fol. 458/5), 

 Dsington, Ingsdon, Little Tiverton, Little Washfield (fol. 460), and Edginswell (fol. 4613). 



' Planch6, The Conqueror and his Companions, ii, 235. ' Ibid. 



* Ibid. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 194* ; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 416. 



' Planchd, The Conqueror and his Companions, ii, 235 ; Dugdale, Bar. i, 437. 



' Feud. Aids, 313,317; Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, p. 1 76. 



'' Feud. Aids, 339. Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, p. 176 ; 'Elstinton' and Shirwell, two fees held by Philip de 

 Beaumont. 



' Ingsdon and Shilston, Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, p. 1 76. ' Feud. Aids, 333. 



'° Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 194^. Feud. Aids, 338. 



" Planche, The Conqueror and his Companions, ii, 225. "* Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), pp. I95<j, 197^. 



" Ibid. p. 1973. " Ibid. p. 195a. 



"In 1 2 19. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 197^. 



■^ In 1234. Col. Charter R. 19 Hen. Ill, m. 3. 



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