FEUDAL BARONAGE 



county, comprising io6 manors assessed at y^ hides, with a cultivated area of 

 over 45,000 acres. Ralf's honour, sometimes called the honour of Brad- 

 worthy,^ because Bradworthy was the head of its North Devon section, as 

 Berry Pomeroy was of its South Devon section, included sixty manors, of 

 which six had been held by two or more Saxons of the name of Alvric or 

 Alric, one called Alvrix Pic,^ or Alvric Piga,* the other Alric the priest*; six 

 had been held by Aimer, Almar or Ailmer,' five by Wichin,* three by Edwin, 

 three by Alward Tochesons,^two each by Tovy,^Alwey, Edwy, Borgaret, Alnod, 

 Godric, Goda, and Saric, and one each by eighteen others, amongst whom was 

 Algar the priest," besides two held by several thanes in common,^" and one by 

 a woman." In addition to Pomeray's estates, the honour of Berry included 

 Gatcombe," which Ansger, the king's cook or kitchen-master, held at the 

 time of the survey ; Meddon and Diptford, held by the English thane 

 Ansgod ; Manaton, held by the English forester Adret ; and Mowlish, held by 

 the Englishman Saulf." In 11 66 the honour consisted of thirty-two fees,^* 

 in 1234 of twenty-one." From Ralf de Pomeray the honour descended to 

 his son Joslin a/ias GoUin a/ias Johel de Pomeray, who in 11 25 gave the 

 manor of Canonteign and the tithe of Berry and Upottery to St. Mary du 

 Val,^' and it then came to his grandson Henry, who is said to have married 

 Rohesia, sister of Reginald, earl of Cornwall." After several generations it 

 passed, on the death of Sir Henry Pomeray, the tenth of that name, in 1 374, 

 to the latter's niece, Joan, the wife of James Chudleigh," but it had previously 

 been considerably reduced by the sale of the northern section to Briwere 

 about 1 1 99." 



Among Pomeray's under-tenants the two whose names occur most fre- 

 quently are Roger and William, but there were apparently two Rogers, one 

 Roger son of Payn of Putford,^" the other Roger 'Aculeus,' called also Roger 

 the Sandy {Jlavus).^^ The former was tenajit of Julian Putford and Peamore 

 and was represented in 1166 by Richard son of Payn de Putteford.*" The 

 latter held Huxham and other manors'** in the south and east of the county, 



' Feud. Aids, 340. ' Exeter Domesday, fol. 421. ' Ibid. fol. 325^. 



* He held Upottery (fol. 342^), probably also Berry Pomeroy (fol. 342), and Sheldon (fol. 337^), and 

 certainly Slanlinch (fol. 354), and Huntsham (fol. 356), the two last-named of the honour of Toriton. 



'His principal estates were Dunkswell (fol. 338^), Street Raleigh (fol. Z\ob), and West Stoodleigh 

 (fol. 341). 



'Peamore (fol. 336(5), Huxham (fol. 339^), Clyst St. George (fol. 339i5), Weycroft (fol. 343), and 

 Heavitree (fol. 343^). 



' Brendon (fol. 337), South Week in Germansweek (fol. 335), and Horwood (fol. 336). 



' Pancras Week {Dunetoinesdona, fol. 335), and Bradworthy (fol. 335^). 



' He held 'Estandona' (fol. 337^), and he, or one of the same name, also held of the king at Braunton 

 (fol. 194^), and was apparently the provost of a college of clergy at Braunton {Trans. Devon. Jssoc. xxx, 286). 



" Gappah (fol. 34i3), Borcombe {Redix, fol. 343). " Wickaborough (fol. 342(5). 



" Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 1821J. " Inq. p. m. 34 Edw. I, No. 52. 



" Lib. Niger, 128 ; Red Book, 558, gives thirty-two as the number in 1212. 



" Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 187^, ^9'i'>, in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 500. 



" Cal. of Doc. France, 536. 



" Risdon, Notebook, 68 ; Pole, pp. 17, 281, states that Johel de Pomeray married the sister of Herbert, 

 * and it seemeth that she was base-daughter of King Henry I, and sister of Reginald, earl of Cornwall.' 



" Inq. p. m. 48 Edw. Ill, No. Ji. " Oliver, Mon. 181. 



™ So described in Exeter Domesday, fol. 3 3 63. 



*' Geldroll, fol. "job, A 9. Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxvii, 182. 



^ Lib. Niger, 129. Richard de Putford held them in 1 241 {Jesta de Nevill, \%zb), and Walter Pollard 

 in 1303 (Feud. Aids, 358). 



, " Clyst St. George, Gappah, Dunston, Blackslade in Widdicombe-in-the-Moor, Weycroft, Kennedon 

 and Ranscombe, and Heavitree. 



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