FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Briwere by his successor,^ so that the twenty-one and a quarter fees of 1 166^ 

 were reduced to sixteen in 1209/ though in 1234 Henry de Turbevil paid on 

 twenty-one.* On the death of Eva, Henry the son of Earl Reginald purchased 

 the honour for 1,200 marks * and held it for sixteen fees.* On his rebellion 

 Henry III resumed it, and after holding it for some years ^ gave it to his brother 

 Richard, earl of Cornwall, with the Lady Sanchia in free marriage.* On the 

 death of Richard's son and successor, Edmund, in 1300' it was again in the 

 king's hands and eventually, on 17 March, 1337, was incorporated in the 

 duchy of Cornwall.^" 



THE HONOURS OF BAMPTON AND MARSHWOOD 



Walter de Dowai, called also Walscin, had for his share of the spoils 

 of the Conquest in Devonshire twenty-six manors assessed at 47J hides and 

 comprising about 20,000 acres under cultivation. The Saxons dispossessed 

 in his favour were Alsi from five manors, Asgar" from four, Algar and Eddida 

 each from two, and twelve others from one each. One of these manors, 

 Bampton, had been King Edward's demesne-manor, and was obtained by 

 Walter in exchange for Blackawton and Ermington, which had been Asgar's. 

 All Walter's Devonshire estates with the exception of East Haggington, 

 which was held of the honour of Dartington,^' Diptford, held of the honour 

 of Torington," and Hockford, held of the honour of Barnstaple," are found 

 held of the two honours of Bampton and Marshwood.^* Stenhall, however, 

 in UfFculm is stated to be held of the honour of Worle in Somerset,^' and 

 Dunsford, one of the Marshwood fees, is in one place said to be held of 

 the honour of ' Iwode,' " and in another to be held of the honour of Swale ; " 

 but these seem only variant names of Marshwood. In addition to half of 

 Walter de Dowai's estates, the honour of Marshwood included West Raddon 

 in Shobrook," which at the time of the Domesday Survey belonged to the 

 count of Mortain, and the English thane Saulf's manor of Mowlish.^* 



Walter de Dowai was succeeded in the honour of Bampton and in one half 

 of his Devonshire estates,^' by his son '" Robert de Bampton. Robert's daughter 



' Devon N. and Q. ii, 24 ; Dugdale, Bar. i, 622. 



' Lii. Niger, 121. Pipe R. of 1 1 Hen. II (printed in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 486) indicates 

 30 fees. 



' Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxiii, 369. In Inq. p. m. 28 Hen. Ill, No. 5, and in Cal. Inq. Hen. Ill, No. 23, 

 Braneys manor to which pertain the homages of i6J + i+^ fees, of all which Ha wise late the wife of Henry 

 de Turbevil holds a third part in dower. 



' Testa de Nevill {Rtc. Com.), 187^, in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 500. 



'Dugdale, Bar. i, 610; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 486, ». 47. In 1 207 Henry confirmed to Ford 

 Abbey ' all the lands which it held of the fee of Braneys before he recovered his inheritance.' (Oliver, 

 Mon. 347). Pipe R. 3 Hen. Ill : Henry the ' Earl's son accounts for 40J marks for the fee of Braeneis.' 



^ Red Book, SS^- 



' He first granted it to Henry de Turbevil, who died seised of it in 1243 (Inq. p. m. 28 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 5, Ca/. of Inq. No. 23), and then William de la Londe held it as bailiff i^esta de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 18 2^). 



* Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), No. 7, p. 65 ; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxvii, 198, « 56. 



» Inq. p. m. 28 Edw. I, No. 48. '° Charter R. 1 1 Edw. III. 



" The honour of Ansgar or Asgar is named in Exeter Domesday (fol. 504). 

 " Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 178a. •' Ibid. p. 176^. 



" Ibid. p. \%ia. '' Ibid. p. 1 79,7 ; CoUinson, Somerset, iii, 614. 



'° Feud. Aids, p. 316, perhaps intended for ' Mersiwode.' 



" Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), No. 43, p. 85. " Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 1 83a. 



" Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxx, 257. He confirmed the tithes of Bampton to Bath Abbey. 

 *" Abbrev, Plac. (Rec. Com.), 92 ; Chartul of Bath (Somers. Rec. Soc), vii, 39, where Emma, mother of 

 Robert ' de Bahentona,' is mentioned as well as his father Walter. 



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