A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



William second Lord Martin in 1325/ and of his son Nicholas two years 

 afterwards,'' the honour fell into abeyance, and the estates were divided 

 between Philip de Columbers ^ and James Audley,* the infant son of Nicholas 

 Audley. 



THE HONOUR OF TORINGTON 



Odo son of Gamelin held at the time of the Domesday Survey 

 twenty-four manors in Devon with an assessment of 20 hides and some 

 14,000 acres of cultivated land. Tedbald son of Berner had twenty-six 

 with an assessment of 14J hides, and about 9,000 acres of cultivated land. 

 Odo's consisted of six held in Saxon times by Bristric or Brictric, two each 

 held by Sawin, Edmar, Alric the priest, and Vidley or Vitalis, and of ten 

 others held by individual Saxons ; Tedbald 's consisted of five held by Ailmar, 

 Aimer or Aimar, three held by groups of thanes, two each held by Sawin 

 and Edmer, and one each held by fourteen other Saxons, among them being 

 Eilaf or Ailaf, Bristric or Brictric, Vidley, Godwin, Alwold, and Dode. Odo 

 was son-in-law to Tedbald and eventually his heir.^ All of these estates, 

 with the exception of Plymtree, which was held of Plympton,* are 

 subsequently found constituting the Devonshire honour of Toriton or 

 Torington,^ which in addition included also the royal estate of Kilmington, 

 originally a member of Axminster,* and held of Plympton,® Diptford,^" which 

 belonged to the queen before the royal estate of Bampton was changed away. 

 West Ruckham, Hill, and Combe," held by Haimeric de Arcis, one of the 

 Conqueror's ordnance-masters, and seven fees held of the honour of 

 Gloucester,^' in all twenty-nine fees.^* 



Mr. Round is of opinion that William son of Odo, who attests a 

 charter of Henry I in 1123 as a great feudatory, was the son of Odo the 

 son of Gamelin,^* in which case he cannot have been father, but may have 

 been uncle to Robert de Toriton, who afterwards held the honour, since 

 Robert de Toriton's father seems to have been called Roger.^^ To Robert 

 succeeded his son William de Toriton, who was in possession in 11 66," and 

 to William his two sons John " and Mathew,^^ with a ' childless son of John 



' Inq. p. m. 19 Edw. II, No. loo. ' Inq. p.m. i Edw. Ill, No. 40. 



' He had Combe Martin, Barnstaple, Holsworthy, South Molton, and rents in East and West Anstey. 

 Inq. p. m. I Edw. Ill, No. 13. 



* He had Kilmington, North Lew, Tackbear, Staunton, Warldeigh, Nymet Tracy, Bovey Tracy, and 

 Kaddon, whilst Dartington went to William's widow for life. Rot. Orig. 19 Edw. II, Rot. 23. 



' Exeter Domesday, fol. 497. ° Testa de NevtU (Rec. Com.), pp. \%ib and 1963. 



' List of the fees held of it in Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. i jSa. 



' Pole, 116. ° Feud. Aids, 319 ; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 541. 



'" Testa de Nevill {"Sisc. Com.), p. 176(8. 1 1 1 1 1 1 



" Ibid. 190^; ; Red Book, 558. 



" Red Book ofExch. (Rolls Sen), 558 ; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxiii, 367, 382. 



" Lib. Niger, 124, says 30 fees. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. i88ij in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 500. 



" Round, Feud. Engl. 487. 



'* Presumably William son of Robert, son of Roger, who held ten fees of the honour of Gloucester in 

 1 166 {Lib. Niger, 161) and held seven fees in Devon of that honour {Red Book, SS9), Iddesleigh being one 

 of them {Feud. Aids, 328), was his son. 



" Lib. Niger, 1 24. Pipe R. 2 Hen. II : William, son of Robert de Torintun. 



" John was in possession in 1194, when he had a dispute with the abbess and convent of St. Edward's 

 as to the advowson of Torington church {Abbrev. Plac. 6 Ric. I, m. 15, Mich. Rot. 8), also in 1201, when 

 he paid 50 marks for a licence to go beyond sea (Rot. de Obi. 3 John, m. 8). 



" He paid X^oo i" 1223 for the relief of his lands (Rot. Fin. 8 Hen. Ill, m. 9) on the death of his 

 nephew William, 



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