A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



her share of William Briwere's honour to her husband, Payn de Chaworth.' 

 From Payn it descended to his son Patrick de Chaworth,^ who died in 

 1257. Patrick was succeeded by his two sons successively, Payn who died 

 without issue in 1278' and Patrick who died in 1315,* leaving an only 

 daughter, Maud, who became the wife of Henry Plantagenet, duke of 

 Lancaster. Henry IV incorporated all the estates which she inherited, some 

 thirty fees, known as the honour of Chaworth, in the duchy of Lancaster/ 



Of William Briwere's other daughters, Graecia was married to Reginald 

 de Braose ; Isabel was twice married, Baldwin Wake being her second 

 husband ; Alice married Reginald de Mohun, and Joan William de Percy," 

 to whose families they brought their respective interests in Briwere's 

 honour. 



To complete the survey of the Feudal Baronage of Devonshire it is 

 necessary to briefly notice a few groups of fees which were held under 

 honours of which the seats were in other counties. The descents of these 

 honours will be treated in the counties to which they belong, and the 

 consideration of the smaller groups of Devonshire fees will be given in detail 

 in the topographical section of this History. 



THE HONOUR OF GLOUCESTER 



The honour of Gloucester, which Henry I bestowed upon his natural 

 son Robert with the hand of Maud, the eldest of the four daughters of 

 Robert son of Hamon,'' included among its Devonshire constituents not only 

 fifteen estates formerly held by Queen Matilda,^ assessed at thirty-one hides, 

 with about 25,000 acres of land under cultivation, but also all Walter de 

 Clavil's and Goscelin's estates, consisting of sixty-one manors assessed at 

 thirty-seven hides, with some 17,000 acres under cultivation. In addition, 

 it included two of the bishop of Coutances' estates, viz. Clist Fomison or 

 Sowton and Canonteign, the estates of the three French knights Ansger de 

 Montacute, or de ponte Senardi,' Aiulf, and Morey of Caen, one of the 

 estates held in chief by the English thane Alward Merta, and all those 

 held by the three English thanes, Colvin, Godric, and Godwin, excepting 

 Chilsworthy.^" 



The estates held by Clavil of the honour of Gloucester are returned in 

 1 166 as ' 10 fees in Devon and elsewhere.'" Burlescombe was Clavil's head 

 manor. After continuing for many generations in the Clavil family these 

 fees were the subject of litigation in 1370 on the extinction of the elder 

 branch, and were dispersed.^^ Goscelin's estates came to Champernown. In 



' Dugdale, Bar. i, 517. Tei/a de Nevill (Rec. Com.), iooa, gives a list of her estates. The Devonshire 

 ones in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxvii, 450. Editors of Risdon, Notebook 74, call her the eldest daughter. 



» Hund.R. (Rec. Com.), No. 32, p. 79 ; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxvii, 428, n. 22 ; Rot. Fin. 23 Hen. Ill, 

 m. s. 



' Risdon, Notebook 75. « Inq. p.m. 8 Edv?. II, No. 56. 



' Risdon, Notebook 75 ; Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, No. 122. 



^ Dugdale Bar. i, 702. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 200, mentions the estates of all the daughters 

 in Devon. 



' Dugdale, Bar. i, 534 ; Planch^, The Conqueror and his Comfanions, ii, 242 ;. Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxiv, 201, 

 205 ; Lib. Niger, 161 ; Risdon, Notebook, 59. 



' See Dom. Surv. 16. 



' GeldroU, fol. 66b, A 5. "• Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxiii, 623 ; xxix, 465, «. 27. 



" Red Book, 559. " Lysons, ii, 90. 



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