By John Watson Taylor. 



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this sorb on the part of the King could hardly be called a 

 wrongful alienation. It seems more likely that the alienation 

 was an act of the tenant, and that he passed it on to the De 

 Mandevilles for some consideration. As the manor was always 

 held of the King in capite it follows that such a transaction, if it 

 took place, was winked at by those in authority, and their indul- 

 gence would be more readily obtained by a relation of the King 

 than by another. It is possible that the manor was given by 

 Henry I. to his natural son, Keginald, created Earl of Cornwall, 

 in 1141, 1 and that the Earl sold it to Eoger de Mandeville 

 who held three knights fees under him in Cornwall, when the 

 Inquest of Knights was made in 1166. 2 



There is very little doubt that Erlestoke should be translated 

 " the place of the Earl," though it is important that the spelling of 

 the prefix should be Erie, as it was in 1227, and as it continued to 

 be for three hundred years after that date, but there is not sufficient 

 evidence available to establish the identity of the Earl whose place 

 it once was. 



1 J. H. Bound, in the Diet. Nat. Biog. 2 Red Book of the Exchequer. 



