By T. H. Baker. 



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died seized ; John Cleimond, Walter of Horsington, John of 

 Inmere, John of Hamstede, John of Burton, John Hodel, William 

 Wiking, Thomas Wiking, William Yling, Adam the Taylor, 

 Robert de la Legh, and Walter Budel, say on their oath, that on 

 the day the said Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, died, he held the 

 Manor of Mere, and a certain castle, the proceeds from which are 

 nothing, and a messuage beyond the castle, with grange, cowstall, 

 and stable, worth 2s. per annum. Also 324 J acres of arable land 

 worth £7 16s. 2d. per annum ; 146 \ acres of which are under the 

 hills in Wodecomb, and Chatecomb, and beyond, and are worth 8d. 

 per acre ; 139 acres on the hills are worth 2d. per acre, 116 worth 

 4d. Also IS acres of meadow, worth £6 per annum ; 33 acres in 

 Westmead, Is. Sd. 65 acres in Eastmead and la Brech (Breches 

 Farm), and Conewich, Is., also 43 acres on Maplederehulle land 

 and pasture, and the enclosure of Conewich and Horscroft, 47 acres 

 of pasture worth 22s. 6d., or Sd. per acre. There is also a certain 

 pasture in Swencombe, and beyond on the hills for oxen, cows, and 

 young beasts, worth 33s. 4d. per annum. There is also a certain 

 pasture on the hills for the keep of 700 two -tooths, with separate 

 pasture in Wodecomb, and Chatecomb, worth 100s. Also a certain 

 park called Conewich Park, in which are no wild animals, the 

 herbage and pannage 1 of which are worth £4 per annum, save the 

 hay and the tithe of the herbage. Also another park called 

 Deverlingewode, 2 in which are no wild animals, and the herbage 

 and underwood in which are worth 10s. per annum. There are 

 also two water mills worth £7 save the tithe. Also one fulling- 

 mill worth 26s. 8c/. Also a toll called Stanegrist, worth 6d. per 

 annum. Total value of the whole, £34 lis. 2d. A house is let 

 in the Market Place at 2s. 8d. per annum. 



1399. A grant was made by Henry IV., as Duke of Cornwall, 



1 Pannage is the food of swine, such as acorns, beech-nuts, etc. 

 2 Deverill Long wood (the modern name) was grubbed about 1845 and attached 

 to the Manor Farm— then newly formed — and is now cultivated as arable land, 

 with the exception of a very small portion still retained as coppice. Before this 

 it was a "tenantry" wood, a certain area being allotted annually to each dnchy 

 tenant to be cut for use on the respective farms. 



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