NOTES ON THE EARLY HISTORY OF STONEHOUSE. 
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The Edo-cumbe muniments make the manorial connection of the 
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Bastards with Stonehouse perfectly clear to its close, very nearly 
three hundred years after the date of Domesday, In 1317 
(11 Edward II.) we have a grant from Baldwin Bastard, knight, to 
Henry Bastard, 1 his son, of all his land in Stonehouse, near Sutton, 
within " great diche," with the rents and services of William Stocke- 
legh, and the reversion of his lands after death. This great diche 
was the great dyke at Millbay which formed part of the Plymouth 
boundary, and the lands thus conveyed evidently adjoined Surpool. 
Three years later, 1320 (14 Edward II.), Eichard Bastard makes 
grant and quit claim to his brother Henry aforesaid, of land in 
Stonhouse, " within great diche." 
Gonilda, the daughter of this Henry Bastard, married William 
Snapedone, and she was the last of the Bastard family who had any 
territorial connection with 
Stonehouse. In 1368 (42 
Edward III.) she and her 
husband granted their pro- 
perty in Stonehouse to 
Stephen Durnford — as 
lands in Stonehouse near 
Sutton, within "great dych," 
and the fishing and mulc- 
tures at mills of Sourepol, 
Stenmistre, and Tolfri. 
This is a remarkably in- 
teresting deed for Plymouth 
folk, for there remains 
attached in excellent preservation the only impression extant of 
the seal of the ancient corporation of Sutton, .the device being a 
ship on the waves, and the legend, " si ' commvnitatis * ville * de * 
SVTTVN * SVPER * PLYMOVTH." 
But Gonilda still retained certain rights. After the death of 
Snapedone she married one Walter Jardyn, and was again a widow 
in 1406 (7 Henry IV.). In that year, as Gonilda of Eststonhous, 
1 The Inquisitions Post Mortem mention a Henry Bastard in 1243 
(27 Henry III.), qui utlagatus est, and he was probably a member of the 
family. I am not so sure of the connection of Peter le Bastard, who was 
dead in 1276 (4 Edward I.), leaving a wife Emma, and a son John, then 
about eleven years old. Still it is quite possible that Peter was also one of 
the race. Henry was an accustomed family name. 
