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widow, she granted to John Gorges, lord of Warleigh, in pure 
widowhood, her whole estate in the lordship of Eststonhous ; and 
Gorges in turn granted to Stephen Durnford the elder, the estate 
in Eststonhous which he held of the grant of Gonilda, lady of 
the place, the Durnfords paying Gonilda £10 yearly for life. But 
even after this date there remained members of the Bastard family 
connected with Stonehouse, as tenants. 
At the time of the transfer to Stephen Durnford, in 1368, the 
Bastards had, however, long ceased to be sole lords of Stonehouse. 
Reginald de Valletort was one of the most important Norman 
under-tenants in the district at the Domesday survey. His chief 
manor was at Trematon, whence he exercised rights over the waters 
of the Tamar ; and among his estates was the Cornish Macreton, 
or Maker, which, with Trematon and many others, he held under 
the Count of Mortain. The Devonshire Maker, with Sutton, were 
subsequently given to the Yalletorts by Henry I., and John de 
Vautort held them in 1281. 
The succession of the Yalletorts has never been clearly traced ; 
and I cannot attempt the task now. 1 It will be enough for my 
present purpose to say that the family did not die out, as is often 
1 The following notes, chiefly drawn from the Inquisitions Post Mortem 
may, however, be of interest and use. We have seen that the Valletort of 
Domesday was called Reginald. He had a son called Roger, who in his 
turn was father to a second Reginald. There was a second Roger living 
in 1195. We next get John de Valletort in the earliest dated of the Edg- 
cumbe muniments — 1226. 
In 1246 (30 Henry III.) there occurs in the Inquisitions Ralph, heir of 
Reginald Valle Torta, being his brother, and these were sons of the second 
Roger. In 1255 (39 Henry III.) we have John de Valletort. In 1270 (54 
Henry III.) there is Reginald de Vautort, alias Valetort, whose father, Ralph 
of 1246, died in 1259, whose mother was Johanna de Vautort, and whose heir 
was his uncle Roger. In 1283 (11 Edward I.) a Roger de Vautort is dead, but 
Roger the uncle, who gave Trematon to Richard Earl of Cornwall, is said to 
have died in 1289. In 1300 (27 Edward I. ) there dies Hawisia, wife of Reginald 
de Valletort. In 1302 (29 Edward I.) the death is recorded of John de Valletort, 
son of John and Alice his wife. The father of Joan Valletort, the concubine 
of Richard, was Reginald or Roger de Valletort, son of John ; and there was 
a Reginald who died circa 1315. Philip de Valletort is mentioned as a holder 
of property in Plymouth, in a deed circa 1150 ; lands of Robert the Bishop 
adjoining — the witnesses, Plymouth residents, being Roger de Fletehenda, 
Gilbert cycharista, William pistore, John Boscher, Reginald de veifer. There 
are some important references to the Valletorts in the Cornish Biograpliical 
Notes of Mr. G. C. Boase. 
