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stated, in the thirteenth century with Roger de Valletort, deceased 
in 1289. Changes took place in their holdings, but the family 
continued to the reign of Henry VIII. ; and we find them dealing 
with property at Sutton long after their extinction has been 
assumed. They retained also an interest in Maker ; Richard 
Vautort is mentioned as lord of Maker, and as granting lands 
there in 1426 (4 Henry VI.); and John Vautort as dealing with 
lands in South Millbrook in 1433. As is well known, the Valle- 
torts made certain grants of lands and rights in Sutton to the 
Priory of Plympton, and thus created what was afterwards called 
Sutton Prior, their own name remaining attached to their owner- 
ship of Sutton Vautort or Vautier. They had a residence at 
Sutton ; for Ralph de Valletort in a grant mentions a way to 
Surpole by the corner of his garden of Sutton — ancjlo gardini mei 
de Stdhtona. The site is very clearly indicated in a couple of 
Lord Mount Edgcumbe's deeds, dated 1370 (44 Edward III.) and 
1373 (47 Edward III.). In the first of these James Vautort, lord 
of Sutton, releases in fee to Stephen Durnford, Vautordispark atte 
Pole, at the west part of Churcherhull, the way from Sutton to 
Stonhous lying north, the meadow of William Cole south, and 
the land of Thomas Cok called Romisbery west. It had been 
previously leased to Stephen by the render of a rose at Midsummer. 
By the second deed John Vyncent and John Holcomb grant this 
same land to Stephen and his wife Cecilia, the boundaries being 
the same, with the important addition that the highway to 
Sourepolemylle lay to the east. 
This enables us to fix the site with absolute precision. Churcher- 
hull is dliurch hill — the hill on which stands St. Andrew Church. 
The highway to Stonehouse ran fairly along the line of what is 
now Bedford Street, Frankfort Street, King Street (a little north 
to avoid the edge of Surpool) to Fore Street, Stonehouse, where it 
turned sharply south to the ferry at Cremill — now Devil's Point — 
then, as long after, the chief thoroughfare from this part into Corn- 
wall. Romisbery evidently indicates the existence of an old 
earthwork, probably near the end of the Western Hoe. William 
Cole's meadow must have lain on the northern slope of the Hoe, 
adjacent. The highway to Sourepolemylle — Millbay — is either 
that mentioned in various old deeds as running from Sutton Pool 
thither, or a branch thereto from the Old Town. The garden and 
park of the Valletorts thus lay between the two roads, on the 
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