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wollyshylle; and in 1306 a moiety of land and premises to one 
Richard Gaiiond at Ymbacombe. He was dead, however, in 
1311, and had left a son and heir under age; for in that year 
(5 Edward II.) William de Eous, lord of Little Modbiri, granted 
Matilda de Hywys the wardship and marriage of Ralph, son of 
Thomas, in respect of lands in " Stonhouse and CrimeL" 
In 1337 (11 Edward III.) there was an accord on a contention 
between the Prior and Convent of Plympton, and this later Ralph 
de Stonhouse, touching an annual rent in Schindelhall. 
Ralph married a wife named Joan, and had a son Thomas, and 
he in turn had a son named Ralph, who married Sibil, daughter 
of William Smale, of Dartmouth. This confusion of Ralphs is 
enhanced by the fact that in 1345 we have Ralph de Valletorta 
granting land in Maker. 
Sibil de Stonehouse makes a grant as a widow in 1371. 
And now again we come to the Durnfords. Stephen Durnford, 
already noted as acquiring the land of the Bastards in Stonehouse 
in 1368, marries a certain Cecilia, somewhere between 44 and 47 
Edward III. (1370 and 1373), and this Cecilia is believed to 
have been the daughter of Ralph and Sibil de Stonehouse, in 
whom that family therefore came to a territorial if not an 
absolute end. 
The first mention of Stephen Durnford I have found is in 
1366 thence up to and including 1370 he is named alone; in 
1373 and onward the deeds give Stephen and Cecilia, In 1368 
Stephen Durnford takes the land of the Bastards in Stonehouse. 
In 1370 (44 Edward III.) James Vautort, lord of Sutton, grants 
the release in fee to Stephen Durnford, of Vautordispark atte 
Pole already cited, and in the same year Stephen and Cecilia are 
1 There are, however, earlier references to the family in this locality. 
The earliest with which I am acquainted are contained in the Tavistock 
Church records. In the fourth year of Edward III., 1330, Robert Ffolke, of 
Tavistock, granted to Gerard de Durnforde, an annual rent of three pence 
and a silver halfpenny, issuing out of the lands of Peter de Langeforde, in 
Woddon ; and about the same time Ffolke (as Ffolka) conveyed a garden in 
Tavistock to the same as Girardo de Durnaford. A Durnford, probably the 
same, also appears as a witness to a conveyance by Walter Golda to Lavinia, 
daughter of Robert Ffolke, in the twenty-first year of one of the Edwards, 
II. or III. There is no Durnford in Devon to give name to the race, and the 
probability seems to be that they came from Durnford, near Salisbury. 
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