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and stretching a mile in length. Twenty plough lands were in the 
hands of the king, and rendered him £13 10s. annually; six 
plough lands were held by the canons of St. Peter. Six serfs, 
fifteen villeins, and twelve bordars, dwelt on the royal domains ; 
twelve villeins on those of the canons. The total enumerated 
population was thus forty-five, besides the canons and other free- 
men. By the side of such a community as this, little Sutton was 
nowhere. 
The next entry to that of Plintone is Elintone, and the record is 
that of a manor of almost equal importance. But we have no 
Elintone in this neighbourhood ; and no satisfactory proof of its 
identity has hitherto be found. The most feasible hypothesis 
suggested was that the E had been written by mistake for P ; and 
that we have here another Plympton — as we now have Plympton 
St. Mary and Plympton Erie. But against this we have to set the 
fact that the blunder, if it be one, is found in both the Exchequer 
and Exon books, and that they agree also with regard to Plymstock 
as well as Plympton. And there is a fatal objection in the further 
fact that if we add Elintone to Plintone, and take also the other 
manors included within the limits of the Plymptons now, we shall 
get an acreage far in excess of the area. 
I can at best offer a suggestion — may not Yealmpton be intended? 
It is the adjoining parish to Plympton ; its area would fairly accord 
with the figures given ; and what is perhaps quite as much to the 
purpose, under its present name, or one more nearly approaching to 
it than Elintone, Yealmpton does not appear in Domesday at all. 
We may be sure it is somewhere ; and the difficulty with regard to 
the name is more in appearance than reality. " N " is used for " m " 
in Plintone as it would be on my theory in Elintone; and " e" — 
with or without the aspirate, or " a" with it — are constantly employed 
for "y." When Yarnescombe appears as Hernescoma, and Yarte- 
combe as Erticoma, Yealmpton may easily be read as Elinton or 
Elintona. Besides, in one instance the Exon Domesday gives 
Alentona, which is not easily convertible into anything else than 
Yealmpton. The point is noteworthy ; for if this identification is 
correct Yealmpton 800 years since had an importance second only 
to Plympton itself. Elintone had land for twenty ploughs, and a 
recorded population of forty-four; while the portion held by the 
king returned £12 10s. yearly by weight. It is important also 
