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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
The Conquest reduced these thirty- nine proprietors to ten (to 
nine only, if Notone is without the area) ; and one of these owned 
far more than all the others put together, Judhel, of Totnes, who 
held no fewer than forty-three manors, including all the lands of 
Alebric and of Aluric, and a half of those of Alwin, the other 
great Saxon landowner of the district. Next to Judhel came the 
Count of Moreton with fourteen manors, and the other chief lay 
lords, with the exception of Eaoul Adobed (who had two) held 
four each. The Norman tenants were fifteen in number, and by 
them sixty-three of the eighty-one Devon manors were held, the 
remainder being retained in demesne. 
It will be observed that with the three exceptions of Plintone 
and Elintone, where the presence of clergy is distinctly stated, and 
of Wicerce, where it is implied in the name, there is no evidence 
in our district of any ecclesiastical organization, though at no great 
distance outside we have also the monks of Tavistock and the 
canons of St. Germans. This agrees precisely with the testimony of 
ancient edifices ; for with the single exception of Meavy, and that 
is of later date than the Survey, there is no trace of early Norman 
church architecture in this neighbourhood. It does not agree with 
the very early origin sometimes given to the vicarage of St. Andrew. 
Sutton at the time of the Survey was too unimportant to be a 
vicarage ; but we can very well understand that in the course of 
the missionary labours of the religious of Plympton, it was selected 
as of easy access for them, and fairly central for the whole of the 
wide district originally included in the parish, 1 as one of their 
chief stations — precisely as meeting-houses are established in the 
thinly-peopled backwoods of America now. The form of occurrence 
of the names Macretone and Bucheside equally disposes of the 
imaginary original dedications to those very doubtful saints, the 
early St. Machir and St. Budock. 
The stations of the British Church in this locality had dis- 
appeared under the Saxon rule. Whitchurch indeed seems to afford 
some evidence of an early origin ; and the inscribed stones found 
at Buckland Monachorum certainly do point to a pronounced early 
ecclesiastical influence there : still these traces may be connected 
with the foundation at Tavistock. The dedication of Pennycross 
Chapel to the British saint Pancras might appear a stronger in- 
1 The Three Towns and suburban belt. 
