Dy be) JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
forfeitures and re-grants; but in every case where any description 
is given, the Castle is mentioned as a ruin. Thus in an undated 
document, but which was doubtless written in 1539, or late in the 
year before, in the Augmentation Office, we have a list of all the 
mansions and houses that the king’s grace hath by the attainder of 
the late Lord Marquis, within the county there, belonging to the 
Earldom of Devonshire, within the circuit of Roger Kynsey, 
auditor. ‘The late Lord Marquis was of course Henry Courtenay, 
Earl of Devon and Marquis of Exeter, who suffered death as a 
traitor, 9th December, 1538, with Lord Montague and Sir Edward 
Neville. 
Plympton is mentioned in this list, and is thus described, “ Item 
at Plympton, a Castell being an honor wherein was many lodgynge, 
and now utterly decayed ; one Thomas Vawterd, constable of the 
said Castell and bailiff of the manor and hundred, his yearly fee 
by patent, iiij* vj* viij*” 
The offices of profit belonging to the castle were kept up, for in 
1509 we find that Walter Trelawnye was appointed to be constable 
of the Castle and manor, and bailiff of the hundred of Plympton 
in Devon, during pleasure. In 1601, in the manuscript entitled 
‘‘ A true Collection as well of all the King’s Majesties offices and 
fees in any of the Courts of Westminster, as of all the offices and 
fees of his Majesties honourable household, together with all fees 
appertaining to captaines and souldiers having charge of castles, 
bulwarks, and fortresses within the realme of England, and likewise 
the offices and fees of his Highness’s honourable houses, parkes, 
forests, and chases within the said realme,” under ‘“‘ Plympton, 
Constable of Castle and Bailie of hundred,” an annual fee of 
£4 11s. 1d. is set down as being paid. 
When Leland visited Plympton he found, he says, “in the 
inside of the town, a fair large castle and dungeon in it, whereof 
the walls yet stand but the lodgings within be decayed.” Here 
and there is a mention of the tenure by which some property was 
held, either of the king or the lords of the Castle. This was the 
tenure of Castle-guard, a military one, whereby the tenant was 
bound to guard or repair some specified part of the castle, tower, - 
wall, or gatehouse ; a service to be performed either in person or 
by commutation money as ward silver.* I have never, however, 
* Clark, “Arch. Journal,” vol. xxiv. p. 938. “ Blount’s Tenures,’ Plymp- 
ton; Lysons, vol. ii., Plympton. 
