The History of the Suburbs of Exeter: With General Particulars as to the Landowners, Lay and Clerical, from the Conquest to the Present Time, and a Special Notice of the Hamlyn Family. Together with "A Digression" on the Noble Houses of Redvers, and of Courtenay, Earls of Devon |
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Abbey acres Adeliza afterwards Alphington ancestor ancient annum arms Avenel Avis Baldwin de Redvers Barony of Okehampton Barton became Berry Bishop of Exeter brother buried chancel Chapel of St Cowick Priory daughter and co-heir death deed descendants Devonshire Devonshire Parishes died Domesday Earl of Devon earldom Edward eldest Elizabeth Exeter Cathedral Exwick father Floyer ford Francis grandson Heavitree heir Henry VIII Hugh Courtenay impaling Isaack King land Larkbeare latter Leonard's Livery Dole Lord Lysons Manor marriage married Marsh Barton Mary Matford mother Mount Radford Nicholas Okehampton Oliver original Parish of Heavitree Parish of St Petre Pinhoe Polslo portion Powderham present probably purchased Ralph Rectory Reginald reign residence restored Richard Robert Courtenay Rolle seal shillings Sir Hugh Sir John Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Baring sister sixth Earl sons succeeded tenay vicar vicarage Whipton Widecombe wife William Courtenay William de Vernon William Hamlyn Wonford Worth
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Page 190 - The Sire de Bayloun," had doubtless been a man of some importance in the diocese of Mons, where the French town of Ballan is situated, and had most probably migrated there from Germany at some period anterior to the Conquest. King William gave him the territory of Ober-Went, in Monmouthshire, and he built the •Castle of Bergavenny by his royal master's orders. He lived until the latter end of the reign of William Rufus, but died childless. He left the whole of his property to his nephew Brian,...
Page 29 - A. He did. I wrote some papers which I placed on the doors of the cathedral and other churches, saying that " the pope is ANTICHRIST, and we ought to worship God only, and no saint." This gave great offence to the priests under the prisoner's government, and they, by his authority, proceeded to curse the author, with bell, book, and candle. The priest who was to pronounce the curse, being in the pulpit, clothed in white; and the friars and monks standing about him...
Page 196 - ... daughter of his kinsman, James Hamlyn, of Shuttaford, Hill and Littlecombe, in the parish of Holne, and the direct descendant of Thomas Hamlyn, son of Richard, who died in 1522, and brother of Robert Hamlyn, of Dunstone. It will be seen that from the period of the Norman Conquest to the present time, the main branch of the Hamlyn family have always been large landowners in this district, and that it is moreover in a great degree due to their energy, that the...
Page 27 - Exeter," gives a different reason, and says that it was so called "because the Magistrates and citizens in their Midsummer watch and other public processions, dressed in their livery gowns, here dispensed their alms to the poor.
Page 191 - Hamelinus,' was the ancestor of our Devonshire Hamlyns. He most probably came to Cornwall in the immediate train of Robert, Earl of Mortaigne, the half-brother of William I. This Robert was created Earl of Cornwall, and it was in Cornwall that by far the greater portion of Hamelin's property was situated. In that county, either under the king or under the earl, he held twenty-two important manors in 1086. Some of his posterity remained in Cornwall, whilst others settled in Devonshire. Of the former...
Page 191 - ... Hamlyn of Clovelly Court, and James, Joseph, and William Hamlyn, the great firm of woollen manufacturers at Buckfastleigh, are the direct descendants of the same ancestor, Richard Hamlyn of Dunston, in Widecombe, who died in 1522, and whose pedigree is traced back to the Domesday " Hamelinus," who most probably came to Cornwall in the immediate train of Robert, Earl of Mortaigne, and was the ancestor of our Devonshire Hamlyns. This, the main branch of the Hamlyn family, have always been large...
Page 152 - ... Andrew, stood in the parish of St Thomas, between the river Exe and the Okehampton road. The community here settled was originally a filiation from the celebrated Abbey of Bee, in Normandy, and its first endowment was probably earlier than the reign of Henry II. " Until October 15, 1261, the inhabitants had no parish priest to officiate for them, but used to attend divine service in the name of the conventual church of St. Andrew.
Page 25 - His name occurs on several gold coins struck at Paris in the reigns of Dagobert I. and his son Clovis II.
Page 36 - Street] or, on a fesse, daucettee, betw. three billets, az. each charged with a lion ramp, of the field, as many bezants.
Page 190 - Therefore this Brian settled his lands upon his cousin, ' Walter of Glouster,' then High Constable of England. The son of the latter was created Earl of Hereford, but his male line failed, and one of his three daughters became the wife of Sir William Braose. Their descendant, Eva Braose, married William de Cantilupe, who had then succeeded the other ' Hamelin,' mentioned in the Battel Abbey Roll, in the Lordship of Broadhempston, which was a rather singular coincidence.