The History of the City of Exeter

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... Esq., and Jane his wife, and Andrew Foster, son of said John and Jane, deforciants, of the "manor and late prebend of Hayes with the appurtenances, and of 4 messuages, 4 gardens, 100 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, and SI. rent, with the appurtenances in Hayes within the castle of Exeter (infra Castrum Exon.), Stoken-Tynhed, Okehampton, Ken, Cutton, Aysshe-Clyste, and in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, without the west gate of the city of Exon." The whole estate descended to the purchaser's nephew, William Petre, Esq., of Tor-Newton in Tor-Brian, whose son, Sir George Petre, Knight, sold Hayes to William Gould, Esq., of Exeter, and by the marriage of Elizabeth Gould, in August, 1739, with James Buller, Esq., of Shillingham, it passed into that family, and is now in the possession of James Went-worth Buller, Esq., of Downes. 2. Cutton. This prebend, in Henry VIII.'s taxation, was rated at 8/. After passing through the hands of Brushford and Turberville in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it shortly after came into the possession of the Aclands, the present holders. The lands of the prebeiidal manor lie in the parish of Poltimore, and consist of 290A. In. 6p. Hoopern pays 3/. 3s. 4d.; the rectory of Whimple 13s. 4df.; and the rectory of Remington in Somersetshire, 13s. 4d 3. Carswell or Cresswell. This prebend consisted of about 141 acres in the parish of Kenn, but the revenues have passed into lay hands. To the prebendary is doled out the trifling yearly sum of 11. 13s. 4rf. 4. Ashclist. This prebend was alienated to Tor Abbey by Robert Courtenay in 1238, and formed part of its possessions until the suppression of the monastery, when it was valued at 121. 10s. 1Ofc?. per annum, after deducting its yearly payment of 6s....