The History of Plymouth from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
by Richard Nicholls Worth (9781458879325)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE VALLETORTS. 17 CHAPTER II. RISING FORTUNES. " Some are born great; some achieve greatness."?Shakspere. ]E have seen by what slow and uncertain degrees the germ of what in after ages became Plymouth was planted on the shores of the Sound. We have now to trace its gradual development under the fostering care of the Priors of Plympton, until the town took rank with the chief ports in England. Henry I. gave the manors of Sutton, Maketon, and Kingsteignton, with the fishery of the waters of the Tamar, to Reginald de Valletort, to be held by the service of a knight's fee and a half. The Valletorts were sometime lords of Trematon, and derived considerable privileges from Richard Earl of Cornwall, son of King John, who was King of the Romans, and married his daughter to Ralph Valletort. They were very friendly as a rule to the Priory. Reginald gave his rights of fishery in the Tamar and Lynher, the pool under Halton excepted, to the Canons. Walter de Valletort gave them the island of "St. Nicholas cum caniculus." Ralph de Valletort granted them a site whereon to erect a milldam. This was at Millbay, thence so called. On the other hand John de Valletort, about the middle of the twelfth century, had a dispute with the brethren concerning the presentation to the benefice of Sutton, when the Prior successfully established his right. According to Browne Willis, the Valletort estates escheated to the Crown on the demise of Roger de Valletort in 1290. Leland preserves a tradition that the greater part of the lands of the Valletorts had been confiscated for " a murther done by one of them." The Manor of Sutton Valletort afterwards came to the Nereys family. About the middle of the fourteenth century it was sold to William Cole. After his death it remained for some years in the...

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