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Inglebourn in Harberton

Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries vol. VI, (January 1910 to October 1911), p. 64.

by

Oswald J. Reichel

Prepared by Michael Steer

The parish of Harberton contains the hamlets of Harbertonford, Luscombe, Belsford, East Leigh, West Leigh, Little Englebourne, and Great Englebourne. The latter is a large farmhouse near the site of a former manor house and probably the Inglebourn of the Note. Sir William Russell Flint is said to have stayed at Great Englebourne and the house and stables are depicted in some of his paintings. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

50. INGLEBOURN IN HARBERTON. - I extract the following from the After Death Inquest of John de Curtenay, Friday, the feast of St. Mathew, 2 Ed. I, [21 Sep. 1274]. The manor of Engleburne is held as a member of the barony of Okumpton, but John de Curtenay was not seised thereof in his demesne as of fee on the day when he died; for [Henry ?] de Puntestok and Alice his wife held it 10 years before the death of the said John of the abbot and convent of Becfestrie [Bucfast] who held it of John de Reygny, whose father Thomas enfeoffed them thereof; and afterwards Geoffrey le Frere espoused the said Alice and held the manor for a year before the death of John de Curtenay (Inquisitions Ed. I., p. 53)

                                            OSWALD J. REICHEL.