Mohuns Ottery
Mohuns Ottery or Mohun's Ottery, pronounced /muːnzˈɒtəri/,[1] is a house and historic manor in the parish of Luppitt, 1 mile south-east of the village of Luppitt and 4 miles north-east of Honiton in east Devon, England. From the 14th to the 16th centuries it was a seat of the Carew family. Several manorial court rolls survive at the Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, Somerset.[2]
The old manor house burnt down in 1868 and was completely rebuilt as a farmhouse that has been a grade II listed building since 1955.[3] The ruins of a mid-16th century gatehouse lie to the south of the house; these and the adjoining garden walls, probably built in the mid-19th century at the same time as the farmhouse, are grade II* listed.[4][5] The house now has six reception rooms and six bedrooms. Around the courtyard are a cottage, stables and farm buildings. The River Otter forms part of the eastern boundary of the estate. In January 2014 the house with 228 acres was offered for sale for £3.5 million.[6]
Toponymy
The word Ottery derives from the River Otter, Old English "oter" ("otter") + "īe" (dative singular of "ēa").[7] The first appearance of the place-name is in the Domesday Book (1086) where it is recorded as Otri – one of the twelve places in Devon that had that or a very similar name.[8] It appeared in the Book of Fees in 1242 as Otery.[1] In 1247 it was recorded as Otery Flandrensis and as Ottery Flemeng' in 1279, after the family of William le Flemmeng who held part of the manor between 1219 and 1244.[9]
The name later reflected the residency of the Mohun family, appearing in the Feudal Aids in 1285 as Otermoun, and as Oteri Mohoun in an Inquisition post mortem of 1297. In 1453 it was recorded in the Patent Rolls as Mounesotery, and as Moonsotery in the Recovery Rolls in 1630.[1] Tristram Risdon, writing in the early 17th century, referred to it as Mohun's Ottery,[10] while his close contemporary Thomas Westcote, called it Mohuns-Ottery.[11]
Descent
Alsi
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that before the Norman Conquest the manor of Otri was held by an Anglo-Saxon thegn known as Alsi.[a] He held several other properties near to Otri, as well as another in Devon, at Dunsford, and probably two more near Dunsford at Lowley and Doddiscombsleigh. He had a large manor at Castle Cary in Somerset and other holdings around this, and single holdings in Dorset and Wiltshire.[13]
de Douai
In 1086 as recorded in the Domesday Book, the manor of OTRI was the 18th of the 27 Devonshire holdings of Walter of Douai, one of the Devonshire tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.[14] His tenant was a certain Ludo, who held a further five manors from him, namely Little Rackenford, Hetfelle, Luppitt, Greenway (now represented by the synonymous large and ancient farmhouse in the parish of Luppitt[15]) and Stoch (later Stoke Fleming).[16] The last four manors held by Ludo, but not Little Rackenford, descended to the de Mandeville feudal barony of Marshwood and later to the de Mohun family,[17] at least one via the Flemings.
de Mandeville
It passed at some time, by means unknown, from Walter of Douai to the de Mandeville family, feudal barons of Marshwood[18] in Dorset.[19] A tenant of Geoffrey de Mandeville's manor of Ottery was Reginald de Mohun, as recorded in the Feudal Aid records.[18]
Fleming
The Fleming family at some time held Ottery, which became known as Ottery Fleming. They were also lord of the manor of adjoining Luppitt, which manors thenceforth descended under common ownership for several centuries.[20] It is not known what relationship if any this family bore to the Fleming family, named after its likely origins in Flanders, of Bratton Fleming and other manors in North Devon. The descent was as follows:[20]
- Richard Fleming
- William I Fleming
- William II Fleming
Mohun
The de Mohun family succeeded the Flemings as tenants of Ottery,[20] but seemingly still as mesne tenants. The mural monument in Exeter Cathedral of Sir Peter Carew (d.1575) of Mohuns Ottery shows the maunch arms of Mohun quartering Fleming (Vair, a chief chequy or and gules,[c] which if in accordance with the rules of heraldry indicates that the Mohuns married a Fleming heiress. Reginald de Mohun held Ottery under Geoffrey de Mandeville as overlord, as recorded in the Feudal Aid records.[18] The family later superseded the overlord and held this manor as a tenant-in-chief of the king, when the manor became known as Ottery Mohun, with the standard word order for manors with proprietorial suffixes, and later as Mohun's Ottery.
The de Mohun family seated at Ottery was a junior branch descended from the Norman magnate William I de Mohun, feudal baron of Dunster in Somerset, who is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as seated at Dunster Castle.[22] The historian the Duchess of Cleveland wrote as follows in her 1889 work Battle Abbey Roll concerning the origins of the de Mohun (alias Mohon, Moion, etc.) family:[23]
- "From Moion, near St. Lo, Normandy, where the site of their castle is still to be seen. Wace tells us that "old William de Moion had with him many companions" at the Battle of Hastings, and one of Leland's rolls of the Norman conquerors is nothing but a long list of those who came in the train of "Monseir William de Moion le Veil, le plus noble de tout l'oste." It gives him a following worthy of an Emperor, comprising all the noblest names of Normandy, and numbering at least ninety-four knights, but it is evidently, as Mr. Planché points out, a mistake of the copyists. Sir Francis Palgrave, though he calls him "one of the greatest Barons of the Cotentin," says he was only accompanied by "five knights who held of him." Dugdale, however, gives him "forty-seven stout Knights of name and note," and he was rewarded for his services by the grant of no less than fifty-five manors in Somerset, besides two in Wiltshire and Dorset. He chose Dunster — a place of some note in Saxon times — and built his castle where a former fortress of the West Saxon kings had stood, in a situation unsurpassed in beauty by any in England".
The descent of the de Mohun family of Dunster was as follows:[22]
- William I de Mohun (died post 1090), Domesday Book holder of Dunster Castle, Seigneur of Moyon, near Saint-Lô in Normandy. He was Sheriff of Somerset in 1084.
- William II de Mohun (died circa 1155) (son), created Earl of Somerset, which title was not inherited by his heirs.[22] He was a favourite of Empress Matilda and a loyal supporter of her in the war against King Stephen, during which he earned the epithet "Scourge of the West"
- William III de Mohun (d.1176) (heir)
- William IV de Mohun (d.1193) (son)
- Reginald I de Mohun (1185-1213) (heir), who in 1205 married Alice Brewer, 4th sister and co-heiress of William Brewer, feudal baron of Horsley, Derbyshire[22] and of Torr Brewer (later Torr Mohun,[24] now Torquay, in Devon). She brought him a great estate, and "is set down among the benefactors to the new Cathedral Church of Salisbury, having contributed thereto all the marble necessary for the building thereof for twelve years."[23]
- Reginald II de Mohun (1206-1258) (son), who married as his second wife Isabel de Ferrers, widow of Gilbert Basset (d.1241)[20] and daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (1193-1254) by his wife Sibyl Marshal, a daughter and co-heiress of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146/7-1219).[22] Reginald II de Mohun gave the manor of Ottery to his younger son from his second marriage, namely Sir William Mohun.[20] The senior line continued at Dunster as follows:
- John I de Mohun (1248-1279) (grandson), son of John de Mohun (d.1253), killed in Gascony, son of Reginald II, whom he predeceased.
- John II de Mohun (1269-1330) (son). He was the first of his family who had summons to attend Parliament, in 1299, thereby being created by writ a baron.[23] He fought under Edward I (1272-1307) in the wars of Scotland and Gascony, and in 1300 was present at the Siege of Carlaverock. He appears in the Roll of Carlaverock, which blazons his (modern) armorials in ancient French verse as follows:[23]
- "Jaune o crois noire engreelie
- La portrait Johans de Mooun."
- Sir William Mohun (younger son) of Mohuns Ottery, whose daughter and heiress Elinor Mohun[10] married (as his first wife) John Carew (d.1324), eldest son and heir of Nicholas Carew (died 1311), feudal lord of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire and lord of the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire. Elinor had a son and heir Nicholas Carew (d.1323) who married Elinor Talbot, daughter of Richard Lord Talbot, but died without progeny.[25] Nicholas Carew (d.1323) bequeathed his estates including Mohuns Ottery to his younger half-brother John Carew (d.1363), the son of John Carew (d.1324) by his second wife Joan Talbot, daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot.[25][26]
The arms of Mohun (ancient) survive at Mohuns Ottery: "There, on a shield in the spandrel, is carved, amid elegant scroll work and foliage, the old coat-armour of the family — an arm vested in an ermine maunch, the hand grasping a golden fleur-de-lys; a bearing, which, for some reason unknown, John de Mohun, Baron of Dunster, who died in 1330, abandoned for the afterward well-known coat, adopted also by the Abbeys of Newenham and Bruton — a cross engrailed sable, on a field or".[27]
Carew
The Carew family succeeded to the Mohun family as holders of Ottery, but never changed the proprietorial suffix. The descent of Mohuns Ottery from Sir William Mohun (younger son from his second marriage of Reginald II de Mohun of Dunster) was as follows:
John I Carew (d.1324)
John I Carew (d.1324), who married firstly Elinor Mohun, heiress of Mohuns Ottery. He was the eldest son and heir of Nicholas I Carew (died 1311), feudal lord of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire and lord of the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire. He survived his first wife and remarried to Joan Talbot, daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot, by whom he had issue.[25][26] It is believed that the now empty arched recess in Luppit Church may originally have housed his effigy.[29]
Nicholas II Carew (d.1323)
Nicholas II Carew (d.1323), son (by his father's first wife Elinor Mohun) and heir apparent, who married Elinor Talbot, daughter of Richard Lord Talbot, but died without progeny.[25] He bequeathed his estates including Mohuns Ottery to his younger half-brother John Carew (d.1363), the son of John Carew (d.1324) by his second wife Joan Talbot, daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot.[25][26]
John II Carew (d.1363)
John II Carew (d.1363),younger half-brother, the son of John Carew (d.1324) by his second wife Joan Talbot, daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot.[25][26] He was a great soldier and fought at the Battle of Crécy in 1346.[29] He married twice:
- Firstly to Margaret de Mohun, daughter of John IV de Mohun (d.post 1322),[30] eldest son and heir apparent of John III de Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun (1269–1330), feudal baron of Dunster, whom he predeceased, having married Christiana Segrave (d.1341), daughter of William Segrave, and having fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322 and died some time after in Scotland.[31] Margaret's eldest brother was Sir John V de Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun, KG, (c.1320–1375), the last in the senior male line of Mohun of Dunster.[32]
- Secondly he married Elizabeth "Corbit"[26] (Corbet).
Sir Leonard Carew (1343-1369)
Sir Leonard Carew (1343-1369),[26] son and heir by his father's first wife Margaret de Mohun. He married Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Sir Edmund FitzAlan de Arundel (c.1327-1376/82)[33] by his wife Sybil de Montacute, a younger daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury. Sir Edmund FitzAlan was the bastardised eldest son of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (c.1306/13-1376) by his first wife Isabel le Despenser (1312-c.1376-7).[34] As the Earl obtained an annulment of his first marriage on the basis of both parties having been under-age, Sir Edmund FitzAlan was bastardised and thus prevented from inheriting the earldom.
Thomas Carew (1361-1430)
Thomas Carew (1361-1430), son and heir, "a valiant knight"[29] who served under King Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. He married Elizabeth Bonville, daughter of Sir William Bonville (d.1408) of Shute, Devon, by his wife Margaret Damerell.[35]
Nicholas III Carew
Nicholas III Carew, eldest son and heir, who married Joane Courtenay (born 1411), a daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay (1358–1425) of Haccombe in Devon and of Boconnoc in Cornwall, MP and Sheriff of Devon, a grandson of Hugh Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon (1303–1377) and grandfather of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (d.1509). Joane Courtenay's mother was her father's second wife, namely Phillipa Archdekne, daughter and heiress of Sir Warren Archdekne of Haccombe in Devon.[36] Joane Courtenay was the eventual sole-heiress of her mother, and was the heiress of 16 manors, which she divided amongst her younger Carew sons.[37] She gave Haccombe to her second son Nicholas Carew, founder of the Carew family of Haccombe (see Carew baronets (1661) of Haccombe).[38]
Later Carew lords of the manor included:
- Sir Edmund Carew (1465-1513), who was knighted by King Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and was killed in 1513 at the Siege of Thérouanne,[40] in Artois, part of the Battle of the Spurs or Battle of Guinegate. He married Catherine Huddesfield, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Huddesfield (died 1499) of Shillingford St George in Devon, Attorney-General to Kings Edward IV (1461-1483)[41] and Henry VII (1485–1509).[40]
Southcote
- Thomas Southcote (d.1600) of Indio, Bovey Tracey. Sir Peter Carew (d.1575), the last in the male line, settled Mohun's Ottery and other lands on Thomas Southcote (d.1600) of Indio, Bovey Tracey,[43] who had married (as his 2nd wife) Carew's niece, Thomasine Kirkham, daughter of Thomas Kirkham (d.1552) of Blagdon[44] in the parish of Paignton,[45] by his 2nd wife Cicely Carew, sister of Sir Peter Carew (d.1575).[46] Thomas Southcote was in possession in 1589.[47]
- George Southcot (born 1560) of Indio, son and heir, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1575. He married Elizabeth Seymour (d.1589), daughter of Sir Henry Seymour,[48] apparently younger brother of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500-1552), KG, Lord Protector of England and brother to Queen Jane Seymour.
- Thomas Southcote of Mohuns Ottery, only son and heir. He married Katherine Pole, 2nd daughter of the Devon historian Sir William Pole (d.1635), of Shute and Colcombe Castle, Devon, MP. In his history of Mohuns Ottery Pole wrote:[49] "Thomas Southcot, Esquier, nowe dwellinge at Mouns Otery, maried Kateryn my 2 daughtr, by whom hee hath issue Sir Popham Southcot, Kt."
- Sir Popham Southcote (1603-1643) of Indio, eldest son and heir, who married Margaret Berkeley (d.1654), daughter of Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, Somerset.[49][50] He had three sons, all of whom either died as infants or otherwise predeceased him, and five daughters,[50] two of whom survived him as co-heiresses, married to Brian and Southcote.[47] Most of the lands were dismembered from the manor by the Southcotes in about 1670.[47]
Yonge
The manor was purchased (probably from the co-heiresses of Sir Popham Southcote[47]) by Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet[d] (1653-1731), of Escott and Colyton, Devon, MP for Honiton and Ashburton. He was the son of Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet (d.1670), MP, of Colyton.[51]
Hawker
In about 1793 the estates of Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet (d.1810), K.B., were sold, including the manors of Luppit and Mohuns Ottery, to William II Hawker (d.1806) of Poundisford Lodge, Pitminster, near Taunton, Somerset.[47][52] Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet was MP for Honiton and Secretary at War, but died without progeny, when the baronetcy became extinct.[53] William II Hawker (d.1806) of Poundisford Lodge was the only son of William I Hawker (d.1739) of Luppitt by his wife Mary Sampson. He married Elizabeth Welman, only child of Thomas Welman of Poundisford Park[54] (alias Lower Poundisford). He was described as:[e] "A steady Dissenter and a firm Whig who used to speak with a virtuous glow of his descent on the maternal side from the Reverend and Learned Thomas Sampson, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the bold opposer of superstition and tyranny in the reign of Queen Elizabeth"
Bernard
- Rev. James Bernard (1785-1839). Rev. James Bernard (1785-1839) (born "James Camplin") of Crowcombe and Sidmouth, was the son of Rev. James Camplin, Rector of Coombe Flory, Somerset. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1807 and was called to the bar in 1813. In about 1810 he changed his surname to Bernard.[56] This was apparently the result of an inheritance: a certain James Bernard (d.1811), of the Middle Temple,[57] who died without progeny, had inherited Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and Carew Castle[57] in Pembrokeshire, from his wife Elizabeth Carew (d.1805) (whose joint mural monument survives in Crowcombe Church[58]), daughter and heiress of Thomas Carew (d.1766) of Crowcombe Carew, Somerset.[57][59] Elizabeth Carew's heir to Crowcombe Court and Carew Castle was her cousin Mary Carew (d.1852), wife of George Henry Warrington (d.1842) of Pentrepart Hall, who in 1811 assumed the surname Carew.[57][f] He married Mary Hawker, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of William II Hawker (d.1806), and was the proprietor of Mohuns Ottery in 1822.[47] Lysons (1822) stated:[47] "Some part of the ancient mansion of the barons Carew is still remaining, and occupied as a farm-house. The park has been long ago converted into tillage". A deed of partition had been signed in 1808 splitting the Hawker patrimony between the three Hawker sisters and co-heiresses. James Bernard owned the library of "Thomas Carew", and made it available to Joshua Toulmin, for researching his work "History of the Town of Taunton".[61]
- Rev. William Bernard (son). In 1850 Rev. William Bernard of Clatworthy, Somerset, was lord of the manors of Luppitt and Mohun's Ottery, but the manor house was being used as a farmhouse.[62] In 1870 Mohuns Ottery was occupied by James Bishop, a farmer, but "W.H. Bernard" was still lord of the manor of Luppitt.[63]
20th century
In 1986 "Mohuns Ottery Farm" was occupied by Arthur Francis William Blackmore (born 1911), chairman of the Luppitt Commons Committee, who had lived in the parish of Luppitt all his life. At that date a "Miss Barnard" still lived in the parish, at Wren Cottage.[64]
Notes
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank state that the Domesday form "Alsi" could represent the Old English name Ælfsige, or Æthelsige or possibly Ealdsige or Ealhsige.[12]
- ^ Fleming of Bratton Fleming, North Devon. As shown on the Powell Roll of Arms (c.1350), Bodleian Library, Oxford. Also per Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1822, vol.6, Devon, Families removed since 1620
- ^ These are in fact the arms of Fleming, of Bratton Fleming in North Devon, per Pole, p.484, who gives a blank entry for the arms of Fleming of Stoke Fleming in South Devon, which families were possibly identical or related
- ^ Lysons, 1822: "Sir Walter Yonge, Bart.", thus possibly 2nd or 3rd Baronets. From the court rolls of Mohuns Ottery, apparently the 3rd Bt.[2]
- ^ Source describes his father, possibly in error for William II.[55]
- ^ A monument Gertrude Pyncombe (d.1730) in Poughill Church near Crediton was erected in 1809, inscribed: "... erected by the Trustees of her Bequests, JAMES BERNARD Esq. of Crowcombe Court Somersetshire. Rev. JAMES CAMPLIN A.M. Rector of Stoodley in this County and of Florey in the County of Somerset in the Year of our Lord 1809"[60]
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Further reading
- Davidson, James, The History of Newenham Abbey, in the County of Devon, re Rectory of Luppitt, pp. 129–30
- Hamilton Rogers, William Henry, The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, pp. 209–216
- Ryder, Lucy, The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuity
- Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, ref DD\HLM/7 Box 7: Deeds for Luppitt, etc.