Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- I SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
- II SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
- III COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
- IV COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
- V COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
- VI WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
- VII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
- VIII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
- IX WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
- I Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
- II Domesday entry of Coker
- III Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
- IV A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
- V Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
- VI (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
- VII Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
- VIII Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
- IX The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
- X Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
- XI Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
- XII (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
- XIII West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
- XIV (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
- XV Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
- XVI Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838, with past variations and probable meanings
- INDEX
- Plate section
VI - WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- I SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
- II SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
- III COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
- IV COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
- V COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
- VI WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
- VII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
- VIII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
- IX WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
- I Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
- II Domesday entry of Coker
- III Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
- IV A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
- V Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
- VI (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
- VII Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
- VIII Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
- IX The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
- X Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
- XI Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
- XII (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
- XIII West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
- XIV (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
- XV Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
- XVI Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838, with past variations and probable meanings
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
EDWARD, THIRD EARL, AND HUGH, FOURTH EARL, 1391–1422
The new owner of West Coker and of many other lands in the west of England, Edward, the third earl of Devonshire, had been born in 1357. He had been a minor when his grandfather and King Edward III had died. In the following year he was taking part in the uneventful and inglorious campaign in France, in which he was still engaged in 1380 when he celebrated his receiving the honour of knighthood by the capture of an unimportant place. Such captures, aimless skirmishes and marches for the purpose of display seem to have been the characteristics of the campaign. In 1382 the earl of Salisbury and the earl of Devonshire escorted from Gravelines to Calais Anne of Bohemia, sister of the emperor, about to be married to Richard II and to become the good queen Anne. The latter earl with sixty men-at-arms and sixty archers was with the rearguard of the army that Richard led on a destructive raid into Scotland in 1385, and in 1386, when great preparations were made against an expected French invasion, he was ordered to Southampton with 200 men-at-arms and 600 archers.
He was still doing military service in 1388 and we find him with others engaged in a descent on Brittany apparently for the purpose of getting horses for their troops. In 1391 when West Coker came into his possession he was in the prime of life.
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- The Annals of West Coker , pp. 144 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1957