212 Devon Notes and Queries. Honecheave. It gave name to an ancient generous tribe no'w planted in more fruitful glebe. Heydon and Risdon possess lands here.* Lysons brings the record down to later times, thus: — " The manor belonged to the ancient family of Honeychurch, who continued to possess it for many generations, till it was sold by the grandfather of Mr. John Honeychurch, now living^ at Bovey Tracey ; it is now the property of the Honourable Newton Fellowes, having been purchased in 1797 of Edmund John Glynn, Esq. The advowson of the rectory passed with the manor.** + Polwhele does not notice the manor or the parish. At the present time the Earl of Portsmouth is lord of the manor, and Sir Roper Lethbridge, k.c.i.b., of the Manor House, Exbourne, in the adjacent parish, has the advowson of the rectory. The following Notes are extracted from the Rev. Prebendary Hingeston- Randolph's Episcopal Registers of the Diocese of Exeter : — 1 26 1 — Roger de Memmyslonde, sub-deacon, was admitted Rector of Honycherche 9 April, 1261 (die Sabbati qua cantatur SicieuteSj hoc est, V. Idus Aprilis) ad presentacionem trium Patronorum, silicet (left blank) [Bronescombe, p. 145.] 1309 — Sir Luke de Doneslonde occurs as Rector of Honi- chorche, 12 July, 1309 [Bytton, p. 418 ; Stapledon, p. 223.] 1349 — John Godman de Aula, clerk, was instituted (at Chudleigh) 26 April. Patron, Robert Bere, of Bromforde. Letters of Induction directed* to the Dean of Okehampton and Master John Bere, Rector of Stowe (ue. Jacobstowe) [Gran- disson, p. 1385.] 1357. — Sir John Elisaundre, priest, was collated by lapse (at Crediton) 26 April. **Eisdem die et loco, idem Rector optinuit licenciam celebrandi, huic ad annum, singulis ebdomadi bis vel ter, in diebus profestis, in Ecclesia Paro- chiali de SaunfiForde Courtenay, pro Fraternitate in eadem, in subsidium sustentacionis sue " [Grandisson, p. 1,444.] 1376 — On the di mission of Sir John Wyke, Nicholas Geoye, clerk, was instituted (at Chudleigh) 12 Sept. ; Patron,
- Westcote's View of DaH)nshire^ p 322.
f Lysons* Devottshire^ p. 28p.
