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Otterton, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of Budleigh,* 4 miles west southwest of Sidmouth, 6 miles southwest of Ottery-St. Mary; and 7 miles southwest of Gittisham... the living a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books... and in the patronage of Lord Rolle... Here was an Alien priory of Black monks, founded in the reign of the Conqueror, and subordinate to the abbey of St. Michael in Pericula Maris, in Normandy; at the suppression, in the 1st of Edward IV., its revenue was estimated at £87.10.4., and its possessions were given to the monastery of Sion. The prior enjoyed the singular rights of first choice in the fish-market, of appropriating to himself the half of every dolphin brought thither, and of claiming every porpoise at the price of “twelve pence, and a loaf to each sailor, and two to the master.”
*The Hundred of West Budleigh is in the Southern Division and the Hundred of East Budleigh in the Eastern Division. These may comprise one Hundred (not researched).
1332. Olterton [sic] Devonshire Lay Subsidy Roll Robert atte COMBE, 10d
No Olterton has been located. More likely this is the parish of Otterton
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