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 132 THE CASTLE OP EXETER. have been expected to meet with exemplary vengeance ; but he exercised the greatest clemency to the citizens and the garrison : he indemnified the cathedral clergy for the damages inflicted on their property, and contented himself with the banishment of Baldwin, who retired to his Castle de Nehou, in Normandv (Recherche sur les anciens Chateaux de la Manche, par M. de Gcrville, p. 101), but was shortly after restored to his English honours and possessions ; for we find him, as Earl of Devon, on his return, founding the Priory of St. James, near this city. To his brother Henry, the Bishop of Winchester, the king now committed the custody of Exeter Castle ; but the government was soon replaced in the hands of the family of lledvcrs, and with partial interruptions so continued until 1232, when King Henry III. detached it from the Barony of Oakhampton. From the Charter Rolls (page 220) we collect that lands were held of the Crown by services to the Castle. Thus, on 7tli July, 1216, King John granted to Richard Malherbe and his heirs by his then wife, the estates of Wyke, Ailrichestan and Slaucombe, by the service of providing in the time of war, at his own charges, " unum servientem ad Hauber- gellum," ^ for forty days in our castle of Exeter. King Henry III. having created his only brother, Richard, Earl of Poitou and Cornwall, granted to him and his heirs, on 10th August, 1231, the whole county of Cornwall, Avith the stannary and all minerals appurtenant ; and, moreover, granted to him the city and castle of Exeter, as an appendage to his earldom of Cornwall. Nevertheless, the said king, in 1266, committed the custody of the castle to Ralph de Gorges ; and his successor to the crown, Edward I., in 1287, appointed Matthew Fitz-John to be Castellan for his life — an a[)})onitmont attested even by his cousin Edmund, Earl of Cornwall and Lord Paramount of Exeter ; and when the earldom of Cornwall was raised to a dukedom by King Edward III, on 17th March, 1337, the city of Exeter's fee- farm of twenty pounds, the manor of Bradninch, with the castle of Exeter, which was reputed the Manor House, or mansion of the said Manor, were constituted parcels of the ^ For the Feudiim haubcvticum, ace armour, with horse, brcast-phitc, ahickl, Spchnaii's Glossary, ]pp. 'JOO, WW?,. The spear, sword, and helmet ; and the period liauberk or eoat-ol-mail serviee was tome- of serving was also enlarned, times extended to a complete suit of