Identifier: morefamoushomeso00mala (find matches)
Title: More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, Alfred Henry, comp
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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which a former Lord Mount Edgcumbe is said to have had placedat the lodge in retaliation for some youthful escapade : No ad-mission for dogs or midshipmen ! The deer-park existed long before the house, and dates fromthe reign of Henry VIII., when Sir Piers Edgcumbe obtained aroyal licence to empark it. There is an old map of that date, re-produced by Lysons, showing an empty space inclosed by agigantic fence, but containing no building. Lord Mount Edg-cumbe traces his descent and derives his second title from theValletorts of Trematon Castle, who were lords of the manor atthe time of the Domesday Survey, and from whom the districtround Mount Edgcumbe still retains the general name of theTithing of Valtershome. From them it passed, by marriage orinheritance, successively to families named Stonehouse, Bigbury,and Durnford. West Stonehouse was the name of an adjoiningvillage which was destroyed by the French in the fourteenthcentury, while East Stonehouse still flourishes on the opposite
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IN THE ITALIAN GARDEN, MOUNT EDQCUMBE 151 fIDount je&ocumbe 153 side of the estuary as one of the Three Towns, being situ-ated between Plymouth and Devonport. Sir Piers Edgcumbe, made Knight of the Bath by Henry VII.in 1480, and Knight Banneret at the battle of the Spurs in 1513,by his marriage with Joan, daughter and heir of James Durnfordof East Stonehouse, acquired the estates of his wifes family onboth sides of the Tamar; and his son, Sir Richard, knighted in1 s37, began to build Mount Edgcumbe House in the first year ofQueen Mary (1553), exactly two hundred years after the olderresidence, Cotehele, came into the family on the marriage of Wil-liam Edgcumbe with Hilaria, the heiress. Travellers visiting the place must cross the water by ferryfrom Stonehouse to Cremyll Beach, close to the lodge, fromwhich a broad grassy slope leads straight up to the house. Notmany years ago a fine double avenue of elms flanked the ap-proach, but successive storms have nearly demolished it, and

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