Page:The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall.djvu/86

3)unf)ri)e?L In the Domesday Book, to which we have several times re- ferred, there is, under the heading "Land of Earl Moriton," [Cornwall] this entry [translation]. "The Earl himself holds Dunhevet. In the time of King Edward [1041-1066] it was taxed for one virgate ; but there is one hide. The arable land is ten carucates. In demesne is one carucate, and six serfs, and one villan, and thirteen bordars, with four carucates. There are two mills, yielding forty shillings, and forty acres of pasture. It was formerly valued at twenty pounds, now at four pounds. The Castle of the Earl is there" This Earl was Robert, the Conqueror's half-brother, already named. Robert had two hundred and forty seven other manors and one other Castle, Trematon, within the County. Much has been written concerning the meaning of the word Dunhevet, Dunheved. We shall interpret it as The summit of a hill — Hill-head. Its orthography, like that of Launceston, has varied a little now and then, but, under every combination of letters, it has probably retained for eight hundred years nearly the same pronunciation as we give it to-day. There is no De Knyvett in its history. The following catalogue is from original manuscripts : Dunhevet (1085), Downehevede and Dunehevede {circa 1140), Dunhefd (1250); Dunhevet, Donhevet, Dunheved, Doune- heved, Doneheved, Downhevyd, and Dounhefd (13th and 14th