Poundstock is in the hundred of Lesnewith, and hath to the west St.
Ginnis, to the north the sea and Stratton, to the east Marhamchurch,
to the south Jacobstow.
In anno 1291, 20 Edw. I. this church was valued at £8 (Tax. Benef.);
being since appropriated to the college of Slapton in Devon.
This is a vicarage valued in the King’s Book, £13. 6_s._ 8_d._; the
patronage in Lord Arundell of Wardour; the incumbent Mr. ――――
Whitford, who was presented to it by the University of Oxford, on
account of the recusancy of the patron, the Lord Arundell of Wardour.
The first place in it to the west, is Trebarfoot; this gave name and
habitation to a race of gentlemen.
Penfoune was likewise the seat of a very ancient family, from hence
denominated.
But this family, by Mr. Hals’s mistake, being already treated of in
Jacobstowe, I shall only add here, that in Domesday Book is a manor
called Penfon, by which probably this place is meant; and if so, it
was one of those given by William the Conqueror to Robert Earl of
Morton, when he made him Earl of Cornwall.
The manor of Poundstock is called in Domesday Book Ponpestock, and was
one of the manors given by William the Conqueror to Robert Earl of
Morton, when he made him Earl of Cornwall.