In the extent of Cornish acres, 12 Edward I. this is valued in twenty
(Carew, fol. 48 b.) In 3 Hen. IV. Johanna de Rame held one great fee
of Seviock, meaning (I suppose) that she held this place as a great
knight’s fee of the said manor.
I take this Johanna de Rame to be the person that was married to
Stephen Durnford, esq. who was Sheriff of Cornwall, 7 Henry V. whose
only daughter and heir Jane brought this lordship, with a large
inheritance, to her husband Sir Pierce Edgcombe of Cuttvyle, and in
their posterity it still remaineth, the honorable Richard Edgcombe,
esq. being the present lord of this manor, and in right thereof,
patron of this parish, as was said before.
The arms of Rame were, in allusion to the name, Azure, a scalp of a
ram’s head Argent, armed; and Durnford’s Azure, an eagle displayed Or.
But the barton of Rame hath since often changed its owners.