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Swet 7

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Summary

Swet 7 held a small estate in south-west Devon TRE, assessed at 3 virgates and with a value of 15s, and over which he had the power of alienation.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 15,51	Vill Hareston	DB Spelling Suet	Holder 1066 Swet 'of Hareston'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Reynold de Vautortes	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Swet 7’s small estate at Hareston, in a coomb on a tributary of the river Yealm in south-west Devon, lay nearly 80 miles from the estates of Swet 8 in Somerset, which is too far for them to have been held by the same person given the small sizes of the estates involved.

DB records that Swet 7 held his land in parage, indicating that it was impartible inherited land, and states that after the Conquest it had been added to the lands of Ordwulf that passed to the count of Mortain. There are no clues as to who any co-heir(s) or lord might have been, but the corresponding Exon entry (221b1) adds that Swet 7 could go to whichever lord he wished.