Note 14 — MOUNT EDGCUMBE.

The name of Cothele is conjectured to be hence derived: coit being a wood in ancient Cornish, and hel a river: the wood by the river, or, in a mixture of British and Old English, the hall in the wood, healle being a hall or manor-house. The name occurs in many very ancient records, temp. Henry III., “William Cothele engages to defend by his body, in duel, the right of Roger de Wanton and Katerine, his wife, to lands in Somerset against William de Deveneys.”