'At <i>Tyverton</i> [Tiverton] there being the head and chief mansion house, moated, walled and embattled round like a castle with all manner of houses of offices and lodgings within the same, well kept and repaired, and fair gardens to the same belonging, the oversight and custody thereof George Pollard hath, having a fee for the custody of the same yearly without patent £4-10-3' (PRO: Rentals and Surveys, [Miscellaneous Books, Augmentation Office] E315/384).