KENTON, (Devon) at the influx of the Ken into the Ex, near Chudleigh. It is the custom of this manor, that if the issue of
any of the tenants hold their tenements three descents successively, they may claim the inheritance of the tenement. The
Earls of Kent were once Lds. of it, from whom it went by marriage to the Earl of Westmoreland, and at last to the crown.
K. Henry III. granted it a Mt. and a Fair on All-Saint's-Day, both long disused. This estate was since purchased by Will.
Clifton of London, and, after some descents in that family, was sold to Sir John Heale, a serjeant at law.