General Notes

William Montacute, who erected a monastery at Montacute mountain and endowed it with the borough and market of Montacute. An ancient record written about 1538 states, that "within the ruins of the Castle at Montacute is now a mean house for a farmer, the town hath a poor market and is builded of stone as commonly all towns thereabouts be" (Leland's Itinerary, Vol. 1, Oxford, 1710). But little is know with regard to this William Montacute except that, one author says, "he was an only son," and that he took care of the estate left him by his father, and died leaving it entire to an only son, Richard de Monteacuto. [Montagues in Great Britain, Terry and Jason Fritts, The Montague Millennium, Gladstone, Missouri]