16th Century & After

In the C16th ENGLAND had NO STANDING ARMY
& PRIOR the RESTORATION of the Monarchy in 1660 , there was only a tiny NAVY

Elizabeth I was expecting an invasion by the Spanish King, Phillip, widower of her sister Mary Tudor and persistent suitor for her hand in marriage.

In medieval times when a monarch needed an ARMY the Earls & Barons ,
with their private armies were required to muster additional men from the local population,
to act as archers and men at arms on the monarch's behalf .

In 1588 the ENGLISH NAVY comprised of just 34 ships of Royal Fleet , based at Plymouth , included
21 larger galleons & 163 other ships, 30 which only carried 12 guns each. These included 12 of the armed merchantmen owned by privateers such as Lord Howard , Sir John Hawkins & Sir Francis Drake.

The Spanish Fleet of the Armada of 141 ships , intent of Invading England , had 24 purpose-built warships,
44 armed merchantmen, 38 auxiliary vessels and 34 supply ships & some 50,000 men mustered & waiting on the French coast.

Elizabeth I ordered muster of Militia to defend against the impending threat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

Preparations for the Spanish invasion in the West Country

The English ships were equipped & supplied by various local merchants and men of means .
A total of £5,973 was subscribed by men from Dartmouth, Totnes and the Hundred of Hey Tor, Stanborough, & Coleridge.

Dartmouth sent ships was sent to join the English fleet were the Roebuck, Crescent and Hart . Equipped by the merchants of the towns of Totnes & Dartmouth and the locality. Seamen were paid for 4 months from 1st May to the end of August.
6 shillings 8 pence a month which was raised by the intervention of Howard to 10 shillings when the Armada was defeated.

The English Navy consisted of flag ship of Lord Charles Howard of Effingham) the Ark Royal;
the Revenge under Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral of the Fleet having moved his flag from Elizabeth Bonaventure after the attack on Cadiz in 1587;

Elizabeth Bonaventure was commanded by George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland;

Victory (Rear Admiral Sir John Hawkins); Rainbow (Lord Henry Seymour)

Golden Lion (Thomas Howard) Knighted 1588; White Bear (Alexander Gibson)

Vanguard (William Winter); Elizabeth (Robert Southwell)

Antelope (Henry Palmer); Triumph (Martin Frobisher) Sir Martin Frobisher son of a merchant knighted after the defeat of the Spanish 1588 .A seaman & privateer he had made three voyages to the New World .

Dreadnought (George Beeston); Mary Rose (Edward Fenton); Nonpareil (Thomas Fenner)

Hope (Robert Crosse); Swiftsure (Edward Fenner); Swallow (Richard Hawkins)

Galley Bonavolia ,Foresight; Aid; Bull; Tiger ;Tramontana ; Scout; Achates; Charles; Moon; Advice; Merlin; Cygnet; Brigandine; George Hoy); Spy (pinnace); & Sun (pinnace)

Whether any Pomeroys were involved is an unknown -however they almost certainly contributed money .

Dartmouth & Totnes prepared to repel
the Spanish Armada of 1588

Dartmouth sent 2 ships equipped by the merchants of the towns of Totnes & Dartmouth and the local area .
Seamen were paid for 4 months from 1st May to the end of August. 6 shillings 8 pence which a month which was raised by the intervention of Howard to 10 shillings when the Armada was defeated.

The ships were equipped & supplied by various local people to a value of £27/2s/10d

Supplies included

125 hogshead of beer at 6d a hogshead

Meat , beef & pork was supplied, freshly salted , by butchers of Totnes

fish & 3 barrels of butter, wood and tallow.

Preparing for war there were 18 barrels of gunpowder and shot,

a single minion cannon with chain shot,

3 muskets with 4 dozen charges,

8 calvers with flasks, small shot;

There were tubs of lead and vinegar, lanterns,

wooden dishes, tankards and cans, sheepskins, lambskins to clean gun barrel, a kettle, dripping pans, mustard seed, brimstone & a ladle.

A total of £5,973 was subscribed by men from Dartmouth, Totnes and the Hundred of Hey Tor, Stanborough, & Coleridge.

Dartmouth sent numerous ships to join the English fleet that attacked the Spanish Armada, including the Roebuck, Crescent and Hart .

The last Baron Berry Pomeroy was Sir Thomas, whose wife was Joanna Edgecumbe died in 1566. When he sold the baronial estates in 1547 he lost all the inherited estates and landed possessions as well as the title Baron.

His children were Thomas Pomeroy Esq of Sandridge d 1615 buried in Brixham, wife Honor Rolle; Arthur circa 1615 in Saltash , William d 1615 buried in Brixham , John b 1536 , Valentine died at birth and 3 daughters

Sir Thomas, who retained his title because he had been knighted in 1547, before he sold the barony to Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset , was allowed to receive the income from Parkham & Landcross in North Devon. He died in 1566 some 12 years before the Armada.

.....the Duke is also to convey the manors of Parkham and Lancrasse which were late the possessions of Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, excepting to the Duke the advowsons of the churches of Lancrasse and Parkham; the Duke is also to obtain letters patent from the king at his expense, to convey to Sir Thomas the lands and possessions of the late chantry of Plympton, the manor and possessions in Devon and Cornwall belonging to the late chantries of Shyllingham and Trayne and the lands and possessions of the late chantry of Combe Raleigh; the Duke is also to convey as much of his other manors and lands in Devon and Cornwall as amount, with Parkham and Lancrasse, to the yearly value of £132 15/10d., 1548 DRO

Muster Rolls 1569 Pomeroys in Devon -
link to map

Thomas Pomerye - Abbotsham - 2 miles from Bideford in North Devon, quite close to Landcross

Thomas Pomeroy Landcross, Bideford

Thomas Pomery - Halberton, Tiverton East Devon

William Pomerye - Merton, Okehampton

Robert & John Pomery - Topsham
(East Devon on Exe estuary and a significant port)

Richard (?)urary - Stokeinteignhead, Newton Abbot

Henry Pomerey & Hercules Pomery - Berry Pomeroy, Totnes - men of means recorded as G7

John Pomerey - Yealmpton: ( Close to Plymouth)

John Pomerey G7- Ashwater ( Mid Devon) G7 indicates a man of means

Ralph Pomerye - Whitchurch, Tavistock

Thomas Pomerye G6 Also John Pomerye and Christopher Pomery - Honiton East Devon

Thomas Pomery - Holbeton (near Plympton St Mary west of the Erme estuary, & Newton Ferrers 4 miles S.W. by W. from Modbury)

Andrew Pomerey gent. & Andrew ( his grandson )- Newton Ferrers, Nr Plymouth - Collaton Manor

AJP - 1547 The barony was sold and the family went to Sandridge which was not a huge mansion. I suspect that after his term in the Fleet prison in 1552 Sir Thomas & his wife Joanna Edgecumbe, Lady Pomeroy may have lived quietly at Landscross, which is a tiny parish on the river Torridge , close to Weare Giffard and the Annery Estate -

This would allow the next generation , son Thomas and wife Honor and their growing family, to live at Sandridge free of public shame , in the family manor house at Stoke Gabriel

The Manor House at Landcross is no more but it originally belonged to Beaumonts, from whom it passed to Basset, then by marriage Pomeroy then to Giffards & latterly to the Rolle family. The wife of son Thomas was Honor Rolle. whose mother was Margaret Ford , half sister to John Ford, husband of Mary Pomeroy Of Ingsdon .

The Muster Rolls suggest Thomas Pomeroy was in residence in Landcross; One is recorded at nearby Abbotsham and another at Landcross ; the fact that the Manor was owned by the Rolle family suggests they might well have lived there, possibly as a 'grace & favour tenants' - depends on the dates.

OPC/Cornwall Muster for Cornwall 1569

The Muster was to include all able men between the ages of 16 and 60 however only the hundreds of Powder, Pydar , West and East limited themselves to able men. The other hundreds included unable men.

Abilties

a or ar = archer, b = billman, h (or g) = harquebusier p = pikeman additional “a” such as “a ar” is better than able

Armour

Common abbreviations include: harq = harquebut, pr = pair, sh.arr = sheaf of arrows, alm.rivet = almayne armour, fur = furnished

Parish

Austell, St. Thomas POMERYE More info

Cardinham Wm POMERYE More info

Kenwyn Thomas PENAYRE More info

St Keverne, John PENNARE More info

Michaelstow Elysaunder POMERYE More info

Michaelstow John POMERYE More info

St Neot, Pasco POMERYE More info

Pillaton John POMEROY More info

St Stephens Saltash,Thomas POMERY More info

1569

Stephens by Saltash, St. Muster Location:

Thomas POMERY Ability: a b Weaponry: bill

Stithians John Penmener

Stithians Phelip Penmener

Tywardreath John Pomery

Hundred: Powder Parish: Tywardreath Muster Location: Trewardrethe

Name: John Pomery Ability: a b Weaponry: maryner )mariner)

ASHWATER n the hundred of BLACK-TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 6 miles S.E. by S. from Holsworthy,

John Pomery . 20 Dec 1569 Devon Burials Ashwater, Devon,

Johan Pomery Burial 30 Jul 1559 Ashwater

Johan Pomery Baptism 24 June 1560 Ashwater

Johan Pomery Burial 27 Dec 1560 Ashwater

GREAT TORRINGTON Mid Devon is near St Giles in the Wood which was one of the family homes of the Rolle family

In Muster Roll - Thomas Pomerye - Abbotsham ( 2 miles from Bideford in North Devon, quite close to Landcross )

Was this Sir Thomas himself or Thomas Pomeroy Esq whose wife was Honor Rolle (married St Giles in the Wood 2 Nov 1569 )

Thomas and Honor had their 1st child at St Giles in the Wood the family home of Honor's family . Elizabeth was baptised 25 Feb 1570 and died age 15 months buried Apr 1571 n St Giles in the Wood

Pomeroys in North Devon- Braunton, Barnstaple, Heanton Puncherdon, Alwington & Bickington .

These small communities are around the port of Barnstaple which lies at the head of the Taw estuary; Bickington lies on the south and Braunton and Heanton Puncherdon lie close to the north of the estuary . Abbotsham & Alwington & Littleham are near Bideford

Margaret who married Phillip Jewell in 1641 at Braunton

Mistress Grace Pomeroy wife of Richard Pomeroy gent of Pough Hill buried Braunton 1642 (Poughill is near Crediton)

Phillip Pomeroy of Abbotsham Will 1661

Elizabeth Pomeroy of Abbotsham married by banns to Nicholas Ellis at Littleham near Bideford 27 April 1701

Hester Pomeroy married George Bewes in Alwington 2 June 1706 ( 4 miles from Bideford)

John Pomey Bb 15 Oct 1641 son of Phillip & Marye Pomeroy Northam (2½ miles N. of Bideford.)

John Pomeroy 1696 Alwington Will

John Pomeroy Abbotsham Will of 1700

Phillip son of John b 7 Aug 1610 Abbotsham

Agnis Pomeroy widow of William Pomeroy descd. burial 11 Aug 1664 Northam & Appledore

Frances Pomeroy 1682 marriage to William Sage at Bideford

Grace Pomeroy marriage 9 Nov 1650 at Alwington to William Hayne

Grace Pomeroy Heanton Punchardon burial Oct 1654

Mary Pomeroy marriage Heanton Puncherdon to ….Cocker Sept 1682

Mary Pomeroy Will of 1686 at Abbotsham near Bideford

Phillip Pomeroy Bb 8 April 1677 at Coryton son of Sinclair Pomeroy

Coryton is , 6½ miles N.N.W. of Tavistock, excellent slate quarry,

Phillip son of Nicholas & his wife Eleanor B 24 Feb 1675 at Farway east Devon

Phillp Pomeroy Bb Nov 1590 at Farway

Phillip 1633 at Halberton married Agnes Mills married by banns

Collateral History of Pomeroy Family - 12 Devon POMEROYS

Honeyton parrishe: Thom* Pomery (among the 4) presenters sworen who do present as beffore sd (that the inhabitants chargeable by statute have their ffurniture as folowithe:)

Thom* Pom*ye> one alman Rivet, ii large bowes, two sheaf of arrowes, two stele cappes, one blocke bille. The names of the habellmen within the saide parrishe mustered as biffore ssaide:
John Pome'ye, Xpofer(Christopher) Pomery, archers.

Toppysham Parrysh: (Topsham on Exe Estuary) presenter sworen:
Robt Pomery, 8 gonnes (guns); John Pomery.

Hundred of G)lugge. Totneys:(Totnes) John Blackaller (for arms).

Sherforde Parrishe, Walter Hoppyn, billman. Comworthie, (no Pomeroy). north of Barnstaple

Hundred of Ermington. Holberton parrishe: Thoms. Pom'y, billman. Close to Plymouth

Newton Ferrers: on the Yealm river Close to Plymouth Andrew Pomrey gent one corslet, one pike, one large bowe, two murryons, one harquebus, one sheaf of arrowes, two stele cappes.

The Hundred of Haytor. The presenters of ivy pishe within the saide Hundred of Haytor do psente that their is no horse geldinge or mare conveyed or carried out of the saide hundred into anny pts beyond the sea. Neither that their is anny pke or ground ffor the brede of horses Within the said Hundred, and that th inhabitants chargeable by the Statute have their ffurniture as ffolowithe:

Berey Pom'ey: (after the sale of the Barony in 1547 )

Henry Pom'ey, one large bowe, one sheaf of arrowes, one stele cappe, one blocke bille.

Henry Pom'y, ar. one caliver. Hercules Pom'y, archer.

Hundred of Teignbridge. Yealmpton parrishe: John Pom'rey, billman. (

City of Exeter: William Pomery ak. Sampson, Harquebusyer.

The harquebusier common form of cavalry armed with a carbine, wheellock, snaphaunce or doglock flintlock, hung from a swivel attached to a baldric, pistols in saddle holsters, and a stout, straight-bladed, sword.

A confusion of Devon names
They all sound VERY similar

There is Harberton near Totnes also spelt Hurberton -

Holberton near Newton Ferrers

Halberton, near Tiverton in East Devon

https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/home

Barbara POMEROY Bb14 DEC 1560 in Manor of Ingsdon, in Ilsington, Devonshire, daughter of Hugh & his wife Barbara Southcote

It seems quite possible that she could have been married age 16 or 17 before 1580

She was married age 34 to Robert Incledon in 1594 ,who died in about 1600.

2 years later in May 1602 age 42 she was married to Philip CHICHESTER

She died 1623 age about 63

Found 1644 a Will of a Barbara Chichester widow at Arlington Barnstaple

Robert Incledon was Wilmot Pomeroy Incledon's stepson born to her husband Lewis by his 1st wife Grace Cranberrie -

2nd wife Wilmot Pomeroy born circa 1555 daughter of Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton and his wife Anne Matthews Married Lewis Incledon of Incledon on Braunton North Devon in about 1570

They had 10 children

1573 Lewis Incledon, died 1657 age 84,
Married 1st Anne Wyott in 1620 died in childbirth 1621
2nd Feb 1654 Elizabeth Collamore d 1657 issue 3 sons

3rd 31 Oct 1672 Alice Addington of Leigh ( according to NBS site)

1575 Andrew died 1646 age 71 ? unmarried

1576 Ambrose died in infancy

1579 Elizabeth died in infancy

1580 Grace

1582 Elizabeth died 1591 age 9

1587 Nicholas died 1604 age 16

1590 Mary died in infancy

1592 Gertrude married 1st to Charmond 2nd to Richard Grenville of Poughill

1591 Margret died in infancy
Wilmot died 1610

Lewis Incledon died 1614

Incledon is an ancient family which held from the Honour of Barnstaple by "Nicholas de Ferariis" (Ferrers) and "Robert de Incledene"

Incledon in the parish of Braunton, North Devon, is an ancient historic estate which gave its name to the locally prominent de Incledon family (later Incledon, pronounced "Ingleton"), first recorded in 1160.

Incledon Hill in the parish of Georgeham, bu the connection is unclear ;
In 1319 the Incledon family purchased the estate of Buckland, adjoining their Braunton Estate and built the present Georgian Buckland House, 1/2 mile south-east of Incledon.
Still occupied in 2014 by descendants of the Incledon-Webber family.

OTHER 16TH CENTURY BITS & BOBS FOUND Luppitt - LUPPITT, or Luppit, is a village and a parish, 4 miles N. by E. of Honiton.

https://www.luppitt.net/images/data/res/general/rogers.txt

Henry Rogers married Jane Pomeroy in Feb 1565/6. From 1586 onward their sons John and Richard Rogers, married in 1580 and 1584 respectively are having children baptised but their descent now continues in Otterton and East Budleigh until the two families meet again in 1728/9.

There is at present no further information on the 16th C Rogers of Luppitt but a mountain of untouched records remain to be searched.

Dusty Documents

Parish of Symondsbury

Marriages at Symondsbury 1558 to 1812

Transcribed for the OPC Project by Peter Collins from 'Dorset Parish Registers' Volume II, edited by W P W Phillimore & Edmund Nevill and published in 1909

VOL. I. - This consists of a volume of parchment leaves and covers in which the Marriages which extend from 1558 to 1624 and are mixed with the Baptisms and Burials. It may be noted that the last six Marriages in this volume are duplicated at the beginning of the Marriage entries of Vol. II.

VOL.II. - This is a volume similar to the last one Marriages extend from 1624 to 1739.

VOL. III. - This is of a similar character and the Marriages cover the period 1740 to 1754.

VOL. IV. - This a volume containing the Marriages and the banns in the usual form from 1754 to 1792.

VOL. V. - Similar to the last; covers the period 1792 to 1812.

These Marriage entries are now printed by leave of the Rev. F. W. Maunsell M. A. Rector of Symondsbury.

[Transcribers Note; Surnames in [Italics] are where these surnames were not recorded.]

Vol III

Walter POMERY of Symondsbury & Sarah STOURTON of South Petherton

VOL IV.

Thomas POMEROY & Anne YOUNG

John POMERY of Chideock & Mary ASHE

Henery POMERY & Elizabeth FORSEY 01-Dec 1714

Henry POMEROY & Philis SYMES married 05-Jan 1804

Henry POMERY & Marget OVENTON 15-Oct 1621

George POMERY & Mary PERROTT d. of John Perrott married 06-Oct 1802

Joseph SPRAKE & Mary [POMERY] d. of Walter Pomery

search Thomas Pomeroy 1569

High Sheriffs of Devon

1401: Sir Thomas Pomeroy of Combe Raleigh

1402: John Herle and then John Wyke of Nynehead, Somerset

1403–1404: Thomas Gorges

1405: John Cole

1404: John Beville of Woolston in Poundstock, Cornwall father of Margaret wife of Edward Pomeroy from around 1404

1406: John Chusilden of Holcombe Rogus

1406: Sir Johm Herle

1407: Edmund Pyne of Upton Pyne

1408: Sir William Cheney

1409: Sir Thomas Pomeroy of Combe Raleigh ]

1410: Sir Robert Chalons of Challonsleigh, Plympton

1411: Thomas Beaumont

1412: Sir Thomas Pomeroy of Combe Raleigh

1414: Sir John Arundell

COMBE RAWLEIGH, or Comb Ralegh, 1½ mile N.W. of Honiton;

The manor was successively held by the Baunton, Matthews, Ralegh, Dennis, and other families. Gittisham near HONITON Pomeroy House

Pomeroy House believed to date from the late 17th Century and is thought to be named after John Pomeroy who owned the house in 1657. The gardens and grounds surround Pomeroy House with formal gardens, a walled garden, a large area of lawn and an orchard. Honiton 4 miles

English Heritage states ...Pomeroy House is said to have been built for 2 unmarried sisters of the Putt family at Combe (q.v.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Gittisham

Nicholas Putt, Sheriff of Devon in 1644, - His father and grandfather had lived at Berry Pomeroy. During the Civil War he was a Royalist;

in 1644 he was arrested by Parliamentarian forces, his home, Combe House, was ransacked and set on fire. On the way to imprisonment and trial in London, he died at Axminster in Devon.

Gittisham, Honiton, Devon, EX14 6 bed detached house - £1,295,000

LUPPITT, or Luppit, is a village and a parish, 4 miles N. by E. of Honiton.

Henry Rogers married Jane Pomeroy in Feb 1565/6.

From 1586 onward their sons John and Richard Rogers, married in 1580 and 1584 respectively are having children baptised but their descent now continues in Otterton and East Budleigh until the two families meet again in 1728/9.

There is at present no further information on the 16th C Rogers of Luppitt but a mountain of untouched records remain to be searched.

Dusty Documents

Parish of Symondsbury

Marriages at Symondsbury 1558 to 1812

Transcribed for the OPC Project by Peter Collins from 'Dorset Parish Registers' Volume II, edited by W P W Phillimore & Edmund Nevill and published in 1909

VOL.II. - This is a volume similar to the last one Marriages extend from 1624 to 1739.

VOL. III. - This is of a similar character and the Marriages cover the period 1740 to 1754.

VOL. IV. - This a volume containing the Marriages and the banns in the usual form from 1754 to 1792.

VOL. V. - Similar to the last; covers the period 1792 to 1812.

These Marriage entries are now printed by leave of the Rev. F. W. Maunsell M. A. Rector of Symondsbury.

[Transcribers Note; Surnames in [Italics] are where these surnames were not recorded.]

C18th - Devon Freeholders, 1711-1799

Pomeroy, Daniel Haytor, ( BRIXHAM 1733) Teignbridge ( ASHBURTON 1741 )

Pomeroy, Hugh Haytor / HUGH POMEROY ESQ AT Stoke Gabriel 1711 )

Pomeroy, John Colyton,( FARWAY 1733 ) Colyton, (FARWAY1741 Colyton

jOHN jun FARWAY 1762) Colyton

FARWAY John Pomeroy, yeoman) Colyton,(1783) Colyton(1799)

Pomeroy, Joseph Hayridge -Tallaton [Talaton]

Thomas Crediton (1783 YEOMAN)

Pomeroy, William East Budleigh,( GITTISHAM 1733 Honiton )

Pomeroy William (Yeoman) cont Colyton (FARWAY LEASEHOLDER) Axminster (HONITON

Pomeroy, William Thomas (gent) /Colyton ( FARWAY 1783 )

Walter POMERY of Symondsbury married Sarah STOURTON of South Petherton at Symondsbury17421748 Master Tailor Walter took an apprentice

FMP Apprenticeship records Dorset
Walter Pumeroy Master Tailor Symondsbury Dorset in 1748 took Bartholomew Billet son of Thomas Billet as apprentice by indenture for 5 guineas. N .A. ref (IR 1 series) 18 f 173 SOG vol 3 page 470 SOG no: 18352