A Forest of Trees
Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes Kelloway:
Who was the son and heir of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes Kelloway?
2010 Research Prepared by senior Pomeroy Researcher AML
Thomas had been made a Knight of the Bath and his older brother Richard the Pomeroy heir - as was the custom to award knighthoods on great occasions , were dubbed knight on 25 November 1487 at the coronation of Princess Elizabeth of York ,the queen of first Tudor king, Henry Tudor, Henry VII
POWLEY, Page 81 In a pedigree of the Pomeroys on page 53 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January, 1914, occurs that the statement of pedigree, together with the specific authority for the statement: "Thomas Pomeroy (Third son of Henry) Children: ii, Thomas, b. abt. 1481; named as son and heir of his father and as aged twelve years at the death of the latter, 29 December, 1493. — Inquisition, Chancery Series 2, Vol. 9. No. 61. 9 Henry VI 11."
Some answers:
What is the real name of son and heir of Thomas and Agnes Pomeroy? A - Richard Pomeroy
What follows is a translation of the Chancery Inquisitions Post Mortem. Series II. Vol. 9. No. 61.
Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son of Henry Pomeroy & his 1st wife Alice Ralegh
It was delivered to the Court 16th April, 9 Henry VII, 1495 by the hands of Lewes Powell and John Forster.
"Inquisition taken at Exeter in the County of Devon 10th April in the 9th year of the reign of King Henry VII. (1494) Before John Takell, escheator of the lord King in the county aforesaid, by virtue of a certain writ of the said lord King, after the death of Thomas Pomeroy directed to the same escheator and attached to this inquisition by the oath of Robert Pomerey, esq., Sinclerus Pomerey, Thomas Werthe, esq., William Floyer, esq., John Butayde, Henry Drake, George Faryngdon, Vincent Maynerd, John Werthe, Richard Sachefyld, John Trewman and John Bagtorr.
Who say upon their oath that the aforesaid Thomas, named in the said writ on the day he died was seised of 1 messuage 300 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow with the appurtenances in Boudon, Blaudon, Ivecomb, and Langedon in the county aforesaid in his demeasne as of fee; and that they are worth yearly in all issues beyond reprisals £10 , and that they are held of Peter Edgecomb as of castle Totton(Totnes) in free socage; and they say further that the said Thomas on the day he died was seised of 20 acres of land and 5 acres of meadow in Ivecomb in the county aforesaid in his demeasne as of fee and that they are worth yearly in all issues beyond reprisals 16s, and that they are held of Nicholas Holeway and Humphrey Walrond in free socage; and they say further that the said Thomas named in the said writ on the day he died held no land or tenements of the said lord King in chief in demeasne or in service, nor held any more lands or tenements of any other in demeasne or in service in the county aforesaid;
And that the same Thomas died on Saturday next after the feast of the Nativity of the Lord (29 December, 1493), in the above written year of the reign of the King aforesaid, and that Henry Pomerey is his son and next heir, and is of the age of 12 years and more. 1493 - 11 years gives us 1481 or 82
Q Could there be another IPM for properties elsewhere, maybe Dorset or Somerset, ones which came as part of Agnes's dowry and those were given to son Richard = making them Co-heirs?
AML carefully researched the subject and showed that Agnes Kelloway who married Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son of Henry Pomeroy & his 1st wife Alice Ralegh was not the daughter of John (as stated by Vivian) nor a child of Thomas Kelloway (NEHGS) of Sherborne, co. Dorset. Her father was William Kelloway the younger of Sherborne, Dorset.
Her mother was Joanna Barrett , who was the only daughter of Anna Camel by her 1st husband Henry Barrett. Her 2nd husband was Thomas Gylle of Hacche Arundell near Loddiswell a Dartmouth merchant. Her final husband was the 6 Baron Pomeroy called Henry whose son by his 1st wife , Thomas, married her granddaughter.
They had no other children of record but there has been a suggestion that they had a son called Henry -
AJP presumes that if this is so his birth might have been the cause of death for Anne in 1481.
Reference A. . Benolte's original Visitation of Devonshire, 1531: Agnes Kayllewey is named not only as the wife of the said Thomas Pomeroy, but as daughter of William Cayleway of Sherborn, Dorset.
Another record...this time a land record which affirms the maternal lineage of Agnes Kelloway. It also names "Richard, son of Thomas Pomeroy." The land in question is being affirmed by Sir Edward Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy to Richard, son of Thomas Pomeroy.
This is Richard of Tones who married Eleanor Coker then Anne Wykes Artur in1544
By 1510 Henry and Anne, and Thomas are dead & Richard was about 20 years of age. No mention of son and heir Henry , other one mention by Powley.
Devon Record Office 3799M-0/T/1/1 1510 Contents: Exemplification of recovery by letter patent
1. Richard Pomeray esq. 2. Edward Pomeray knt.
( Edward, baron from 1496 to 1538, was son of Sir Richard Pomeroy Knight of the Bath & the baron from 1481 to 1496, nephew of Thomas who was brother to Richard)
Premises: eight messuages, two mills and lands in Berry Pomeroy, Bridgetown Pomeroy, Smalebroke and Flete, which Oto Gilbert, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape gave to Henry Pomeray and Anne his wife and the lawful heirs of their bodies. If Henry and Anne die without heirs of their bodies, the premises remain to Thomas Pomeray son the said Henry, and Agnes Kayleway daughter of Johanne daughter of the said Anne, and the heirs of the body of Thomas and after the death of Henry, Anne, Thomas and Agnes, remainder to Richard son of Thomas Pomeray
Q How can we be sure that the Agnes Kelloway in the following will is the Agnes Kelloway who married Thomas Pomeroy?
1. Will of William Kaylewaye [PCC 27 Godyn fol. 224. The original is in Latin; the transcription was published in Weaver's "Somerset Wills," pp. 218/219.
Too long to insert. Here is a clip: William writes:
Item, I bequeath to the said WILLIAM, son of my said son WILLIAM, all my iron and all my “oode” [woad] which is in my cellar at Shirborne (Sherbourn) aforesaid.
Item, to AGNES, daughter of the said WILLIAM, my son, 40 li. (40 pounds) a considerable sum when a yearly income for a yeoman farmer with land was around that sum - AP)
Item, to ALICE, the other daughter of the said WILLIAM, 40 li. to be paid out of my debts.
The residue of my goods not bequeathed I give and bequeath to my executors, to do therewith as shall seem to them most expedient for my soul, and I ordain the said WILLIAM, my son, and Thomas Cosyn, my clerk, executors of this my will.
And whereas my seal is unknown to many, I have procured the common seal of the Abbess and Convent of the House of B.V.M. [Blessed Virgin Mary] of the Cistercian order of Tarent in the said county of Dorset, to be affixed to these presents.
Proved 1st July 1469, and administration committed to the executors.
AJP note The inclusion of iron & woad in his will tells us he was a wool merchant involved not just in the production of wool but in weaving and dying the wool - woad makes a BLUE dye & the iron would have been used as a mordant or dye fixer-
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset,
Thomas Pomeroy of Cheriton Bishop and his wife Agnes Kelloway daughter of Joanna Barrett & William Kelloway of Sherbourne
Kelloway Pedigree: A pedigree can be structured from the 1469 will of William Keyleway of Sherborne, Dorset:
John Kayleway – living, possibly as late as 1457/8.
A. William Kayleway (c1400 - 1469) married 1st Isabelle Probably mother of the child/children.
married 2nd Joan widow of Roger Ledred.
William Kayleway (c1425/30 -) married. Joan Barret, d/o Henry Barret (s/o John Barret) See [3]
a. William Kayleway (c1450/55 -
b. John Kayleway (c1555/60 -)
c. Agnes Kayleway –
d. Alice Kayleway – no further information.
Joan Barret has been identified on various “pedigrees’ as a daughter of Henry Barret and wife, Joanna/Anna Cammell of Fiddleford or Fittleford in Whiteparish (seen here)
After Henry Barret died, Anna Camell married (2) Thomas Gylle of Hacche Arundell in Loddiswell near Kingsbridge. A merchant and a privateer. Her 3rd husband was Henry Pomeroy, and she was his second wife. She had no children by Pomeroy and pre-deceased him dying in 1481.
Henry Pomeroy died 7 July 1487. Henry Pomeroy was father of (by his 1st wife) Thomas Pomeroy (d. 29 December 1493) who married Agnes Kayleway, daughter of William “the younger” Kayleway, son of William “the elder,” her grandfather (1469 will). [Chancery Case C 1/59/42)
Agnes (daughter of William “the younger”] and granddaughter of William “the elder” (1469 will), with her husband Thomas Pomeroy,
sued her father to claim the £40 left to her in her grandfather’s will. This occurred between 1469 and 1486.
In exploring the reference by Vivian that “Cheriton Fitzpaine was settled upon Thomas and Agnes Pomeroy” by her father, an Exchequer Inquisition not only shows the errors of this, it more importantly gives the true pedigree of Agnes Kelloway. (Public Record Office, London.)
Sherbourne above
Fittleford below
Cheriton Fitzpaine
Exchequer Inquisitions, Series IL File 155. No. 8: Writ dated at Westminster 25 January 6 Henry VIII: ( 1515)
The jurors say the said Henry Pomerey, son of Edward, was seised in his demeasne as of fee of 1 messuage, 226 acres of land, etc., and 15s rent in Cheryton Fitzpayne and so seised thereof enfeoffed Oto Gilbert, esquire, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape, to have to them and their heirs forever, by pretext of which they were thereof seised in their demeasne as of fee. And so seised by their charter indented dated 20th September I5 Edward (1478) they demised, etc., to the said Henry Pomerey, esquire, and Anne his wife the said messuage and 80 acres of land and pasture in Cheriton Fitzpayne and 20 acres called Wallen
Cheriton Fitzpain is east of Holbeton near Cullumpton in East Devon -
Agnes Kelloway- Pomeroy Bowring had a daughter Thomasine Pomeroy who married a William Barrett; Agnes's son Richard Pomeroy challenged the baron Sir Edward Pomeroy for certain of the Pomeroys lands.
Devon Record Office 3799M-0/T/12/4 1519 held at Devon Record Office
Contents: Arbitration
1. John Gruele knt., chief justice of the common pleas, and Lewys Pollard knt., another of the justices of the common pleas, arbitrators
2. Edward Pomeroy knt.
3. Richard Pomeroy esq.
Arbitration: 2. is to hold the manor of Sandrygge and the lands and tenements called Sandrygge, Wyll, Hokemores londs, Austyns londs, Hardebyns londs, John Harrys londs, Bertilmewe Harrys londs, Walles and Welcombe, and he is to pay 3. £430.
3. is to cause William Barret and Thomasyn his wife to acknowledge to 3. by fine all right and interest they have in the manor of Sandridge, Sandridge, Will, Hokemoreslands, Austyns londs, John Harrys londs, Bertilmewe Harrys londs, Walles, Welcome, Yalburn, Hemston, Chatard, Grendon, Stoke Gabriel and Paignton.
3. is to make to 2. a good surety of his share of the premises and is to hold the lands and tenements called Teynghervy, Yaleburn, Hemston, Chaterd, Grendon, Stoke Gabriel and Paynton (Paington)for himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder, for default, to 2. 2. is to make 3. a good surety of his share of the premises to the said Henry and Anne and their heirs, with remainder to Thomas Pomerey, son of said Henry Pomerey, and Agnes Kayllewey, daughter of Johanne, daughter of the said Anne. The important sentence in this inquisition is the last, for it gives the ancestry of Agnes
“daughter of Johanne, daughter OF THE SAID ANNE. The “said Anne” is Anne Camell, marrried 1st to Henry Barrett, & 2nd to Henry de la Pomeroy. Johanne, “daughter of Johanne, “is Johanne/Joan Barrett, daughter of Anne Cammel and her first husband Henry Barret, of Whiteparish in Dorset who married William Kelloway of Sherborne, Dorset.
Ellis of Bapton: Inquisition PM Nov 14 22nd Hen VIII:
Gives a Barrett pedigree: Joanne/Anna Camell of Fittleford Dorset (sic) (b.ca1418)
married 1.HENRY BARRETT and 2. Henry de la Pomeroy.
Henry Barrett was son of John Barrett of Whelpley who married Agnes Ellis: Inq.pm Nov 14 22HenV11(1506) Ellis of Bapton.
https://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwigs2/home
Cheriton Fitzpain
Cheriton Mill near Lynton on the North Devon coast.
Even today Cheriton is a hamlet uniquely with just a single street. It is close to the larger vilage of Brandon & nearby is Oare which Ralph de Pomeroy held in 1068
SInce beginning this research in 2010 we discovered that Anna Cammel's 2nd husband was Thomas Gylle a Dartmouth merchant of some significance and standing - see below
Subsequent research by AML Didcovered Thomas Gyle the 2nd husband and Anna /Amy Camell 2nd wife of Henry Pomeroy in 1478. Gyle was a merchant out of Dartmouth & he lived at Hacche Arundell a fortified manor house near Loddiswell in the South Hams of Devon.
The Gylles were M.Ps for Dartmouth and a family of merchants who operated out of Dartmouth and were also privateers (licenced pirates). Along the south coast in Cornwall and Devon the local gentry, the landowners who owned ships, such as Richard Hawkins and Hannibal Vyvian profited from the trade. As did Killigrew in Falmouth, Treffery in Fowey, Gilbert and Gylle in Dartmouth, and a century before them the most famous of Dartmouths mayors John Hawley. Whether the Pomeroy family got involved we do not know but there was a commission headed by a Killigrew which included Henry Pomeroy of Tregony, to investigate piracy.
....... the curious occurrence of the pirates investigating themselves.
Thomas Gylle senior settled an assortment of properties in Devon on his son Thomas & his new wife Anna Camell, in 1459. In the 12 or so years of their marriage they appear to have had no children .
He obtained a licence from the crown to fortify his manor house at Hacche Arrundell near Loddiswell (Hatch) and to enclose two deer parks, one of which can be identified in the valley to the south of the farm.
This could be another case of the arranged 1st marriage of a girl who was only just in puberty, who gave birth age 12 or so. When she gives birth that young it does so much damage to her body that further children were never going to happen. She would have been accounted a barren woman.
With Thomas Gylls death in around 1472 Anna was in control of all the lands and properties that were her dower and the ones accumulated during that marriage . Her 3rd husband was Henry Baron Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy the 6th of that name. Married on 20 September 1478 . She died 3 years later in 1481 without recorded children . Henry died in 1487
1481 C 140/79/1 Pomerey, Anne Devon 21 Edw IV
Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor. Detailed description at item
#34: William Carswell and Christyn, his wife, and John Wolston. V. Henry Pomerey, esquire, late the husband of AMY, previously the wife of Thomas, son of Thomas Gyll. Manor of Hacche, etc… (1483-85)
(Manor of Hacche, etc. was part of marriage settlement between Thomas Gyll and Amy Cammel Barret: At his death she brought them to Squire Henry, who held them until her death in 1481, at which time Hacche, etc. returned to the property of Gylls heirs.)
Thomas Gylle & Hacche Arundel Open Hall Houses - Architecture - link here 1180-1530
HACCHE ARUNDEL - HATCH near Loddiswell and Affeton Gifford close to Churchstow in South Hams Devon
In 1462 Sept 20, Thomas Gille, the younger, esquire (Thomas Gill) was granted, by Edward IV, (In year 2 of his reign) a Royal licence to crenellate Haicche Arundell
Grant, of special grace and in consideration of the good and gratuitious service rendered to the king, to Thomas Gille, the younger, esquire, of licence to build walls and towers with stone, lime and sand about and within his manor of Haicche Arundell, co. Devon, and to enclose the said manor with walls and towers, and construct on the said walls and towers battlements, crenellations, and machicolations and so hold it to him and his heirs; with further grant to the said Thomas, and his heirs, of licence to impark sixty acres of wood and forty acres of wood at Haicche Arundell, enclosing the same with palings and hedges; with further grant of free warren in all their demense lands of the said manor, and a several fishery in all their waters of the same manor. (CChR)
Granted at Westminster. Grant by King and of the said date etc. {by authority of parliament}.
Comments
Despite the royal service, crenellated house and deer park the family do not seem to have made it as gentry. The social class and pretensions are, however, fairly clear. The Gille's were probably wealthy enough and useful enough to deserve rewarding but their interests were going to be limited and local and unlikely to offend anyone of significant importance.
Original source is;
Lyte, H.C. Maxwell (ed), 1927, Calendar of Charter Rolls Vol. 6 p. 188
(In fact, the original source given is usually a transcription/translation of what are precious medieval documents not readily availably. It should be noted that these transcription/translations often date to the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and that unwitting bias of transcribers may affect the translation. Care should also be taken to avoid giving modern meaning to the medieval use of certain stock words and terms.
Licentia is best translated as 'freedom to' rather than 'permission'.)
Significant later sources are;
Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol. 3 (Cambridge) p. 695
Higham, R. A., 1988, 'Devon Castles: an annotated list' Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society Vol. 46 p. 142-9
Hacche Arundell Gateway 2022
Hacche Arundell delapidated 2022
Lower Hatch Farm
http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/857.html
Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Haicche Arundell In the civil parish of Loddiswell. In the historic county of Devonshire. This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.
At Hatch Arundell. Identified by Waterhouse as "the mansion house called the hall" referred to in a 1637 land division document. Remains consist of part of the S. wall with fragmentary remains of a wide doorway, the stub end of a N-S internal wall, part of a window with slate sill, a narrow outer doorway, an external arch and, in the S.W. Corner, the shell of a spiral staircase. A 3m length of the end wall is now incorporated into the farmyard wall. Most of the building was destroyed in 1975. Waterhouse gives a hypothetical reconstruction of the building in its original form. (Devon and Dartmoor HER)
A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1462 Sept 20 (Click on the date for details of this licence.). see at head of page
Complex of farm buildings and C16 or C17 house (Grade 2 listed) of L shaped plan is probably built on the site of C15 crenellated Manor House. A licence to crenellate was granted to Thomas Gylle in 1462. The same licence allowed him to empark 60 acres and this small and token deer park probably lay in the valley to the west of the building.
If the current buildings were on the footprint of the C15 building then it seem probably a courtyard house was either built or intended.
Details
LODDISWELL HATCH CROSS SX 74 NW 5/93 Hatch Arundell GV II Former farmhouse, now house.
C17, C18 and C19. Rubble, some rendered, stacks raised in brick, slate roof. Former cross-passage plan, extended at ends, much modified within C19 and C20.
Selected Sources
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details
National Grid Reference: SX 71008 46961 Map. Library of Scotland: Ordnance Survey 1884