Tregony
1426

EDWARD POMERAY, ESQUIRE Baron Pomeroy from 1426 until his death in 1446
wife Margaret Beville, Lady Pomeroy

The substantial Pomeroy estates in Devon and Cornwall included the manors of Raphael and Stockleigh Pomeroy, a third of Brixham and a moiety of Harberton, as well as the castles of Berry Pomeroy and Tregony. Sir John inherited these from his father in December 1373, & by his marriage to Joan de Merton dded lands in Nymet St. George and Kilmington with asahe of the patronage of the church at Merton.
In 1376, Sir John acquired estates in Cornwall from William Huish, brother-in-law of Sir Robert Tresilian†,KB, which involved him in a legal tangle after Tresilian’s forfeiture for treason and execution in 1388. The Huish property in Devon, at Huish, Stowford, Washbourne and Allaleigh, passed into or through Pomeroy’s hands, but was lost before 1391. No reliable contemporary valuation of the Pomeroy estates has survived.
In 1412 Sir John was said to be holding lands in Devon worth £60 p.a., but this was probably a low estimate, for at the time of his death Berry Pomeroy alone was reported to be worth £40. He died in 1416 without a male heir. His daughters were Joanna , widow of St Aubyn & de Bryan & then wife of SIr Thomas Pomeroy and Margaret Cole wife of Adam Cole.

The legend goes that in 1418 Sir Thomas Pomeroy, who had in 1388 made a hurried & secret marriage to Sir John's daughter Joanna , the sister of Margaret Cole & co- heir of the Barony. Thomas & with his cousin John Cole, Margaret, collaborated in a scheme to get the barony for themselves.
Edward & his wife Margaret Bevill lived at Tregony & Sir Thomas with John Cole rode 60 miles with an armed band of 100 soldiers to Tregony where they forced their way into the castle.
The tales goes that they locked Lady Margaret in her room for several days without food or water & defenestrated Edward ejecting him from his house by way of a window
The intention of this unpleasantness was to bully Edward into relinquishing the barony to them . Edward may have refused but they got what they demanded anyway when , by decree of Henry IV , Sir Thomas, knight was made the Baron Pomeroy after the death of Baron John.
Ultimately when Thomas died childless in 1426 the barony reverted to its rightful heir, Edward . As baron Sir Edward & his wife Lady Margaret ruled the barony for 20 years until in 1446 Edward died. The next Baron Pomeroy was another Henry the 9th so named.

Baron Sir John gave Edward Pomeroy the manor of Tregony Manor, with its castle and port around the time he married Lady Margaret Beville ,daughter of the High Sheriff of Cornwall Sir John Beville.
He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. By virtue of royal letters patent of licence [CPR 1429–36, p. 322, recited in full], shown to the jurors, he granted the manor by charter to John Assh , William Cloveneburgh, vicar of the church of Berry Pomeroy, and John Harry, vicar of the church of Stoke Gabriel, and their heirs and assigns, so that they were seised in demesne as of fee.
The charter [recited in full], dated at Berry Pomeroy, 4 January 1434, with warranty clause, was witnessed by John Copleston , Richard Yerde , William Beamont , Richard Peperell , Henry Beare , Henry Herte , Richard Tocker , John Borehed , William Tolke, mayor of Totnes , and others. By virtue of the royal licence [as above],
John, William, and John granted the manor, by indented charter shown to the jurors, to Edward and Margaret then his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, so that they were seised in demesne as of fee tail. The charter [recited in full] contained remainders to the heirs male of the body of Edward, and to the right heirs of Edward.

It was dated at Berry Pomeroy, 12 September 1434, and witnessed by Nicholas Carrewe and John Dynham , knights, John Copleston , John Yerde , William Beamont , Henry Beare , Walter Elyot , and many others. One part of the charter, sealed by John Assh and the others, was to remain with Edward and Margaret; the other, sealed by Edward and Margaret, was to remain with John and the others.

Berry Pomeroy, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. In the manor there is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 12d. yearly; a water-mill, worth 40d. yearly; 16 ferlings of land, each worth 3s. yearly; 12½ acres of meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; a park, worth 10s. yearly in pannage and herbage; £7 6s. 8d. assize rent from free tenants, namely John Helier, ‘Bartelet’ Harry, John Howe , and William Hyele , payable at Midsummer, Michaelmas, Christmas, and Easter; 48s. 8d. assize rent from various customary tenants; and perquisites of court, worth 6s. 8d. yearly.

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee tail, by virtue of a grant of Nicholas de Wyddergrave and John Gambon , to Thomas de la Pomeray , Edward’s father, and the heirs male of his body The grant was by fine [not found], dated on the morrow of John the Baptist, 1329, shown to the jurors.

Stockleigh Pomeroy, the manor. In the manor there is an empty site, worth nothing yearly; a fulling mill, worth 20d. yearly; 20 tenements with curtilages, each worth 6d. yearly; 860 acres of land, each acre of 200 acres worth 1d. yearly, and each acre of the rest worth ¼d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 20 acres of wood, of which the pasture is worth 12d. yearly; and perquisites of court, worth 12d.(1 shilling) yearly.

Harberton, ½ manor. In the moiety there are 2 tenements with curtilages, each worth 12d. yearly;
140 acres of land, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 8 acres of meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; and perquisites of court of the moiety, worth 3s. 4d. yearly. 2 tenements and 3 carucates of land in Belsford, of which John Stowe and Richard ?Horn are tenants, are held of the moiety by paying at Michaelmas a pair of gilt spurs or 6d. 4 tenements and 6 ferlings of land are held of the moiety by the same service.

Brixham, 1/3 manor. In the third part there is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 10 tenements, each worth 4d. yearly;
30 cottages, each worth 2d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 15s. 1d. assize rent from the tenements of various free tenants, namely John Turping and John ?Pape, payable at the feasts of St Peter in Chains, All Saints, Candlemas, and Midsummer; and perquisites of court, worth 3s. 4d. yearly.

The above are held of the king in chief by knight service. He held the following in fee, service, and right.

Hennock, the manor, held of Thomas, earl of Devon , as 1 knight’s fee. In the manor there is an empty site, worth nothing yearly; an empty site of a water-mill, worth nothing yearly; 20 a. arable and 20 a. pasture, each acre worth ½d. yearly; 2 a. wood, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 4 a. meadow, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 20s. assize rent from various free tenants, namely John Richard, William Thomas , John Litelmon , and John Longenore , at Michaelmas, Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer; and perquisites of court, worth 12d. yearly.

C 139/122/37 mm. 1, 3

417 [Writ: see 416] DEVON. Inquisition [indented]. Exeter. 24 May 1446. [Werthe].

Jurors: John Barnehows ; William Bisshop ; William Botour ; Nicholas Frenssh ; John Colemore ; John Floyer ; William Floyer ; William Monke ; John Mannyng ; Thomas Efford ; John Jacob ; and John Symon .

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. By virtue of royal letters patent of licence [CPR 1429–36, p. 322, recited in full], shown to the jurors, he granted the manor by charter to John Assh , William Cloveneburgh, vicar of the church of Berry Pomeroy, and John Harry, vicar of the church of Stoke Gabriel, and their heirs and assigns, so that they were seised in demesne as of fee.
The charter [recited in full], dated at Berry Pomeroy, 4 January 1434, with warranty clause, was witnessed by John Copleston , Richard Yerde , William Beamont , Richard Peperell , Henry Beare , Henry Herte , Richard Tocker , John Borehed , William Tolke, mayor of Totnes , and others. By virtue of the royal licence [as above],
John, William, and John granted the manor, by indented charter shown to the jurors, to Edward and Margaret then his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, so that they were seised in demesne as of fee tail. The charter [recited in full] contained remainders to the heirs male of the body of Edward, and to the right heirs of Edward.