Agnes Pomeroy HARRIS nee Huckmore

Item.  I give and bequeath vnto my sonne Richerd POMERIE all my landes in Tottnes or elsewhere whatsoever for terme of his liefe, and after his decease to the heyres of his bodye lawfullie begotten and for defaulte of such issue vnto Thomas POMERIE my sonne for terme of his liefe and after his decease to the heyres of his body lawfullie begotten and for defaulte of such Issue vnto Giles HARRIS my sonne and his heyres for ever

Item: ffarther I give and bequeath vnto my sonne Richarde POMERIE my best Saultseller of silver gilt and sixe silver spoones and twentie pounds of Lawfull mony of Englande, to be paide within one yeere after my decease by myne exequitor and also two fetherbeds fourmed.

Itm I give vnto Thomas POMERIE my sonne tenne pounds in mony and vnto Henrie POMERIE the sonne of the saide Thomas POMERIE vjl ivjs viijd (? £50/4/8d? ) in money both to be paide by myne exequitor within one yeere after my decease.

" To my son Giles HARRIS after my decease for the term of four score years, if the said Giles so long live, all these my houses, courts, barns, stables, shippons, orchards, gardens, and all those other parcels of land late the houses of one Samuell WEYMOTH, which I have of the demise and grant of one Thomas HARRIS, Sergeant of Lawe, and one Edward HARRIS Esq his son, for divers years yet to come determinable upon the lives of the said Giles HARRIS, Arthur FORTESCUE, and Bridget Cornworthie 5s.

To Frances TOCKERMAN, Violete TOCKERMAN, and Susan TOCKERMAN, children of Robert TOCKERMAN,* a days lamb each.

To all my servants 12d. each. All residue of my goods and chattels, moveable and immoveable, to my wife ? , whom I make my sole executrix.
Overseers: John CREWSE and John DOURTES.
Witness: Phillip HORSWILL. Proved 3 August 1621. (Archdeaconry of Totnes, Deanery of Totnes,1621, filed will.)

Her properties went to her son Giles Harris , she also decided decided what to bequeath to her son Thomas Pomeroy son, in the event of Richard's death  and to Thomas’s son Henry thereafter -
Agnes also had a son, William, who for some reason is not mentioned, however in 2017 we discovered his existence in a 1589 transaction;
He may have been dead by 1601

Richard Pomeroy with his wife Alice or Eales inherited his mothe's Agnes's best ( silver) saltier and six silver spoons and £20 and 2 feather beds;
Alice got a bequest of her 'lesser' clothing. No silks for Alice
To he daughr=ter in law Alice she left her black cloth gown guarded ( decorated ) with velvet - one stammel  petticote ( a coarse woollen cloth coloured red sometimes used for undergarments)  with one gard of velvet, 6 smocks , 2 bordcloths ( tablecloth) and one dozen napkins-
plain stuff compared with the silks she left her daughter Suzanne  -

Thomas Pomeroy apart from the property on his brother’s death also got £10 &  his son Henry also  got money.

Her son Giles Harris  for 4 score(80) years got  all her other sources of income - her houses, courts, barns, stables, shippons ( cattle houses) orchards, gardens and parcels of land occupied by the late Samuel Wenmouth/ Weymouth.

She made a grant to her step son Thomas Harris Sergeant of Law, son of her second husband by his first wife, (Philippa Vowel) and husband of her daughter by Henry Pomeroy, Elizabeth Harris & their son Edward Harris esq their son- for divers years,

Her daughters  Susanna Harris wife of Fortescue and her grandchildren Bridget and Arthur Fortescue received bequests that are unclear-Agnes evidently didn’t trust son in law Henry Fortescue to deal fairly because she stipulated that he should not control the £100 she left to her daughter Susan/ Suzanna and if he tried the money was to be dispensed at £10 per year- she also bequeathed Susan, 2 feather beds, 12 shillings;   3 silk gowns, her best kirtles and 4 kirtles of silk and the contents of her bedchamber -

She left money left to all of  her 10 servants  

1622

Richard Pomeroy of Totnes Will of 1622 01371
Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 68[1914]

[page 47]

In the Visitation of Devon in 1620

Arthur HARRYS entered a HARRYS pedigree The original drafts made by the heralds for that visitation are preserved in Harleian MSS. 1163 and 1164 in the British Museum, and were printed in 1872 in vol. 6 of the Publications of the Harleian Society, the HARRYS pedigree appearing on p. 139 of that volume. [page 48]

Administration on the estate of HENRY POMEROYE ( wife Agnes Huckmore)
. On 5 of July [1575] a commission was issued to Richard POMEROYE, natural and legitimate son of Henry POMEROYE, late of Totnes in the county of Devon, having [goods] etc., being sworn to administer well the goods, rights, and credits of the said deceased, there being revoked letters of administration on the goods of the said deceased, elsewhere granted to a certain Richard POMEROYE now or formerly of the aforesaid Totnes, which were surreptitiously secured by him by suppression of truth and by false statement in the month of June 1559, for the full requirement of justice, as appears from the acts of the court on this day concluded. (P.C.C., Administration Act Book, 1572-1580, fo. 80 dorse

Inventory of RICHARD POMOYE of Cornworthy, co. Devon, gentleman, deceased, taken 29 June 1621

oxen 1 cow 3 steers 1 heifer 10- 0- 01 horse2- 0- 038 sheep10- 0- 010 lambs1- 0- 06 swine hogs1-10- 0corn in the ground30- 0- 0corn in store1- 0- 0

Robert TUCKERMAN married at Cornworthy, 2 Dec. 1615, Agnes FORTESCUE, a niece of the testator, and a daughter of Henry FORTESCUE by his wife Susanna HARRIS, who was a half-sister of the testator.[page 50] 4 beds with their apparel 6- 0- his apparel 6-13- 81 chest 2 coffers & other old stuff 1- 0- 0A table board a side board a form 2 chairs & 3 stools2- 0- 04 brass pans & 2 kettles2- 0- 03 brass pots1- 0- 09 platers 4 porrengers 3 saucers 3 candle sticks & other stuff0-16- 0a spit a pr of andirons & other stuff belonging to the kitchen.0- 5- 0 Three kenes 1 pipe 1 hogshead & other timber vessells0-16- 01 chettle1- 0- 0 The plough stuff 1 harx [harness?] & other small Implements0-15- 03 pair of ropes 2 saddles & other things unknown1- 0- 0 One chattle lease10- 0- 0 7- 5- 8 [ sic ][The total amount is actually £88-15-8.] Exhibited 3 August 1621 by Alice POMERY, the executrix. (Archdeaconry of Totnes, Deanery of Totnes,1621, original inventory.)

 Richard widow Alice 1623 with probate grated in 1628 

The Will of EALSE(Alice) POMYE of Cornworthie, co. Devon, widow, 21 April 1623. To the poor of Cornworthie 5s. To John FOSTERD and Christian FOSTERD two sheep each. To William BERRYE of Corneworthie two bedsteads, two double beds, a pair of blankets, and a coverlet. To Joan BERRYE, daughter of the said William, two sheep, a chest, a new gown and a petticoat, three platters, a feather bed, a blanket, a coverlet,a bolster, a pillow, and a pot, these things to remain in the hands of William BERRYE for six years.

To Ealse HORSWILL, my goddaughter, 10s., and to Redegon HORSWILL my serge gown. To Ealse BERRYE, wife of William, a gown. All the residue of my goods and chattels to John HORSWILL, whom I make sole executor.Witnesses: John CREWSE, Phillp HORSWILL, and John FOSTER. Proved 20 June 1623. (Archdeaconry of Totnes, Deanery of Totnes, 1623, filed will.)
(AJP wonders if Ealse /Alice was a Horswill - they were a local landed family )

Inventory of the goods of Mrs EALSE POMYE, aprised by John CREWSE and Phillipp HORSWILL
.21 sheep 5 10 01 horse 2 10 03 swine hogs1 0 0 Corn in the ground1 6 8 Beans in the ground0 5 02 feather beds performed 5 0 02 double beds1 0 0 Apparel 3 gowns 3 petticoats 3 waistcoats 5 aprons}with other linen 2 hats 2 cloaks one [ ]}8 0 0& a hood}A suit of mans apparel

1 10 0A chest 2 coffers 1 bedstead 1 5 03 bedsteads5 03 brass pans & a brass kettle 1 13 42 brass crocks a posset 1 skillett1 0 0 [page 51] 1 table board 1 side board 1 form 3 chairs & 3 stools1 0 09 platters, 2 porringers, 3 candlesticks with other}stuff & 2 scissors  0 16 01 spit, 1 pr and irones & other kitchen stuff 0 6 8 one pipe one beefe 4 buckets with other timber vessels l0 8 01 hackney saddle one pillion with covering 0 16 01 iron loom 2 says with other small things 0 6 8For other things forgotten 0 1 8 her money in store1 10 0 35 10 0
Exhibited 20 June 1623 by John HORSWILL, the executor. (Archdeaconry of Totnes, Deanery of Totnes,1623, original inventory.)

The Will of ARTHURE HARRIS of Norton [in the parish of Churston], co. Devon, 20 April 1638. To the poor of Churston 10. To the poor of Cornworthie 10. To the poor of Blackawton 5. To the poor of Kingsbridge 5. To the poor of Dodbr[ook] 5, to remain as a stock tot he use of the poor forever. The overseers and churchwardens of said parishes to cause the tenor of this my bequest to be fairly written in parchment and put into a frame and hung up in the several parish churches aforesaid that others may be encouraged and mens charities not spent, misemployed, and diverted, contrary to their intent and meaning, as too often in such cases is done.
To my nephew* Sir Thomas HARRIS lands in Cornworthie which I purchased for one thousand years, he paying 100 to my nephew* Edmond HARRIS, his brother, and confirming any such grants of estates as I have heretofore entered in the name and on behalf of Sir Edward HARRIS, his father.

To Bartholemew FORTESCUE, son of Arthure FORTESCUE, all my estate called Pynwelles, he paying to his brother John FORTESCUE 6 a year. To Arthur FORTESCUE and Edward FORTESCUE, my sister 's sons, the remainder of my estate after my wifes decease, in lands called Norton and in woods called Lords wood, which I hold for their lives, and to them 10 ayear until my wifes decease.

To Susan FORTESCUE and Gartrude FORTESCUE, daughters of said Arthur FORTESCUE, 70. To my sister FORTESCUE 20, and to her daughter Agnes WAYMOUTH 20, and to the saidAgnes seven children 15 each.

To Bridgett FRANCIS, my sister FORTESCUE s daughter, 20, and to her son John FRANCIS 50. To my cousin Thomas HARRIS, son of my brother John HARRIS, 40, and to his brother Edward HARRIS 20, and to his brother john HARRIS 60.

"I give vnto Henry POMEROY, Sonne Thoms POMEROY my brother, three score pounds, and vnto Tho[mas] POMEROY, sonne of the said Henrey, fortie poundes, all to be payed within a yeere after my decease."

To Frances RYDER, my goddaughter,10.

To JaneFOXWORTHIE 7 due to me from her husband. To Susan ROOPE 40s., and 20s. each to the children of saidSusan. To each godchild 10s.

To John MORTARY, my servant, all my estate in Butt Meadow purchased of GeorgeSAPP deceased.

To goddaughter Jane BEARE, daughter of Thomas BEARE, gent.,,10, and to my cousin ThomasBEARE a gold ring with this poesie, "spare speake and spare speede." To every servant,40

Record Found - 26th Jan 1425 Ric. Pomeroye. Wardship and marriage of John, s. and h. of Thos. Giles and Joan his wife. Del. Westm., 26 Jan. 16 Hen. VIII.—S. B. Pat. p. 1, m. 24. this suggests that Richard had a daughter which he intended to marry to John Giles

Richard Pomerey 1543 and his son Hugh disposed of premises in Magna Totnes Bowden in Totnes Tybecombee Asprington and Ayssepryngton in 1543 to John and William Giles. He acquired the manor of Woodley from Lawrence Bradmere and premises in Axminster and sold premises at Widecombe to John Charlys.

Bowden 

1305 Henry de la Pomerai wife Amica de Camville - died sized of Bradford

1346 Henry held for ½ a fee the honour of Harberton formerly held by Henry Widger

Henry died 1375 seized of Bowden and more Veteris Ponte  – he held one fee in 1245 after ¼ of fee was given to Knights Templar