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Agnes Kelloway-
Agnes Kelloway widow of Thomas Pomeroy Esq married Thomas Bowring after 1493.
This page is not only about a lady called Agnes it is about a famous Conspiracy
AjP Came across this Medieval Trade & Warfare by Roger Barrett. Salcombe and Kingsbridge: revealing a lot of ships sailing from Salcombe & Kingsbridge with wool and fish for export returning from Bordeaux with imports of wine & linen ; and quite a few carrying pilgrims too..
A Formidable Lady researched by AJP & AML
Agnes Kelloway b 1466 the daughter of William Kelloway a Dorset Wool merchant & his wife Joanna Barrett. In about 1478, when she was about 12 years old ,Agnes was married to the much older Sir Thomas Pomeroy, the youngest of 4 sons of Sir Henry Pomeroy by his 1st wife Alice Ralegh.
Henry Pomeroy's 2nd wife was Anna Cammel ,widow of Henry Barrett & mother to Joanna Barrett. Anna was also widow of Thomas Gyle the younger of Hache Arundell & a wealthy Dartmouth merchant. Her daughter ,Joanna Barrett, married William Kelloway and had numerous children including Agnes who married Sir Thomas who was the stepson of her grandmother, Anna's, 3rd husband . Thomas was knighted in 1487, with his brother, Baron Sir Richard, at the time of the coronation of Princess Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VI.
William Keyleway of Sherbourne was created a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1501 upon the wedding of Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Catherine of Aragon
Sir Thomas Pomeroy & Agnes Kellwoay were married in about 1478 they had at 2 sons, Richard & Henry, and 4 daughters before Thomas died in 1493.
Agnes married again, possibly in 1493 & her 2nd husband was Sir Thomas Bowring a wealthy & successful lawyer from an ancient family at Bowringsleigh , in West Alvington near Kingsbridge in Devon . He was sent to Ireland between 1494 & 1496 as Lord Chief Justice & then Chief Justice of the Common Bench.
Someone described Bowringsleigh as the most important house near Kingsbridge . What you see from the lane plunging down its eastern boundary is a beautiful Tudor and Jacobean house silvery grey amongst the oaks, and beeches of its park and startlingly large house , after the modest size of the Kingsbridge town houses. It is a very ancient site, long established when the Bowrings were living here in 1332.
Thomas Bowring (c.1440-1504) was an English-born lawyer from a prominent Devonshire landowning family who gave their name to the manor of Bowringsleigh which the family acquired about 1330.
Bowringsleigh is in West Alvington near Kingsbridge in the South Hams of Devon & was the principal estate of the family. Thomas also acquired lands in Somerset & Gloucestershire and as a member of the Middle Temple had a reputation as a fine lawyer. He served as a commissioner for the peace in Devon between 1481 and 1487.
We do not know exactly when Agnes & Thomas married . Her 1st husband died in 1492 and Bowring was sent to Ireland in 1494 having been made Lord Chief Justice of Ireland by Henry Tudor/ Henry VII , He replaced the Irish justices who were supporters of Yorkist cause. Two years later he became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. If they were married before 1494 she may have accompanied him to Ireland.
In 1495, on Henry Tudors instructions, he confirmed the charters and ancient liberties of the city of Kilkenny.
Bowring did not enjoy Ireland & resigned from the Irish Bench in 1496, returned to Devon where he continued to serve in various official capacities until his death in 1504.
Bowringsleigh is listed by Historic England . a ancient site, even before the Bowrings lived there in 1332 . It was fortified manor house, the first deed mentioning the house dates to circa 1450, probably built by the Bowring family. It was bought in 1543 by William Gilbert who converted it into an Elizabethan mansion.
In the C19th it was acquired by William Ilbert who made it 'baronial' with the addition of the gables & the upper parts of the tower, which contains a chapel on the lower floor.
Agnes Pomeroy nee Kellaway was Bowrings 2nd wife & they had a daughter Thomasine who married William Barrett.
Her mother Joanna Barrett was daughter of Anna Cammel by her marriage , the 1st of 3 husbands Henry Barrett; her 2nd husband was Thomas Gylle , a merchant, of Dartmouth & her 3rd Baron Henry Pomeroy
Joanna Barrett , possibly as young as 12 or 14 , was married off to William Kelloway and they had numerous children. Their daughter Agnes married Thomas Pomeroy the 3rd son of Henry Pomeroy whose 2nd wife Anna, was Joannas' grandmother (Anna Barrett/Gyle / Pomeroy nee Camell )
Sir Henry Pomeroy had 3 sons by his 1st wife Alice Ralegh ; Thomas was the 3rd son ; His 2nd wife was Anna Camell was the independently wealthy widow Henry Barrett & widow of Thomas Gyle Junior a Dartmouth merchant and son of the 4 times mayor & privateer Thomas Gyle senior.
Anna Camell died in 1481 there is an IPM to confirm that. Henry died 1487
The youngest son of Henry & Alice was Thomas Pomeroy who married the young Agnes (Kelloway) .. He had a son Henry who died in 1481 .Thomas died in 1493
Like many men of wealth the records show that Thomas Bowring lent money
DEBTOR: William June of Glastonbury in Somerset, Esq. (Bulstone Hundred.)
CREDITOR: Thomas Bowring of Devon
Amount: £1000 of legal English money, for merchandise bought from him.
Complaint heard before John Atwell, Mayor of the Staple of Exeter; Faux and Bonefaunt, Constables in 1492. Matter settled in Sep 1496.
The IPM 1505 of Thomas Bowring leaves his son & heir age 30, Robert Bowring, MP a lawyer, his property and land that was enfeoffed- and there is mention of Rev Ralph Bowring. Bowringsleigh was held from Edward Courtenay as was his manor of Northdon, for an annuity of 6d its value being £4. a year.
Buried in Alvington, not Kingsbridge on 3 May 1514 , his wife was Alice/Agnes, to whom he left £100 which he gave to her personally in London , and half his cattle and 'occupation' of half his plate for her lifetime after which it was to go to his daughter Thomasine who was under age at that time of his death.
He left £40 to his sister ,Alyce, wife of William Pike of Glastonbury, towards the marriages of his nieces and the same to James Fulford chaplin to pray for his soul, also( the same?) to all the priest in Honiton
Agnes Bowring nee Kelloway widow of Thomas Pomeroy was in contention , with a man named Horswell and two others, over the forfeited goods of John Taylor.
Agnes Bowring , widow Pomeroy, with Simon Horswell of Horswell, Bailiff of Kingsbridge applied to have the confiscated goods of a man by name of John Taylor. His property had been confiscated as a result of his involvement in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy .
John Taylor was a Yeoman of the Kings Chamber throughout the reigns of Edward IV and his brother Richard III. This lowly but significant position was one in which Taylor worked tirelessly for the Yorkist cause . He was friends with local Dartmouth merchant Thomas Gylle, a merchant and a custom official there and in Exeter.
Agnes Kelloway's ' grandmother, Anna Camell became 2nd wife of Henry Pomeroy & died in 1487 She had previously been married to a Thomas Gyle of Dartmouth
interesting to note but it may be another man with the same name
A John Taylor, master of a small trading vessel, who later engaged in brewing, lived in the parish of St. Clement, where his mother had been buried.
note that St Clement's is an Anglican Parish Church in Sandwich, Kent.
Once he had become a commoner of Hastings he frequently attended Brotherhoods of the Cinque Ports and on 4 June 1524, whilst bailiff, he made a mark in acknowledgement of £60 paid to him by Sir John Daunesey for transporting various noblemen and servants of the Emperor from Calais to Dover.
Patent Rolls: Membrane 14: April 8 1461
Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Gylle the younger, St Clere Pomeroy and John Ralegh to arrest Edward Peverell and deliver him before the king in Chancery.
April 9:1461 Appointment of Thomas Gylle the younger, in Exeter and Dartmouth as controller of the petty customs, the subsidy of wools and wool-fells for the port of Exeter and Dartmouth, receiving the accustomed fees, provided that he execute the office in person.
1462: Membrane 24: Feb 23: Grant for life was made to Thomas Gylle the younger, the Dartmouth merchant who married Anna Camell Barrett later 2nd wife of Henry Pomeroy . The office of the Water- Bailiff in the port of Dartmouth and places and creeks adjacent, showed profits in the last year of Edward III and the first year of Richard III;
In 1481 after Gylle supplied ships to Edward IV, at his own expense , he was rewarded with an appointment as Surveyor of Customs on the south coast. His territory ranging from Poole in Dorset; Exeter, Dartmouth and Plymouth in Devon; Fowey in Cornwall and Bridgewater in Somerset.
Like Gylle, John Taylor was loyal to the Yorkist cause. Immediately on his accession the new king Henry VII deprived both Gyle & Taylor of their posts. Taylor was replaced by James Bonython, rewarding him for his loyal service to Lancastrian cause whilst in France, Brittany and at Bosworth.
Taylor was heavily involved from the beginning of the plan to displace Henry Tudor and was punished with 10 years in the Tower of London, under attainder , deprived of everything he owned, he remained in the Tower until 1509. He was denied a pardon at the beginning of the reign of Henry Tudors son, Henry VIII. How he escaped the fate of the others of John Atwater and Perkin Warbec is up for speculation.
Gyle the Dartmouth merchant had all kinds in useful espionage information that Henry Tudor may have hoped he would give up. After all he knew the names of others who had spied on Henry shipping etc, and may even have been able to show that Perkin Warbeck was not and imposter & was in fact Richard of York and rightful king of England.
THOMAS BOWRING
Thomas Bowring was a member of the Middle Temple with a reputation as a fine lawyer who served as a commissioner for the peace in Devon between 1481 and 1487. He was sent to Ireland as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.([1] WIKIPEDIA) to replace the Yorkist biased judiciary .
Wikipedia. In 1494 the temporary downfall of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare led to the dismissal en masse of the Irish High Court judges, who were regarded by the Crown as being Kildare's puppets, and whose loyalty to the Crown was doubtful (with good reason, as several of them had been pardoned six years earlier for supporting the claim of the pretender Lambert Simnel to the English throne).
Replacing them came eminent English lawyers, in whose loyalty the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Edward Poynings, who Henry Tudor believed by could be trusted. Bowring was sent to Ireland as Lord Chief Justice. Two years later he exchanged this place for the less onerous office of Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. In 1495, on the King's instructions, he confirmed the charters and ancient liberty of the city of Kilkenny.
Agnes Bowring nee Kelloway widow Pomeroy died 1518 her IPM in 1520 would have dealt with her landed property.
Her Will would have recorded her possessions.
Before her 1518 death Agnes Bowring was in contention , with a man named Horswell and two others, over the forfeited goods of John Taylor who was a prime mover & shipowner & supporter of Richard of York as 'Perkin Warbek' From his lowly but significant position Taylor worked tirelessly for the Yorkist cause . There is mention of his having . In Ireland, of a suit of White Armour intended for Richard of York.
Taylor was friends with local merchant Thomas Gylle, a merchant & custom official for Dartmouth & Exeter.
Patent Rolls: Membrane 14: April 8 1461
Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Gylle the younger, St Clere Pomeroy and John Ralegh to arrest Edward Peverell and deliver him before the king in Chancery.
April 9:1461 Appointment of Thomas Gylle the younger, in Exeter and Dartmouth as controller of the petty customs, the subsidy of wools and wool-fells for the port of Exeter and Dartmouth, receiving the accustomed fees, provided that he execute the office in person.
Henry VII ordered the confiscation of Taylor’s goods and property in Devon sometime between 1498-1499.
Sir Thomas Bowring died 1504. It is interesting to take note the men cited in the Chancery case, brought after Bowrings death. What properties might they have had in common? Had Taylor leased one of the boat houses from Bowring up a Dartmouth creek, and stashed the White Suit there?
Records & SOURCES
Patent Rolls of Edward IV
1476 Feb. 20. Licence, for 2^9. 8
J. paid in the hanaper, for Henry Pomeray, esquire, Westminster, to grant the manors of Brixham and Herburton alias Herberton with their members, co. Devon, with knights' fees, advowsons, rents, reversions and services, except one acre of land, held in chief, to William Huddesfeld, Thomas Bouryng and John Snape, and for these to re-grant the same to him and Anne his wife and his heirs and assigns.
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Snape was Reeve & Horsewell was Bailiff of Kingsbridge ; John Clement was Portreeve in Dodbrook 1332 which today it is part of KINGSBRIDGE.
The Reeve was also known as the 'High' Reeve & was a powerful man in the shire as the king's officer in the shire.
This refers to Baron Henry 2nd son of Edward & Margaret Pomeroy & heir after his older brother Edward died young
William Huddersfield, Attorney General to Edward IV & Henry VII & in 1477 was 3rd husband of Katherine Courtenay widow of St Clere Pomeroy who died 1471
Found 2014
DRO 3799M-0/ET/4/40 1476 A Lease for (3) lives
1. William Huddesfyld, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape
2. John Taylor, his wife Donalda & their daughter Rose ( tenants )
Premises: one cottage with garden adjoining in Brixham, situated between the close of William Jule on the east and the close of John Mason on the west, which 1. recently had by gift from Henry POMEROY esq., licence having been granted to him by the king
Rent: 4/-
Witnesses: Nicholas Stephyn, John Clement, John Mason, Richard Baker, John Elyot
Date: Brixham, Saturday, the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, 16 Edward IV
Seals: small, round, device (broken); small, round, hunting horn, inscription; small, device
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Kew National Archives
Reference: REQ 2/2/155
Description: William Lyngham and Richard Clement v Agnes Bowring and Simon Horsewell: the disposal of the forfeited goods of John Taylor, a rebel. Devon. 2 mm. JMP
Date: Between 1492 and 1547
Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Open Document, Open
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The National Archives' catalogue
Catalogue description
John Carsewell and John Wolston v. Agnes Bowring: answer, replication and rejoinder
Reference: C 4/117/20 C16th
Description: John Carsewell and John Wolston v. Agnes Bowring: answer, replication and rejoinder
Date: 16th century
Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document,
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Bowring, Agnes: Devon
Reference: E 150/159/7
Description: Bowring, Agnes: Devon
Date: 1520 - (11 Hen VIII. 1509-1547 )
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document,
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The National Archives' catalogue
Catalogue description
John Carsewell and John Wolston v. Agnes Bowring: answer, replication and rejoinder
Reference: C 4/117/20
Description: John Carsewell and John Wolston v. Agnes Bowring: answer, replication and rejoinder
Date: 16th century
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
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Bowring, Agnes: Devon
Reference: E 150/159/7
Description: Bowring, Agnes: Devon
Date: 11 Hen VIII.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
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Reference: C 142/34/65
Description: Bowring, Agnes: Devon
Date: 11 Hen. VIII.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Who was Simon Horswell?
He was a Bailiff of Kingsbridge as was his father , receiver of the rents of escheat for Kingsbridge.
Churchstow Manor and Kingsbridge account rolls. 1495-1496 Held at Devon Heritage Centre
Reference number 123M/M/74
Description
Compotus of William Davels bailiff for Churchstow, William Davels Receiver of the Rents of Escheat for Kingsbridge, Simon Horswell bailiff for the same, and of Robert Gye reeve there, endorsed with compotus of Isabella Wodeman beadle for Seele [? P. South Brent] and Downe by Nicholas Hawkerygge her deputy.
Mich. 11 Henry VII - Mich. 12 Henry VII.
The Kings Bridge
At one time Alvington was part of the Royal Estates & the town of Kingsbridge & formed around the bridge at the head of the Salcombe estuary. Built in or before the 10th century between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the east, the bridge gave the town the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge").
"Devon & Cornwall notes & queries; a quarterly journal Publisher: Exeter J.G. Commin
Sir Richard,d 1496 & Andrew Pomeroy d 1495 & Sir Thomas d 1493 - They all died within 3 or 4 years of each other Did they die as a result of the fighting during the Wars of the Roses or in fighting caused by the claims of Richard Duke of York, Earl of Shrewsbury also called Perkin Warbeck .
1490, Richard Duke of York, Earl of Shrewsbury called Perkin Warbeck , claimed the throne of England at the Burgundian court. He was publicly recognised as Prince Richard by Margaret of York, sister of Edward IV ; he was recognised as Richard IV of England at the funeral of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, and had become recognised as the Duke of York in international diplomacy, despite Henry' Tudor's protests Some of the nobles of England recognised him as the rightful king, Richard IV, including Sir Simon Montfort, Sir William Stanley, Sir Thomas Thwaites, and Sir Robert Clifford who visited Richard, writing back to his allies in England to confirm the identity of the lost prince.
In January 1495, Henry Tudor - Henry VII crushed the conspiracy with six of the conspirators imprisoned and fined, while Montfort, Stanley, and several others were executed. Prince Richard was well received by James IV, & Scottish royal court, James hoping to use him as leverage in international diplomacy.
In September 1496, James invaded England with Prince Richard, however the army was forced to withdraw when its supplies ran out & the support for Richard in the north failed to materialise. Having now fallen out of favour with James, Richard sailed to Waterford in Ireland & on 7 September 1497, he landed in Cornwall. He hoped to capitalise on the Cornish people's resentment to Henry VII's unpopular taxes, which had induced them into revolt just three months earlier. Richard's presence triggered a second revolt & he was declared as Richard IV on Bodmin Moor, and his army of 6,000 Cornishmen advanced on Taunton.
However, when Richard received word the Heny's troops were in the area, he lost his nerve , panicked and deserted his army. He was captured in the New Forest , imprisoned, and on 23 November 1499, he was ignominiously hanged. The fate of the common man vindictively handed down to a man of noble blood. With his death and execution of the young Edward of Warwick the last of the Yorkist heirs , the direct male-line descent of the Plantagenet dynasty was rendered extinct as Henry Tudor , the man with the most tenuous of slender of claims to the English throne, had intended.
Research by ALM uncovered the curious facts about Lady Agnes Kelloway wife of Sir Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son of the Baron.
She took a keen interest in the affairs of those surrounding the arrangements of Perkin Warbec. In 1493, towards the end of Henry VII 's reign Thomas Pomeroy died and Agnes married again. Her 2nd husband was Thomas Bowring a Devonshire wealthy & successful lawyer He seems to had connections the men in authority in the significant West Country port of Dartmouth. In 1494 Thomas Bowring became Chief Justice in Ireland.
BUT had Bowring earlier been for the Yorkist side & played a part in king Richard's arrangements to disappear his two young nephews.
The Cousins War the so called Wars of the Roses Cornwall was not directly involved in the Wars of the Roses, although like the rest of the country it was affected.. The West Country did not witness any military action although the most important family the Courtenays,who had large landholdings in Cornwall were participants in the struggle , carrying a number of families in their wake.
The Pomeroys had a double marital connection to the Courtenays . Sir St Clere Pomeroy married Catherine Courtenay in 1462 but had no children and his sister Elizabeth, was married Catherine's brother ,Humphrey Courtenay, of the cadet line of the Courtenays Phillip Courtenay of Powderham
Sir St Clere the heir to the Pomeroy barony died at or just after the Battle of Tewkesbury in May 1471.
Henry Tudor
Henry VII
Did Richard III seek to protect his nephews of whom he was reportedly very fond. Could he have spirited them away , and taken them from the royal residence that was the Tower of London, to his castle at Sheriff Hutton on the east coast. Remote and well defended they would have been safe there. Edward, the oldest boy is said to have had an infection in his jaw. This infection, so close to the brain, would without doubt have killed the boy in those times without proper medical knowledge. It would have been a simple enough to take the the remaining boy Richard Duke of York, across the North Sea to Burgundy when news of Richards defeat and death at Bosworth reached them in 1485.
Did Richard quietly and secretly by word of mouth only organise their hiding further away , in the Netherlands or in the court of his sister Margaret of Burgundy ?
1491 Cork in Ireland in November Perkin Warbeck arrived claiming to be Richard, Duke of York, the second son of Edward IV however on this occasion he had little support and retreated to Europe.
On 3 July 1495, funded and promoted by Margaret of Burgundy, Perkin Warbeck landed at Deal in Kent but on this occasion they were routed. He turned to Scotland
September 1496, James IV of Scotland prepared to invade England with Warbeck - this failed but Warbeck tried again in Ireland at Waterford. This also failed but his following seems to have grown.
On 7 September 1497, Prince Richard /called Perkin Warbeck, returned to England & landed at Whitesand Bay in Cornwall hoping to capitalise on the Cornish people's resentment in the aftermath of their uprising against Henry's war taxes levied only three months earlier on already poverty stricken people.
Warbeck and his army laid seige to Exeter with a force of 6000 men. Then things began to unravel
They advanced to Taunton and Henry Tudor sent his chief general to attack Warbecks army. Warbeck fled and was later captured in the New Forest just inland from Isle of Wight & the coast of Hampshire.
Warbeck was charismatic figure rather like Edward IV was, and popular figure with most of the population, except to Henry VII his awful mother. If Warbeck was the brother of the Queen , Elizabeth of York, and many believed he was, he was a significant threat to the newly established Tudor Dynasty.
His campaign rapidly gained support outside England so King Henry declared that he was an impostor. After Warbeck was capture it was declared that he was a Fleming born in Tournai around 1474.
Were the boys 'disappeared' by Richard III , in the utmost secrecy to his sister Margaret of Burgundy in Flanders. Richard had no reason to kill them they had, after all, been declared illegitimate, so were no threat to his throne. They were last seen in 1483, two years before Henry Tudor arrived in England and wrested the crown from Richard.
Although Henry Tudor had good reason to get rid of them because to marry their sister Princess Elizabeth of York he had to reverse their illegitimacy and in doing so Elizabeth of York, his wife , would become the true inheritor of the Crown . However it seems it was too late, the Princes were gone from sight.
Whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London Richard IV , called Perkin Warbeck. came in contact with Edward, Duke of Warwick the last remaining male Plantagenet who had been imprisoned by the ruthless Henry Tudor since he was a child of 11, more than half his life. They tried to escape together but where quickly captured and charged with conspiracy and treason. Henry Tudor had his excuse to get rid of the boy Earl of Warwick
Perkin Warbeck tried and finally hanged on 23 November 1499. He read out a confession before his death saying he was the son of John Osbeck and Katherine de Faro and not the son of King Edward IV of England, and therefore his claim to the throne of England was invalid.
Young Edward Warwick, having been cruelly incarcerated in the Tower of London for so long, was tried for treason on 21 November 1499. He was beheaded, aged 24, on 28 November 1499 for being of the Plantagenet blood line. With Warwick's death, the House of Plantagenet became extinct in the legitimate male line.
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The Boy, Perkin Warbeck, probably was Richard of York the legitimate heir to England throne . He was captured, imprisoned and finally hanged by Henry VII. There is a suggestion that he was hanged because beheading was the means of execution for the nobility, & might have given credence to his claim to be the rightful king.
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In 1485 , at the Battle of Bosworth, Henry Tudor wrested the crown of England for its legitimate king , Richard III the last English King.
Any Yorkist supporters were ruthlessly dealt with by Henry who executed most of the bloodline of the house of York, calling them traitors by dating his reign from the day before the battle.
To cement his claim to the throne Henry Tudor had gone through with the marriage arranged between his mother Margaret Beaufort & the wife of king Edward Elizabeth Wydville & married the Princess Elizabeth of York. Making her her queen. To do this he had to reversed the act of titulus regius and legitimised all of her siblings .The disappearance of the little princes , who were the brothers by his wife Elizabeth Wydville ,seem to have haunted Henry. The rumours that RICHARD III had them murdered began to circulate in France some time before Henry Tudor invaded in1485 . These grew louder as the propaganda of Henry was used to bolster his claim on the throne.
After Agnes ,Lady Bowring died in 1519 there was an IPM, an Inquisition Post Mortem
1519: AGNES BOWRING, Bowden, Tottenheys Magna.(Totnes) Wife. "Sometime wife of Thomas Pomeroy, esq." Chancery. Mich. 11 Henry VII - Mich. 12 Henry VII ( 1518)
Agnes Bowring , widow Pomeroy nee Kelloway may have had contact with John Taylor, whilst in Ireland with her husband Thomas Bowring. In 1494 Bowring was Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, Ireland 1494 to 1496 & then until 1498 in Common Pleas and his wife would almost certainly have gone with him.
What was it that these people sought to obtain with the property of John Taylor- it seems a very, very risky thing since he was a Yorkist rebel . Being a Yorkist was a very dangerous thing to be in Henry VII time. What did Taylor have in his possession that was worth such an awful risk?
Were they after the legendary suit of expensive White Armour that John Taylor sent to Ireland ?
and if not, what happened to that ?
Maybe Agnes was simply a supporter of the Yorkists and as such complicit in the flight of John Taylor into the West Country.
Sir JAMES TYRELL , servant of Richard III & infamous as the supposed killer of the two Princes in the Tower, was on a Commission of Peace in Cornwall in 1483 with Halneth MALEVERER. His wife was Joan Caminow of Ashwater near Holsworthy which was given to Sir William Carminow sheriff of Devon.His IPM in 1422 states that Nicholas Kelly, parson of Laddock (& related to his wife Margaret Kelley,) gave him the manor of Ashwater near Holsworthy .
Joan Carminow married first Thomas Carew, c 1444, and 2nd to Halnath Mauleverer 1464.
Defendants: Edmund Carewe, knight, and William Wadham.
Subject: Claim reviving the suit in Chancery for her jointure in the manors of Trevenell, Trewynnek, Beaworthy, and Colway, and messuages and land in Lyme and Bowchef, on the death of Jane, late the wife of Halnath Maleverer. Cornwall, Devon, Dorset.
William Carminown's daughter Joan or Johanna Carninow of Ashwater & married Halneth Maleverer & their son was George Maleverer , who married Ann widow Stukley, nee Pomeroy,
There is a connection to the Perkin Warbeck affair here.
Ann was sister in law to Agnes Kelloway widow of Sir Thomas Pomeroy & wife of Sir Thomas Bowring . Ann Pomeroy was widow of Budockshide & Stukely & wife of George Maleverer & sister to Sir Thomas & Baron Sir Richard Pomeroy
This familial connection might explain how Agnes Bowring became interesed in the confiscated goods of John Taylor .
Tucked away in the depths of the Devon countryside , family connections were important . Travel might have been difficult particularly for the ladies since coaches were pretty rudimentary, thus making written communication, letters, very significant.
Sir Richard Malevever , wife Jane Plumpton dau of Sir Robert Plumpton
15 LETTERS of Sir Robert Plumpton to family members and others can be FOUND IN. A Medieval Post Bag by Letitia Lyell published by Jonothan Cape in London in 1934 - Sir John Maleverer is mentioned in passing
......Henry died 1375 seized of BOWDEN and more Veteris Ponte
Totnes Priory by Watkins....'"'dxxi^^^'^ Be it known, etc., I Thomas Pomerey of BOWDEN in the county of Devon in 1491.
This is Thomas 3rd son of Henry , whose wife was Agnes Kelloway & he died 1493
DRO 3799M-0/ET/4/40 1476 A Lease for lives (3 lives lease was 99 years)
1. William Huddesfyld, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape
2. John Taylor, Donalda his wife and Rose their daughter
Brixham, Saturday, feast of St Thomas the Apostle, 16 Edward IV ( 1478 ) (reigned 1461-70 & 1471-1483 ) Premises: one cottage with garden adjoining in Brixham, situated between the close of William Jule on the east and the close of John Mason on the west, which 1. recently had by gift from Henry POMEROY esq., licence having been granted to him by the king
Rent: 4/-
Witnesses: Nicholas Stephyn, John Clement, John Mason, Richard Baker, John Elyot
Seals: small, round, device (broken); small, round, hunting horn, inscription; small, device
John Taylor, senior was one of Warbeck's first promoters, and had charge of a small fleet, equipped and paid for by the King of France, which had been sent apparently to fetch a Yorkist prince. Taylor hoped thereby to foment a rebellion in favour of the Earl of Warwick,
....and in the hold of one of Taylor’s ships lay a suit of precious white armour already made for the new 'King Richard IV'. In short, Warbeck or Richard IV , was expected. Ultimately the cause failed and John Taylor was captured in September 1499 . However records suggest he escaped from Exeter... "to the South West."
In his younger days John Taylor was the master of a small trading vessel, but he later engaged in brewing: he lived in the parish of St. Clement, where his mother had been buried. Once he had become a commoner of Hastings he frequently attended Brotherhoods of the Cinque Ports.
On 4 June 1524, when bailiff, he made a mark in acknowledgment of £60 paid to him by Sir John Dauntesey for transporting various noblemen and servants of the Emperor from Calais to Dover. In his same year of office he answered by indenture for the payment of subsidy by aliens living at Hastings, and when bailiff again in 1528 he was ordered by the Brotherhood to raise a levy of £7 on fishermen of Hastings for alleged breach of the regulations governing the Yarmouth fair.
Taylor was by-elected for Hastings to the Parliament of 1529, but in the absence of any record both the date and the occasion are uncertain. d again in the Parliament of 1539 no answer can be given.
Taylor made his will on 5 Apr. 1547, but it bears no date of probate. He asked to be buried near his mother. His wife was to have his maltmill and brew-house and the residue of his goods, and was to be the executrix; on her death a shop at the pier was to pass to his brother-in-law William Bell.
His son John received only a gown furred with fox; Richard Godfrey and his wife Agnes were to have four silver spoons; his grandson, another John, four silver spoons, a ‘great spit’ and ‘a brass pot with a broken brim’; and Richard Godfrey and his wife another four silver spoons.
Taylor was tried and convicted on November 16th, with Warbeck and Cork’s mayor John Attwater.
However where Warbeck & Attwater were executed but Taylor was imprisoned for 10 years in 1499.
"Devon & Cornwall notes & queries; a quarterly journal Publisher: Exeter J.G. Commin Rauff Bowring 1514
The IPM of Thomas Bowring shows Robert Bowring as his son & heir age 30 to whom his property and land was enfeoffed- and there is mention of Ralph Bowring. Bowringsleigh was held from Edward Courtenay as of his manor of Northdon for an annuity of 6d its value being £4. a year.
Buried in Alvington, not Kingsbridge on 3 May 1514 his wife was Alice to whom he left £100 which he gave to her personally in London , and half his cattle and 'occupation' of half his plate for her lifetime after which it was to go to his daughter Thomasine who was under age at that time of his death.
He left £40 to his sister was Alyce wife of William Pike of Glastonbury, towards the marriages of his nieces and the same to James Fulford chaplin to pray for his soul, also( the same?) to all the priest in Honiton
At one time Alvington was part of the Royal Estates[1]; the town of Kingsbridge formed around a bridge which was built in or before the 10th century between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the east, hence giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge").
"Devon & Cornwall notes & queries; a quarterly journal Publisher: Exeter J.G. Commin
BOWRING, HALEY, HALLEY, HAWLEY, PIKE.Collinson's History of Somerset (iii., 7), says William Pyke married Alice Bowring, daughter of Thomas Bowring, of Bowrings-Leigh, in County Devon ; issue, son and heir, Robert Pike, assessed at Pike's Ash (Somerset), in 22nd year.
IPM shows Alyce Bowring married Pyke of Glastonbury
The same work (iii., 99), says Buckland Manor was granted 36 Henry VIII., to William Halley, Esq. (armiger), whose descendant, Lord Hawley, sold it to John Baker. Sir John Warre married Unton Hawley, daughter of Sir Francis Hawley, of Buckland, Somerset (afterwards Baron Hawley, of the Kingdom of Ireland).
The Domestic State Papers, Hamilton edition, refer to a suit (1639), which Lady Haley wishes brought against Agnes Bowring for possession of tenement in County Somerset, Wiveliscombe ; sends her son-in-law, Mr. Weare, to make entry upon it.
In the Visitation of Somersetshire, by Weare, is a reference to one Sir Richard Pyke, living eighth year of Richard II. 1388 whose descendant, William Pyke, married Alice Bowring, of Bowrings-Leigh, in West Alvington, Devon.
One John Pike came to New England in 1635, from Langford, England (possibly the parish of Langford, near Bridgwater, in Somerset). He may be identical with the John Pike, of whose baptism, Nov. i, 1572, record is said to exist (? in Bridgwater). The coat of arms brought by John Pike to America in 1635 contains the crescents shown in the coat granted to Sir Richard Pyke, living circa 1385, above mentioned.
Rauff Bowring mentioned in the will of his brother, Robert Bowring, of Alvington, as subjoined ? LEWIN BOWRING.
The Will of Robert Bowring, of the parish of Alvington, co. Devon, gent., 1514, May 3 To be buried in the parish church of Alvington, before the figure of Saint Michael the Archangel in the chancel.
To Rauff Bowring my brother £40.
To Alice my wife 100 which I delivered into her own hands in London, also half of all my cattle and " occupation " of one half of my platefor her life, the said plate after her death to go to my daughter Thomasyn and if said Thomasyn die before full age or unmarried said plate to go to my executors. To the said Thomasyn the other half of my cattle and plate.
To Alice Pyke my sister, wife of Willm. Pyke of Glastonbery, £40 to help the marriage of my nieces, daughters of my said sister, and if the said two nieces die before full age (&c.)
To James Fulford, Chaplain, to pray for my soul. To every priest in the parish of Honyton. Whereas I have enfeoffed
the Right Worshipful Richard Hals, Richard Vowell, Esquires, and others of all my lands and tenements in the counties of Devon and Somerset to the intent to perform my last will which is this, my said feoffees take all rents during nonage of my daughter Thomasyn and after till she be married.
I will that Sir Steveyn Horswell, Chaplain, have yearly for his exhibition in the University of Oxford during the nonage of my daughter 10 marks.
To Thomas Costarde Clerk of Alvyngton 2os. yearly (in like manner).
To my servant John Adams. To James Horswell. To Morys Heywood. To Patrys Mayne my servant. To Christopher Dowce my servant and to Johan Dowce his wife. To John Maynarde and to Johan his servant. To James Broke, John Table, John a Borow my servant &c.
To Thomas Davy and to Katheryn his wife.
To the parish church of St. Olave in the City of Exeter. To the two houses of Fryers of Exeter. To the " Crossid Fryers " of St. Johns.
To every parish church of Honyton( Honiton) and between Honyton and Alvyngton and to every parish church within a mile every side of the way my body shall be carried .
To the parish church of Alvyngton for building of a church house 2.0,
Residue to Alice my wife and Thomasyn my daughter.
William Courtney Esq., Richard Hals Esqre.,and Gregory Morgan and William Pyke gent/ and they executors.
Supervisors, John Marshall and John Portman gents. Witnesses, William Courtney Esqre., Sir James Fulford, curate of Honyton, John Marshall, Esq., William Pyke, gent., John Adams the younger, and many others.
Probate of the will of said deceased, having at the time of his death certain goods and credits in several dioceses in the province of Canterbury, 16 June 1514, by Richard Hals executor. Power reserved to Alice the executrix. P.C.C. (33 Fettiplace.)
[Mr. Thomas B. Bowring has also kindly sent us a copy of this will. EDS.)
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