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DEVON Inquisition before William Cheyne and John Martyn , Exeter 8 March 1417.
E-CIPM 20-581: JOHN POMERAY, KNIGHT› here
Joanna Chudleigh widow StAubyn; widow De Bryan wife of Thomas Pomeroy Esq married 1388 knighted 1400
DEVON. Inquisition [indented]. Honiton 25 October 1428. [Tretherf].
Jurors: William Maleherbe ; John Maleherbe ; William Assheforth ; Thomas Sterre ; William Sely ; John Clode ; Walter Badston ; Gilbert Attewode ; Walter Traci ; John Gascoyn ; Thomas Waltham ; and John Bucknoll .
She held more lands and tenements than specified in CIPM XXII no. 259, an inquisition taken in 1423.
She held the following in demesne as of fee.
Berry Pomeroy, the manor, held of (from) the king in chief by knight service. There are 60 messuages, worth £3 yearly; a water-mill, worth 10s. yearly; 60 ferlings arable, demised severally to tenants-at-will, rendering £20 yearly at the four principal terms by equal parts; 20 a. meadow, worth 26s. 8d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, worth 40s. yearly; 100 a. timber wood, its pasture worth 10s. yearly; and £23 assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts.
Stockleigh Pomeroy, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There are 20 messuages with 20 ferlings of arable, demised to various tenants-at-will, worth 100s. yearly; a fulling-mill, worth nothing yearly; 20 a. wood, its pasture worth 6s. yearly; and 8 a. meadow, worth 8s. yearly.
Brixham, ½ manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is assize rent of 100s. from tenements held severally in fee simple, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts.
Harberton, ½ manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is a messuage and 40 a. arable, worth 20s. yearly.
She held no more lands or tenements in demesne or service above those lands and tenements found in the inquisition taken after her death and returned to Chancery.
She died on 8 December 1423.
Joan wife of Otto Bodrugan married aged 17. one of her next heirs as one of the daughters of John Seyntaubyn her son by her 1st marriage ,
Margaret wife of Reynold Tretherf , married aged 13 , the next heir as the other daughter of John Seyntaubyn
[1]+She was seised of the above manors and moieties before her marriage to Thomas Pomeray . They afterwards had a daughter called Isabella. Joan died seised of this estate and Thomas continued in his estate by curtesy until his own death on St Laurence’s day 4 Henry VI. Since then, Edward Pomeray, esquire , has taken the issues and profits of the manors and moieties, title unknown.+[1]
( Isabella died as a child, after her mother and before her father, ending that line.
Edward was great grandson of Baron Henry Pomeroy & his Moels wife. His father was William son of Edward Pomeroy & his wife Johan who wasson of Thomas d1392, the 5th son of Baron Henry Pomeroy & his wife Joanna Moels.)
[Head:] Reynold Beyer freed to the court on the escheator’s behalf on 9 December 1428.
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247 Writ mandamus . ‡ 20 October 1428. [Wymbyssh].
CORNWALL. Inquisition [indented]. Truro 3 November 1428. [Tretherf].
Jurors: William Nevyll ; Stephen Boswydell ; John Meleder ; William Trewonwall ; Benedict Cubart; Reynold Trevronek ; Thomas Bosveysek ; Peter Nampyan ; James Ethneves ; Nicholas Hendre; John Nicol Nanskelly; and John Carleyghan .
She was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Tregony, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is a principal messuage and 40 other messuages, worth nothing yearly; 2 water-mills, worth 60s. yearly; 1 fulling-mill, worth 5s. yearly; a mill called ‘Tanmylle’, worth 5s. yearly; £15 assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts and delivered by free tenants; 15 ferlings arable, demised to tenants-at-will, rendering 100s. yearly at the four principal terms by equal parts; 20 a. wood, its pasture worth 7s. yearly; and 10 a. alder, its pasture commonly worth 3s. 4d. yearly.
Date of death and heirs as 246.
Continues as 246+[1].
[Head:] Reynold Beyer freed to the court on the escheator’s behalf... ?9 December 1428 [ms worn and dirty]
http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/23-246/.
TREGONY links to people connected to Tregony
Joanna Chudleigh' s heir her granddaughter Margaret St Aubyn married age 13 in 1428
MARGARET WIFE OF REYNOLD TRETHERF
415 Writ de etate probanda . ‡ 22 October 1429. [Wymbyssh].
Regarding her inheritance as one of the daughters and heirs of John Seintaubyn, esquire , who held of Henry V in chief. The lands and tenements are in the custody of William Bodrugan, chevalier , by commission of Henry V [CFR 1413–1422, pp. 351–2]. Inform William of the forthcoming proof of age.
[Dorse:] He was informed by Robert Cherryngworth and John Walpoll . Date and place of proof given.
MIDDLESEX. Proof of age. Westminster 2 December 1429. [Rykhull].
John Olyver , 50 and more, swears that she was born at the abbey of the Minoresses, of the order of St Clare, extra Aldgate, London, baptised in the abbey church, and was 14 and more on 6 January last. He was servant to master Thomas Ferby , then staying in that abbey, and saw Margaret carried to the church for baptism. He also saw her godfather, godmothers, and many other neighbours and friends of her parents etc. [in text]. William Westland , 40 and more, was one of the valets to John Seintaubyn , father of Margaret, when John died.
Ten years and more have passed since his death at which time Margaret was aged 4 and more according to her father. Richard Meredyk , 43 and more, was one of those who, nine years ago and more, carried the body of Katherine Seintaubyn , Margaret’s mother, to burial at the house of the brothers Carmelite in London. Margaret was then aged 5 and more according to her neighbours who had determined her age. John Clerk , 48 and more, knows because the same year that Margaret was born, he came with Henry V in his third year as king from Normandy to England, and saw Margaret’s mother talking to Margaret’s nurse. Margaret was then an infant etc. [in text]. William Ryver and Richard Petham , each 42 and more, were in the abbey to talk with Elizabeth Facon who was staying there. They saw Margaret’s baptism and afterwards drank with the godfather and godmothers. Robert Nyk and Peter Harry , each 40 and more, frequently saw William Pomeroy, esquire , pay Margaret’s nurse for feeding and taking care of her when she was an infant. William Leche and Thomas Clerk, senior , each 45 and more, were abbey servants at the time of Margaret’s birth and prepared water in the font and light for her baptism. John Roger , 46 and more, knows because Alice his daughter is the same age as Margaret. Robert Sabyne , 60 and more, knows because Maud his late wife died during the Lent following Margaret’s birth. William Bodrugan, chevalier , was present on 2 December, and could offer no reason why Henry VI should not hand over the lands and tenements to Reynold and Margaret.
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Her older sister Joanna St Aubyn married age 17 to Otto Bodrugan in 1428 Link here to William Bodruganpossibly son of Joanna this IPM mentions
Trethem, the manor, held of the heirs of Henry Pomeroy as of the manor of Tregony, service unknown. There are 6 messuages and 6 ferlings of land held by various tenants-at-will, each messuage worth 20d. yearly and each ferling worth 4s. yearly; 30 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; a watermill for grain, worth 8s. yearly; and 12d. rent, payable by the hand of various free tenants at Michaelmas, Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer, equally.
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