Exminster

Articles of Agreement: Exminster, 9th July 1589

Repository Devon Heritage Centre

Reference number ECA/ED/M/1273Alternative reference number ED/M/1273

Description

1) Edward Harris of Cornworthy, Esquire, Thomas Harris his son and heir

2) The Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter

for the purchase of land in Addleburie wood in the parish of Exminster for 60 years determinable on lives of Agnes Harrys wife of said Edward and William Pomeroy son of said Agnes.

Rent: £3.One seal remians, intact.

Signed: 'By me Edward Harrys' - 'per me Tho. Harrys'.Date 9th July 1589

WILLIAM POMEROY, son of Henry Pomeroy and Agnes Huckmore:
Only proof of him is here 

ED/C/1222   Devon Archive Catalogue: 9 July 1589:

Edward Harrys of Cornworthy, esq; and the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty
For 2 years rent of land in Adelbury Wood, in Exminster.

Edward Harris, and Thomas: for the purchase of land in Addleburie wood in the parish of Exminster fo 60 years determinable on lives of Agnes Harrys Wife of said Edward and William Pomeroy, son of said Agnes. (She died the richest woman in Totnes in 1602 )

In Cornworthy there were two marriages: we must suspect that they are grandchildren of Agnes Huckmore Pomeroy Harris but we don’t know how. it is curious that her supposed oldest son, Richard never mentioned Pomeroy brothers in his will.

John Pomeroy married 20 Jan 1618 Agnes Leeg.

Elinor Pomeroy married Benjamin Hooper 10 Oct 1618, Cornworthy.

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Possibly a Yeoman

Historically a social class a Yeoman is a contraction of yong man, meaning young man. The rank held by younger sons of gentry and other land owning families . Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (late 14th century) depicts a yeoman who is a forester and a retainer.

A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate, a farmer who owns his own piece of a land, a freeholder. A yeoman had duties and rights, such as to serve on juries and vote for the knight of the shire, by virtue of possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings.

Adebere a small farm close to Alphington to Exminster;

1770 Lot 5. five Fields, or Closes of Meadow Ground, the greatest Part whereof is well watered, called ADDLEBURY WOODS, and GALLANT's BOWER ; containing in the Whole 50 Acres, lying betwein Wood Meadow, and the Haven Bank, now in the Occupation of the said john Ashford.

William Pomeroy son a Agnes Huckmore Pomeroy Harris

Repository Devon Heritage Centre  Reference number ECA/ED/M/1273 Alternative reference number ED/M/1273

Description  Articles of Agreement: Exminster, 9th July 1589 

1) Edward Harris of Cornworthy, Esquire, Thomas Harris his son and heir

2) The Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of Exeter

for the purchase of land in Addleburie wood in the parish of Exminster for 60 years determinable on lives of Agnes Harrys wife of said Edward and William Pomeroy son of said Agnes.

Rent: £3.One seal remains, intact. Signed: 'By me Edward Harrys' - 'per me Tho. Harrys'.Date 9th July 1589

AML (Alma Morey LaFrance) 

William Pomeroy, son of Henry and Agnes Huckmore Pomeroy, previously unnoticed. He must have been born very close to the time his father died and Agnes made her marriage to Edward Harris who probably raised him as his own.

AML: March 2021.  Agnes, Williams mother, left a will. 1601.  She did not mention any William nor any children of William.  She only mentions sons Richard and Thomas.  She also mentions Henry, the son of her son Thomas.  She did not mention a daughter Elizabeth, who is most frequently assumed to be the wife of Thomas Harris.  Arthur Harris, her son by a second marriage, in his 1638 will, did not mention a 1/2 brother  William, or any children by William.  He only mentioned his 1/2 brother Thomas who was father of Henry Pomeroy. Arthur Harris also mentioned a grandchild of Thomas, son of Henry, named Thomas.  Does this suggest that William, youngest son of Agnes Huckmore Pomeroy Harris, died before 1601 and left no children?  

Adlebere close to Oxton House and Estate and not far from Kenton village with  the Haldon Hills  forest & Mamhead House nearby and the Earl of Devon's Powderham estate just to the south

This whole area may well have been wooded in the 16th C. 

So where was William living and where did he go ? AJP 2018 

There is an Ancient British Trackway , parts of which still exist today