Werrington

I do however note this  Martyn Connection.  Martyns were a very very successful & wealthy,  merchant family

 Connections

 - 8 May 1611  William Martyn of Totnes, Merchant, marriage by licence to Anna Hockmore, da. of Richard Hockmore, Gent., late of Bury Pomeroy, deceased.    2nd wife was Dorothy Savory dau of Christopher Savoury, High Sheriff of Devon  issue 4 sons 2 daughters by his second marriage

   From AML  in MA   a note .  USA  The New World
John  Martyn came from a family in Cornwall and became Trelawny's governor  in Maine; 

Martyns had connected with Pomeroys in Cornwall. Trelawny came from Cornwall; he paid a Merchant in Plymouth to apprentice him as a Merchant Trader...-and they had to sponsor him in either Portugal or Spain as part of the deal. Trelawny sponsored  a trade route between Ireland, New England and Portugal. DATES_ circa 1620 +

 
Other ship masters were involved. Trelawny  had a Settlement deal in Maine, with Leonard Pomeroy of Plymouth .  Thomas Pomeroy (possibly  Leonard's nephew ) remained  in Plymouth, and  acted as Trelawnys agent,  and Owen/Edwin Pomeroy of Plymouth , probably another nephew, ships master,  had a fishing station on the other side of Richmond Island from Martyn. 

During the English Civil Wars William Pomeroy (cordwainer) in Plymouth was ,like Trelawney,  a Royalist,  in the Parliamentarian town of  Plymouth,. He left  the country, and after the Restoration in  1660 William was given command of a ship .  When he died  in the Kings service he left a very young family & his widow was given a pension.
Was this William also a nephew or grand nephew of Leonard Pomeroy merchant & Mayor in Plymouth ? AML thinks probably.
Was one of his young children the Richard or Thomas who ended up at the Isle of Shoals?  Probably.

There was a slate quarry there in the 18th and 19th century producing slate regarded as being finer that that of Delabole, near St Teath , and very fire resistent. Owned latterly by the Milne family, it was fairly famous in its time. The other source of employment in the C18th was the nearby Bude Canal and Duxton Wharf at Cross Gates.

The parish is in the Archdeaconry of Cornwall, and Deanery of Trigg Major. The Church (St. Martin and St. Giles,) was rebuilt in 1742, and is a handsome structure, with a large tower, and two small ones at the west end. Werrington parish was part of the Launceston Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief. Settlement Papers (1767 to 1831) and Bastardy Bonds (1752 to 1830), are available in the Cornwall Record Office.

Oddly enough...200 years before

Werrington House  as stated before, once belonged to the  Duke of  Bedford, Francis Russell. He was the 1st Duke  and came from humble origins and became rich and powerful in the Tudor era serving variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal.

In the spring of 1526, he married Anne Sapcote, widow of John Broughton and of Sir Richard Jerningham, daughter of Sir Guy Sapcote and his wife Margaret Wolston.
( Familial ties - Johanna Sapcot dau of Sir John Sapcot married Edward Pomeroy son of Richard Pomeroy by Elizabeth Densil, widow Fortescue & father of Thomas who sold the family manors in 1547 and later got involved in the Prayerbook Rebellion of 1549 ),

Lord Russell's wife Anne  Sapcot  brought him a dowry that included  Chenies Manor House  and he  enlarged this now famous and very beautiful old house to reflect his new good fortunes. With his standing in good favour with the King and Cardinal Wolsey,  he was given the Abbey and town of Tavistock, after the Dissolution as well as  the area that is now Covent Garden.

His son John continued the family's good fortune and was made Earl of Bedford  after his successful suppression of the Prayerbook Rebellion. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1564, and  appears to have been a generous and popular man  He died in London and was buried at the family chapel next to Chenies Manor House, the family estate which he had made his principal home and where he had entertained Queen Elizabeth in 1570.

An earlier and unconnected Sir John Russell was uncle to Johanna daughter of Thomas Bowerman/Borman who  married Hugh of Tregony  and Russell arranged the marriage settlement . The later John Russell, who was of more humble roots had someone create a connection to the earlier Earl of Bedford to bolster his assertion of noble blood. 

The marriage settlement drafted by Sir John Russell  for Hugh Pomeroy and Sir John Russell's niece, Johan Borman or Bowerman also served as an entailment which comes into play years later, bringing Tregony back into the hands of Roger Pomeroy, of Sandridge. It also saved Tregony and Stockleigh Pomeroy from the sale of 1547.

  3799M-0/T/11/2  1539 Devon Record Office

Contents: Marriage settlement

1. Sir John Russell knt., Lord Russell and President of the King's Council in the west parts of England

2. Thomas Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy, esq.

Covenants: Hugh Pomeroy, brother of 2. (Sir Thomas)  is to marry Johan Borman one of the daughters of Nicholas Borman esq., and niece of  Sir John Russell.

2.(Sir Thomas Pomeroy)  is to grant to Hugh and Johan his manor of Stockleigh Pomeroy, to be held by them and the heirs male of Hugh, also the manor of Tregony in Cornwall to be held by Hugh and his heirs' male after the death of  Thomas Pomeroy, (Sir Thomas) ,  who is also to grant to Hugh and Johan an annuity of £4. If (Sir) Thomas Pomeroy dies without heirs male of his body  then all his manors and lands are to remain to Hugh and his heirs male of the body and for default of heirs, to William Pomeroy, another brother of Thomas

Thomas   £100 and is to pay £50 on Hugh and Johan's wedding day,  and a further £50 at the following Michaelmas

Ten years later Russell may also have been influential in the leniency shown to Sir Thomas Pomeroy after the 1549 Prayerbook Rebellion in which he lead the suppression of the rebellion which lead to the execution of the ringleaders and the death of many of the perpetrators.