CONNECTION through trade  

Richard Pomeroy of Totnes merchant & man of business 2nd son of Thomas Pomeroy & Agnes Kelloway
whose 1st wife was Elenor Coker .   Henry may have been their son .
In 1544 Richard made a 2nd marriage to Anne Wykes Artur the widow of Thomas Artur .of Clapton in Gordeno near Bristol.
The 1st wife of Thomas Artur was the unnamed dau of John Shipman  the wealthiest Merchant in Bristol -
John Shipman was married to Joan,  dau Sir Edward Gorge - who was son of Winifred Budochshide Gorges
Winifred was grandaughter dof Anne Pomeroy sister of Baron Sir Richard Pomeroy d 1496

Henry Pomeroy, Bristol 1554

Reference: E 122/22/4 Description: 1550 to 1552 Bristol: 

Port: Bristol Ledger of Thomas Kelke & Henry Pomerey, collectors of Customs & Subsidies.

Note: 22 ms. The cover is an illuminated fragment of Church music of an earlier date.Date: 4-5 Edw.VI.Held by: The National Archives, KewLegal status: Public Record

1554:  Henry Pomerey in 1554, Gent. of Bristol, late of Ottery St Mary (east Devon) is named in pardon roll of I Mary. (Powley)

Hilary 1554 Westminster. Source: Public Record Office: CP 40/1157

Title: Common Pleas Hilary 1 Mary - Hilary 1554

Westminster  Pl’ita apud Westmr coram Ric’o Morga’ Milite & Socijs suis Justic’ d’ne Regine de Banco de Trmi’o s’ci Hillarij Anno regni Marie dei gr’a Angl’ Franc’ & Hib’n Regine fidei defensoris & in trra Eccl’ie Anglicane & Hib’nice suprmi capitis primo

 Pleas at Westminster before Richard Morgan knight and his fellows, justices of the  queen  for Hilary term in the 1st year of the reign of Mary by the grace of God queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and on earth Supreme Head of the English and Irish church

( Sir Richard Morgan  was a Welsh lawyer, judge and politician of the mid-Tudor period )

Source TNA 122/22/4 Port: Bristol Ledger of Thomas Kelke & Henry Pomerey, collectors of Customs & Subsidies. Covering dates 4-5 Edw.V

Devon
Michael Shyrwood and Henry Farrant otherwise called Michell Sherwood and Henry Farrant appeared (represented) by their attorney for a fourth day against Henry Pomery late of the city of Bristol in the county of the city of Bristol gentleman otherwise called Henry Pomry of the cyttye of Bristoll, in a plea that he render them £16 6s 8d that he owes them and unjustly detains &c.; and (the defendant) has not come; and it had been ordered the sheriff to summon him &c.; and the sheriff now reports that he has nothing (in his bailiwick in lands or chattels whereby he might be attached) &c.; therefore let him be taken, to be here on the octaves of Candlemas &c.; on which day come the aforesaid Michael and Henry Farrant by their attorney, and appear for a fourth day against the aforesaid Henry in the plea aforesaid; and (the defendant) has not come; and it had been ordered the sheriff to take him &c.; and the sheriff now reports that he is not found &c.; therefore, as before, let him be taken, to be here on the quindene of Easter &c. 

 1568: Thomas Kelke (High sheriff of Bristol, 1560)

... Henry Pomery reported that in 1549 Randall Wilborn and William Hill had exported 10 dickers of leather on a coastal cocket issued at Gloucester, to be surrendered at Bristol within 14 days on penalty of 20 pounds.
Wilborn and Hill, imprisoned by Bristol sheriffs, appealed to the Exhequer court, pleading that the leather had been loaded at Gloucester into a trow called the Mary Slugg for deliver in Bristol, but they were caught by a storm off Aust in the Bristol Channel and, in great danger, fearing for their lives, were driven to Galicia in Spain against their will and intention. They were almost destitute and could not pay the penalty. (4-5 year of Edward VI)

John Wyke was Collector of Customs and Subsidies 37-38 Henry VIII:

Ireland/bristol trade in the 16th century.

Ottery St Mary connected to the Strowbridges, one of whom married Anne, a daughter of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes Kelloway. 

The Strowbridges were also connected to the very wealthy merchant family of  Wykes  

[1] 9 February 1554

[2] 8 April 1554

BRISTOL - Overseas Trade of Bristol 16th C. pdf Bristol Record Society

BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY'S PUBLICA TIONS

General Editor: PROFESSOR PATRICK McGRA TH, M.A. Assistant General Editor: MISS ELIZABETH RALPH, M.A ., F .S.A. 

Gent suggests a younger son

Were they smuggling ? They told a tale of being driven over 1,050 miles off course by the weather, which  forced them to sail out of the the protection of Bristol Channel,  down the along the north coast of Devon passing Bideford,  down the west coast of Cornwall, passing Padstow as they went. They then rounded Lands End and had to sail out across the Bay of Biscay to Spain
This was the customary route  for sailing from Bristol to Spain or Portugal, but the long way, when the destination was Bristol, the nearest port down the river from  Gloucester.

Bristol 1568 ............ the leather had been loaded at Gloucester into a trow called the Mary Slugg for delivery in Bristol, but they were caught by a storm off Aust in the Bristol Channel and, in great danger, fearing for their lives, were driven to Galicia in Spain, against their will and intention.• They were almost destitute and could not pay the penalty. 

In his 2007 PhD dissertation on C16 Britol & its shipping trade Taylor says .... relations between Bristol and Lydney  were particularly strong, and identified Gatcombe and Lydney as centres for the illegal export of leather by Bristol merchants, including the prominent Bristol merchants John Smythe and William Tyndall.( 107)
footnote 107 107 Vanes, 'Overseas Trade', 81,111 AJP note Lydney is up river on the Severn between Bristol & Gloucester 

a cocket -official shipping seal; customs clearance form

There is no sign of a Pomeroy/ Pomereor Pom'y  in the following

• The Staple Court Books of Bristol 

• MISSING’ BRISTOL BURGESSES: 1599-1607 ( too large to attach)

•  CALENDAR  FROM THE CORPORATION’S GREAT AUDIT BOOKS by ROGER PRICE 2009 which includes the Calendar of New Burgesses in the Great Audits ; Index of New Burgesses Alphabetical Index of Patrons; General Index of All Persons & General Index of Trades & Titles

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NOTES FINDS & Curiosities.

1554: "Formerly of Ottery St Mary," Henry Pomerey in 1554, Gent. of Bristol, late of Ottery St Mary, is named in pardon roll of  Mary I. (Powley)

Port: Bristol Ledger of Thomas Kelke & Henry Pomerey, collectors of Customs & Subsidies.   Thomas Kelke was Mayor of the Staple at Bristol

OTTERY St. MARY is an ancient market town, on the east side of the river Otter, sheltered on the east and west by boldly swelling hills, and distant 11½ miles E. by N. of Exeter . The parish includes also the hamlets Taleford, Combelake, and Metcombe, and many scattered farm houses.

The production of woollen serge was later superseded by extensive silk-works the machinery belonging to which is very ingeniously constructed, and is put in motion by a water-wheel of large dimensions. Handkerchiefs and ribands are among the chief articles .

With the Dissolution of the Monasteries came the sale of property through the Court of Augmentations
Lord John  Russell had an usually large grant made to him- it seems he was expected to exercise local leadership in troublesome parts of England ( such as the south west)  He got Tavistock Abbey, the hundred of the borough and the rents from Tavistock town; the manors and barton farms of Hurdwick.  Hurdwick Farm is about 1¼ miles to the North West of Tavistock, on the minor road that leads to Brentor;   Morwell & Morewellham  in Tavistock ; Milton Abbey with Leigh Manor; Holyeat in Brentor; Week in Milton Abbot  & Ottery in Hammerdon 

Richard Duke, grandson of an Exeter merchant , had dealings with Richard Pomeroy of Totnes & John Ford of Ashburton- 
There is a record of his dealings in the purchase of Lindridge estate once part of the See of Exeter and a summer palace of some of Bishops of Exeter at Bishopsteignton .Duke  married twice 1st wife  Elizabeth Franke, gave him a daughter Christina who married 1st Lord George Brooke, Baron Cobham and had 2 sons then 2ndly married Gregory Sprint  son of Christina's father's 2nd wife Joan Sprint.
Richard Dukes 2nd wife  was Joan Hoby widow of William Pantin of London  their son John Sprint, died in infancy.
Richard Duke was Clerk of the Court of Augmentations and held that office from its inception until its dissolution, when he was granted an annuity of £133 6s.8d. in recompense for the cancellation of his life grant.   He bought the Manor of Otterton , East Budleigh rectory and the advowson of the rectory of Venn Ottery which had belonged to Syon Abbey in Middlesex. He died 1572