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POTE 1384
Translated it reads - Margaret, who was the wife of Richard Pomeroy, in her widowhood, gives to William Pote, her son and issue of the bodies of the said William and Joanna, the heirs of Richard Cheridon, lawfully issuing in perpetuity to have all her land in Goddecot in the manor of Clauton forever giving her an annuity of six shillings for all the days of her life in whose testimony
In witness whereof Walter Blackdon gives Roger Allen, Walter Pedelude, Roger Cheridon and others at Clawton on Friday in the Feast of St. Catheine Virgin ,8 Rich II 1384
Translated it reads - Margaret, who was the wife of Richard Pomeroy, in her widowhood, gives to William Pote, her son and issue of the bodies of the said William and Joanna, the heirs of Richard Cheridon, lawfully issuing in perpetuity to have all her land in Goddecot in the manor of Clauton forever giving her an annuity of six shillings for all the days of her life in whose testimony
In witness whereof Walter Blackdon gives Roger Allen, Walter Pedelude, Roger Cheridon and others at Clawton on Friday in the Feast of St. Catheine Virgin ,8 Rich II 1384
Powley wrote .... MARGARET Pote late the wife of Richard Pomeroy , in her widowhood, gave to William Pote her son and the heirs of him and his wife Joanna, the daughter of Richard Cheridon ( Not in Visitations) land in Goddecott (Gunnacott) in the manor of Clauton (Clawton, Devonshire near Holsworthy ) at a rental annually of 6s.
Source 4 Colby, The Visitation of the County of Devon, 1620, 217. ( -1384 - Richard II ),
Powley wrote .... MARGARET Pote late the wife of Richard Pomeroy , in her widowhood, gave to William Pote her son and the heirs of him and his wife Joanna, the daughter of Richard Cheridon ( Not in Visitations) land in Goddecott (Gunnacott) in the manor of Clauton (Clawton, Devonshire near Holsworthy ) at a rental annually of 6s.
Source 4 Colby, The Visitation of the County of Devon, 1620, 217. ( -1384 - Richard II ),
Pote of Clawton
Clawton was 5358 acres of land lying 4 miles from Holsworthy in Devon.
The impropriate tithes of St Leonards Church belonged to the priory of Cornworthy.
The parish is surrounded by the parishes of Pyworthy, Holsworthy Hamlets, Ashwater, and Tetcott.
Its western border is the River Tamar & the Cornish border
Pote of Clawton
Clawton was 5358 acres of land lying 4 miles from Holsworthy in Devon.
The impropriate tithes of St Leonards Church belonged to the priory of Cornworthy.
The parish is surrounded by the parishes of Pyworthy, Holsworthy Hamlets, Ashwater, and Tetcott.
Its western border is the River Tamar & the Cornish border
The Pote pedigree is headed by John Pote of Clawton who died in 1552.
The Pote pedigree is headed by John Pote of Clawton who died in 1552.
St Leonards Church Clawton has a C12th chancel & a font which came from the earlier church .in which local children have been baptised for 1000 years.
C14th arcades and west tower & some late C15th & early C16th fenestration & roofs. The original C12th church was rebuilt in the C14th, possibly with transepts. It has an interesting Norman window in the Chancel & there are barrel roofs in the side aisles & in the Sanctuary. The impropriate tithes belonged to the priory of Cornworthy.
St Leonards Church Clawton has a C12th chancel & a font which came from the earlier church .in which local children have been baptised for 1000 years.
C14th arcades and west tower & some late C15th & early C16th fenestration & roofs. The original C12th church was rebuilt in the C14th, possibly with transepts. It has an interesting Norman window in the Chancel & there are barrel roofs in the side aisles & in the Sanctuary. The impropriate tithes belonged to the priory of Cornworthy.
Gunnacott Manor, a high-status house of unusual quantity, was the home of the Pote family from the 14th century to the early 18th century today, like many early Manor houses, is today a working dairy farm.
The other estate of status in Clawton parish is Blagdo, held by Kirkhams, this small estate was later the property of William Cann, a yeoman.
Kempthorne belonged to the family of Le Pedlear, from the reign of Richard I. to that of Edward III. They were succeeded by a younger branch of the Leys, who were called Ley alias Kempthorne. Both these estates have long been alienated from the families of their original possessors.
Sometime between 1332 and 1385 the Pote family came to Goddicott, in Clawton near Holsworthy as it was then known
CP 25/1/44/63, number 35: (1380-1382)
Persons: Nicholas Kirkham; John Hulle; John Blake; John Fillegh'; Robert Hulle; Richard Foldhay; Thomas de Beauchamp'; Nicholas de la Pom'ay
Places: Clifton'; Clauton' [Devon]
CP 25/1/44/63, number 35. County: Devon. Place: Westminster. Date: Two weeks from Easter, 3 Richard [II] [8 April 1380]. And afterwards one week from Holy Trinity, 5 Richard [II] [8 June 1382].
Parties: querents, Nicholas Kirkham, John Hulle, John Blake, John Fillegh', Robert Hulle and Richard Foldhay
deforciant. Thomas de Beauchamp
(Thomas Beauchamp has a sister Elizabeth , widow of Richard Branscombe who married William Fortescue in 1391)
Property: The manors of Clifton' and Clauton', which Nicholas de la Pom'ay holds for life by the law of England.
Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: Thomas has granted for himself and his heirs that the manors - which Nicholas de la Pom'ay held for life by the law of England of the inheritance of Thomas on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Nicholas de la Pom'ay ought to revert to Thomas and his heirs - after the decease of Nicholas de la Pom'ay shall remain to Nicholas Kirkham, John, John, John, Robert and Richard and the heirs of Robert, to hold of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty: Warranty. For this: Nicholas Kirkham, John, John, John, Robert and Richard have given him 200 marks of silver. ( that's John Hulle, John Blake, John Fillegh', Robert Hulle and Richard Foldhay)
1332 the first written record of Gunnacott occurs as a payment to the crown by Richard Pote of Gunnacott.
BHOL. Domesday & the manor of Clawton was held in demesne by Joel de Totneis.(Totnes) Upon his banishment it was given to Roger Novant: from the Novants it passed by sale to Chudleigh, and from them to Sir John Hele, Serjeant at law.
Gunnacott Farmhouse. Circa late C16/early C17. Stone rubble and cob, whitewashed and rendered. Slate roof gabled at ends.
According to information supplied to the present owner the first written record of Gunnacott occurs as a payment to the crown by Richard Pote of Gunnacott in 1332.
The present 'new' building seem to have been built between 1450 and 1550. It remained in the Pote family till 1691.
Gunnacott farmhouse retains original stone mullioned windows, stacks, and roofing, but has been subject to modern alteration and additions, with its external walls now colour washed.
There is great chamber over the hall also contains C17 panelling & two C17th cross beams in the lower hand have chamfers and broach stops. A good example of a high status house with an unusual quantity of C17 joinery intact. Gunnacott is documented as having been the home of the Pote family from the 14th century to the early 18th century.
Heritage Gateway Harvey, H. H., 1939, Untitled Source, 22 (Unknown). SDV321017.
According to information supplied to the present owner the first written record of Gunnacott occurs as a payment to the crown by Richard Pote of Gunnacott in 1332.
The present 'new' building seem to have been built between 1450 and 1550. It remained in the Pote family till 1691. Gunnacott farmhouse retains original stone mullioned windows, stacks, and roofing, but has been subject to modern alteration and additions, it now has colour washed external walls.
Gunnacott, which Pevsner says has unusually rich 17th-century carpentry for north Devon;
POTE of Clawton were Armigers - Az., a chevron engrailed cotised Arg., between three doves of the second.
There is a Pote in Visitations Devon page 625 - 200 years too late !
Note of Clawton arminger POTE of CLAWTON Holsworthy A 16th century memorial to John Pote of Gunnacott is in the floor of the vestry.
The mentions I can find of Clawton
Clawton, in Devon was held in 1068 Domesday by Iudhael of Totnes as Tenant-in-chief & Lord of the Manor 1086:
28 villagers; 6 smallholders; 16 slaves; 2 other population. 20 ploughlands; 4 lord's plough teams; 11 men's plough teams; half a league of Meadow; 1league of Pasture; 1 leagues of Woodland with 47 cattle; 9 pigs & 200 sheep. - worth £8 in 1086 & £10 when acquired by the 1086 owner.
According to Heritage Gateway The first written record of Gunnacott is a payment to the crown by Richard Pote of Gunnacott in 1332.
British History Online
Grant to Philip Mestede, knight, following his petition, of the manor of Clawton (Devon), with which he had been unlawfully obliged to enfeoff Robert Tresilian, as Tresilian publicly admitted before his execution for treason in February. By king and council in parliament. Dated 30 September 1388. source CPR 1385-9 , 517. Appendix September 1388 September 1388 Cambridge The Common Petitions
Ancient Families, of which the principal Branch is extinct, or removed, since 1620, yet some of the Descendants remain in the County.
Blagdon, of Blagdon, in Clawton, married the heiress of Downe, or Downing, and a co-heiress of Browne. There was male issue at the time of the visitation, in 1620. In 1685, John Blagdon, Esq., who married the heiress of Crossing, (being probably of the same family,) was of Northcote, in Honiton. The namesake and representative of the last-mentioned Blagdon resides in Gloucestershire.
There are no arms assigned to Blagdon in the visitation of 1620.
Edmondson gives the arms of Blagdon, of Devonshire, thus, Az., 3 trefoils slipped, Argent, on a chief indented, Or, 2 annulets, Gules.
Blagdon in Clawton is north of Launceston near Marhamchurch. There is also a Blagdon Manor immediately adjacent to Berry pomeory now dissappearing under housing.
Speccot, of Merton. The ancient family of Fitz-Bernard, settling at Speccot, took that name in the reign of Henry II. Co-heiresses of Belston, Furneaux, and Scobhull, and the heiress of Boys, married into this family.
Charles Speccot, Esq., the last heir male, died about the latter part of the reign of Charles II.; his sisters and co-heiresses married Hals, Hele, and Reynell.
In 1620, there were younger branches of this family at Clawton and Thorverton.
Arms: Or, on a bend, G., 3 milrinds, Argent.
Medieval genealogy site
CP 25/1/126/68, number 16. Link:Image of document at AALT
County:Leicestershire. Place:Westminster.
Date: One week from St Michael, 6 Richard [II] [6 October 1382].
Parties: Thomas Pote, querent,
John de Stupton' and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 toft and 2 acres of land in Lutterworth' and Bytteswell'.
Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement:
John and Joan have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas Pote, as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan to him and his heirs for ever.
Warranty. For this: Thomas Pote has given them 10 marks of silver.
Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: Thomas Pott, John de Stupton, Joan de Stupton
Places: Lutterworth in Leicestershire , Bitteswell is nearby.
CP 25/1/126/68, number 20. Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Leicestershire. Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Easter, 6 Richard [II] [5 April 1383].
Parties: John Fyldyng' and Joan, his wife, querents,
Thomas Pote and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage, 1 toft and 4 and a half acres of land in Lutterworth' and Butteswell'.Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement:Thomas and Joan, his wife, have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John, as those which John and Joan, his wife, have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan to John and Joan, his wife, and the heirs of John for ever. Warranty For this: John and Joan, his wife, have given them 100 shillings of silver
C18th - The impropriate tithes which belonged to the priory of Cornworthy, were purchased, together with the advowson of the curacy in 1788, by the Rev. Thomas Melhuish. In C19th they were vested in the Rev. Thomas Melhuish, jun. There is neither glebe nor house belonging to the benefice.
30.July 2023
A HISTORY OF "CLAWTON" OBTAINED FROM EXETER LIBRARY- NAMES EXTRACTED FROM PARISH RECORDS, (1200-1905) Prepared by David Gilbert, Auckland, NZ
A HISTORY OF "CLAWTON" OBTAINED FROM EXETER LIBRARY- NAMES EXTRACTED FROM PARISH RECORDS, (1200-1905) Prepared by David Gilbert, Auckland, NZ
POTE Richard 1329 pd subsidy Ed III
POTE John 1499 pd subsidy Ed III
POTE John 1578 Gunnacott church burial
POTE Leonard 1589 married Willmote dau of Hugh Gifford
POTE Capt Samuel 1770 m Marblehead MA USA
POTE Edward Eph'm 1832 died. Fellow Kings College
POTE Elizabeth 1699 Church Corn
POTE 1664 Ch Proctor 0066
POTE John Tombstone
POTE Joseph 1704 b Truro 1729 took over Eton bookshop
POTE Leonard 1684 pr rates for Poor Relief
POTE Leonard Tombstone
POTE Mrs Elizabeth 1693 Warden
POTE Richard 1645 Rector of Lidford
POTE Roger 1641 pd subsidy
POTE Roger 1641 of Budock, pd subsidy
POTE Thomas 1691 appealed against father Leonard's will
POTE Thos 1661 Killing of Vermin
POTE Walter 1733 m Susannah Bickle of Beaworthy
NOTE no William Pote of Gunnacote but Richard 1329 & John 1499
POTE Richard 1329 paid subsidy Ed III
POTE John 1499 paid subsidy Ed III CAN WE FIND THESE ?
The name Pote may have morphed into Putt who had property at Gittisham near Honiton & Gittisham has connections to the Beaufort family
another example of a fight where a sparch was involved.... Aunfordesho hundred, inquest.
...... in the street in the fields of Northampton between Northampton and Abingdon a dispute arose in a place called le Wold.
Adam struck John on the head with a sword; Richard struck him in the neck and head with a hachet called a sparch ; Roger struck him with a staff. Adam, Richard and Roger gave John 11 wounds to the head and body which killed him. They fled and had no chattels. The sword was worth 12 pence, the hachet 4 pence and the staff a half penny. .......
ABSTRACTS coroners inquests Northants
Image (AALT) 14 Ed3 ? /Stanion /William son of John Hyldemere, aged 3 /Richard Pote & John Odam- Sat by the fire in his father's house and fell into it ?
Image (AALT) / 13 Ed3/ Stanion /John le Smyth/Henry le Baxter/Alan Cok & Richard _/ Richard Pote de Stanerne. John Hawe.Jurors; John Hudman, Ralph Neel, Henry Croyl, John le Glovere, William Bette, Richard Ma__, William Wrag', John le Wryght, John son of Simon. John Manning'. ( circa 1340)
This sounds like a tavern brawl....in Edward IIIs time 1327-1377
In the house of Richard Pote de Stanerne at the tavern. John Hawe hit John le Smyth with a sparch. John Manning[er] struck him with a knife in the chest.
John and John both fled afterwards and they are to be captured.
The sparch (a hachet - see right ) worth 1 penny. Richard Pote had no chattels
NORTHAMPTON GOAL ROLLS & FINES m. 1d
Image (AALT) 25 Ed3 Wellingborough/ William Skipwyth & John Moubray
Adam Derby captured for stealing a tunic and a 'supertunicam' from Richard (Pote) de Wendlyngburgh at Litelmilne. Not guilty.
Searches.
30.July 2023
A HISTORY OF "CLAWTON" OBTAINED FROM EXETER LIBRARY- NAMES EXTRACTED FROM PARISH RECORDS, (1200-1905) Prepared by David Gilbert, Auckland, NZ
A HISTORY OF "CLAWTON" OBTAINED FROM EXETER LIBRARY- NAMES EXTRACTED FROM PARISH RECORDS, (1200-1905) Prepared by David Gilbert, Auckland, NZ
POTE Richard 1329 pd subsidy Ed III
POTE John 1499 pd subsidy Ed III
POTE John 1578 Gunnacott church burial
NOTE
William Pote of Gunnacote not found
POTE Richard 1329 paid subsidy Ed III
POTE John 1399 paid subsidy Henry IV
The first written record of Gunnacott occurs as a payment to the crown of Richard II by Richard Pote of Gunnacott in 1332.
Was Margaret wife of Richard Pomroy before 1384 then married Pote. Or did she marry Pote first and was now the widow of her 2nd husband Richard Pomeroy; leaving property to her son by her 1st marriage to Pote?
Gunnaicott must have been a dower property.
Who was Richard Pomeroy?
1380 The manors of Clifton' and Clauton', which Nicholas de la Pom'ay holds for life by the law of England.
This Nicholas, 3rd son of the 8th Henry & his Moels wife, ship owner sailing up the east coast carrying supplies to the king's army in the north at Berwick,
Merchant in Tewkesbury as well as Lord of Dartmouth. It is highly possible that he had a son Richard.
Did Margaret marry an unrecorded son of Nicholas
The Church at Clawton
Blagdon estate held by Kirkhams famil, is situated nearby.
A notable building in the parish of Clawton is Gunnacott Manor now a working farm
NOTES AND THOUGHTS
The pedigree in Visitations page 28 for Pote begins with a preamble in Latin regarding Margaret, widow of Richard Pomeroy and her gift to her son, William Pote and his heirs. It is dated the Feast of St Catherine the Virgin, 8 Richard II [25th November 1384]
It is clear from the Latin preamble that Margaret is not referred to as a Pomeroy by blood, only by marriage to Richard Pomeroy
1384 WHOSE DAUGHTER was Margaret POMEROY widow of POTE ?
WHO was Pote who gave king Edward III money for his war in 1329 ?
POTE Richard 1329 pd subsidy Ed III ?
Who was Richard Cleridon.
Cleridon or Clayhidon is just north of Hemyock anciently held by the Hidon and Dinham families, and afterwards by the Pophams and Sanxeys, the latter of whom sold it to the Giffords.
Feb 8 2021 AJP wondered who Margaret was. Could she an unrecorded sister of the 5 sons of the Baron Sir Henry & Johanna Moels his wife
or was Margaret an outsider who by 1384 as the widow of Pote had married Richard Pomeroy - having a son William Pote old enough to have a wife, Joanna Cleridon
That noted AJP cannot reliably suggest a suitable candidate offhand other than an unrecorded son of one of the 5 brothers, possibly a son Nicholas Lord Dartmouth & Tewkesbury merchant
Quit claim - 20th April, 23 Edward III circa 1350
1. Richard (Pomeroy) of Sandridge, brother and heir of Henry (Pomeroy), of Sandrigge...........
Date: Chudleigh, 20th April, 23 Edward III
The sons of the 8th Henry Pomeroy & his 1st wife Johanna Moels, 5 of whom are provable with other records were
Henry the heir wife Emmot,
William,
Nicholas of Tewkesbury & Lord of Dartmouth, John &
Sir Thomas of Sandridge , kings knight, with wife Johan, whose son William is recorded in 1372. No daughters recorded .
and Richard Pomeroy, Brother of Henry of Sandridge - who appears to be a 6th son
Quit claim - 20th April, 23 Edward III circa 1350
1. Richard (Pomeroy) of Sandridge, brother and heir of Henry (Pomeroy), of Sandrigge...........
Date: Chudleigh, 20th April, 23 Edward III
I wonder if he was the eldest son but died before his father making Henry the heir
Margaret Pomeroy who married Sir Adam Cole dates from 1381 or 82 . He was steward of the household of Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon.
Parliamentary History gives us an entry for her son John Cole of Nethway , son of Adam Cole of Hittesleigh, Devon, by Margaret, da. of Sir Henry Pomeroy (d. 1373), of Berry Pomeroy,
Many of his activities were connected with nearby port of Dartmouth & maritime affairs there including an inquiry into the concealment of a Genoese ship, apparently taken by pirates.
John Cole married 3 times & was still alive in 1429, but probably dead before 1434 - the following year Nethway was no longer in Cole’s possession, and ‘Uppetamer’ had gone into the hands of John Cokeworthy of Yarnscombe.
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1/3/1384, Sir Adam Cole, Knt., died intestate, and the Bishop had commissioned William Malherbe and William Walyrounde, kinsmen of the deceased, to bury him in accordance with his rank. (S) The Reg. of Thomas de Branryngham, Bishop of Exeter, Part 1, P159.
1387, John Pomeray and his wife Joan (de Merton) challenged the entail of properties given to his sisters, Joan Pomeroy, dead in 1422; Margaret. died 1373
Visitations gives -14 June 1416 as the death of her brother John Pomeroy
(S) Hist. of Parliament, Roskell, 1993, John Cole of Nethway, Devon.
Children of John and Margaret Cole
i. John Cole, born ~1365 in Devon, - heir to the Pomeroy barony with Joanna Chudleigh
ii. Margaret Cole ( born ~1373 in Devon, England. ( 8 years younger than her brother )
2/10/1386, Debtor: John Cole, the son of Sir Adam Cole, knight, of Devon, and lord of Tamar. (S) UKNA.
By 1391, John 1st married Blanche ?.
12/30/1399, Debtor: John Cole, the son of Adam Cole, knight [John held parts of fees in Wylbury, Fremington Hundred, and in East Stoodleigh, Witheridge Hundred, Devon].
Creditor: James Chudleigh, knight [held part of a fee in Limbury, in Broad Clyst, Cliston Hundred, Devon]. Amount: £20. (S) UKNA.
11/22/1405, John Cole sheriff of Devon.
3/12/1417, IPM of John Pomeray, knight. Cornwall: He held the manor of Tregony … On 27 May 1387 he granted it to Thomas Pomeray, esquire, later knighted by Henry Bollinbroke as Henry IV … he gave Tregony to Edward Pomeray & his wife Margaret Beville, and his heirs male by a fine …
He died on 14 June 1416. His heirs were the children of his sisters Joan Chudleigh M 1388 to Thomas Pomeray, Esq and John Cole, Esq son of Margaret the other sister,
John Pomeray & his wife Joan de Merton an annual value £40 …had the manor .
[Date of death and heirs as above.] (S) CIsPM. [Joan surviving.]
1423, John a MP for Devon.
John Cole (son of Margaret Pomeroy) before died 1434
POTE in CLAWTON A HISTORY OF "CLAWTON" OBTAINED FROM EXETER LIBRARY NAMES EXTRACTED FROM PARISH RECORDS, (1200-1905)
Prepared by David Gilbert, Auckland, NZ
POTE Richard 1329 pd subsidy Edw III
BLAKEDON Walter 1346 held Blagdon - mention in Pote fam his
POTE Leonard 1589 married Willmote d of Hugh Gifford
POTE John 1499 pd subsidy Edw III
POTE John 1578 Gunnacott church burial
POTE Richard 1645 Rector of Lidford
BROWNE Thomas 1576 puchased Pote property Milford
POTE Roger 1641 pd subsidy
POTE Roger 1641 of Budock, pd subsidy
POTE Thos 1661 Killing of Vermin
POTE 1664 Church Proctor
POTE Thomas 1691 appealed against father Leonard's will
POTE Leonard 1684 pr rates for Poor Relief
Mrs Elizabeth 1693 Warden
POTE Elizabeth 1699 Church Corn
POTE Walter 733 married Susannah Bickle of Beaworth
NOTES Richard Pote of Stanerne
Stanion Village existed before the Norman conquest, with place name of Stanerne which means building made of stone'- The village is noted in the 1086 Domesday Book as being in the hundred of Corby in Norths with 23 households. Lying n the heart of the Rockingham Forest Stanion has a long connection with stone quarrying and timbe.r.
During the Medieval period, Stanion had a growing pivotal role in pottery production supplying the local area, alongside its secondary distribution centre at Lyveden.
Interestingly the surname Pote was an occupational name. A maker of clay & metal drinking & storage vessels ; origins Latin "potus," meaning "to drink
NOTES Richard (Pote) de Wendlyngburgh at Litelmilne
Wellingborough
The town was established in the Anglo-Saxon period and was called "Wendelingburgh". It is surrounded by five wells: Redwell, Hemmingwell, Witche's Well, Lady's Well and Whytewell, which appear on its coat of arms.
The medieval town of Wellingborough housed a modest monastic grange – the Jacobean Croyland Abbey; this offshoot of the monastery near Peterborough had, by the later C13th, developed a well organised system of sheep-farming.
Pote of Clawton 1552
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