Margaret Beville, Lady Pomeroy
IPM 1461

   Margaret Beville Lady Pomeroy widow of Baron Edward   She died 10 September  1461

Westminster.

To the escheator in Cornwall.

Order to take the fealty of Margaret wife of Edward Pomeray esquire, and to give her livery of the manor of Tregony, and the issues thereof taken;

as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that Edward Pomeray at his death held no lands in Cornwall in chief in his demesne as of fee, but held that manor jointly with the said Margaret and the heirs male of his body (sic) by fine levied at Westminster three weeks after Easter 5 Henry IV between Edward Pomeray and Margaret daughter of John Bevylle plaintiffs and John de la Pomeray knight and Joan his wife deforciants, whereby the deforciants granted the same to the plaintiffs and to the heirs male of the said Edward's body, to hold of the deforciants and the heirs of the said John, rendering to the deforciants during the said John's life 46l. a year, to the said Joan for her life and to the said John's heirs one grain of wheat a year at Michaelmas for all service, custom and demand, and performing for them all other services due to the chief lords of the fee, that by virtue of that fine the said Edward was thereof seised in fee tail and the said Margaret as of freehold, and that the manor is held by knight service of the king as of his duchy of Cornwall as of Launceston castle; and by letters patent of 27 June 15 Henry VI, at the special request of the commons in the parliament then holden, with assent of the lords spiritual and temporal the king gave the said Edward a pardon for all gifts, alienations, and purchases of lands held in chief of the king and of former kings to 2 September 10 Henry VI, and the issues and profits taken in the mean time.

Contents: Deed of gift  DAte 1496

1. Richard of la Pomeray knt.

2. William Lenne of Tregonyburgh, glover

Premises: one parcel of land lying between 1.'s two mills in Tregony containing twenty feet in length and twenty feet in breadth situated between a lane coming from Geganwylls on the east and the sanctuary land of the vicar there on the east, together with the stream of water running through the said parcel, for building on the same parcel of land a house and fulling mill, to be held by 2. and the lawful heirs of his body

Rent: 16d

Witnesses: Peter Bevyll, Thomas Tregarthyn esqs., Laurence Penkevell, Thomas Poyle, Thomas Helland

Date: Tregony, the feast of St Matthew the apostle, 10 Henry VII