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1238 William de la Pomeroy & wife Joan feet of fines  ( Not sure who he was)
William Pomeroy and Joan may be connected to Henry Pomeroy and Joan Valletort  (as per Visitations) where she is described  in Visitations as Joan Valletort  sister of Roger de Valletort & daughter of Reginald 1491

1199 Henry de la Pomeroy owed 800 marks for livery of his lands of which Alice de Valletort paid 400 marks in 1209.. She may have been his mother in law.

1346 Henry Pomeroy held 2 manors of Bradford for ½ fee of the manor of Harberton which Henry Wydger formerly held

1428 Godfrey Wyndesey Middlecote  held ½ fee in Bradford and Middlecote no-one holding an entire ¼ part of the manors formerly held by Henry Pomeroy

1368 Henry Pomeroy  (wife Emmot , he was eldest son of Henry & Joanna Moles . Died 1375 seized of ½ Brixham, ½ Harberton

Transcribed for Hugh Watkins 1917  book The History of Totnes Priory & the Medieval Town

1305 Henry de la Pomerai wife Amica de Camville - died sized of Bradford
1346 Henry held for ½ a fee the honour of Harberton formerly held by Henry Widger
He died 1375 seized of Bowden and more Veteris Ponte  – he held one fee in 1245 after ¼ of fee was given to Knights Templar

1489  Richard Edgecombe knight ,died 7th September 1489 his son Piers age 21 , sized of Totnes Castle, manor and free borough with 28 knights  fees and 1/46 of South Wasshe, Brixton, Rydmore, North Bovey, Hempton Cantelowe. Wodeford, Radon, & Allerford. The advowson of priory of Totnes and Warlord ??
of Totnes, Manor of Cornworthy and income  from South Wasshe.
(Piers Edgecumbe's daughter Joan married Sir Thomas Pomeroy  who became Baron Pomeroy in 1538  & sold the Barony & its estates in 1547 )

1463 Bury Pomeroy, Tithes of Berry Longcombe, Nytheron, Afferton.
12 tithes from Bartholomew Tailor, Richard Greenway, Matt hewTailor, Willm Gylherd, Jonanus Tailor, Rich’d Breeton, John and Janet Cole, John Miller sen. Willm Hougher, Rich’r Perry, Rich’d Perry, sen & jun. Robert Courtice.

1493 Thomas Pomeroy  (3rd son of Henry Pomeroy & his 1st wife Alice Raleigh ) Wife Agnes Kelloway . He died Saturday after Christmas  9th year of Henry VII  1493- His heir was 12 year old Henry  who may have been his half brother, born 1481, to his father Henry who died 1487  by his 2nd wife Anna Camell, d 1481 )
. IPM  10th April 1494  Henry Pomeroy died sized of 1 messuage  300 acres 730 acres of meadow in Bowden, Ivecombe, Langdon worth £10  held from Piers Edgecombe. As of castle of Totnes in free scocage. 20 acres of land 50 acres of meadow in Ivecombe worth 16 shillings held from Nickolas Holeway and Humphrey Walrond in free socage .
His older brother the baron Sir Richard died 1496

1496 Richard Pomeroy knt. son of Henry died 14 Aug 1496 widow Elizabeth (Denzil) and son Edward his heir age 17. Richard died seized of castle and manor of Bury worth £133   6 shillings and 10 pence- held  from the Crown in knights service. A moiety of the manor of Harberton and a messuage of 40 acres &10 acres of meadow in Harberton worth 45 shillings /4 ½ penny held from the Crown in Chief knights service.
A moiety  of manor of Brixham worth £14 / 6 shillings and 6 pence.
A moiety of the manor of Bridgetown Pomeroy worth £24 /4 shillings and 5 pence form the king in knights service.
A messuage of 24 acres of land 7 acres of meadow and 10 acres of underwood in Sandridge worth £ 11  from the Bishop of Exeter by knights service
3 messuages of 40 acres of land an acre of meadow in Will or Wyle worth 52 shillings or £2 /12 shillings from Bishop of Exeter by knights service.

His wife Lady Elizabeth (Denzil Fortescue ) was assigned 1/3 of the Honour of the Castle of bury of the capital messuage of the barton of the manor ( the principal dwelling with its surrounding land etc) and of the lands & tenements of the manor of Bury and a tenement and all the services of rents of the manor of Harberton

1503 South Sydynham manor or advowson help by Edward Pomeroy in knights service

 4th Sept agreement arrived at in suit between Sir Edward Pomeroy knight & Geoffrey Hawkeswell manor of Totnes and others-  Arbiters appointed were Robt Willoby Lord Brooke, Sir Humphrey Fulford knight & Thomas Cotterel esq.

 Each party to forgive the other and Sir Edw’d Pomeroy shall give to the mayor and his brethren a buck ( deer) of this seasons  to be eaten at Totnes on the following Wednesday after the feast of the Nativity. Provided that Sir Edw’d Pomeroy be eating the same buck in godly manner.
Further more we award that the Mayor and his brethren shall pay for the wine that shall be drunk at the eating of the same buck

1509 Quitclaim William Nosworthy son and heir of Johan Nosworthy quit claimed to Edward Pomeroy knt all his right to the whole tenement of acre of his land in Bridgetown Pomeroy.