POTE  1384
  Pote was an occupational name-  a maker of clay & metal drinking & storage vessels ;




 Translated it reads -  Let them shine through the presence of what I am
  I give to Margaret, who was the wife of Richard Pomeroy, in her pure  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 who was wife of  Richard Pomeroy , gave, in her widowhood, to William Pote her son and the heirs of him and his wife Joanna, the daughter of Richard Churidon, land in Goddecott (Gunnacott) in the manor of Clauton (Clawton, Devonshire) 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


The  pedigree  for Pote 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 C15/early C16 fenestration & roofs. The original C12 church was rebuilt in the C14, 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 church, according to Pevsner ,  has unusually rich 17th-century carpentry for north Devon, is documented as having been the home of the Pote family from the C14 .

Gunnacott Manor, like many early Manor houses, is today a working dairy farm
BHOL C19th The only manor now known in the parish is that of Affaland, which belongs to Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, Bart., by inheritance from the Arscotts.


Blagdon gave name to a family who possessed it at an early period; 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.


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.



Sometime between 1332 and 1385 the Pote family came to Goddicott, in Clawton near Holsworthy as it was then known


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.

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, Bitteswell

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.

Standardised forms of names. Persons: John Fielding, Joan Fielding, Thomas Pott, Joan PottPlaces: Lutterworth, Bitteswell


30.July 2023 

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. .......

The Church at Clawton
&

Gunnacott Manor Farm a working farm  

NOTES AND THOUGHTS
The pedigree 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 Richard 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 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 sister to Richard, who in 1350 is recorded at brother of Henry of Sandridge,  which would appear to make him yet another brother to 9th Henry Pomeroy.

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



 Could Richard brother of Henry 1350 be  the eldest of the sons of Henry P & his Moles wife , but died before 1328 and was therefore not included from the entail of that year, Given those date _ NO


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 these to Edward Pomeray, Margaret his wife and his heirs male by a fine … 

He died on 14 June 1416. His heirs were his sisters off spring 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

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.

 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