BEAUMONT

COURT OF CHANCERY: Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C  Records of Equity Side: the Six Clerks Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Early Proceedings, Richard II to Philip and Mary 

….John Pomeray the elder, second son of Robert Pomeray. v. John Pomeroy the younger, son of Seyntcler, the elder son of the said Robert.:
A messuage and land in Ingsdon (Eynkesdon), sometime of Elizabeth Bemond, wife of the said Robert.: Devon.

Chancery Date range: 1518 - 1529. confirmed by C 1/47  CHANCERY PLEADINGS ADDRESSED TO THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER AS LORD  CHANCELLOR.  

Robert Pomeroy & Elizabeth his wife, granddaughter of William Beamount. v. Thomas Wise: Lands  and tenements: Devon Covering dates  1472- 1475

Robert Pomeroy of Ingsdon Manor ( grandson of Edward Pomeroy and Margaret Bevill) in the parish of Ilsington in Devon. His wife was Elizabeth Beaumont died before her husband after giving  him 2 sons, Sinclair and John Pomeroy .

They settled an entail on  Sinclair Pomeroy on 16 Nov 1481 and the Manor of Ingsdon on themselves until they died & in 1500 they gave  John the property  called Barnes Place in Over Ingsdon.  & was probably to given to ensure  2nd son John's position & income in the  primogenitor inheritance rules. 2nd son John seems to have married  around that time & his oldest son Hugh was born in 1519.
Its possible that this entail arose from the birth of Henry the son of Baron Henry born to  his second wife Anna Camel in about 1481. His mother Anna may have died at his birth. Baron Henry died in 7 july 1487, and the orphaned Henry went into the care of his much older half brother, the  3rd son of  Baron Henry, Sir Thomas & his wife Agnes Kelloway who already had 2 sons of their own . 

Robert Pomeroy  died in 1517  Since his son Sinclere had died before him,  John, his grandson by Sinclere , inherited the estates when he was 26 in 1518 Ilsington a large parish in Devon on Dartmoor includes Rippon Tor, Saddle Tor and Haytor extending to Bovey Tracey. Hay Tor quarries are within this parish. Bagtor, Ingsdon , Sigford and Staplehil are all small Domesday manors in this parish. Bagtor was developed into a mansion for John Ford in the dramatists in Henry VIII time.

The Beaumonts from Devon 1424 - 1453 Combe and Gittisham were the inheritance of the Beaumont family who lived in Yolstone in the Parish of Shirwell near Barnstaple. Whether or not they lived at Combe is unknown.   It also seems likely that while the head of the family lived at Yolstone, some other member of the family may have lived at Combe.

Pole writes thus - William, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Beaumont, having first passionately courted, and at length married, a young Lady of an Honourable House in this County, for which reason I shall conceal her Name. After a while, some other Fancy possessing him, he estranged himself both as to her Bed and Board, and went away to London, where he lived from her two years, then died. His Lady took this, at first, very unkindly, and for a while lived very retiredly. Until, at length, she began to admit the visits of her Friends, among which one, doing more familiarity than became him, she proved with child, ( by her lover Bodrugan )and in due time her Son was born, and bred up secretly, and without suspicion.” ( This was John Bodugan Beaumont )

By the time this son John was grown up, the Beaumonts were dying out in the male line, and finally when his Uncle Hugh died, there was no apparent heir. 

Both the Basset and the Chichester families laid claim to the Beaumont inheritance, but meanwhile John, whose existence wasn't even suspected, entered upon the Beaumont lands in Gittisham and claimed them as being the lawful son of William Beaumont.   A later Beaumont sold the property to Nicholas Putt. and the family owned the estate from 1614- 1846

SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT, of Cole Orton in Leicestershire inherited the properties of Yolston in North Devon near Barnstaple , Giddesham/Gittisham near Honiton in south east Devon and Lancarpe,(? Lancross ) near Bideford in North Devon and Elworthy in Somerset.

Gittisham near Honiton , Coombe House, built in the 14th C an Elizabethan house – that comprised of a great hall with rooms above for the owner, is set in a beautiful park on the slopes of Gittisham Hill and was probably built by Henry Beaumont who died 1591.

Close to Gitisham is a lovely pre-Georgian  house called Pomeroy Manor said to have been built by a John Pomeroy in about 1657

SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT was born at Yate in Gloucestershire 21st September, 1401, and died on Tuesday next after S. Martin the Bishop (17th November), 1460. He held lands at Barnstaple and also a house in London.

At Christmas, 1449 he paid Thomas Pomeroy, the prior of the monastery of the Holy Trinity forty shillings arrears of Quit rent for a tenement and garden in the parish of S.George, Eastcheap and S. Andrews Hubard.

By order of Privy Council 14th February 1436 he had to grant a loan of £40 towards the equipment of the army about to be sent to France.

He married before 1428 1st to Phillipa daughter of Sir John Dynhvm, issue five children

2nd to Alice, daughter of' Hugh Stewkeley of Aston.

Issue one son Richard who died before his father

http://www.beaumontfamily.com/

John Beaumont 13 December 1550 18 June 1552 Master of the Rolls

The Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls, is the second most senior judge in England and Wales, after the Lord Chief Justice.

In the early part of the thirteenth century, Henry III gave the manor of Aynkesdon, (INGSDON) in Devon to Mathew de Beaumont.

We cannot however trace anything further respecting Mathew.

In the fifteenth century the estate passed by marriage into the Pomeroy family.

The Beaumont Family Web Site (Robert and Richard Beaumont)

Includes the text of Edward T. Beaumont, The Beaumonts in History 850 to 1850 (1929) and extracts from Frederick Salmon Growse, Materials for a history of the parish of Bildeston in the county of Suffolk (1892), both in PDF format. The former includes accounts of the "Beaumont" earls of Leicester, Warwick and Worcester, and branches of the family in Devon (12th century onwards), Lincolnshire (13th century onwards), Yorkshire (12th century onwards), Suffolk and Leicestershire (15th century onwards); the latter relates to the Beaumonts of Hadleigh, 16th century and later.

C19th SHIRWELL  is four miles N.E. by N. of Barnstaple, and has 4762 acres of land. Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart, whose Baronetcy was created in 1641, is lord of the manor, and owner of most of the soil, and has a handsome seat here called Youlston Park, which one of his ancestors obtained by marrying the heiress of the Beaumonts, in the reign of Henry VII.