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The first Bevill at the Conquest was an officer under the Earl of Morton and Cornwall.
One of his descendants married a Gwairnick heiress, ( in Cornwall) who brought him the land of that name, (Gwarnick) which became the seat of the Bevills for about ten generations."—
The last heir died in the time of Henry VIII. "Guerneck of late was one of the Manor Places of Boville alias Beville.
Beuill :or Boiville; variously spelt Boville, Boeville, Beeville, and Buvilla—in the Dives Roll it is Biville—
from Beuville, near Caen. Two of this name are entered in Domesday:
Humphrey de Buiville, a baron in Herefordshire; and William de Bocvilla, an under tenant in Suffolk.
Wolstone Manor was an important estate in North Cornwall and recorded in the Domesday Book as being owned by Saewulf before 1066
In 1993 an archaeological survey records a medieval motte, a chapel of St George and a Holy Well.
Today the original Manor House no longer exists
The farm now offers self catering holidays Bevill family held the manor at Killigarth in Polperro Talland Parish in 1523, St Kew and a manor of Gwarnack in St Allen.
John Bevill, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1495 and 1502 , lived at the manor house of Killigarth in Talland parish near Polperro.
Woolstone occurs in several places in England 'meaning Wulfsige's farm'.
The name occurs in Cornwall ( near Poundstock and Barnstaple) Gloucestershire ( near Gotherington)& in the Vale of the White Horse of Oxfordshire; in Berkeshire, in Buckinghamshire, Shropshire a Woolstone in Suffolk.
The tomb of John Beville webpage here
JOHN BEVILLE, (d.1426), of Woolston in Poundstock, Cornw. Constituency Dates CORNWALL 1386
Family and Education s. and h. of John Beville† of Woolston probably by his 1st wife
Cecily.
He married by 1409, to Agnes Beaupyne (c.1386-17 Mar. 1442), widow. of John Bluet of Grindham, Som., She was daughter of the Bristol merchant Thomas Beaupyne of Bristol a prominent Bristol merchant & MP for Bristol on various occasions between 1373 and 1393, and for Somerset in 1390.
Bristol, granted Beaupyne a licence to export victuals from Bristol in 1373 and in 1377 he was ordered to arrest three ships in Bristol and elsewhere and prepare them to go to Aquitaine.
Source: , https://gasconrolls.org/indexes/entity-007381.html
John Beville & his wife Agnes had 1 son ,Humphrey and one daughter Margaret Beville
Beville acted - Commander. of arrest, Cornwall. Feb. 1388; array Apr. 1418; to treat for loans Nov. 1419, Jan 1420. Sheriff, Cornwall. 1 Dec. 1396-3 Nov. 1397, Devon 23 Apr.-22 Oct. 1404, 1 Dec. 1415-30 Nov. 1416. J.P. Cornwall. 3 Feb. 1416 Feb. 1422.
Beville’s career spanned nearly 40 years, but his activities in the early stages are difficult to trace with certainty, especially as his father (knight of the shire for Cornwall in 1376, 1378 and 1380) was still busy in 1393.
John junior first appears as keeper of the lands of certain outlaws in ‘Kelemson’, Cornwall, in 1379, and subsequently, in 1385, he acted as surety for his father. The latter was sheriff of Cornwall (for the second time) in the autumn of 1386, and so, by virtue of his office, held the elections at which John junior was returned to Parliament.
After that date, save in his commission to arrest men for disturbances against the under sheriff in 1388, distinction was rarely made between him and his father.
There is some doubt as to which John Beville was the sheriff of 1396-
Beville’s personal relationships are also unclear. Agnes Beaupyne may have been his second wife, for in September 1381 Bishop Brantingham had issued a commission to hear a matrimonial cause brought against Beville by Margaret, daughter of Richard Coletone. The matter in dispute is not mentioned, though such cases usually involved disagreement over the validity of nuptials.
It is curious that Beville appears to have sat in the Commons only once. He took a fair share of public service in his county later. And, indeed, his burden at one stage must have been considerable: certainly, after his term as sheriff in November 1416, he received exoneration of £50 owed to the Exchequer ‘in consideration of his great losses and costs in office’.
He was present at the Cornish elections to the Parliaments of 1414 (Nov.), 1417 and 1421 (Dec.), and at the Devonshire elections held at Exeter in April 1421. His local activities included the feoffeeship of the estates of William, Lord Botreaux, and, towards the end of his life, the guardianship of Thomas Rescarreck (one of John Chenduyt’s* heirs).
Beville was a man of greater substance than his father, partly as a result of his marriage to an heiress. At his death he held the family property at Woolston (Cornwall), Barkington and Sparkwell (Staverton near Totnes in Devon), his wife’s inheritance of the manor and hundred of North Petherton (Somerset) and Grindham, ‘Faryngton’ and ‘Iwode’ (formerly Bluet property) in the same county. Elsewhere, in Devon and Cornwall, he owned 35 messuages and some 850 acres of land.
These estates alone gave him an income of about £60 a year. Beville was able to lend 60 marks to the Crown in 1415, receiving as security (with other Devon men) ‘the duke of Burgundy’s great tabernacle’.
He died on 13 Jan. 1426, leaving a son Humphrey, then aged 17 years, as his heir.
Margaret who was wife to Edward Pomeroy by 1404 was the child of his 1st Wife Margaret de Collaton.
Humphrey Beville – was he father of Isabelle who married Thomas Worthe?
it seems likely-
In 1458 Isabella Bevill daughter of Humphrey Bevill of Wolstone, (he was born in Ipswich- Suffolk) was married in Ipswich -Suffolk to Thomas Worth of Wolstone in Ipswich son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton. There was a dispute between this pair over lands at Wolstone. –
A John Speke was witness to a grant on 11 August 1459 to John Wynard, esq (of manor of Wolveston, and other lands). - The deed mentioned may be a record of the division of Wolstone Manor land between John Wynard and Thomas Worth whose wife was Elizabeth Bevile, daughter of Humphrie Bevile (aka Devile) who as Humphries' heir seems to have some claim to the Wolston land. But Thomas Worth was the son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton and he also might have some claim to the Wolston lands through his mother's family who are also connected to the Bevile or Beville line.
Sources: Type: Web Site URL:
www.law.harvard.edu/library.special/collections/manuscripts - non functioning 2022
Humphrey Bevill de Woolston was born Ipswich in Suffolk 1395 his daughter Isabella Bevill of Wolstone and Thomas Worth b 1420 who was son of a Worth and a Milliton and who were married in Ipswich Suffolk. Isabella and Thomas Worth had along running dispute over land at Wolstone.
Bevill family held the manor at Killigarth in Polperro Talland Parish in 1523, St Kew and a manor of Gwarnack in St Allen. John Bevill, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1495 and 1502 , lived at the manor house of Killigarth in Talland parish near Polperro,.
Today 2003 Killigarth Manor is a holiday camp!
The Bevill family had connections with Woolston Manor near Bude . The most notorious incumbent of Woolston manor was the villainous John Beville who in 1358 was tried for murder and only his position in society saved him. His habit was to kidnap wealthy merchants, and imprison them until a ransom was paid.
He may well have been the grand father of John Bevill whose daughter Margaret Bevill married Edward Pomeroy in 1435
Raph Bevill married Jone Fitzwilliam. They had at least 3 sons
John Peter Beville, Raymond Beville & Ralph Bevill
John Bevill b 1360, son of Raph Bevill and Jone Fitzwilliam, of the manor of Wolstone, near Bude Died 1426
1st married Margaret Collaton presumed to have married circa 1381 - see below **
their daughter Margaret Bevill edb 1390 married Edward Pomeroy circa 1404
2nd John married Agnes Beaupayn circa 1407 . She was co heir of an extremely wealthy Bristol wool merchant Thomas Beaupayne
According to the Parliamentary website Beville’s personal relationships are also unclear.
** September 1381 Bishop Brantingham had issued a commission to hear a matrimonial cause brought against Beville by Margaret, daughter of Richard Coletone
The matter in dispute is not mentioned, though such cases usually involved disagreement over the validity of nuptials.
There was a pre-marriage settlement between John Beville & presumably Thomas Pomeroy, Edward's grandfather, made in 1404 and another settlement some 30 years later, in 1435, some 10 years after her father died in 1426, which is somewhat puzzling.
It seems to have been an arrangement made when she was very young. Son Henry was 30 when his father died in 1446 making his birth around 1414. She and Edward were cheated out of the title until after Sir Thomas died - He came from a cadet btanch and married Joanna Chudliegh, the daughter of Sir John without permission fromn the king. He, with Joanna's cousin & co heir John Cole made many vexatious suits against Edward , even throwing him out of a window at one point . They seemed to have gone to live at Tregony whilst Thomas held sway and the two sides litigated against each other.
Edward and Margaret Pomeray request that a writ be directed to Thomas Pomeray to appear before the Duke on the quinzaine of Holy Trinity next to show why they should not be restored to their possession of the manor of Tregony.
Margaret outlived her husband and died in 1461 at Barkington a prperty owned by r=the Worthe family in Staverton parish not far from Berry Pomeroy.
Her husband Edward inherited the Barony of Pomeroy in 1426 then died in 1446. Margaret died at Berkerdon in Staverton near Totnes in 1461.
They had two sons of record Henry the heir who married Alice Raleigh and John who spouse was Joan and whose son Robert married Elizabeth Beaumont who brought Ingsdon Manor to the Pomeroy family as her dowry.
The grandson of a later Beville, John Wydeslade, organised the rebellion against the introduction of the English prayer book in 1549.of which Sir Thomas Pomeroy was a part Wyndeslade was defeated at the Battle of Cliftondown and was executed at Tyburn.
Maud Bevill, the wife of Sir Richard Grenville of Buckland, Marshall of Calais under Henry VIII.,bred a race of heroes.
Her son was the bold sea-captain that "courted danger as a mistress," and matched his single ship against the whole Spanish fleet: her great-grandson was the Cavalier leader Sir Bevill Grenville and his brother the boldly brilliant military strategist, Sir Richard Grenville the Kings General in the West . both of whom led the fight again Cromwell.
The defeat brought destruction of their manor houses, unfortunately Wolstone amongst them, although the barton farm still exists calling itself Woolston Manor Farm. [barton being OE for home farm. From the remains of the derelict manor, the present farmhouse was built around 1680. After being owned by a famous Cornish tin mining family, the Bassets of Tehidy, it eventually passed to Edward Mucklow in 1875.
Throughout the 20th century four generations of the Bluett family owned Wolstone but gradually the old medieval buildings became unsuitable for modern farming and fell into disrepair.
1458 Isabella Bevill daughter of Humphrey Bevill of Wolstone
Their daughter Isabella married in Ipswich to Thomas Worth of Wolstone son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton.
Henry KILLIGREW was born in Wolston, Cornwall his daughter
Blanche KILLIGREW was born in Wolston, Cornwall, and died 14 DEC 1596.
She married John WREY. He was born in North Russell, Devon and died APR 1577.
Children of Blanche KILLIGREW and John WREY included
Sir William Wrey ,Knight , Of Trebigh (in St Cleer Cornwall ) died JUN 1636 married Elizabeth COURTENAY 1600, daughter of William COURTENAY, born in Powderham Castle,Devon
Their daughter Phillipa married Sir William Upton of Puslinch Newton Ferrers.
A long running Land Dispute between Bevill and Worth at Wolstone ~
Thomas Worth married Isabella Bevill daughter of Humphrey Bevill of Wolstone and there was a dispute between them over lands at Wolstone. Thomas Worth was son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton
Declaration by Robert Spurway of Tiverton, Devon, gentleman; that at the session of peers holden at Exeter after Michaelmas Henry VI [1458]
he endeavored to persuade THOMAS WORTHE to agree to an equal partition with John Wynard of the lands of HUMFEY BEVILE (a.k.a. Devile) in Wolston (or Wolveston or Wolneston) as yet undivided. Whereto the said Thomas agreed for his tyme with that Isabelle his wife [that they] wold thereto consent, [if] and also that all deedis contayning the inheritances of his owne descente whych wer a little befor taken away by the said John might be first to him devised again, upon which desire of deedis and of other thyngs the co-partyners varied and departed in wrath in my presence and hearing.
The paper draft of the grant which should have settled this dispute appears in this exhibit as No. 28.22 1501 May 23
Certificate of John Brode, curate of Mynster in the county of Cornwall, the freeholders of which parish are suitors to Edward lord Hastings by reason of the honour of Botreaux Castle and Worthevale in the said parish, of which honour the manor of Wolston is held, that on the Sunday before Whitsunday THOMAS WORTHE of Worthe in Devon, esquire, came and prayed me in my parish church to examine my parisshioners upon the name [of the said manor] to saie the trouth, Thay enswearing me with oon vois said Wolston [that it was] not know[n]e by that name Wolneston by any of [them who] can remember and that thay alle praied me in ther behalf so to testiWe.
THOMAS WORTH the son , who was building on an already extensive patrimony in neighbouring Devonshire. It sheds light on the type of jury vote which was often employed to determine the ownership or tenurial history of a piece of land. If the deeds held by Thomas described his lands as lying in a place which no longer existed, as far as public opinion was concerned, he might lose his right to them through the misnomer.
It is also a perfect example of how place-names might change over time: probably pronounced it Wooston the pronunciations of the original Wolneston or Wolviston had become unrecognisable, since the locals thought of their manor as Wolston
The dispute appears in the records of Harvard University.
There are two records which mention NICHOLAS de la Pomeroy and Margaret Beville spouse of Sir Edward grandson son of the 5th son Thomas , one of the five sons of Henry Pomeroy & his wife Johanna Moels .
The five sons who were subject of a successive entail created by their parents and were Henry the heir died 1373 ,2nd John d 1358, 3rd William,
4th son was Nicholas, Lord of Dartmouth, Sheriff of Devon and also called Nicholas of Tewkesbury a merchant of influence brother to 5th son Thomas who served at Shrewsbury in the English crowns campaigns against the Welsh
These medieval men at arms, knights who served as soldiers to the monarch.
TRADE
Thomas BEAUPAYNE wool Merchant of Bristol
John Bevill b 1360, son of Raph Bevill and Jone Fitzwilliam, of the manor of Wolstone,
1st married Margaret Collaton circa 1381 their daughter Margaret Bevill edb 1390 married Edward Pomeroy circa 1404
John Beivill 2nd wife was Agnes Beaupayn dau of Thomas BEAUPAYNE of Bristol circa 1407 . She was a co heir of her father an extremely wealthy Bristol wool merchant
A petition to the Chancellor from Thomas Beaupayne, Thomas Colston, John Barstaple & John Wylkyns of Bristol and Nicholas Briddalep of Gloucester alleging they chartered a Danzig ship , freighted it with tar, pitch, boards, bowstaves & wax & that it was wrecked near Yarmouth with part of its cargo wrongfully seized by bailiffs 1389
a commission was appointed 1390 to make restitution sadly for AJP the result is in Latin.
footnote
Close Rolls Colston & Wylkyns traded together 1377-1381
A cargo 5 Jan1379 on the ship Juliane of Bristol '
master John de Vay from PORTUGAL
lists the cargo
John Wodele 11 tuns of oil worth £76/6/8d
Richard Spicer 10 tuns of pipe oil £53/6/8
Walter Citiller 4 tuns of oil £20/0/0
John Somerviell 2 tuns of oil £10/0/0
Hugh POMERE 1 pipe of oil £2/14/4
Thomas Beaupayne 5 tuns of oil £25/0/0
John Canyngus 2 tuns of pipe oil £12/10/0
John Hakeston sen, 5 tuns of oil £33/6/8
a tun was a large barrel about 250 gallons
a pipe was a cask -equal to half a tun about 60 gallons
source from my bookshelf Overseen Trade of Bristol;by E.M. Carus - Wilson M.A. pub by Barnes & Noble of New York 1937
Ralph Bevill son of Raph and Jone Fitzwilliam married Jone Tretherfe.
Their son Raymond or Reynold married Margaret Arundel of Lanherne House in St Columb Major
where the Arundells were the most influential family .
issue
Elizabeth ,
Isabella
Raph Bevill. married a Tregidney.
Issue
John married Katherine Trefoius
Issue
John married Elizab'th Mathadarda 1435.
Issue
John, 1438
Peter 1436
Katherine 1442.
Peter Bevill appears to have married twice
He inherited Killigarth Manor in Talland, near Polperro Cornwall
He married
1st Maude Tresithney by whom he had
John Bevill
2nd wife Thomasine Leigh
Issue
*Peter b 1492, married Phillipa Beare
Isabella 1494 married Peter Pentire,
Michael 1496
Elizabeth 1498 married John Parker in 1524.
son * Peter Bevill 1492 married Phillipa Beare
by whom he had,
1 Agnes,
2. William,Beville
3. Joan,
4. Mary,
5. Peter Beville
6. Phillip Beville
7. John Bevill married Elizabeth Milliton at Killigarth
Issue
1544 Elizabeth, married Henry Meggs
1546 Agnes, married Walter Kendall
1548 William Bevill married Jane Arundell
1550 Joan married Humphrey Prideaux
1555 Peter Bevill married Grace Viel. 9-Sep 1591
Their only daughter Elizabeth married Sir Barnard Greville son & heir was Sir Beville Grenville1556 Mary Married William Pomeroy,
1558 Phillip Bevill married Elizabeth Berry
1569 William married Jane Arundell
Online Parish clerks confirms that it was Peter Bevill married Grace Vyell or Viell
9-Sep 1591 St Breock,
Peter BEVILL, Esq married Mistress Grace VIELL, one of the co heirs of her grandfather William Vyell, Esq.
Bevills rather magnificent tomb is in St Tallanus church
at LANSALLOS TALLAND
AJP NOTE -I researched this almost 20 years ago
Wolfyston is Wolston a known Beville manor -1458 Isabella Bevill daughter of Humphrey Bevill of Wolstone of Ipswich married in Ipswich to Thomas Worth of Wolstone son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton.Thomas Worth was son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton and there was a dispute between this pair over lands at Wolstone.
Declaration by Robert Spurway of Teverton, Devon, gentleman; that at the session of peers holden at Exeter after Michaelmas Henry VI [1458] he endeavored to persuade THOMAS WORTHE to agree to an equal partition with John Wynard of the lands of HUMFEY BEVILE (a.k.a. Bevile) in Wolston (or Wolveston or Wolneston) as yet undivided. Whereto the said Thomas agreed for his tyme with that Isabelle his wife [that they] wold thereto consent, [if] and also that all deedis contayning the inheritances of his owne descente whych wer a little befor taken away by the said John might be first to him devised again, upon which desire of deedis and of other thyngs the co-partyners varied and departed in wrath in my presence and hearing.
The paper draft of the grant which should have settled this dispute appears in this exhibit as No. 28.22 1501 May 23
Harry and Richard POMEROY are to release to Thomas Worthe and the heirs of his body all their title to the mansion place of Wolfyston with the beere, colverhay, orchards and gardens around it, with their parcels and closes there called Towneplace, Chapelparke, Sywneparke, Oxenparke, Yeawthorne, Woodparke, Yeerdparke, Yeerdhayes and Blakedonparke, and with all their tenements called Conkesburgh and Fullescroft with 12/- of rent due yearly to the said manor,
provided that Thomas Worthe shall maintain the ditch between Northeparke, Langham and the colverhay and beere.
They are to sell the wood between heel land and Woodparke and share the value between them.
Richard is to pay half the costs of copying the Woodaye and for half the damages of the Woodparke 'defouled' at the time of the 'saal and outsettyng'.
Richard is to receive all the rents from 2.'s lands until the next feast of Lammas, and for that will bear all costs of the actions against Sir William Stonor taken against 2. until the next feast of Lammas.
Harry & Richard also covenant to Thomas Worthe that they will no longer dissieze him of his possession of the manor of Berkedon in the parish of Staverton until the time that Harry & Richard Pomeroy can show any evidence proving that Margaret POMEROY, Harry's mother, had in her widowhood any right to the manor by descent from John Bevile
( Margaret Beville widow of Edward who died 1447- she died 1461)
Date: London, 26th November, 2 Henry VII 1487
Written in English Seal: round, shield and inscription, blurred
The children of Edward Pomeroy & Margaret Beville
Henry the heir who married Alice Raleigh;
John of Cornwall whose son Robert is head of the Ingsdon branch
Seisin (or seizin) denotes the legal possession of a feudal fiefdom or fee, for an estate in land.
Woolston Manor from the air
Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/17/1 1451
Deed of gift
1. Margaret of la Pomeray, widow ( Edward deied 1446
2. William Bourchier knt., lord Fitz Waryn, Henry Pomeray esq., Thomas Mannying clerk, Nicholas Pomeray esq., John Southcote and John Wode
Premises: Margaret Pomeroy ( nee Beville) manor of Berkedon (Barkingdon) and all the messuages, lands, tenements, reversions, rents and services which Margaret Pomeroy has in Berkedon, Sperkwyll, Berkedon Hoke, Aylescote and Southdon
Witnesses: Henry Crokke, John Brussheforde, Richard Tukker, Geoffrey Veale, Henry Southcote, Henry Noreys, Thomas Tassell
Date: Monday after the feast of St Michael the Archangel, 30 Henry VI 1451.
Also, Henry and Nicholas witnessed in 1460;
Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/17/2 1460
Contents: Bond
1. John Wynard
2. John Reymy and Henry Brokke
In 1,000 marks that 1. and Thomas Worthe and Isabel his wife will obey the judgement of Nicholas Hervy, John Orchard and Christopher Cooke on behalf of 1., Thomas and Isabel, and of John Denys, Thomas Dourisshe the younger and William Fouhell on behalf of Margaret of la Pomeray, as to the title to the manors of Berkedon and Sparkewyll and lands and tenements in Hooke in the parish of Ashreigney, also of manors, lands and tenements in Pengerseke, Pengelle and Methele in Cornwall provided that the arbitration is made before the next octave of the Nativity of St John the Baptist
Found April 2014
Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/24/9
1486 Contents: Covenant
1. Harry (Henry ) POMEROY and Richard POMEROY of Berry POMEROY squires,
2. Thomas Worthe of Worthe, squire
2. agrees to be at Exeter the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before St Hilary or at Berry POMEROY the
Thursday or Friday after St Hilary to convey to Richard and the heirs of his body all the parcels and lands in the
manor of Wolfyston in Cornwall lying by the north side of the highway between the oxenhows yeat and Poundstoke,(Poundstock North Cornwall ) that is a mead called Langham with those closes called Northeparke, Conyng, Weteley, Lombardy, Strifeacr., Whetersh meed and Ryspet and with all their tenements called Crowthorn Moore and Kenacote.
IPM from Mapping the Medieval Countryside
Source http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/place/1577
Bibtex- King's College London, 2014.
| Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/place/1577 [Accessed: 23/9/2016]
Barkingdon, Birkingdon manor ( Staverton Parish near Totnes )
John Beville Esq. heir Humphrey Beville
IPM Referenced in E-CIPM(s)
E-CIPM Date Inquisition subject Document type Holding
22-585 09 Apr 1426 Bevile, John, Esquire Inquisition 2 messuages, 140 a. land, 2 a. meadow, 20 a. pasture...
25-561 24 May 1442 Agnes Who Was Wife Of John Bevyle, Esquire Inquisition PM Barkingdon and Sparkwell, 6 messuages, 140 a. land...
E-CIPM Inquisition Date County Role(s) Document Type
22-584 1426-04-17 Cornwall Deforciant grantee, Remainder to heirs, Subject Of Inquisition Inquisition
22-585 1426-04-09 Devon Querent grantee, Remainder to heirs, Subject Of Inquisition Inquisition
JOHN BEVYLE, ESQUIRE
584 Writ. ‡ 5 February 1426. [Wymbyssh]
CORNWALL. Inquisition. Stratton. 17 April 1426. [Copleston]
John Beville son & heir of John Beville of Woolston possibly by his 1st w. Cecily.
By 1409, he married Agnes Beaupyne (c.1386-17 Mar. 1442), da. and coh. of Thomas Beaupyne* of Bristol & wid. of John Bluet of Grindham, Som., 1 son Humphrey. 1 da. Maragret Pomeroy
Jurors: Robert Hurdewyke ; Robert Pyne of Ham; Ralph Arundell de Trerys; Thomas Trevysyk ; John Trevysyk, senior ; Nicholas Legh ; Richard Langedon ; Richard Gerveys ; John Trengere ; Richard Morton ; Baldwin Whyttyston ; and Richard Dromond .
He died seised of a messuage, 40 a. land and 20d. rent in Trennick in his demesne as of fee, held of the king in chief of his duchy of Cornwall, of his manor of Moresk in free socage, by fealty, 3s. 4d. rent at the Invention of the Cross and Michaelmas, and suit to the manor court of Moresk, annual value 26s. 8d.
Long before his death he was seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Woolston, 25 messuages, a corn-mill, 300 a. land, 100 a. pasture and 5s. rent, in Drannack, Trevear, Bosvine, Trevilley and Mayon. By a fine oct. Purification 1425 [CP 25/1/291/65 no.39], shown to the jurors, between Nicholas Langeford and John Raynold, clerk , quer. and John Bevyle and Agnes his wife, deforc., the quer. granted the manor, tenement and rent to John and Agnes, and the heirs of their bodies, to hold of the chief lords of the fees by services pertaining to the manor, tenement and rent, successive remainders to the heirs of John Bevyle and then to the right heirs of Thomas Pridiaux, knight , to hold as above. The manor remains in full to the right heirs of John Bevyle . He died seised in this estate jointly with Agnes, who survives, in the above manner and form.
Woolston. The manor is held of William Lord Botreaux, knight , of his manor of Worthyvale by service of a knight’s fee Mortain and by homage, fealty and suit of court. In the manor there are 20 messuages, 300 a. land, 30 a. meadow, 4 a. wood and 100 a. pasture, annual value 25 marks.
Of the above tenements
15 messuages, corn-mill, 100 a. land, 50 a. pasture and 5s. rent in Drannack are held of John Antron by fealty, annual value 12 marks
4 messuages, 100 a. land, 20 a. pasture in Trevear are held of the heirs of John Penros by fealty, annual value 40s.
3 messuages, 50 a. land and 30 a. pasture in Bosvine are held of the same heirs by service of 1/18 knight’s fee Mortain, annual value 20s.
2 messuages, 20 a. land and 5 a. pasture in Trevilley are held of John Botron by fealty, annual value 13s. 4d.
; and a messuage, 10 a. land and 5 a. pasture in Mayon are held of John Penros ’ heirs by service of a red rose at Midsummer, annual value 10s.
[Acreages as above.]
He died on 13 January 1426. Humphrey his son is his next heir, aged 17 years and more
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