CAMELL

Dorset home of the Barrett's
Robert Camell negotiated marriage contracts for his daughters, Anne and Katherine, which effectively walled of the property he settled upon each couple, so it would not be transferred irrevocably to their husbands.

These settlements specified that the lands were to go to the "heirs of her body," with remainder to his own right heirs. Some of the lands Camell settled upon his daughters came from his father’s sister, Joan Plecy, who in turn had inherited extensively from her brother, John Plecy. in 1416.
Robert  had additional lands, suggesting a previous marriage settlement of his own.

Anna/Amy , the second daughter of Robert Camell was married first, at a very early age, to Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, Dorset, a Wiltshire Wool Merchant with connections to Exeter and Dorchester.
The wool merchants of the mid-15th century became very wealthy   shipping local wool and cloth out of Exeter, Bristol and Bridport to Ireland, Calais and Bruges. Anna was widowed young, and obtained full control of her husband's property, and was free to dispose of this “personal property” as she chose. She chose to settle it entirely upon the single "heir of her body,” a daughter, Johanna Barret,  when she was  married  to William Kelloway , son of another family of land owning gentry and wealthy wool merchants in Sherborne.
All of the Camell and Barret lands from her mother became irrevocably merged with the Kelloways. The Kelloways, a gentry family with a long history in Sherborne, engaged in all aspects of growing, clipping, tucking, and weaving wool and cloth. 

William Kelloway and Joanna Barrett were parents of several children, including Agnes, William, and Thomas. Johanna, sadly, did not live to see them grow upand her husband William remarried. The lands Johanna brought to the Kelloways from her grandfather Robert Camell, and father Henry Barrett become the inheritance of their eldest son William Kellaway, junior. Childless, William named two of nephews as heirs.

ANNE (CAMELL) BARRET AND THOMAS GYLL
Te Dorchester, Dorset connections of Robert Camell included the King’s Escheator, Thomas Gyll, the younger of Hacche Arundel . Widowed and still very young, Anne Camell Barrett was introduced to the Dartmouth ship owner and merchant with extensive interests in London, Calais, and the West Country. A marriage was arranged between Anne by her father Robert Camell and her uncle, John Wykes, of Bindon in Axminster.

The 15th century Gylls of Dartmouth were notable ship-owners and merchants. Thomas Gyll the elder served as a MP for Dartmouth six times; Father and son served as collector of customs in Exeter and Dartmouth, and on many commissions. Thomas Gyll, the elder settled an assortment of properties in Devon upon the couple in 1459. Anne left her daughter and her Dorset lands behind for a new life in Devon.

THE POMEROY CONNECTION

Anne (Camell) ( Barret) Gyll was widowed for a second time, around the year 1472- 1474. The property Anne and Thomas Gyll owned between them was under no entail, and there were no children. As before, Anne ended up in total control of the lands, rents and properties accumulated during her 2nd marriage. That which had been settled upon the couple by Thomas Gyll, the elder was confirmed hers for life; that which her husband had purchased or inherited during their marriage became hers entirely.

Her lands and properties were substantial and attractive to the widowed named  Henry Pomeroy,Esq of Berri Pomeroy whose own land Included in Bowden, at Totnes; Ashprington and Langdon. The Camell coat of arms seen at Bowden suggests Anne and Thomas Gyll had occupied the house prior to her marriage to Pomeroy. She also held the manors of Boohay, Woodhuish in Brixham, and the manor, lands and rents of Hatcch in Loddiswell, and the manor of Stokenham near Kingsbridge.

The archives reveal that Thomas Gyll   held property in Devon, Somerset  and Dorset.

The close social and political relationship between Henry Pomeroy, esquire of Berry Pomeroy and the Gyles of Dartmouth, are revealed in the Patent Rolls

Dartmouth Harbor NOTES: Lands from John Plecy: 13 May 1416.

Northampton:. Manor Burton called ‘Plecymanor. Surrey: Leatherhead. 3 parts of the manor of Headley. Hampshire: Fordingbridge. Dorset: Sturminster Marshall: Wimborne St. Giles, Sutton and Romford, Shapwick: Christchurch . West Parley. 1 carucate in Marnhill and Kentlesworth,

1461: Patent Rolls: Membrane 14:
April 8: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Gylle, the younger, Seinclere Pomeroy and John Ralegh to arrest Edward Peverell and deliver him before the king in Chancery.
April 9: Appointment of Thomas Wille the younger in Exeter and Dartmouth as controller of the petty customs, the subsidy of wools and wool-fells for the port of Exeter and Dartmouth, receiving the accustomed fees, provided that he execute the ofce in person.
1462: Membrane 24: Feb 23: Grant for life Thomas Gille the younger of the ofce of the water-bailiwick in the port of Dartmouth and places and creeks adjacent, with profts as in the last year of Edward III. and the frst of Richard II.
1463: Membrane 18d. Jan. 12: Commission to William Bourghchier of Fitz Waren, knight, Humphrey Staford of Southwyk, knight, Phillip Courtenay, knight, Charles Dynham, Walter Ralegh, John Giffard, John Orchard, Henry Pomeroy, Thomas Gill the younger, William Coffyn and John Speccot to arrest and imprison certain persons who are trying to excite dissension within the county of Devon.
1464: Membrane 7d. August 15: Commission to Thomas Wyse, esquire, Oto Gilberd, esq. Thomas Gille, Esq. and John Giford to enquire what lands and tenements Baldwin Fulford, knight, who has forfeited to the kind,

1465: Patent Rolls: Membrane 28: June 16: Pardon, for 10 marks paid in the hanaper, of the trespass in the acquisition for life without license by Phillippa Broughton, now deceased, late the wife of John Dynham, knight, from John Dynham, John Coplestone, and John Halshanger, clerk, now deceased, and Thomas

Gylle, who still survives , a carucate of land in Croston, co. Somerset, held in chief by knight service, and the manor of Fenotery, co. Devon, held in chief by rent of 4l. 4s. 8d. yearly at the Exchequer at the hands of the sherif of Devon, with remainder to the said John, John, John and Thomas and their heirs.

1465: July 14: Membrane 22nd: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Thomas Dowerish, and the sherif of Devon to arrest Thomas Fulford, knight.
1466: March 4: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, esquire, Thomas Gale (sic) and Nicholas Southcote, sergeant at arms, to enquire into the report that a hold of Prussia, laden with divers goods and merchandise, sailing to England, foundered near the town of Plymouth, co. Devon, and that divers goods and merchandise and gear came ashore, and to seize such goods and merchandise and gear. (Membrane 14d. Patent Rolls.)

1466: April 9: Te same: To enquire in the counties of Devon and Cornwall into the report that a hulk laden with divers goods and merchandise of Bernard de la Barde and other merchants was wrecked near the town of Plymouth. (Membrane 5d. Patent Rolls.)

Some of the lands of Thomas Gyll:  June 17. 1466. Westminster.
To the escheator in Somerset. Order to take the fealty of Thomas Gylle due for one carucate of land in Corston and for the manor of Fenotery co. Devon, and to give him seisin of that land, but to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manors of Northome and Criket Malerbe, delivering to him any issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that John Dynham, John Coplestone, Thomas Gylle and John Halshanger clerk were seised of the land and manors aforesaid, and without the king's licence by charter indented, dated Kyngescarswill co. Devon, Maundy Tursday, 7 Henry VI, made a demise thereof

among other thingsto Philippa Broughton, late the wife of John Dynham knight, for her life, with reversion to themselves and their heirs, that the said John, John and John died in her life time and the said Thomas over lived them and was solely seised of the said reversion; that he is yet alive, that the said land is held of the king by knight service, and the said manors of others than the king; and for a fine paid in the hanaper by letters patent of 16 June last, the king pardoned the said trespass, and for 6s. 8d. therein paid has respited the homage of the said Thomas until Easter day next.

Thomas Gylle the elder frst appears in the records of Dartmouth after 1430, a notable shipowner and merchant of some substance with connections to London. He was six times MP for the town between 1433 and 1455, and one of the collectors of customs in Exeter and Dartmouth in 1439 and in 1453. Between 1431 and 1435 he had frequently served on commissions to arrest men, ships and goods brought into West Country ports. In 1436, he was licensed to equip and arm two of his
ships, l’Antony and Le Katerine, both of Dartmouth, together with two supporting balingers or barges. For this short time, at least, he was a fully accredited privateer
In 1448 Thomas Gylle, the younger is sworn in an as as Escheator for Cornwall and Devon. Suggesting a man of some status. (Fine rollshttps://ia800309.us.archive.org/22/items/calendarofnero18greauoft/calendarof nero18greauoft.pdf )

1463. March 26. Baret Family of Sherborne – Dorset Record Office
D/1548/1: Bond to fll an arbitration judgement.i
(1) William Baret, son of John Baret late of Sherborne
(2) William Kayleway senior, William Kayleway and Joanne (Barret) his
wife. Property: manors and lands in ‘Babbeton,’ Stockton, Sherrington, Wylye, Tisbury, Whiteparish and Hamptsworthe in Wilts., and the manor and advowson of Lillington, Bagber, Sherborne, ‘Duleford,’ Pimperne, Nutford in Pimperne, ‘Lokky’ [Nutford in Lokky now France Farm], Stourpaine, Blandford and Moor Crichel

– Bond: (1) to (2) L59.6s.8d. to be paid 24 June next.
1492. 1497, 1506, 1518)
William Cayleway listed as one of the ‘freeholders’ of Whiteparish, Wilts
1492. William Kayleway of Whiteparish, one of those appointed as a commissioner to collect the ‘ffteenth & tenths,” excepting the city of Salisbury [Calendar of Fine Rolls, Vol XXII,1485-1509].
-Robert Kelloway and his son, John, were in possession of Babbeton [Bapton?], Tisbury and were connected with Hamptsworth in Wilts. Robert was in possession of ‘Duleford’ and Lillington in Dorset. Lillington later belonged to Robert’s son, Martin (will 1575).

BOWDEN AT TOTNES: 1475-1555

There was a Pomeroy family associated with Bowden, in Totnes, between Circa 1476-1555.

Family Tree:
1. Henry Pomeroy, esquire of Berry Pomeroy whose his first wife Alice Ralegh had giveb him at least 6 children before she died . He  married his 2nd wife in  Sept 1478. Anne Camell was daughter of Robert Camell a wool merchant of Fiddleford; Anne /Amy  widow of William Barrett of Whiteparish  by whom she had a daughter Joanna Barret who married William Kelloway a wool mercnat famly & whose granddaugher Agnes married Thomas Pomeroy Anna's the 3rd son of her 3rd husbands; also widow of Thomas Gyle of Hacche Arundell, (Hatch) near Loddiswell in the south Hams of Devonshire. Gyle was a Dartmouth merchant whose death gave her full control over all his properties 

2nd generation: Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son, b c 1445, who married  Agnes Kelloway. AJP believes there must have been an age gap of some 25 0r 30 years between these two.. 

3rd generation: Richard Pomeroy m Eleanor Coker.who in 1544 married his  2nd wife  Anne Wykyes widow of Thomas Artur of Clapton in Gordeno on the Severn Estuary coast  south west of Bristol. She came with 3 children, one babe in arms born after her 1st husbands death.

Amy or Anna Camell had been 1st married to Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, Wiltshire. 2nd she married Thomas Gyll of Loddiswell & Dartmouth, Devon. (C 1460). 

Her 3rd: husband was Henry Pomeroy, esq, of Berry Pomeroy. A succession of records demonstrate that she brought Bowden to the Pomeroy's and passed them on to the 3rd son of Henry, named Thomas, at the time of his marriage to Agnes Kelloway, Anna's granddaughter.

This post explores the connections of Richard Pomeroy, born in 1492 at Bowden in Totnes, the son of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes nee Kelloway.

Subsequent posts will follow Richard Pomeroy of Bowden to lands in Clapton in Gordano, Weston Super Mare, and other hereditary properties of his 2nd wife, Anne Wykes, widow of Thomas Arthur

AJP & AML  have collaborated over many hours on this man, and have found this to be a very long, complicated story.

The records reveal that Richard Pomeroy, in addition to the Devon properties inherited from his father and mother, held lands in Clapton in Gordano etc, in Somersetshire. Richard was the 2nd son and eventual heir of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes, of Bowden at Totnes. He lived between 1492 and 1575.

What complicated the search for this man was the place he had been given by Powley, (page 81), in which he was listed as the grandson of Thomas and Agnes Pomeroy.

Powley: P. 81: “Thomas died on the Saturday after Christmas 9 Henry VII-29 Dec 1493. His holdings included land and meadow in Baudon, Blaudon, Ivecombe and Langedon (Totnes.) “Free scotages.”

“HENRY, the son and heir, was aged 12 at his father’s death. (IPM.Henry VII, I. 398)

The Benolt visitation of Devonshire, 1531, gives Richard, Amy, Anne, Margaret, Thomasin and Elizabeth as children, making (1) Richard to marry Elenor, third daughter of John Coker of Dorsetshire, from which union derived a Henry and a John, (2) Amy to marry Thomas Tresoyell of Cornwall, with Joan for issue, (3) Anne to marry Tristram Henscote of Exeter, with John, Nicholas and Agnes their ofspring. (Devonshire Visitation, 1531: Ashmole MS. 763.) “

Powley, Page 102: “Other Pomeroys”

Richard Pomerey ( -1519?/42- ), probably, in 1519, of Sandridge (v.p.87) owed, in 1523, 8 pounds to the Crown, and received in 1525 the wardship of John, son and heir of Thomas Giles and Joan. It was most likely this Richard who served in 1544, in the army against France, he being of the “battle” (the chamber) and providing seven horsemen.”

RICHARD POMEROY, SON OF THOMAS AND AGNES POMEROY, BORN 1492.

Richard Pomeroy (Powley, p. 102), was in fact the younger son and eventual heir of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes Kelloway, husband of Elenor Coker. His position in the family was revealed by the IPM of Agnes, and a series of Chancery suits between Richard Pomeroy and Sir Edward Pomeroy.

We can fnd no further record of Henry, named as son and heir of Thomas, “age 12 and more,” in the 1492 IPM of his father, Thomas.

Thomasine Barrett is given as “one of the daughters of Thomas,” in the IPM for Agnes, therefore clarifying that the siblings listed by Powley on p. 81 are not the children of Henry, but of Thomas and Agnes.

Other complications to be worked through were the omission of signifcant births and marriages, found in the records, but overlooked by earlier studies of this family.

Richard's story actually begins with his maternal great grandmother, Amy Cammel, of Dorset, a woman who had three marriages: 1st Barrett, 2nd Thomas Gyll, and 3rd Henry Pomeroy. It is she who brought Bowdon in Totnes and other properties, both in Devon and Dorset to the Pomeroys; properties which she had by right of her 2nd marriage to Thomas Gyll, a wealthy, infuential Dartmouth ship owner, merchant, county escheat and sometime privateer.

All of the property Amy Cammel had by right of her frst marriage to Barret remained with the only child of that first marriage, a daughter Johanna Barrett who married William Kelloway, the younger. (From her grandfather's will. Also Chancery Case C 1/59/42.)

Another unmentioned but significant marriage was Agnes nee Kelloway Pomeroy’s second marriage to Thomas Bowring. (c.1440-1504). Thomas Bowring was an English-born lawyer and judge in 15th century Ireland, who held ofce as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He belonged to a prominent landowning family in Devon, who gave their name to the manor of Bowringsleigh. His main estate was at nearby West Alvington, and he also acquired lands in Somerset and Gloucestershire. It is her appearance in several records in the National Archives as "Agnes Bowring" which helps to establish the place of her son and heir, Richard, in this Pomeroy family tree.

Thomas Bowring was educated at Middle Temple; served as Justice of the Peace, in Devon. Commissioner; In Devon: 1481-87. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, Ireland 1494 with Sir Edward Poynings. Became Chief Justice of the Common Bench, 1496.

Dorset home of the Barrett's
Robert Camell negotiated marriage contracts for his daughters, Anne and Katherine, which efectively walled of the property he settled upon each couple, so it would not be transferred irrevocably to their husbands.
Te settlements specifed that the lands were to go to the "heirs of her body," with remainder to his own right heirs. Some of the lands Camell settled upon his daughters came from his father’s sister, Joan Plecy, who in turn had inherited extensively from her brother, John Plecy. in 1416. Robert had additional lands, suggesting a previous marriage settlement of his own.

Anne, the second daughter of Robert Camell was married frst, at a very early age, to Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, Dorset, a Wiltshire Wool Merchant with connections to Exeter and Dorchester. Te wool merchants of the mid-15th century were shipping wool and cloth out of Exeter, Bristol and Bridport to Ireland, Calias and Bruges. Widowed young, Anne Barret nee Camell obtained full control of her husband's property, and was free to dispose of this “personal property” as she chose. She chose to settle it entirely upon the single "heir of her body,” a daughter, Johanna Barret, at the time of Johanna’s marriage.
Johanna, in her mid-teens, married William Kelloway, of Sherborne. All of the Camell and Barret lands from her mother became irrevocably merged with the Kelloways. Te Kelloways, a gentry family with a long history in Sherborne, engaged in all aspects of growing, clipping, tucking, and weaving wool and cloth.

William Kelloway and Joanna Barrett were parents of several children, including Agnes, William, and Thomas. Johanna, sadly, did not live to see them grow up. William remarried. Te lands Johanna brought to the Kelloways from her grandfather Robert Camell, and father Henry Barrett become the inheritance of their eldest son William Kellaway, junior. Childless, William named two of nephews as heirs.

ANNE (CAMELL) BARRET AND THOMAS GYLL
Te Dorchester, Dorset connections of Robert Camell included the King’s Escheator, Thomas Gyll, the younger. Widowed and still very young, Anne Camell Barrett was introduced to the Dartmouth ship owner and merchant with extensive interests in London, Calais, and the West Country. A marriage was arranged between Anne by her father Robert Camell and her uncle, John Wyke, of Bindon in Axminster.

The 15th century Gylls of Dartmouth were notable ship-owners and merchants. Thomas Gyll the elder served as a MP for Dartmouth six times; Father and son served as collector of customs in Exeter and Dartmouth, and on many commissions. Thomas Gyll, the elder settled an assortment of properties in Devon upon the couple in 1459. Anne left her daughter and her Dorset lands behind for a new life in Devon.

THE POMEROY CONNECTION

Anne (Camell) ( Barret) Gyll was widowed for a second time, around the year 1472- 1474. Te property Anne and Thomas Gyll owned between them was under no entail, and there were no children. As before, Anne ended up in total control of the lands, rents and properties accumulated during her 2nd marriage. Tat which had been settled upon the couple by Thomas Gyll, the elder was confirmed hers for life; that which her husband had purchased or inherited during their marriage became hers entirely.

Her lands and properties were substantial and attractive to a widower named Squire Henry Pomeroy, of Beri. Included in those lands was Bowden, at Totnes; Ashprington and Langdon. Te Camell coat of arms seen at Bowden suggests Anne and Thomas Gyll had occupied the home prior to her marriage to Pomeroy. She also held the manors of Boohay, Woodhuish in Brixham, and the manor, lands and rents of Haatch in Loddiswell, and the manor of Stokenham.

The archives reveal that Thomas Gyll also held property in Devon, Somersetshire, and Dorset.

The close social and political relationship between Henry Pomeroy, esquire of Berry Pomeroy and the Gyles of Dartmouth, are revealed in the Patent Rolls.

Dartmouth Harbor NOTES:

Lands from John Plecy: 13 May 1416.

Northampton:. Manor Burton called ‘Plecymanor. Surrey: Leatherhead. 3 parts of the manor of Headley. Hampshire: Fordingbridge. Dorset: Sturminster Marshall: Wimborne St. Giles, Sutton and Romford, Shapwick: Christchurch . West Parley. 1 carucate in Marnhill and Kentlesworth,

1461: Patent Rolls: Membrane 14:
April 8: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Gylle, the younger, Seinclere Pomeroy and John Ralegh to arrest Edward Peverell and deliver him before the king in Chancery.
April 9: Appointment of Thomas Wille the younger in Exeter and Dartmouth as controller of the petty customs, the subsidy of wools and wool-fells for the port of Exeter and Dartmouth, receiving the accustomed fees, provided that he execute the ofce in person.
1462: Membrane 24: Feb 23: Grant for life Thomas Gille the younger of the ofce of the water-bailiwick in the port of Dartmouth and places and creeks adjacent, with profts as in the last year of Edward III. and the frst of Richard II.
1463: Membrane 18d. Jan. 12: Commission to William Bourghchier of Fitz Waren, knight, Humphrey Staford of Southwyk, knight, Phillip Courtenay, knight, Charles Dynham, Walter Ralegh, John Giffard, John Orchard, Henry Pomeroy, Thomas Gill the younger, William Coffyn and John Speccot to arrest and imprison certain persons who are trying to excite dissension within the county of Devon.
1464: Membrane 7d. August 15: Commission to Thomas Wyse, esquire, Oto Gilberd, esq. Thomas Gille, Esq. and John Giford to enquire what lands and tenements Baldwin Fulford, knight, who has forfeited to the kind,

1465: Patent Rolls: Membrane 28: June 16: Pardon, for 10 marks paid in the hanaper, of the trespass in the acquisition for life without license by Phillippa Broughton, now deceased, late the wife of John Dynham, knight, from John Dynham, John Coplestone, and John Halshanger, clerk, now deceased, and Thomas

Gylle, who still survives , a carucate of land in Croston, co. Somerset, held in chief by knight service, and the manor of Fenotery, co. Devon, held in chief by rent of 4l. 4s. 8d. yearly at the Exchequer at the hands of the sherif of Devon, with remainder to the said John, John, John and Thomas and their heirs.

1465: July 14: Membrane 22nd: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Thomas Dowerish, and the sherif of Devon to arrest Thomas Fulford, knight.
1466: March 4: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, esquire, Thomas Gale (sic) and Nicholas Southcote, sergeant at arms, to enquire into the report that a hold of Prussia, laden with divers goods and merchandise, sailing to England, foundered near the town of Plymouth, co. Devon, and that divers goods and merchandise and gear came ashore, and to seize such goods and merchandise and gear. (Membrane 14d. Patent Rolls.)

1466: April 9: Te same: To enquire in the counties of Devon and Cornwall into the report that a hulk laden with divers goods and merchandise of Bernard de la Barde and other merchants was wrecked near the town of Plymouth. (Membrane 5d. Patent Rolls.)

Some of the lands of Thomas Gyll:  June 17. 1466. Westminster.
To the escheator in Somerset. Order to take the fealty of Thomas Gylle due for one carucate of land in Corston and for the manor of Fenotery co. Devon, and to give him seisin of that land, but to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manors of Northome and Criket Malerbe, delivering to him any issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that John Dynham, John Coplestone, Thomas Gylle and John Halshanger clerk were seised of the land and manors aforesaid, and without the king's licence by charter indented, dated Kyngescarswill co. Devon, Maundy Tursday, 7 Henry VI, made a demise thereof

among other thingsto Philippa Broughton, late the wife of John Dynham knight, for her life, with reversion to themselves and their heirs, that the said John, John and John died in her life time and the said Thomas over lived them and was solely seised of the said reversion; that he is yet alive, that the said land is held of the king by knight service, and the said manors of others than the king; and for a fine paid in the hanaper by letters patent of 16 June last, the king pardoned the said trespass, and for 6s. 8d. therein paid has respited the homage of the said Thomas until Easter day next.

Thomas Gylle the elder frst appears in the records of Dartmouth after 1430, a notable shipowner and merchant of some substance with connections to London. He was six times MP for the town between 1433 and 1455, and one of the collectors of customs in Exeter and Dartmouth in 1439 and in 1453. Between 1431 and 1435 he had frequently served on commissions to arrest men, ships and goods brought into West Country ports. In 1436, he was licensed to equip and arm two of his
ships, l’Antony and Le Katerine, both of Dartmouth, together with two supporting balingers or barges. For this short time, at least, he was a fully accredited privateer
In 1448 Thomas Gylle, the younger is sworn in an as as Escheator for Cornwall and Devon. Suggesting a man of some status. (Fine rollshttps://ia800309.us.archive.org/22/items/calendarofnero18greauoft/calendarof nero18greauoft.pdf )

1463. March 26. Baret Family of Sherborne – Dorset Record Ofce
D/1548/1: Bond to fll an arbitration judgement.
(1) William Baret, son of John Baret late of Sherborne
(2) William Kayleway senior, William Kayleway and Joanne (Barret) his
wife. Property: manors and lands in ‘Babbeton,’ Stockton, Sherrington, Wylye, Tisbury, Whiteparish and Hamptsworthe in Wilts., and the manor and advowson of Lillington, Bagber, Sherborne, ‘Duleford,’ Pimperne, Nutford in Pimperne, ‘Lokky’ [Nutford in Lokky now France Farm], Stourpaine, Blandford and Moor Crichel

– Bond: (1) to (2) L59.6s.8d. to be paid 24 June next.
1492. 1497, 1506, 1518)
William Cayleway listed as one of the ‘freeholders’ of Whiteparish, Wilts
1492. William Kayleway of Whiteparish, one of those appointed as a commissioner to collect the ‘ffteenth & tenths,” excepting the city of Salisbury [Calendar of Fine Rolls, Vol XXII,1485-1509].
-Robert Kelloway and his son, John, were in possession of Babbeton [Bapton?], Tisbury and were connected with Hamptsworth in Wilts. Robert was in possession of ‘Duleford’ and Lillington in Dorset. Lillington later belonged to Robert’s son, Martin (will 1575).

BOWDEN AT TOTNES: 1475-1555

There was a Pomeroy family associated with Bowden, in Totnes, between Circa 1476-1555.

Family Tree:
1. Henry Pomeroy, esquire of Berry Pomeroy whose his first wife Alice Ralegh had giveb him at least 6 children before she died . He  married his 2nd wife in  Sept 1478. Anne Camell was daughter of Robert Camell a wool merchant of Fiddleford; Anne /Amy  widow of William Barrett of Whiteparish  by whom she had a daughter Joanna Barret who married William Kelloway a wool mercnat famly & whose granddaugher Agnes married Thomas Pomeroy Anna's the 3rd son of her 3rd husbands; also widow of Thomas Gyle of Hacche Arundell, (Hatch) near Loddiswell in the south Hams of Devonshire. Gyle was a Dartmouth merchant whose death gave her full control over all his properties 

2nd generation: Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son, b c 1445, who married  Agnes Kelloway. AJP believes there must have been an age gap of some 25 0r 30 years between these two.. 

3rd generation: Richard Pomeroy m Eleanor Coker.who in 1544 married his  2nd wife  Anne Wykyes widow of Thomas Artur of Clapton in Gordeno on the Severn Estuary coast  south west of Bristol. She came with 3 children, one babe in arms born after her 1st husbands death.

Amy or Anna Camell had been 1st married to Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, Wiltshire. 2nd she married Thomas Gyll of Loddiswell & Dartmouth, Devon. (C 1460). 

Her 3rd: husband was Henry Pomeroy, esq, of Berry Pomeroy. A succession of records demonstrate that she brought Bowden to the Pomeroy's and passed them on to the 3rd son of Henry, named Thomas, at the time of his marriage to Agnes Kelloway, Anna's granddaughter.

This post explores the connections of Richard Pomeroy, born in 1492 at Bowden in Totnes, the son of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes nee Kelloway.

Subsequent posts will follow Richard Pomeroy of Bowden to lands in Clapton in Gordano, Weston Super Mare, and other hereditary properties of his 2nd wife, Anne Wykes, widow of Thomas Arthur

Alma LaFrance Morey & Annie Pomeroy have collaborated over many hours on this man, and have found this to be a very long, complicated story.

The records reveal that Richard Pomeroy, in addition to the Devon properties inherited from his father and mother, held lands in Clapton in Gordano etc, in Somersetshire. Richard was the 2nd son and eventual heir of Thomas Pomeroy and Agnes, of Bowden at Totnes. He lived between 1492 and 1575.

What complicated the search for this man was the place he had been given by Powley, (page 81), in which he was listed as the grandson of Thomas and Agnes Pomeroy.

Powley: P. 81: “Thomas died on the Saturday after Christmas 9 Henry VII-29 Dec 1493. His holdings included land and meadow in Baudon, Blaudon, Ivecombe and Langedon (Totnes.) “Free scotages.”

“HENRY, the son and heir, was aged 12 at his father’s death. (IPM.Henry VII, I. 398)

The Benolt visitation of Devonshire, 1531, gives Richard, Amy, Anne, Margaret, Thomasin and Elizabeth as children, making (1) Richard to marry Elenor, third daughter of John Coker of Dorsetshire, from which union derived a Henry and a John, (2) Amy to marry Thomas Tresoyell of Cornwall, with Joan for issue, (3) Anne to marry Tristram Henscote of Exeter, with John, Nicholas and Agnes their ofspring. (Devonshire Visitation, 1531: Ashmole MS. 763.) “

Powley, Page 102: “Other Pomeroys”

Richard Pomerey ( -1519?/42- ), probably, in 1519, of Sandridge (v.p.87) owed, in 1523, 8 pounds to the Crown, and received in 1525 the wardship of John, son and heir of Thomas Giles and Joan. It was most likely this Richard who served in 1544, in the army against France, he being of the “battle” (the chamber) and providing seven horsemen.”

RI C H A R D POMEROY OF SANDRIDGE,   in 1523 owed money to the  CROWN...

Richard Pomeroy was born in 1492, one year before his father died. His mother married 2nd the widower Thomas Bowrying, and for a period of 10 years it is assumed that Richard’s upbringing was in the Bowring household, which included a period of time in Ireland. Bowryng died in 1504. . When Richard came of age in 1510 there began a series of suits to establish his Pomeroy inheritance.

National Archives: 3799M-0/T/1/1 1510

Coming of Age: Exemplification of recovery by letter patent

 This first record of “recovery” was fled as a matter of routine when Richard, son and heir of Thomas and Agnes, of Bowden at Totnes, came of age. Tese were properties that had been settled on Tomas and Agnes at the time of their circa 1478 marriage by Henry Pomeroy, esq. Tese lands were originally part of the Berry Pomeroy estate, and continued to be managed by Tomas’s older brother Sir Richard Pomeroy during the underage of his nephew. However, the next lord, Sir Edward Pomeroy , refused to turn over control of the property to his cousin; thus the Chancery records.  

1. Richard Pomeray esq. 2. Edward Pomeray knt.
Premises: eight messuages, and lands in Berry Pomeroy, Bridgetown Pomeroy, Smalebroke and Flete, which Oto Gilbert, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape gave to Henry Pomeray and Anne his wife and the lawful heirs of their bodies. (And others.)

If Henry and Anne die without heirs of their bodies, the premises remain to Thomas Pomeray son the said Henry, (by 1st wife) and (to) Agnes Kayleway daughter of Johanne (Barrett) daughter of the said Anne, (2nd wife) and the heirs of the body of Thomas and after the death of Henry, Anne, Thomas and Agnes, remainder to Richard son of Thomas Pomeray.

SIR EDWARD POMEROY SHOWS HIS TRUE COLORS

Sir Richard Pomeroy, father of Edward, had been in control of the lands and hereditaments of the underage heir of his brother Thomas. When Sir Richard died, those properties came under the control of Sir Edward, who not only refused to relinquish the properties, but harassed and mocked Agnes until her death in 1518.

He went so far as to accuse his uncle Thomas of having obtained the property falsely. This was debunked in a Chancery hearing in which Edward’s lawyer afrmed that the grants had been made properly. 

However, Edward was not to be deterred. He counter-sued. In the meanwhile Agnes had property and “powerful” friends, coming from the family and associations of her grandmother’s 2nd husband, Tomas Gyll. She, and later Richard, pursued his rights in Chancery.

Eight years later: 

1. Devon Record Office 3799M-0/T/12/2 1518 Bond a. Agnes Bowryng widow
b. Edward Pomeroy knt. In £100 to obey the arbitration of John Grulay esq. as to the title to lands and tenements in the manors of Sandrydge, Wule, Bridgetown Pomeroy, Walland and Teignharvey Devon Record

2. Arbitration: 3799M-0/T/12/4 1519

To settle their differences and move on, after the death of Agnes, Richard and Edward compromised, in that Sir Edward would keep certain of the original lands in return for payment to Richard.

1. John Gruele knt., chief justice of the common pleas, and Lewys Pollard knt., another of the justices of the common pleas, arbitrators

2. Edward Pomeroy knt. 

3. Richard Pomeroy esq.

Arbitration: 2. (Edward) is to hold the manor of Sandrygge and the lands and tenements called Sandrygge, Wyll, Hokemoreslonds, Austyns lands, Hardebyns lands, John Harrys lands, Bertilmewe Harrys lands, Walles and Welcombe,

AND HE IS TO PAY £430.

3. (Richard) is to cause William Barret and Thomasyn his wife to acknowledge to 3. by ine all right and interest they have in the manor of Sandridge, Sandridge, Will, Hokemoreslands, Austyns londs, John Harrys londs, Bertilmewe Harrys londs, Walles, Welcome.

Richard is to make to Edward. a good surety of his share of the premises and is to hold the lands and tenements called “ Teynghervy, Yaleburn, Hemston, (Totnes) Chaterd, Grendon, (Tavistock) Stoke Gabriel and Paynton for himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder, for default, to 2.

BUT SIR EDWARD DEFAULTED AND THE SUIT CONTINUED IN LONDON:

3. Devon Record Ofce 3799M-0/T/11/1 1520

Richard Pomeray. v. Edward Pomeray, knight.: Contempt of arbitrators' award concerning the manor of Sandridge and lands in Teignhervy, Wallys, Welcombe, Hemston, Chaterd, Grendon, and Paignton.: Devon.

Exemplifcation of a fne
1. Edward POMEROY knt., quer
2. Richard POMEROY and Alianora (Elenor) his wife, defs.

Premises: messuages and lands in Stockleigh POMEROY, Cheriton Fitzpaine, "Walles", Welcombe, Berry POMEROY, Bridgetown POMEROY, "Smalbroke" and Flete. Consideration: £430

........att the same tyme the seid s Edward appoynted & agreed wyth the seid Richard that he wold be att the next cessions then’ next folowing’e at Exetr wtyn’ the seid Countye which ys distant xx myles from the late dwelling place of your seid Supplyants late moder & to mete wt her and fully to fynisch’ & end the seid award & agreme’t by force wherof your seid Supplyants moder being a woman’ yn’ age & of long tyme yn’ sekenes & not of habilite well to go or ryde toke the labour to her grete payn’ & ieprdie of lyf to ryde to the seid Cyte of exetr at the seid Cessions, at which tyme the seid s Edward Wel pceyued of her Comi’g & intendi’g by furder delay to tratt the tyme that by occasyon’ of the Deth of your seid Supplyants moder he wold ayen’ breke the seid award & agreme’t wold nott nor did come to the seid Cite of Exetr at the seid Cessions to hys expresse rebuke vntrouth & dislaunder by occasyon’ Wher of your seid Supplyants moder, What by occasyon’ if her seid Jorney to the seid Cite and for thought & pensifenes that sche was so vtterly mokked & tryfld wt all by the seid Edward incontyne’t fell in grete siknes & of the same siknes there schortly Died, to the grete heuynes and discomfort of your seid Supplyant.

Flete Mill on the Dart upriver from Stoke Gabriel

Devon Record Office  3799M-0/T/1/1  1510

Contents:Exemplification of recovery by letter patent

1. Richard POMEROY esq.

2. Edward POMEROY knt.

Premises: eight messuages, two mills and lands in Berry POMEROY, Bridgetown POMEROY, Smalebroke and Flete, which Oto Gilbert, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape gave to Henry POMEROY and Anne his wife and the lawful heirs of their bodies. If Henry and Anne die without heirs of their bodies, the premises remain to Thomas POMEROY son the said Henry, and Agnes Kayleway daughter of Johanne daughter of the said Anne, and the heirs of the body of Thomas and after the death of Henry, Anne, Thomas and Agnes, remainder to Richard son of Thomas POMEROY

Devon Record Office 3799M-0/T/1/2 1510

Contents: Exemplification of recovery by letters patent

1. Edward POMEROY knt.

2. Richard POMEROY esq.

3. Thomas Fyssh, vouchee

Premises: eight messuages, two mills and lands in Berry POMEROY, Bridgetown POMEROY, Smalebroke and Flete

INQUISITION POST MORTEM. AGNES BOWRING 1 PM 30 JAN 1519/20

Bowring Agnes Bowden, Tottenheyes Magna [Totnes?] sometime wife of Thomas Pomeroy
1519 O ab TAPS 11 Hen. VIII. Ser. II. Vol. 34 (65)

Delivered into court by Richard Pomery, 1 pm taken at Exeter 8 Nov 1519 before Andrew Hillerson.
by oath of John Carewe of Anthony, Esq, Tos Fortesque, John Bydirell, John Hext, John More, Henry Walys, John Fursland, Thomas Hext, Richard Drew, Tos Garland, Richard Wekes, William fureson and John Geo.
Seized of Bowden Manor in Tottnes Magna and 30 acres of land, 40 pasture, 4 acres of meadow at Tybbercombe, in same parish; 20 acres of lands, 30 acres of pasture in Langedon in Ashprington, 40 acres of land & 30 acres of pasture in Blaudon in same parish; 20 s rent in Blakedon (Widcomb in the Moor? or Blakawton, 7 miles from Paignton?) in the demense Astee by Charles, dates at Bowden 16 Dec 7 Hen VIII (1515). 

She granted the premises to her daughter Thomasine, husband  William Barrett  one of her daughters of Thomas Pomeroy , and their heirs forever for surity of payment of 95 L. 10s.

Agnes promised Thomasine’s marriage portion and other moneys  of Agnes by said William and other debts of said Agnes as shown by writings between the said Agnes and Richard Pomeroy said heir of Thomas and Agnes, on the one part and of said William and Thomasine on the other; both dated 15 Sep 1515.

William and Thomasine are still seized of the premises; the manor of Bowden is held by Margaret Countess of Salisbury and her manor of STOKENHAM worth by the year ? 1/2 6.

Lands in Tybbecombe are held by John Holwey and Henry Walrons worth 40 s. a year.Lands in Bowdon are held by Contess worth 13s 50.

Agnes died 22 Jan 1518. Son and heir age 26 Richard Pomeroy.

RICHARD POMEROY MARRIED 1st wife ELINOR COKER, DAUGHTER OF JOHN COKER OF DORSET AROUND 1519.

His 2nd wife was Anne Artur nee Wykes of Clapton in Gordeno, whose mother Agnes Wykes was a Strowbridge.

ARMS AT BOWDEN IN TOTNES: (SIR GEORGE CAREW’S ROLLS OF ARMS #625)

625: Ar. on a bend g. 3 leops’ faces de or. Tis coate standeth impaled with Pomeroye in Bowden House by the name of Cauker. (Cawker, Coker. Tis is Mr. Gyles his house at Bowden, impalled with POMEROY by the name of Cawker, q. by the Ea. of Hartford.