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Interesting to note that The Ancient Guild of Pepperers chose a camel as its symbol.
Pepper was one of the singularly most profitable items to import. It was called Black Gold .
The English King Ethelred II (978-1016) exacted 10 pounds of pepper from German spice traders before allowing them do business in London. Vasco de Gama's 1498 discovery of a sea-route to the spice lands of the Malabar Coast off South West India triggered a European obsession with spices, particularly pepper.
Anna/Amy Camell - 2nd daughter of Robert Camell, a landed gentleman whose family raised sheep and corn (Wheat, Barley, Oats) on the family estates in Whiteparish in Wiltshire, about 30 miles from Fiddleford & close to the County Town & ancient cathedral city of Salisbury
Her father negotiated the marriage contracts for his daughters, Anne and Katherine, preventing the property he settled upon each couple from being transferred irrevocably to the husbands .
Anna ’s first husband, was, Henry Barrett, a Wiltshire Wool Merchant, with Exeter and Dorchester connections. She is likely to have been between 12 and 16 when this marriage was made. By Henry Barrett of Whiteparish in Wiltshire she had a daughter, Johanna, who was later married to William Kellaway.
Henry Barrett died & when her daughter Joanna Barrett married William Kelloway, the widowed Anna bequeathed her Barrett properties to her. The male Kelloway heirs had all of her Barrett holdings in Dorset .
Her daughter by Henry Barrett Joanna Kelloway had daughter Agnes who was married off to Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son of Henry Baron Pomeroy and 3rd husband of Anne Camell.
2nd husband was Thomas Gyle a merchant out of Dartmouth . He lived at Hacche Arundell a fortified manor house near Loddiswell in the South Hams of Devon.
The Gylle family were merchants, & Mayors of Dartmouth, They were also pirates, called privateers & licensed by the crown to attack and raid shipping belonging to an enemy government, usually during a war. This was a private business & they paid a percentage of their bounty to the crown.
Thomas obtained a licence from the crown to fortify his manor house at Hacche Arundell near Loddiswell close the te river Avon, now called Hatch He was allowed to enclose two deer parks, one of which can be identified in the valley to the south of the todays farm.
He was Mayor for Dartmouth immediately after the long tenure ofpowerful, and very wealthy, John Hawley from 1433 until 1467 . Thomas was also controller of customs of Exeter and Dartmouth, & like many of the at time, he had rather flexible ethics. He conspired with other to obtain a commission for the delivery of a ship, the Marie, so that he would get a share its cargo.
Date: 1460-1465 Reference: C 1/29/75
Description: Plaintiffs: Thomas Gylle and Amy his wife, daughter of Robert Cammell. Defendants: Walter Reynold, esq, John Wyke, John Prall (or Proll), and John Bowey, the elder, of Loddiswell (Lodeswylle), witnesses.
Subject: Covenants upon the marriage of Thomas Gille, the younger, with Amy, daughter of the said Robert: rents out of lands, etc in Wodehouse and Colemore (Colomon), the manor of Hatche Arundell, (Nr Loddiswell) and lands in Caggeworth: Devon.
In Chancery: Chancery pleadings addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor.
Caggworth might be Cookworthy Moor near Holsworthy , mid Devon
After Thomas Gylle died in around 1472 the widowed Anna was in control of all the lands and properties that were her dower and the ones accumulated during her Gylle marriage, making her very desirable on the marriage market.
Anna Camell, widow of both Barret & Gylle's 3rd husband was
Baron Sir Henry Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy . They were married on about 20 September 1478 & 9 years later in 1487 he died Anna Camel had died in 1481. There is a pedigtree record of a son to Henry & Anna , named Henry . However the child was son of Thomas Pomeroy of Cheriton Fitzpaine and died in 1481 There is a will for him as son of Thomas in Axminster.
1483 - 85 William Carswell and Christyn, his wife, and John Wolston. V. Henry Pomerey, esquire, late the husband of AMY, previously the wife of Thomas, son of Thomas Gyll. Manor of Hacche, etc
Relating to a messuage and land in Great Totnes, Bowdon, Ashprington, and Langdon.
There is Lamgdon Court Wembury but no sign of Carswell Or Gylle in the record there
Hoskins, W. G., 1954, A New Survey of England: Devon, 512-3 (Monograph). SDV17562.
1577 rebuilding of an earlier medieval house. Present house has four fronts enclosing a quadrangular court. In the possession of the Calmady family for 320 years till 1875.
14th May, 21 Edward IV 1486/93 (NAI C1/111/38)
John Wevell or Wyvell and Cristyan, his wife (daughter of Jane Prall, sister of Thomas Gill (Gyll) , and John Wulston, son of Johane Wolston, daughter of the said Jane. v. Thomas Pomerey and his wife Agnes (Kelloway)
Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and land in Great Totnes, Bowdon, Ashprington, and Langton, late belonging to Thomas Gyll, the younger, late of Hacch Arundell.: Devon
( Wyvell married into the Brixham Pomeroy family )
IPM Inquisition Post Mortem of WILLIAM CAMMELL [wife, Elizabeth] held 14 Nov, 22 Hen VII (1506)
Long before his death William Cammell was seised in fee of the manor & advowson of WEST PERLEY and of the manor of FYTYLFFORD/Fiddleford & messuages therein
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.
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.
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.
Below Burton Latimer Hall A listed Mansion. Probably medieval origin, remodelled & enlarged early C17th
once called Burton Plecy
Margaret Camell was the daughter & heir of John Camell ,brother of Anna Pomeroy . son & heir of Robert Camell of Shapwick, Dorset, by Joan Plecy his wife, sister/heir of John de Plesey of Hedley.
Margaret Anna's sister married Robert Weston keeper & forester of Sunningdale & Windsor forest , with numerous other positions in the Royal household at various times probably rose in the service of Henry VII’s queen, Elizabeth of York Knighted in 1518 (Henry VIII)
Fiddleford is a small group of buildings with gardens, yards and paddocks, supporing a tiny agricultural comunity.
There is a Manor house with no recorded history,. The manor consists of a C14th hall house, a manor farm and a mill with a large mill pond . It is likely that the hall & its solar were built for William Latimer, sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after Fiddleford passed to him around 1355 when he married the daughter of the previous owner John Maurey in 1355. According to dendrochronlogy it was completed in about 1370 .
There must already have been a manor house here or close by,with a mill the since Fiddleford is mentioned in Domesday Book in 1086.
Men like Latimer, as sheriffs and justices, made the king’s government work in the shires – a practical alliance between central authority and local influence and the manor house would havebeen a centre of administration
William Latimer. may have been a wool merchant is Salisbury or in Sturminster.
During the 16th century, the house belonged to the White family and extensive re-modelling was undertaken by Thomas and Ann White (1539-1555). During this period, the hall was rebuilt in finely worked stone, a new fireplace was constructed in the south wall and a porch and great bay or oriel window were added. The old roof was dismantled and re-erected in order to insert the great beams to support a flat moulded plaster ceiling, which has since been removed. It remained in the White until after the Restoration of the monarchy when it was purchased by Sir Thomas Freke and it was retained by his descendants, the Pitt-Rivers family
Fiddleford Manor
The Hall and Solar with painted panels
CP 25/1/179/95, number 124.
Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Northamptonshire. Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from St Michael, 28 Henry VI [6 October 1449].
Parties
querents : John Barrett, John Fauntleroy & John Cornysshe deforciants: Robert Camell & Margaret, his wife, Richard Cote & John Cayleway,
Property: The manor of Burton' Plecy.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert & Margaret (Camell) have acknowledged the manor to be the right of John Baret, John Fauntleroy and John Cornysshe as that which they have of the gift of Robert & Margaret, to hold to John Baret, John Fauntleroy & John Cornysshe & their heirs, of the lord king & his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty by Robert and Margaret for themselves and the heirs of Margaret.
For this:
John Baret, John Fauntleroy and John Cornysshe have granted to Richard and John Cayleway the manor and have rendered it to them in the court, to hold to them for the life of John Camell' of Shapwyke in the county of Dorset, esquire, of the lord king and his heirs. And after the death of John Camell' the manor shall remain to Henry Barrett and Anna (Camell), his wife, and the heirs of the body of Anna, to hold of the lord king and his heirs for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders
(1) to Robert and Margaret and the heirs of the body of Robert,
(2) to John Camell', son of the aforesaid John Camell' esquire, and the heirs of his body,
(3) to Joan, the wife of John Wyke, and the heirs of her body,
(4) to Katherine, the wife of John Thomas, and the heirs of her body and
(5) to the right heirs of the aforesaid John Camell' of Shapwyke.
Note: This agreement was made by the command of the lord king.
Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Places:
Burton Plessy (in Burton Latimer), Shapwick (in Dorset)
see below left
CP 25/1/207/29, number 30.
Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Hampshire. Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from Holy Trinity, 19 Richard [II] [4 June 1396].
Parties: Querent Robert Cammell',
Deforcicant. Peter Bryan & his wife Elizabeth,
Property: The manor of Moteston' in the Isle of Wight & the advowson of the church of the same manor.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Pete & Elizabeth have acknowledged the manor & advowson to be the right of Robert, and have remised & quit claimed them from themselves & the heirs of Elizabeth to him & his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
Below Mottestone on Isle of Wight
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
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 their cildren as
(1) Richard whose 1st wife was Elenor, third daughter of John Coker of Dorsetshire, from which union derived a Henry and a John,
(2) Amy who married Thomas Tresoyell of Cornwall, with Joan for issue
(3) Anne who married 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.”
Mills were a significant source of income in a time when everybody needed corn ( Barley Wheat and Oats ) ground to make their staple food - bread .
Some Mills where also used as fulling or tucking mills- part of the process of wool production.
Smalebrooke Mills alias Gatcombe Mills which lies in the valley below the castle
The Flete Mill on the Dart seen here high & dry on a now silted up tributary with Fleet Quay on the river Dart
After weaving fulling was the process of cloth making when everything was made by hand . The loose woven cloth was soaped, then washed in STALE URINE to bleach it & remove the lanolin.. After rinsing, & whilst the cloth was still damp it was beaten with huge hammers set on a wheel until it was flat and the fibres were flattened . It looked like felt . This was a thick and durable if rather uninteresting, cloth was a sturdy, hard wearing, After this it was dyed using headgerow dyes the hung in the fields around the town of Tenting Hooks.
In 1698, when Celia Fiennes made her travels around England, she recorded that a stinking MIASMA hung over the Exe valley, when the fulling was done. (particularly at Cricklepit ) She wrote of Exeter that the whole town and surrounding countryside was employed in spinning, weaving, dressing and scouring, fulling and drying of the serge's, it produced .
More money was made in a week from cloth than anything else in England at that time.
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.
Smalebrooke Mills alias Gatcombe Mills lies in the valley below Berry Pomeroy Castle
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 Kellway widow Pomeroy Lady 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.
Agne 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.
Feet of Fines Dated 1449
CP 25/1/179/95, number 124.
Link: image of document at AALT
County: Northamptonshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from St Michael, 28 Henry VI [6 October 1449
Parties:
John Barret, John Fauntleroy and John Cornysshe, querents,
Robert Camell' and Margaret, his wife, Richard Cote and John Cayleway, deforciants.
Property: The manor of Burton' Plecy.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert and Margaret have acknowledged the manor to be the right of John Baret, John Fauntleroy and John Cornysshe as that which they have of the gift of Robert and Margaret, to hold to John Barrett, John Fauntleroy and John Cornysshe and their heirs, of the lord king and his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty by Robert and Margaret for themselves and the heirs of Margaret.
For this: John Baret, John Fauntleroy and John Cornysshe have granted to Richard and John Cayleway the manor and have rendered it to them in the court, to hold to them for the life of John Camell' of Shapwyke in the county of Dorset, esquire, of the lord king and his heirs. And after the death of John Camell' the manor shall remain to Henry Baret and Anne, his wife, and the heirs of the body of Anne, to hold of the lord king and his heirs for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders
(1) to Robert and Margaret and the heirs of the body of Robert,
(2) to John Camell', son of the aforesaid John Camell' esquire, and the heirs of his body,
(3) to Joan, the wife of John Wyke, and the heirs of her body,
(4) to Katherine, the wife of John Thomas, and the heirs of her body and
(5) to the right heirs of the aforesaid John Camell' of Shapwyke.
Note:
This agreement was made by the command of the lord king.
Persons:
John Barrett, John Fauntleroy, John Cornish, Robert Camell, Margaret Camell, Richard Coote, John Callaway, John Camell, Henry Barrett, Anne Barrett, John Wyke, Joan Wyke, John Thomas, Katherine Thomas
Places:
Burton Plessy (in Burton Latimer), Shapwick (in Dorset)
Burton Latimer = mapping the medeval countryside has this. DATED 1416
JOHN PLECY.
544 Writ. ‡ 13 May 1416. [Wymbyssh].
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Inquisition. Wellingborough. 29 May. [Mortymer].
Jurors: Henry Bridde ; John Draper ; John Tukby ; John Andrewe ; John Brasier ; William ?Barker ; John Smyth of Burton Latimer ; John Canoun ; John Hogekyn ; John Wolleman ; Edmund Yernemouth ; and John Taillour .
He held the manor of Burton called ‘Plecy manor’ in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service, annual value £12.
He died on 4 May las (1415) . John Cammell is his next heir, being the son of Joan, sister of John, father of John, father of John Plecy , aged 30 years and more.
C 138/19/31 mm. 1-2. E. 149/108/5 m. 1
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