GYLLE of Dartmouth
Thomas Gyle was son of Dartmouth merchant .
They lived at Hacche Arundell, a fortified manor house , near Loddiswell in the South Hams of Devon.
Thomas Gylle the elder first 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. or this short time, at least, he was a fully accredited privateer
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1448 Thomas Gylle, the younger was sworn in an as as Escheator for Cornwall and Devon. Suggesting a man of some wealth & status.
1462 Sept 20 Thomas Gylle, the younger, esquire Hacche Arundell (Hatch Manor House, Loddiswell)
licence from the king to crenulate & enclose the deer park, one of which can still be identified in the valley to the south of the farm.
His father ,Thomas senior, a privateer & 5 times Mayor of Dartmouth after John Hawley , settled an assortment of properties in Devon on his son
Thomas & his new wife in 1459 . When Thomas the younger died in around 1476 the widowed Anna was in control of much of the lands and properties that were her dower
and all the properties accumulated during their marriage.
Anna/Amy Camell was 2nd daughter of Robert Camell, a gentleman.
They were a Dorset gentry family that raised sheep and grain on the family estates in Dorset and Somerset.
Anne’s first husband. a Wiltshire wool merchant, with Exeter Henry Barrett of nearby Whiteparish.
They had child, a daughter named Johanna. who they married to William Kellaway another wealthy wool merchant who had several children. including Agnes Kelloway. After Barrett died a 2nd marriage was arranged by her father Robert Camell and her uncle, John Wykes, of Bindon in Axminster
This time was to Thomas Gylle as his 2nd wife; a Dartmouth ship owner & merchant with extensive interests in London, Calais, and the West Country.
After Gylle died about 1476 ,the very wealthy and possibly very independent young widow married her 3rd husband In about Sept 1478, Anna married an old man , Sir Henry Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy.
This was around same time as her granddaughter Agnes Kelloway married Thomas Pomeroy 3rd son of her Anna's 3rd & last husband
3 years later in 1481, Anna died, possible at the birth of their Henry & her husband Baron Henry Pomeroy died in 1487
leaving their little son Henry Pomeroy in the care of his much older half brother Thomas & Agnes, until Thomas also died in 1493.
researched extensively by AML & AJP
Grant for life Thomas Gille the younger of the office of the water-bailiwick in the port of Dartmouth and places and creeks adjacent, with profits as in the last year of Edward III. and the first of Richard II.
1377 The Dorset connections of Robert Camell included the King’s Escheator, Thomas Gyll, the younger of Hacche Arundel . 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. The settlements specified that the lands were to go to the "heirs of her body," with remainder to his own right heirs. All of the Camell and Barret lands from Joanna's mother became irrevocably merged with the Kelloways, a gentry family with a long history in Sherborne engaged in all aspects of the highly profitable wool trade.
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: ( the year of the bloody Battle of Towton)
April 8: Commission to Henry Pomeroy, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Gylle, the younger, StClere 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 office 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 first 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 Escheator for Cornwall and Devon. Suggesting a man of some status.
(Fine rollshttps://ia800309.us.archive.org/22/items/calendarofnero18greauoft/calendarof nero18greauoft.pdf )
Even in 2023 Hacche or Hatch is quite remote. Getting there overland would have been difficult, Devons roads were notoriously bad. T hey may came up the river Aune by boat from Burgh Island as far as Averton Gifford making the last couple of miles on horseback
Hacche Arundell near Loddiswell in South Hams Devon
Liceence to Crenulate in 1462 Sept 20 Haicche Arundell (Hatch Manor House, Loddiswell) Royal licence for Thomas Gille, the younger Esq.
The same licence allowed him to empark 60 acres and this small and token deer park probably lay in the valley to the west of the building. If the current buildings were on the footprint of the C15 building then it seem probably a courtyard house was either built or intended
Gatehouse Gazzetteer Licences to Crenulate
At Hatch Arundell. Identified by Waterhouse as "the mansion house called the hall" referred to in a 1637 land division document.
Remains consist of part of the S. wall with fragmentary remains of a wide doorway, the stub end of a N-S internal wall, part of a window with slate sill, a narrow outer doorway, an external arch and, in the S.W. Corner, the shell of a spiral staircase. A 3m length of the end wall is now incorporated into the farmyard wall. Most of the building was destroyed in 1975.
Waterhouse gives a hypothetical reconstruction of the building in its original form. (Devon and Dartmoor HER)
A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1462 Sept 20 (Click on the date for details of this licence.).
Complex of farm buildings and C16 or C17 house (Grade 2 listed) of L shaped plan is probably built on the site of C15 crenellated Manor House. A licence to crenellate was granted to Thomas Gille in 1462.
Historic England research records
Hob Uid: 444421 Location : Devon South Hams Loddiswell Grid Ref : SX7101046960
A 16th or 17th century house of L-shaped plan, possibly built on the site of a medieval manor house, granted a licence to crenellate in 1462.
The present house is stone-built with a slate roof and was partly demolished circa 1945.
More information : (SX 71014696) Barton (NR) (Remains of) Hatch
(NR) (1)
Hatch, at Lodiswell, 'is a good example of an Elizabethan or early Jacobean farmstead'. (2)
A charter, dated at Westminster, Sept 20 1462 granted a licence to build walls and towers about and within his manor of Haicehe Arundell, co. Devon, and to enclose the said manor with walls and towers, and construct on the said walls and towers battlements, crenellations and machiolations. (3)
There are no traces of a building such as was licensed in the 15th century. The farm buildings are of little architectural interest. The farmhouse previously had a two-storeyed porch, which may be evidence of the 16th c. and early 17th c. date ascribed by Hoskins, but according to the farmer, Mr Hoskins, this was demolished some 15 years ago. Some of the material, including a moulded granite doorway was used in the reconstruction of Aveton Gifford church. A built up fireplace indicates that the farmhouse once extended further to the S.W. The building to the west of the farmhouse is that shown on OS 25" 1904 as containing remains of the barton, but externally it appears to be of 18th c. date.
Ground photograph of the house from the south see A0/61/252/5. (4)
Higher Hatch farm-house is a 16th century house of L-shaped plan, rubble built with slated roofs. It has been much altered at various times, the interior has been modernised, and an interesting porch has been recently demolished. (5)
11/8A II Higher Hatch Farm House
A C.16 house of L-shaped plan much altered at various times. An interesting porch was destroyed recently. Rubble with
slate roofs and brick and rubble stacks. 2S. Casements. Four window front. An original wood framed single light window in rear wing. Part of a moulded plinth remains. The interior has been much modernised and is not eloquent.
11/9A II Lower Hatch House
Adjacent to Higher Hatch and originally forming part of it. Rubble with slate roofs. Front plastered. Brick and rubble stacks, one lateral. 2S. Sashes and casements. Four window front. At S. end is entrance gateway with round headed arch. Similar doorway in adjoining wall. C.16 and later.
(Authority 6 is full text of Authority 5). (6)
SX 71014696 Hatch. As Described above. (18.11.82) (7)
Thomas Gylle of Dartmouth
