St NEOT

Wool  was a significant export however Cornish wool was regarded as poor quality, but tin and copper were another matter all together 

After the 1540s, Cornwall's tin production increased rapidly by which time  Devon's production was down to about 10% - 11% of that of Cornwall. From the mid-16th century the Devon stannaries generated very little income for the Crown, and they were sidelined under the Privilege of Parliament Act 1512.

A second tin boom in the tin industry came around the 16th century when open cast mining was used. German miners who had knowledge of the techniques were employed.   In 1689,Thomas Epsley, a Somerset man, developed a method to blast the very hard granite rock loose, using gunpowder with quill fuses. It revolutionised hard rock mining. Six days' work with a pick could be accomplished with one blast.
There was a third boom in the 18th century when shafts were dug to extract the ore.

Only 11 miles away is FOWEY the nearest deep water port to St Neot, and  in medieval times the Fowey river was navigable up to Lostwithiel which was only 7 miles downstream from St Neot.

CALENDAR OF PATENT ROLLS.1447 - 26 Nov 1447 Westminster, Commission to Thomas Gylle the elder (Dartmouth) and Thomas Trefrye (Fowey) to survey all ships, barges and boats laden the ports and other waters and places along the coasts of Cornwall with wools, hides, wool-fells,(sheepskins) woollen cloths and other marketable wares for foreign parts, whereon merchants have paid no custom, and to arrest the same and certify the king in the Exchequer of the names of the guilty and of the wares and their value.

Charles Grylls to Chris. Bellott, Esq., to John Antis, Gent. and his servants, liberty to search for tin on Lakes Yeatt in St. Nyott and to have a sett in Middle Park to hold according to the custom of the Stannary of Fowey Moor, paying the 7th dish.'

PARISH SETTLEMENTS- Removal to parish of origin

2-Aug 1855 Kenwyn removal order Ellen Jane POMERY to Luxulyan. & illegitimate daughter Charlotte Ann

PROTESTATION RETURNS 1641 CORNWALL

On the 6th May 1641 a Bill was introduced in the House of Commons imposing the signing of the Protestation on all Englishmen of 18 years and above. All who refused to sign were deemed unfit to hold office in Church or Commonwealth.

A.A Pomeroy
Court of Dean of Sarum. Vol. 12. Folio 112.

Samuel Pomeroy of Beere Hagett. 19 July 1632. Commission on the goods and credits of Samuel Pomeroy, late of Beere Hagett, Dorset, deceased,

to Samuel Pomrey his son, to administer.

 This is Samuel Pomery, 1564-1632: m 3 Nov 1588 Emme Barnard.  Son of Robert Pomery. 

Dean of Sarum. 48-fo. 143. Dec. 24, 1607. Robert Pomeroy of Knighton, within the parish. of Beer Haggett, Dorset:

To be buried in the churchyard of Beere Haggett.  To mother church of Sarum. To Sam'l Pomrye, my eldest son. To my son Roger. To my son Robert. To my dau. Margaret Pomery, To Eware Waters, my daughter's son. To Margery Marks, my daughter's dau. Residue to Alice my wife, executrix. Proved

This is Robert, father of the above Samuel. Robert and Alice had at least 8 children; 4 boys and 4 girls. 

Samuel, above, was his heir. The translation of the daughter's married names, above, doesn’t match with the will of Alice, (below); Dorothy married Masters. And Margaret was unmarried.  Joan married Waters.  There was a child ROGER  in Robert’s will who I can’t find. Robert Jr had 5 sons; John, Robert, Samuel, Thomas and George.  Robert’s Senior had also a son Samuel not mentioned in his will, who had Thomas, and Samuel.  

• • • I give devise and bequeath unto my nephew John Pomery of Tredarrup St Neot and to his heirs all my parts purports and shares of manors and all my messuages lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever.....assigns forever to the only proper use

    • I bequeath the sum of Fifty Shillings to be paid into the hands of the minister churchwardens and overseers.. to be distributed to the poor of the said Parish

    • I give and bequeath the further sum of Fifty Pounds to be paid at the end of three months ..in bread quarterly distributed to the poor of the parish

    • I give and bequeath to my brother John Pomery Forty Pounds and to his two daughters Elizabeth wife of William Carlyon of St Austle (Gent) and Mary Pomery Fifty Pounds each

    • I give and bequeath to my brother John Pomery all my right title and interest of and in my chattel estate in or called Hobbs (being the lands of late Sir William Morice deceased within the Parish of St Neot to hold to him the said John Pomery his Executors administrators and assigns for and during all the residue and remainder of the term or number of years that shall be therein after my death

    • Also I give and bequeath to my god‐daughter Ann Dinham daughter of my lately deceased sister Mary Dinham FiftyPounds.

    • Also I give and bequeath to my nephews Phillip Dinham John Dinham clerk and Charles Dinham and to my nieces Mary the wife of John Rowe of the Borrough of Camelford and Elizabeth wife of Edmond Prideaux of London the sume of TwentyPounds each

    • Also I give and bequeath to my god‐daughter Ann Rowe daughter of John Rowe the sum of Fifty Pounds and to her father JohnRowe Twenty Pounds

    • I give and bequeath to the three children of my late niece Prideaux deceased Five Pounds each

    • I give and bequeath to my nephew Richard Pomery of Tremaddock Sixty Guineas and to his daughter Twenty Pounds when she shall attain the age of One and Twenty or on her marriage which shal first happen

    • I give and bequeath to my sister law Elizabeth Pomery the widow and relict of my late deceased brother Richard Pomery TwentyPounds

    • I also give and bequeath to my god‐daughter Mary Pomery the daughter of my nephewJohn Pomery of Tredarrup Ten Pounds his other daughter Elizabeth Pomery Ten Pounds Pounds when either shall attain the age of One and Twenty or on her marriage which shall first happen

    • I give and bequeath to my sister Elizabeth Phillipps of the Borrough of Camelford widow the sum of Forty Pounds and her son sCharles Phillipps William Phillipps and Jonathon Phillipps and to her daughters Elizabeth and Christian TwentyPounds each

    • I give and bequeath to the wife of my nephew Richard Pomery and to Jane the wife of my aforesaid nephew John Pomery One Guinea each to buy a ring each to be worn in remembrance of me.

    • I give and bequeath to my god son John Rundle (son of Jonathon Rundle late of Hole) in Parish of St Neot(deceased) the sum of Five Pounds

    • Also I give and bequeath to my friend John Nyle of St Neot a moydore ( gold coin) and to his wife Mary Nyle One Guinea to buy a ring each to be worn in remembrance of me.

    • Also give and bequeath to my friend John Hawkey to my servants Hannah Pomery.Thomasine Laundry and Phillip Scott and to my late servant Ann now the wife of John Garland)One Guinea to buy a ring each to be worn in remembrance of me.

    • I give and bequeath to my apprentice Alexander Alec and to my servant Thomas Knight an Half Guinea each

    • Lastly the residue and remainder of my goods chattels and personal estates and effects not herein before given and bequeathed I givea to my nephew John Pomery of Tredarrup whom I make sole Executor

  • Nineteenth Day of June 1750 Thomas Pomery witnessed by Jos.Hamley John Bennett Henry Bennett

Another Will. John  Pomery of Lantoom, Liskeard, gent.

 Lantoom  today is a quarry in St Neot parish - Lantoom Quarry , Dobwalls , Liskeard , PL144LR. 2 .It lies south of the main A38 Dobwalls bypass

Will 24 September 1783  of John  Pomery of Lantoom, Liskeard, gent.

• • Eight labourers to act as bearers to whom 5s. each instead of mourning.

  • Son Jos. Pomery, clerk amply provided for by St. Kew and testator's marriage settlement and entitled to Davises ten. in Trewint and Great Marshes in Menheniot after deaths of testator and testator's wife subject to £150 payment. Also entitled to Penhale, St. Cleer as hr. at law to grandfather Peter Truscott, gent. decd. Interest in Great Parkes adj. Penhale during redr. of leasehold term.

  • To daughter. Grace £150 due out of Davis's Trewint by marriage settlement until paid by son Jos. Pomery.

  • To son Phil. Tingcomb Pomery, mercer: Narwood Arundells Parks. Two plots in E. Draynes and Netherton, St. Neot bought of Heames and Deeble. Leasehold premises called Lantoom and Blackwater after d. of wife Grace.

  • To daughtrs. Mary Grace and Sarah Pomery £300 each. To be raised by grant to the Revd. Jn. Jope, vicar of St. Cleer and Thos. Hobling of Liskeard, gent. of Kelles Trewint, Menheniot (formerly belonged to brother in law, Phil. Tingcombe, surgeon decd.). In trust.

  •  Premises devised to Jos. Pomery, clerk for ever. Trustees to sell, mortgage and raise money to pay off mortgage due to Francis Beauchamp, esq., then to pay daughters' legacies.

  • To grandaughter Mellony Scobell Pomery £20.

  • To grandson Jn. and gdtr. Mary, s. and dtrs. of Jos. Pomeroy, clerk £5 each, from money s. Jos. Pomery, clerk owed testator. S. Jos. P. to place these legacies at interest until they were of legal age.

  • Daughter. Eliz. Pomery handsomely provided for by uncle Tingcombe, £20 for a suit of mourning and 'a ring to wear in remembrance of me.'

  • Residue of estate and tin bounds to wife Grace (excx.).

Witd. Chas. Danger, Thos. Eliot, Wm. Reynolds, jun.

24 September 1783

Codicil (7 March 1787).

 Wife dead. Residue to two sons, Jos. and Phil. Pomery and three daughters Mary, Grace and Sarah.

Excrs. sons Jos. and Phil.    Legacy to granddaughter   Mellony charged to £5.

The Revd. Jn. Hony of Trenant replace Thos. Hobling as trustee.

Witd. Chas. Pomery, sen., Chas. Pomery, jun., Wm. Reynolds.

Proved 1 Nov. 1788 (A. of Cwll.). Extr. 24 April 1838.  Date:  Held by:     Cornwall Record Office,

Reference:     CY/641 Description:     Office copy of will and codicil.  from archives of Carlyon family of Tregrehan, St Blazey

Hobbs (being the lands of late Sir William Morice) Hobbs had a mine, Hobbs Hill north of St Neot. Close north to Tremaddock south of what is now Coliford lake, reservoir

The link to Hole Farm gives us this...gives insight into life in 18th C St Neot.

Rundle family lived at Hole Farm from around 1598 and remained until 1856.

….. John ( Rundell) married Eleanor White, daughter of John White, the Vicar of Pillaton. A section of this prosperous family had come to St. Neot to settle at Woodland.

1707, Jonathan of Hole, married Elizabeth Lyne of St. Cleer. She died in either 1722 or 1731 without bearing any children. In 1733, Jonathan married, at the age of fifty-eight, Jane Rowe aged only twenty-two. He had become quite wealthy and left large sums to his widowed half sisterPriscilla Hancock.

He is listed as “yeoman” in administration documents, but that was crossed out and “tanner” written in.

In 1793's "Survey of St. Neot" it appears that the Rundle family owned or leased properties that totalled nineteen, with total acreage of five hundred and thirty. In addition, they had interests in nine separate cottages. The farms were Coomhouse, Hambly's Hill, Hobbs, Jenkins Tenement, Lakesyeat, Ley, Higher Lestow, Lower Lestow, East Lewarne, Pengelly, Higher Polscopp, Lower Polscopp, North Polmenna, South Polmenna, Trebinnick, Tredinnick, Trewindle, Tupton and Hole.

This meant that the family had virtually consolidated their hold on the south-west part of the Parish of St. Neot. In 1803, John was finally able to aquire one third of the other half of Hole by an exchange of land. This third had actually been owned by three people: Christopher Sloggett, Mary White, widow, and Thomas Pomery, all of whom were related to each other and to John Rundle through the White family.

            John Rundell , described as a “Gentleman”, died in 1806 without leaving a will. …..

Tremaddock – A sizable farm with outbuildings and assorted workers & farm servants cottages

                   and a tithe map for it

OLPC St Neots C19th 

two Indentures, dated 19 Aug 1808 and 20 Aug 1808, naming Charles OLIVER, Thomas POMERY, Benjamin TILLIE and Thomas JOHNS of this parish and mentioning Pomerys House and other property.

Thomas Pomeroy Blacksmith in St Neots mention is made of ..........Smiths Shop and Garden adjoining with the Appurtenances commonly called Pomery’s House situate lying and being at Ley in the Parish of St Neot aforesaid formerly in the possession of Thomas Pomery blacksmith and now of the said Charles Oliver and also All that one dwelling house and garden thereto belonging situate lying and being at Ley aforesaid within the parish of St Neot formerly in the possession of Thomas Johns ........

  The marriage between Jn. Pomeroy, jun., and Margt. Newcombe  a prenuptial agreement shows considerable wealth date 1779

Capital messuage, barton and demesne called Pennewicke or Pennick Dawe,( NOT yet FOUND)late occ. Stephen Wenmoth, decd.,

then Wm. Best now Jn. Sauby  moiety of the RECTORY & TITHES of Fowey (except Lawhire);

60 acres in Lescrowe,formerly purchased by Jn. Pomeroy, decd., uncle of Jn. P. sen., in 2 separate moieties;

From St Neot website May 2019

St Neot Early 17th Churchwarden Accounts 

2 prominent farms Tremaddock & Hammet divided into several tenements. Three farms gave names to families Lampden, Tremorkyn & Greenaway .

Tremaddock mentioned 30 times in the Accounts ; faced a fine for Church lands unpaid tithes in 1608 and a year later William Lobb paid his tithe

Robert Congdon paid tithes on Tremaddock in 1647 and also Nicholas Chipman & John Chapman

John Pomeroy paid for Tremorkyn Meadows in 1609

1651 Richard Pomery paid for a warren for £20 for Easter

1651 John Pomery paid for a fitches head - fitches were vetch cattle food plant - Thetches. Fitches or vetches, Vicia sativa, L. 

John Pomery paid  for his trouble getting money for the poor 1657

The Twelve Men was the parish Council , including Roger Laundry, Edward Nyell, William Motton, William Libbey, John Taprell, William Lampden; Edward Bessant, John Smith, William Lobb, John Crapp,, Thomas Burden & John Carew.

by 1634 John Cowling, Robert Keast , Robert Jenkins, Thomas Dawe and Richard Pomery

1793  Survey of St Neot included Pomery Meadow half an acre part of Bowden North owned & Occupied by Mr Davey  

Pomeroy Parks 2.75 acres  part of PENGELLY occupied by Rundle owned by Gregor 

https://www.opc-cornwall.org/Records/parishes/L-P/pdfs/neot_st_palmer_survey_1793.pdf

Mr Pomery was a landowner   - Possibly Thomas Pomery

Rundel’s Parks-  8 acres tenant Kingdom- mention of Berrydown and 6 plots totally 8 acres 

Burnhouse  or Amberslake or Coomhouse  6-25 acres occupied by Henwood

Orchard & little meadow .75 acres ; Great Meadow 1.5 acres ; Hill 1,5 acres ; Three Corner Park 1.5 acres; Higher field 1 acre.

Dranes Vospers Tenements in the east 48 acres  occupied by Thomas Harris

Garnick Meadow in the Manor of St Neot Barrett occupied by Richard Thomas sublet from leasee  Peter Knight

48 Knighton 2 plots 5.5 acres  occupied by Giddy ; 2 plots 5.5 acres and Moor 1.50 acres

Mount Rant or part of Pengelly 19.75 acres occupied by Richard Broad 

Long Meadow 3.00   Trevarvan Park 1.75  Trevarvan Park 1.75   Moor Meadow 4.00  Bridge Meadow 1.00  Little Clam Meadow 0.75 Moor 3.00  Two Orchards 1.50 3 Wentaway 3.00  

Trewindle 20.75 acres occupied Rundle

 Aboveown 2.00   Furze 2.00  Orchard 0.75  Undertown 0.75   Hill Meadow 0.75  Furze and Wood 0.50  Coom Park 1.50  Furzy Hill 2.00 Wood and Furze 5.00  Grass 1.25  Middle Meadow 0.75  Turnips 0.50  Clover 0.75   Grass 0.75  Furzy Field 1.50  

Heeson's or Coombe's tenant William Webber  owner Thomas Pomery - 2 dwellings, 2 gardens 1 orchard. value £7

Probus & Churchtown ( Possibly explained by the will on page 1)

1559: Information relating to document ref. no. PL/24/1

Probus, yeo. 3 tenements and a cottage in Probus, in occ. of Jn. {John?} Coner, Oliver Taylor and Agnes Madlean (granted to (1) by Thos. and Hugh Pomeroy, being premises in Probus |Churchtown). 12 June 1559. [Cornwall Record Office, Records of the Trehane...

Date: 1559

Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, S... C 3/141/21

Short title: Pomery v Carmynowe. Plaintiffs: Sir Thomas Pomery kt. Defendants: John Carmynowe . Subject: property in St Winnow, Bodmin, Treweer, Lanteglos by Fowey, Tregonan, Newlyn, Trencreek, Grillis [Grylls], Restarlet [Roscaret ?] and Pendenket [unidentified

Date: 1558 - 1579

PL/24/1 1559: These documents are held at Cornwall Record Office

Contents: Quitclaim.

(1) Walter Spry of Probus, yeo., and Wm. Jn. Willyams of same, yeo., to (2) Jn. Coner of Probus, yeo.

3 tenements and a cottage in Probus, in occ. of Jn. Coner, Oliver Taylor and Agnes Madlean (granted to (1) by Thos. and Hugh Pomeroy, being premises in Probus churchtown).

12 June 1559

Title : Deed to lead the uses of a recovery and make a tenant to the praecipe, Merthen, Porth, Carennys and Ossavear, St Austell and house in Fowey

Date1 May 1701

Description Parties: 1) Degory Tonkin of St Blazey, merchant, and wife Mary, and Joseph Maye of St Austell, gentleman and wife Elizabeth, to 2) Henry Dottin of St Clement Dane, gentleman, Henry Hawkins of St Austell, gentleman, John Pomeroy of Fowey, merchant. Merthen, Porth, Carennys and Ossavear; St Austell, also dwelling-house in Churchtown and house in Fowey.

Archive of Carlyon family of Tregrehan, St Blazey

RefNo CN/911

Title Deed of gift, moiety of tenement in St Neot Churchtown

Date 2 Jun 1714

Description Parties: 1) Charles Pomeroy, senior of Lestowe, St Neot, yeoman to 2) son John Pomeroy of St Ewe, clerk. Moiety of tenement in St Neot Churchtown; also moiety of meadow and 2 closes of land in churchtown; moiety of dwelling-house, orchard and garden in churchtown with commons of pasture on Whitborough down.

RefNo CN/923

Title Lease and counterpart, tenement, St Neot

Date 20 May 1721 

 Description Parties: 1) William Godolphin of Tregarden, esquire, to 2) John Pomeroy of St Ewe, clerk. 99 year lease, lives of lessee's daughters Grace and Mary, and Richard Pomeroy of Tremaddock, rent 8 shillings. Consideration: £60. Moiety of tenement in Churchtown with commons of pasture of Whiteburrow downs.

PLACES menttioned in 1750 Will of Thomas Pomeroy of Lesstow

Lestowe St Neot close to Tredarrup . Not image yet found Great Lestow may be the same place although properties held by Rundle of Hole suggests otherwise. 'The farms were Coomhouse, Hambly's Hill, Hobbs, Jenkins Tenement, Lakesyeat, Ley, Higher Lestow, Lower Lestow, East Lewarne, Pengelly, Higher Polscopp, Lower Polscopp, North Polmenna, South Polmenna, Trebinnick, Tredinnick, Trewindle, Tupton and Hole. '

Lestow Farm St. Neot LISKEARD PL14 6PQ (not yet found image)

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