Spurway Devon

SPURWAY FAMILY - Devon

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Information relating to document ref. no. Z1/34/1/9

TIVERTON Lease for 90 years determinable as below. (1) Willyame Bodleighe of Donscombe, Esq. (2) Richarde Hille alias Spurwaye the elder of Tyverton, clothyer. Burgage or tenement and close and garden adjoining containing ½ acre in Baunton Streete in Date: 1586.

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Information relating to document ref. no. Z1/34/2/4

TIVERTON Lease for 21 years. (1) John Tuckfielde of Crediton, gent. (2) German Wonacott of Tyverton, hellyer. Messuage in Baunton Street formerly leased to Richard Hill alias Spurwaye. Richard Hill alias Spurwaye the elder William Hill alias Spurwaye and Date: 1613.

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Exchequer: Treasury of Receipt: Modern Deeds, Series A E 44/192

Exemplification concerning a fine between Richard Trefusys, esq, and Humphrey Spurwaye, gent, querents, and Christopher Pollarde, gent, deforciant, relating to the manors of Tywardreath and Week, Corn . Exemplification concerning a fine between Richard Date range: 1608 - 1609.

Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives

Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, Series II, Elizabeth I to Inter...

Hartnoll v. Spurwaye: Devon. . Hartnoll v. Spurwaye: Devon. Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, Series II, Elizabeth I to Interregnum Date range: 1558 - 1579.

Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives

Bond 1186M/F 15

Henry Ashford of Ashford, and Richard his son, and Richard Spurwaye of Tiverton, senior, merchant, to Mayor and Burgesses of Exeter. To secure £400 Penalty: £800. [Devon Record Office, Oakford] Date: 1625.

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Post-nuptial Settlement and Counterpart 1186M/F 6-7

1. John Loysemore of Okeford, husbandman 2. John Huish, John Hill alias Spurwaye, Lewis Prestcott and Humphrey Bowden. Messuages and lands in West Loysemore, in trust for John and Mary Loysemore for their lives, with remainder to Richard Estement and Wilmot Date: 1581.

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Counterpart Lease 1186M/L 33

1. William Spurwaye of Okeford, gent. and Richard his son. 2. Henry Crossman of Tiverton, clothier Four messuages, late Bennett's, and two messuages in street from Lowman to Tiverton near Lowman Bridge Term: 3 lives Fine: £65 Rent: 4s Heriot: 4s. [Devon Date: 1647.

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Reversionary Lease 1186M/L 7

1. Richard Spurwaye, senior of Tiverton 2. Richard Spurwaye, junior, (2nd son) and Judith his wife. 3. Robert and Thomas Snowe of Burlescombe Reversion of pasture, mastage, honey and wax in Stockeridge Wood, in parish and manor of Oakford, after expiry Date: 1613.

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Information relating to document ref. no. Z1/34/1/18

TIVERTON Deed of Confirmation. (1) John Tuckfylde of Crediton, gent. (2) John West, Mayor of Tiverton. Richard Hill otherwise Spurwaye, Richard Prowse, the elder, [...] Rumfey Colman, Edward Amye, John Blundell, John Cogan, John French, James Osmond, Richard Date: 1618.

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Devon Record Office 5214 M/T/33

Copy letters patent 1. James I 2. Richard Hill alias Spurwaye of Tiverton, clothier Premises: manor of Okeford, with advowson of Okeford. [Devon Record Office, PULLIN FAMILY] Date: 1613.

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Counterpart Lease 1186M/L 32

1. William Hill alias Spurwaye and Thomas Berrye senior, clothiers 2. John Berrye of Thorverton, yeoman, and John Minifye of Tiverton, blacksmith Mean hedge near River Lowman lying south from gutter by corner of house west of the hedge now in possession Date: 1632.

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Information relating to document ref. no. Z1/34/1/14

TIVERTON Conveyance. (1) William Bodleighe of Dunscombe, Esq. (2) John Tuckefylde of Crediton, gent. Messuages, mills, lands, tenements, etc., in the Borowe Towne and parish of Tyverton now or late in the occupations of Richard Spurwaye, Nicholas Skynner, Date: 1602.

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Devon Record Office R9/1-0/Z/6

Feoffment, by Edward Spurwaye and John Plumleigh to Wm. {William?} Barnes, John Budley, Lawrence Wheeler, Joseph Cubitt, John Barnes, John Hayne, Christopher Wheeler the younger, Samuel Budley and Samuel Barnes of Clifton Dartmouth Hardness, merchants, Date: 1655.

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Receipt 1186M/T 4

William Heydon, esq., to Richard Spurwaye of Tyverton, clothier. Payment of £600, payable under order of 8 July, 1612, made by the Lords, Commons, and royal commissioners for defective titles Manor and advowson of Okeford.. [Devon Record Office, Oakford Date: 1612.

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Assignment of Lease (Mortgage) 1186M/L 31

1. Rawlyn Glanfield of Tiverton, widow 2. Richard Hill alias Spurwaye of Tiverton, clothier Barn at south end of St Andrews Street, near River Loman and adjoining closes To secure £30 Proviso that if £10 and 3s 4d for writing of deed not paid by feast Date: 1603.

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Online Document PROB 11/128

Will of John Spurwaye Gentleman Okeford, Devon . Will of John Spurwaye Gentleman Okeford, Devon Date: 1616.

Description Will of John Spurwaye, Gentleman of Okeford, Devon

Date 13 July 1616

Source: DocumentsOnline (images of documents from The National Archives)

Administration Bond 1186M/F 19

Richard and William Spurwaye of Tiverton to Sir Daniel Dunn, L1.D., Dean of the Court of Arches. For payment of legacies under the will of Robert Comyn alias Chilcott to children of Richard Spurwaye, and indemnification of all officers of the Court of Date: 1611.

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Lease (in trust) 1186M/F 4

1. William Hill alias Spurwaye, senior, 2. William Slee and Peter Blundell, senior all of Tiverton, clothiers. 2/3s of all Spurway's estate in Oakford and Tiverton. Fine: 40s. Term: 21 years. Rent: 12d Trust for payment of debts and maintenance of children.. Date: 1633.

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Counterpart lease 1186M/L 6

1. Richard Hill alias Spurwaye of Tiverton, gent. 2. Richard Gosse, of Tiverton, weaver, and Elizabeth his wife. Houses and buildings and other property in [?] Lane Okeford [part lease missing]. Term: Lives of lessees, with licence to nominate a third Date: 1608.

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Information relating to document ref. no. 1936 M/L/120

1. John Bluett. 2. Incilla Spurwaye. Premises: John Tymewell's cottage Term: 99 years Rent: 3s. Fine: £28. [Devon Record Office, RAYER OF HOLCOMBE ROGUS] Date: 1624.

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Probate Inventory 1186M/F 20

Richard Spurwaye of Oakford, gent. Total: £473 - 19s - 8d. Appraisors: George Broughton and William Bowdon. Note that administration is to be granted to Elizabeth Spurway, widow.. [Devon Record Office, Oakford] Date: 1660.

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Writ of Seisin 1186M/F 5

Contents:

Crown to Escheator for Devon.

Recites Inquisition Post Mortem of Richard Hill alias Spurwaye, late of Tiverton, who was seised of the Manor of Okeford and 1/8th part of the manor of the Borough of Tiverton, Quickes land, Godbear's land and Cover's land; and his will dated 7 July 1630 left to the Mayor and Burgesses of Tiverton, a rent of £12 - 2 - 8d. and to John Radford, John Spurway, John Bowden and Richard Radford of Oakford, a rent of £3 to the use of the poor of Oakford and all other lands and tenements in Devon to William Hill alias Spurway, with remainders.

Seisin to be delivered to William Spurway. Date: 1633.

Folder icon Grant of Annuity 1186M/F 3 1632

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

1. William Spurway of Tiverton, gent.

2. George Webber of Tiverton, clothier, and Mary daughter of Wilmote Bowreman, widow.

Annuity of £7 payable from two closes at Elmore Common for their lives.

Consideration: £100

Folder icon Transfer of Mortgage (Marriage Settlement) 1186M/T 8 1697

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

1. John Deyman of Tiverton, gent., William Haydon of Tiverton, merchant, and Katherine Spurway

2. John Radford of Tiverton, esq.

¾ of Manor of Oakford; Barton of Higher Oakford; Stucridge and Ringstone, all in Oakford.

Transfer of mortgage as marriage settlement of John Radford and Mary Spurway

Folder icon Reversionary Lease 1186M/L 7 1613

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

1. Richard Spurwaye, senior of Tiverton

2. Richard Spurwaye, junior, (2nd son) and Judith his wife.

3. Robert and Thomas Snowe of Burlescombe

Reversion of pasture, mastage, honey and wax in Stockeridge Wood, in parish and manor of Oakford, after expiry of lease to Agnes Prescott (L 4) and lease of timber.

Term: life of Richard Spurwaye, junior.

Rent: 43s 4d

Heriot: best beast or £3

Counterpart Lease 1186M/L 8 1696

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

1. John and Mary Radford, John and Elizabeth Deyman, of Tiverton, Joan and Catherine Spurway of Okeford.

2. John Radford of Okeford, husbandman House, erected by Augustine Stephens, and garden.

Feeding for 2 pigs on neighbouring green, all in Okeford

Fine: £12

Term: 3 lives

Rent: 4s

Heriot: 5s., suit of court and corn to manor of Okeford

Folder icon Counterpart Lease 1186M/L 10 1722

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

1. Margaret Spurway of Exeter, widow

2. William Courtenay of Rackenford, butcher.

Spurway Eastmore; Spurway Westmore, Nott's Tenement and Marley's tenement, all in parish of Oakford.

Term: 21 years.

Rent: £24

Lease 1186M/L 11 1730

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

1. John Spurway of Spurway "batcheler of physick"

2. William Daly of Oakford, taylor Messuage, gardens, orchards, and meadows, comprizing 1½ acres (Daly's tenement) lying horth of Bearhayes wood, part of Spurway Barton. Timber excepted.

Fine: £11

Term: 3 lives

Rent: 4s and 1/6 or days work, and 1/6 of capon.

Heriot: 4s

Scope and content

John Toker of Tiverton. v. Elizabeth, executrix and late the wife of John Spurway of the same.: Money promised to complainant on his marriage with Agnes, daughter of the said John Spurway.: Devon.

Covering dates 1533-1538

Folder icon Writ of Seisin 1186M/F 5 1633

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

Crown to Escheator for Devon.

Seisin to be delivered to William Spurway.

A very interesting family but am having trouble connecting them from around the county. My interest is really only up to 1700 so that's predominantly where I stop, although there are a few extra records for families closer to Oakford.

OAKFORD

Ricardo Greda de Spurwaye

abt 1270

d. abt 1320

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Roberto de Spurwaye Agnes

living 1296

I m. Robert Edwards

John m. Marjorie

living 1331

Thomas m. Agnes Pointington

Robert m. Elizabeth Springe

Peter m. Alicia Bowden

John m. Florence Worthe

living 1450

d. 27 Jul 1527

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John Thomas

abt 1470 abt 1483

Oakford

d. 7 Apr 1534 d. abt 1543

m. m.

Agnes Shurom (Sherron) I

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John Robert Thomas Thomas

abt 1507 abt 1508 abt 1510

d. 1548

Exeter

I m. m. m. m.

I ? Arundell Ann Gale ? Lewis Jane Coram

I see below

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John John Johan

bur. Oakford

m. 2 Aug 1574 m. 24 Jul 1585

Oakford Oakford

Wilmot Radford Richard Charde I all c. Oakford

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George Richard John Mary Johane William Lannard Agnes Elizabeth Humphrey

22 May 21 Jul 9 Jul 16 Feb 1 Nov 30 Jun 5 Oct 27 Jun 12 Sep

1574 1575 1576 1577 1580 1580 1583 1583 1585 1587

d. 1656

Chardstock

I I m. 29 Jun m. 11 Jun m. 11 Jun m. 19 Nov

I I 1603 1607 1607 1610

I I Oakford Oakford Oakford Oakford I

I I John Robert Johan John I

I I Collande Tetherley Adams Bowden I

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I I all c. Oakford

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Elizabeth Humfrey Elizabeth Mary Jane Humphrey Humphrey

8 Dec 9 Sep 29 Sep 26 Feb 29 Aug 27 Jun 1613 21 Feb 1617

1609 1605 1607 1610 1613 Tiverton Tiverton

Oakford

d. 1616

bur. 11 Apr

Oakford

m. 27 Aug

1628

Edward Fox

Susanna

20 May

1634

NOTES:

JOHN SPURWAY:

[Deed] No.7, dated the Sunday before St. George’s Day 7 Edw. III (3rd Sunday after Easter, or April 25, 1333), is a grant of lands to John Spurway Greda from Richard atte Furson and Margery his wife. The witnesses are listed as Henrico de Sicca Villa, Reginaldo de Mildon, Johne de Losemore, John Edwards, William de Westcombe, Othelo de Cruwes, Robert de Losemore.

Wife MARJORIE:

JOHN SPURWAY abt.1470: Died aged of 64.

Wife AGNES SHUROM (SHERRON):

JOHN SPURWAY:

Wife WILMOT RADFORD: Daughter of Grigorie Radford 1530 - 1575.

RICARDO GREDA de SPURWAYE:

A settlement dated sometime between 1261 - 1291on Agnese, dau. of Richard de Spurwaye, who was marrying Robert Edwards. The settlement concerned the transfer of lands in Bears, a hamlet in Broadclyst partish, north-east of Exeter.... This Richard ws the Richard de Estsprewy who in 1284-6 held Estprewey...

Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids: with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, A. D. 1284-1431, by Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte, Anthony Story Maskelyne, Great Britain Public Record Office, Public Record Office, published by H.M.S.O., 1899, p. 343, Devon, HUNDREDUM DE WYTHERIGGE, 1284-1286 - "Ricardus de Estsprewy tenet ESTSPREWEY cum membris scilicet CHALLEWILLE et FALWARIGGE pro di. f. m. de Johanne de Tracy, et idem Johannes de Thoma de Ralegh, et idem Thomas de Galfrido de Camvill, et Galfridus de rege. [Richard de Estsprewy held

Estsprewey with members to wit Challewille and Falwarigge for ½ knights fee of John de Tracy; and the same John de Tracy of Thomas de Ralegh; and the same Thomas of Galfrid de Camvill; and Galfrid of the king]

ROBERTO de SPURWAYE:

Loosemore of Devon, Chapter 3, an oultline family histroy by W. R. Loosemanre (1923-2007) at

http://www.loosemore.co.uk/ described deeds belonging to Charles Spurway, Lord of the manors of Oakford and Spurway in the last 19th century -

The commentary referes to Richard as the heir of Robert Greda and say that it is not know when he died, but his son Robert succeeded to East Spurway by 1303 when it is recorded that Spurway was held byRobert Grede for 1/2 knoghts fee (citing Feudal Aids, i, 363)

One of the deeds describes concerns the grant of twleve pence a year by Robert de Fawlewrigge to Robert son of Richard de Spyrwaye Greda (filio Ricardi de Spyreweye Greda primogenito) propter mec filiationis copaternaitatem (on account of he is my godson). Witnesses were Nichoas de Ancastre, Philippo de Sdeham, Rogero de Middledon, Petre de Wodeburne, Robert de la Aspe, Petro de Losemore, Nicholas Hitterel, clerico, et al.

The Visitation of the County of Devon In the Year 1620, Frederic Thomas Colby, Ed., The Harleian Society, London, 1872, p. 274, has SPURWAIE, begins with Robert and skips John.

ROBERT SPURWAY

Wife ELIZABETH SPRINGE: Daughter of James Spring and Jane Helier.

John Spurway of Spurway, married Johanna she gave him four sons John, Humphrey, Richard and William, He was buried at Oakford.

John Spurway, married Alice, Daughter of Webber they had one son John, buried at Oakford.-

William Spurway of Spurway, bapt.1635 married 1664 to Margret, Daughter of Richard Spurway of Oakford they had a son John.

John Spurway of Spurway, married Dorothy Daughter of Pyne of Eastdowne on 24th Nov 1691 at Allwington, she gave him four children John, William d.1715 buried Hinish, Edward and Dorothy d. 1646. John died 1693.

# Name: Thomas Spurway , Mayor of Exeter, MP 1

# Birth: ABT 1482 in Tiverton, Devonshire, England 2

# Death: BET 29 MAR AND 8 MAY 1548 in Exeter, England

# Will: 29 MAR 1457 Exeter, England 3

# Probate: 8 MAY 1548

# Event: Fact 1542 Member of Parliament for Exeter

# Note:

He was lord mayor of Exeter, Devonshire, in 1540-41, member of Parliament for Exeter in 1542, and receiver-general to the marquis of Exeter. The History of Parliament states, "He was born at Tiverton, of a gentle family with a tradition of service to the Courtenay earls of Devon, and this he followed until 1539 when the marquis of Exeter was arrested for treason. His 'great credit' with the marquis did not harm him, for he was put in charge of the forfeited estates; he was also given the administration of some of the lands of two queens (Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr). It was after his marriage to the daughter of a former mayor of Exeter that Spurway was made a freeman, and on his father-in-law's death he went to live in Lewis's house in St. Martin's parish. . .He may have had a hand in the election for Exeter to the next Parliament of his colleague in Catherine Parr's service, John Grenville." His first wife was a daughter of Geoffrey Lewis, mayor of Exeter. His second wife was Anne Gale, of Kirton in Crediton. It is not clear which of these wives was the mother of his daughter Juliana.

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The History and Description of the City of Exeter: And Its Environs, Ancient and Modern, Civil and Ecclesiastical, By Alexander Jenkins, published by P. Hedgeland, 1806, DigitizedbyGoogle, p. 105-6, list of mayors and bailifffs: Thomas Spurway, 1529 and 1535 a bailiff, 1540 mayor

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The History of the City of Exeter: With a Short Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix of Documents and Illustrations, by George Oliver, Edward Smirke, published by W. Roberts, 1861,(digitizedbyGoogle,

p. 231-232List of Mayors 1540 Thomas Spurway

p. 246 - MP 1543 Thomas Spurway and William Kirk

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The Archaeological Journal, by British Archaeological Association, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, published by Royal Archaeological Institute., 1853, DigitizedbyGoogle, p 53

THE WILL OF KATHARINE, COUNTESS OF DEVON, DAUGHTER OF EDWARD IV. ; DATED MAY 2, 1527, Witness, George Speke, knyght ; Humfrye Colles, Esquyer ; Richard Haydon ; THOMAS SPURWAYand others (In the 1527-28 accounts for West Coker, money was paid to Thomas Spurway, “the Lady’s Receiver” {the Lady was the Countess]- THE ANNALS OF WEST COKER, By SIR MATTHEW NATHAN, p. 179.

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Thomas Spurway also acted as the King's receiver. "at Dover, 29th March, 32 Hen.VIII. 1541....

AT Dover the xxixth. of Marche beyng pnt the forsayd Counsail. Wheras the Lord Admyral having comission to levie in the west ptes cccc. pyoners 1 to cause them to be transported to Calais, did appoynte Antony Hervy esquier for his assigne in that behalf, a Ire was written to THOMAS SPURWAY the Kings highnes receyvor of certain atteynted landf in those ptes to content 1 pay unto the sayd pyoners at the appointement of the sayd Hervy, conducte money after the rate of a halpeny the myle from theyr

dwellyng places unto the see side. [Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, by

Great Britain Privy Council, England Privy Council, England and Wales, Great Britain Record Commission, Record Commission, England and Wales Privy Council, Great Britain, England, Privy Council, published by Printed by G. Eyre and A. Spottiswoode, 1837, p. 165.

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Exeter, 1540-1640: The Growth of an English County Town, by Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Harvard University Press, 1958, indicates thta Thomas Spurway, the mayor in 1540, married the daguther of Geoffrey Leiws, and that she outlived her husband. The House of Commons, 1509-1558, Vol III, Contributor Stanley Thomas Bindoff, published for the History of Parliament Trust by Secker & Warburg, 1982, indicates the first wife of Thomas Spurway was a da. of Geoffrey Lewis of Exector and that the second was dau. of one Gale of Kirton.

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Loosemore of Devon, Chapter 3, an oultline family histroy by W. R. Loosemanre (1923-2007) at

http://www.loosemore.co.uk/ described deeds belonging to Charles Spurway, Lord of the manors of Oakford and Spuray in the last 19th century, and in its comments says: "Thomas Spurway the receiver-general who assumed direct responsibility for the Devon estates after [1523]."

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The Visitation of the County of Devon In the Year 1620, Frederic Thomas Colby, Ed., The Harleian Society, London, 1872, p. 274, SPURWAIE, shows Thomas as son of John, husband of Agnes, not as his brother

John Spurway = Florence d. of Worthe

John Spurway = Agnes, d. of Sherron

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Robt Spurway = Arundell Thomas Spurway + Ann d. of Gale

Father: John Spurway , of Spurway b: ABT 1446 in Oakford, Devonshire, England

Mother: Florence Worth b: ABT 1450

Marriage 1 Miss Lewis b: BEF 1505

Children

1. Has Children Juliana Spurway b: ABT 1525 in Exeter, Cheshire, England

2. Has No Children Grace Spurway

Marriage 2 Amy Gale b: in of Crediton

* Married: in 1st husband, 2nd wife

Children

1. Has No Children Thomas Spurway , MP

OAKFORD

Richard

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William William

3 Mar 1576

John

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I I I I I I I

Humphrie John Elis John William Marie Johane

1 Apr 1629 1 Apr 1629 24 Jan 1631 8 Jan 1633 21 Jan 1635 23 Dec 1638 23 Dec 1638

d. 1629

bur. 24 May

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William Richard

m. 26 Jan 1664

Oakford

Margaret Spurway

(dau. of Richard)

John

10 Feb 1665

Richard m. Elis (Alice)

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Margaret Henry Richard

19 Dec 1641 1 May 1643 26 Sept 1647

bur. 12 Oct 1658

m. 26 Jan 1664 m.

William Spurway Mary

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I I I I I I I

Mary Elizabeth Joan Margaret Margaret Catherine Henry

1 Jan 1666 23 Oct 1668 28 Oct 1669 9 Jul 1671 24 Jun 1672 11 Dec 1673 15 Feb 1675

FARWAY

Humfry m. Grace Cox ? Grace m. William Coxe 4 Aug 1641 Farway

6 Aug 1600

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I I I I I I

Kathren Grace Edmond John Richard Johan

12 Dec 1602 12 Nov 1604 30 Dec 1606 29 May 1610 30 Aug 1618 16 Sep 1621

bur. 4 Dec 1664

Farway

m. 26 Nov 1632 m. 11 Oct 1629 m. m. 1 Jul 1639

Farway Farway Farway

Robert Coxe Johan Cox Alice Margaret Coxe

see below see below

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I I I I I I If I I

Edmond William Jane Margaret Grace Jone Christian Mary Thomas

4 Apr 1630 4 Dec 1631 18 May 1634 14 Aug 1636 19 Jun 1638 25 Oct 1640 25 May 1645 10 Sep 1649 15 Sep 1651

d. 1650

bur. 19 Dec

m. 11 Dec 1656 m. 22 Jun 1665

Farway Farway

Dorothy Stamer William Clarke

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I I I

Edmund Dorothy Susanna

4 Apr 1658 10 Oct 1660 30 Apr 1665

m. 2 Oct 1679 m. 6 Aug 1679 m. 13 May 1697

Ottery St Mary Farway Farway

Jane Pigeon Thomas Collins John Hann

[no title] PB/1/525 Trinity 17 Chas. II (1665)

These documents are held at Cornwall Record Office

Contents:

Final concord

1) Peter Prideaux, baronet

2) Walter Bucknoll, Thomas Bucknoll, William Bucknoll and Edmund Spurway

Consideraton: £60

Property in Farway, Devon.

[no title] HT/2/7 5 Oct 1669

These documents are held at Royal Institution of Cornwall

Contents:

LEASE (99 years):

(i) Gideon Haydon of Cadhay in Devon, esq

(ii) Richard Spurway of Farway in Devon, husbandman

Cottage and garden in manor of Farwood and Farway in Devon.

[no title] 210M/T/55 1695

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Contents:

Lease for 99 years or 2 lives

1. Gideon Haydon of Cadhay, esq.

2. Thomas Spurway of Farway, husbandman

Cottage on a close called Asherland in Farway

Lives: Thomas Spurway the younger and Alice

Spurway, son and daughter of 2.

Rent: 4d

Heriot: 5s

Consideration: £4

John m. Alice

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Thomas Richard James Atkins Humphrey Anthony

12 May 1633 15 Mar 1634/5 19 Feb 1636/7 3 Mar 1638/9 2 Jan 1641/2 1645

m. m. 17 Apr 1662

Farway

Agnis/Ann Elizabeth Quicke

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I I I I I I I I I I

William Mary Thomas Alice James Joane James Elizabeth Alice Hannah

22 Aug 1661 18 Dec 1664 10 Aug 1668 8 Sep 1678 25 Jan 1662/3 16 Oct 1664 14 Jul 1667 3 Mar 1669 6 Aug 1671 18 Jul 1675

Joan

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Sarah Honour James Charles Samuel

7 Dec 1693 7 May 1695 19 Oct 1697 9 Nov 1701 10 Feb 1703

Richard m. Margaret Coxe m. Anne Slad

30 Aug 1618 1 Jul 1639

Farway

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Richard Susan Elizabeth Phillip William Joanna

26 Apr 1640 16 Apr 1652 30 Mar 1656 29 Sep 1660 6 Oct 1667 9 Jun 1674

m. Oct 1669 m. 11 Dec 1699 m. 29 Apr 1694

Farway Honiton Farway

Thomsen Hodder Mary Wood Barbara Cox

[no title] 210M/T/55 1695

Contents:

Lease for 99 years or 2 lives

1. Gideon Haydon of Cadhay, esq.

2. Thomas Spurway of Farway, husbandman

Cottage on a close called Asherland in Farway. Lives: Thomas Spurway the younger and Alice Spurway, son and daughter of 2.

Rent: 4d. Heriot: 5s. Consideration: £4

[no title] 210M/T/56 1703

Contents:

Lease for 99 years or a life

1. Gideon Haydon of Cadhay, esq.

2. Thomas Spurway of Farway, husbandman

Premises: as in 210m/T/55

Lives: John Spurway, son of 2.

Rent: 4d

Consideration: £2 - 10s

[no title] 210M/T/57 1716

Contents:

Lease for 99 years or a life in reversion

1. Benedictus Marwood of Farway, gent.

2. Phillip Spurway, cordwayner

Premises: as in 210m/T/55

Life: Ann Spurway', his wife, in reversion of Elizabeth Michel of Farway

Rent: 4d

Consideration: 2 guineas

FARWAY PARISH

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Caleb Spurway John Swaine, yeoman 1721

Thomas Spurway Thomas Wish, yeoman 1722

John Spurway Thomas Wish 1711

Philip Spurway Richard Dally 1711

John Coram George Pritchard of Halberton 1729

Caleb Spurway Daniel Swaine, yeoman 1726

Farway Hearth Tax 1674

Surname, Christian name Number of Hearths

Cox, ?idgall 2

Cox, illegible 1

Cox, James 2

Cox, Robert 3

Cox, Thomas 2

Cox, William 1

Spurway, James 1

Spurway, Thomas [pauper] 1

Publication: Magna Britannia: volume 6

Author:Daniel and Samuel Lysons

Year published: 1822

OAKFORD, or OKEFORD, in the hundred of Witheridge and in the deanery of South Molton, lies about nine miles from Tiverton, and two and a half from Bampton.

The manor belonged anciently to the Montacutes, earls of Salisbury, of whom it was purchased by Sir Lewis Pollard, one of the justices of the Common Pleas, in the reign of Henry VII. His great-grandson, Sir Hugh, sold it to Richard Spurway, Esq., of Tavistock, a younger brother of the Spurway family. After the death of Henry Spurway, Esq., in 1680, this estate was divided between co-heiresses. A fourth is now vested in Mr. R. H. Parkin, descended from one of the co-heiresses; the remainder, which in 1773 belonged to the Rev. Mr. Sanford, is now the property of James Hay, Esq.

The manor of Spurway, in this parish, has been, from an early period, in the Spurway family, and is now the property of the Rev. John Spurway, of Barnstaple. The manor-house, which was the seat of the elder branch of the Spurways, is now occupied by the farmer of the estate. Grede, in this parish, appears to have been the original residence of the Spurways, who, in the reign of Henry III., were described as Grede alias Spurway.

Mrs. Gertrude Pyncombe, in 1730, gave 5l. per annum for teaching poor children of this parish.

Hightleigh St. Mary, an extraparochial place, where was formerly a chapel, adjoins to Oakford. The manor belongs to the Right Honourable Lord Rolle, in whose family it has been for a considerable time.

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The following documents were taken from the Rectory at Oakford. There are title deeds and leases of the manor and advowson of Oakford from an early date, including letters patent of James I to Richard Spurway, the Tiverton cloth merchant, 1613. Deeds, leases and family papers of the Revd Richard Haydon (Rector of Oakford, 1742 - 1787) and personal papers of the Revd James Parkin (Rector of Oakford, 1788 - 1813) form another group. There is a group of leases concerning mills in Tiverton.

MARRIAGE LICENSES OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER. 1596

Dec 1 Spurway. John Lambell of Exeter and Grace Spurway.

1597 April 9. Thomas Glasson of Topsham and Grace Spurway of Exeter.

1613 Feb. 9. Humphry Hill alias Spurwaye of Holcomb Eogus and Lucella Tunewell of the same.

1616 William Hancock of Mevye and Joanna Spurrell of the same.

1622 John Orlebeare of the city of London and Eizabeth Spurway of Tiverton.

1628 June 12. John Spurway of Okeford and Eizabeth AVellacomb of Roborough.

1628 Edward Fox of Okeford and Elizabeth Hill alias Spurway of the same.

1628 Benjamin Cleland, Clerk, of St. Petroc by Dartmouth and Barbara Spurway of Dartmouth.

1631 John Spurway of Tiverton and Mary, daughter of Richard Bennett of Broadclist, widow.

1610 George Radford of Crediton and Joanna Soper of Whitestone.

1620 „ Feb. 28. Edward Dinham of Halberton and Martha IS'ation of Lideat in co.

Chronologically the next mention of the Loosemore family occurs in a group of deeds listed in a note-book belonging to Charles Spurway, lord of the manors of Oakford and Spurway in the late nineteenth century. [10] For convenience the deeds will be referred to by their numbers in this Spurway list. Although the deeds are undated it is possible to establish an approximate chronology indirectly from other evidence, as we shall see.

The first is a settlement on Agnese, daughter of Richard de Spurwaye, who was marrying Robert Edwards. The settlement concerned the transfer of lands in Beare, a hamlet in Broadclyst parish, north-east of Exeter. It was probably those same lands which were referred to in the third deed, see below. This Richard was the Richard de Estsprewy who in 1284–6 held

The second deed, described by Charles Spurway as ‘The deed in a tin case with a copy of it’, concerned the grant of twelve pence a year by Robert de Fawlewrigge to Robert son of Richard de Spyrwaye Greda propter mec filiationis copaternitatem (on account of he is my godson). The tin case is dated 2 November 1790 on the outside and the deed is an attested copy. The original deed is lost but the 1790 copy, on parchment, survives with Mr R Spurway of Oakford manor together with a paper copy in poor condition. I have seen this paper copy; a text, with English translation, is given in Appendix 2. Witnesses are listed as Nicholas de Ancastre, Philippo de Sdeham, Rogero de Middledon, Petro de Wodeburne, Roberto de la Aspe, Petro de Losemore, Nicholas Hitterel, clerico, et aliis.

It is likely that deed No.3 pre-dates No.1 since it records a grant of lands to Richard Spurway which probably were the same as those transferred to John Edwards in the marriage settlement; the witnesses’ names confirm that all three deeds are roughly contemporary. Concerning No.2, it is not known when Richard Spurway, heir of Robert Greda, the Richard referred to in the deed, died, but his eldest son Robert (filio Ricardi de Spyreweye Greda primogenito of the deed) had succeeded to East Spurway by 1303 when it is recorded that Spurway was held by Robert Grede for ½ knights fee. [12] Hence No.2 must be dated before then, since it is reasonable to suppose that the gift to a godson would be made when the recipient was a child. The date could be as early as c1285.

In 1332 Robert Losamor was one of 15 men in Oakford tithing assessed for tax, from a population which totalled about 300-400. His assessment of 18d. was exceeded only by Otho Crewes at 2s. who, we are told, was the tenant or owner of Bickham manor, one of the seven in Oakford tithing. Other highly assessed individuals in the tithing included John de Swundon at 15d (Swineham in the manor of Espreweia or West Spurway), John Spiraweia 15d (then lord of the manor of East Spurway), and Henry de Wodeburne 8d, with his relatives Geoffrey 12d, and Nicholas 8d (all of the manor of Woodburn). Evidently Robert de Losamor was a successful local farmer.

As has been mentioned, the 1327 return presents difficulties because of its condition. Apart from the two Losamor entries only five others from about nineteen in Oakford tithing can be read with confidence, among whom are William Wade 12d, William de Westlak 8d, John de Spiraweye 6d, (blank) de Wodeburne 6d, and Thomas Marchante 6d. Amflis (the English Amphyllis) Losmor must have been a widow since otherwise her husband would have been regarded as owning any property in which she had an interest. She might perhaps have been Robert’s mother and therefore just possibly the widow of Petrus. If we regard Robert and Amflis in 1327 as belonging to the same family the total value of their surplus movable property, based on their joint assessments, becomes 23s.4d; on the same basis Robert’s property in 1332 was 22s.6d. These two valuations are well within the likely assessment errors and allow us to conclude that Amflis had died in the intervening five years and that Robert inherited her property.

John Edwards was probably a son of the Robert Edwards who married Agnese, daughter of Richard Spurway the father of John Spurway of the deed. Robert Losemore must have been regarded as the social equal of these thriving families.

After the year ended Michaelmas 1512, in which William Losemore first appears as a tenant, his name recurs in each annual account up to 1517 when there is a gap in the record. The next account, for the year ended Michaelmas 1523, lists the tenant as Richard Losemore, but by 1526 a William Losemore re-appears. We have no particular reason to doubt William Fortescue, receiver for the Devon lands until 1523, or Thomas Spurway the receiver-general who assumed direct responsibility for the Devon estates after that date or, for that matter, the accuracy of their professional scribes.

East Loosemoor remained attached to the manor throughout almost the entire 17th century. The first recorded reference to it as a separate property occurs in a deed dated 30 April 1601 when Sir Hugh Pollard received the surrender of the lease of the farm from John Hill als Dattiscombe, his tenant, re-granting it to him on new terms. [60] In 1604 Sir Hugh sold Oakford manor with East Loosemoor to Richard Hill als Spurway, a clothier of Tiverton, who also owned other property in the parish. Difficulties evidently arose over the sale for as late as April 1608 Hill laid a formal complaint before the court of Chancery that he had tried unsuccessfully since signing the contract of sale to obtain from the Pollards proper evidences of his title to the manor. [61] He was eventually granted a charter establishing his claim, but only at a huge extra charge of £600.

Henry, grandson of Richard Hill als Spurway, now known simply as Henry Spurway, inherited Oakford as a minor and just before his death he set up a trust to administer the estate on behalf of his widow Mary and his four surviving children, all daughters. After Mary’s death in 1696 the trust was dissolved and the following year the estate was partitioned between the four daughters, three of whom were by then married. The surviving deed of partition, an attested copy dated 18 August 1704, shows that East Loosemoor farm plus 14 acres of woodland went to Henry Spurway’s eldest daughter Mary, then married to John Radford of Tiverton, together with Oakford Barton, Higher Oakford, Ringstone, Hutswell and other property. [62] East Loosemoor was then in the tenancy of Richard and Thomas Radford, yeomen, by a lease determinable on the deaths of Richard’s son, also named Richard, and his brother Thomas. An earlier Richard Radford had farmed East Loosemoor from 1660 though it is not certain whether he followed directly after John Hill als Dattiscombe, for Dattiscombe had at least three sons, any one of whom might have succeeded his father.

The John Radford who inherited in 1697 also held East and West Apps and Harton, plus West Loosemoor as we saw in the previous section, so after a long separation the two parts of Loosemoor came together again under common ownership. This state of affairs was not to continue for long, as in July 1704 John Radford sold East Loosemoor farm with the 14 acres of woodland to Sir John Rolle of Stevenstone for £320.62 Presumably this was the occasion for making an attested copy of the 1697 partition deed. This John Radford may have been the ‘John Radford of East Losemore’ who died at Oakford in 1705.

W.G. Hoskins, “English Provincial Towns in the Sixteenth Century,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., 6 (1956): 1-19, at pp. 8-9, cites Hooker’s Commonplace Book of Exeter for the statement that the Spurways were members of a franklin family with a pedigree and lands in Devonshire then going back at least 200 years.[1] In 1488 a Robert Spurwey — perhaps the on of this name who in the 1620 visitation is shown as a brother of Thomas Spurway — held “a messuage called Spurwey in the parish of Okeford” as an under-tenant of Nicholas Stucle, who held it of the Countess of Richmond, mother of King Henry VII.[2] A nineteenth-century work treats the family under the parish of Oakford:

Oakford, or Okeford, in the hundred of Witheridge and in the deanery of South Molton, lies about nine miles from Tiverton, and two and a half from Bampton. The manor belonged anciently to the Montacutes, earls of Salisbury, of whom it was purchased by Sir Lewis Pollard, one of the justices of the Common Pleas, in the reign of Henry VII. His great-grandson, Sir Hugh, sold it to Richard Spurway, Esq., of Tavistock, a younger brother of the Spurway family. After the death of Henry Spurway, Esq., in 1680, this estate was divided between co-heiresses. A fourth is now vested in Mr. R.H. Parkin, descended from one of the co-heiresses; the remainder, which in 1773 belonged to the Rev. Mr. Sanford, is now the property of James Hay, Esq.

The 1620 Visitation of Devon (Harleian Society, vol. 6), p. 274, treats the Thomas Spurway who appears as the second generation in our account, showing only one of his two marriages and only one of his more than four children, missing among others the daughter Julian named in his will. It purports to provide six generations of his ancestry in the male line, and gives his arms as argent, on a bend sable, a mullet between two garbs of the field.[4] A description of these arms published in the nineteenth century gives the same arms but with varying tinctures: argent, on the [sic] bend azure, a spur-rowel, or, between two garbs of the first.[5] The perfectly acceptable blazoning here of what had earlier been called a mullet as a spur-rowel reflects the likelihood that these were canting arms, and it also suggests the possibility that the arms originated in a period when the true meaning of spurway — a mediaeval form of the word sparrow — had been forgotten, for otherwise one would expect the arms to have featured sparrows.

1. John Spurway m. Florence Worthe. These names are given in the Spurway pedigree in the 1620 Visitation of Devon as the grandparents of Thomas Spurway (no. 3), but see below for the possibility that they were actually his parents.

(?) 2. John Spurway m. Agnes Sherron. These names are given in the Spurway pedigree in the 1620 Visitation of Devon as the parents of Thomas Spurway (no. 3), and are accepted as such by the author of the entry for their son Thomas Spurway in the History of Parliament. However, we understand that in the manuscript Seven Centuries by Brice Clagett, the author deletes this generation and makes Thomas Spurway a son of John Spurway and Florence Worthe. We do not know the basis of this identification, and have been unable to establish any dates which might help settle the matter.

3. Thomas Spurway, of the parish of St. Martin’s Exeter, Mayor of Exeter, Devon (1540-41), M.P. for Exeter (1542), Receiver-General to the Earl of Devon,[6] and to the Marquess of Exeter,[7] b. in 1481-83 (aged 56 in 1538 or 1539), d. 1548, between 29 March (when he made his will) and 8 May (when it was proved).[8] The History of Parliament states, “He was born at Tiverton, of a gentle family with a tradition of service to the Courtenay earls of Devon, and this he followed until 1539 when the Marquess of Exeter was arrested for treason. His ‘great credit’ with the marquess did not harm him, for he was put in charge of the forfeited estates; he was also given the administration of some of the lands of two queens [i.e. Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr]. It was after his marriage to the daughter of a former mayor of Exeter that Spurway was made a freeman, and on his father-in-law’s death he went to live in Lewis’s house in St. Martin’s parish. For a number of years he reconciled the demands of a civic career with his position as the marquess’s representative, but he was no longer filling the second when he was elected to Parliament.…. He may have had a hand in the election for Exeter to the next Parliament of his colleague in Catherine Parr’s service John Grenville.”[9]

Thomas Spurway was receiver-general both to Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire, and to the latter’s widow, Katharine, born a daughter of King Edward IV. He is mentioned as serving in this capacity to the countess in a document of 1524,[10] and he served as one of the witnesses to her 1527 will.[11]

In his own will, in which he styles himself “Thomas Spurwaye of the coutie and citie of Exeter gentleman,” he requests burial in “Saint Nicholas churche yarde,” and makes many charitable bequests. An abstract of this will follows

The xxixth day of marche in the seconde yere of the raigne of ower sovorayne lorde Edwarde the Sixte. And in the yere or ower lorde god a thousande v c xliii [1548]. I Thomas Spurwaye of the countie and citie of Exeter gentleman beinge hole [i.e. whole] of remembrace but yet somewhat diseased of my boddye callinge to remembrance and also knowynge that deathe unto every man and woman lyvinge in this transitorye worlde (etc.). My body to be buried in Saint Nicholas churche yarde. To the reparacion of my parrishe church of Saint Martins in Exeter __ [illegible]. To the parson of the same churche for my tithes forgotten v s. To every poore man and poore woman in every almes house in the countie and citie or Exeter and the suburbes of the same one penyworthe of bread and for their reliefe and comforte. (etc. etc.)

To thre[e] of my youngest children that is to saye to John Spurwaye Grace Spurwaye and Julian Suprwaye my youngest doughter to everye of them twentie poundes in money and a fetherbedd parformed [?] in all thinges at the time of their marriage. And yf anny of my said thre[e] children happen to die that then the part or portion of him or them come to him or them overlyvinge [i.e. surviving] equallye to be divided. And if all they three happen to die before they be married then all the foresaide goods shall remayne to Thomas Spurwaye my sonne and heir apparant. I will that my sonne Thomas Spurwaye with th[e] advise of my overseers be and remane in and under the custedye and kepinge of my freende John Haydon[12] gentilman and that he do sett him to his learninge at London or elsewhere for his better knowleige.

Whereas I have and holde to me and to myne assignes my measuage tenement or howse that I dwell in w[i]t[h]in the countie and citie of Exeter for terme of certeyne yeres not yet expired. And where also by one other lease I have and holde to me and myne assignes of John Southcott Esquier one temement and gardeyne w[i]t[h]in the foresaid countie and citie of Exeter for terme of certeyne yeres yet to come. Amye my wife shall have and holde the same twoo severall temements and gardyne to her and her assignes duringe her naturall lyfe. After her deceas the residue of the yeres then not expired shall remayne to Thomas Spurwaye my sonne foresaide. And where also I stande and ame seased [i.e. seised] of an in landes tenements meadowes pastures fedinges [?] woodes underwoodes rentes reversions and suites [i.e. suits] and other hereditaments w[ith] there appurten[a]nc[e]s w[i]t[h]in the tythinge of Chettiscombe and ellswhere w[i]t[h]in the hundrethe of Tivi[r]ton the mannors and buroughe of Tivi[r]ton Exmynster and in the parishe of Saint Leonards w[i]t[h]oute the Southegate of the countie and citie of Exeter. I do give to the forsaide Thomas Spurwaye my sonne and heire apparannt and to t[he] heires of his boddye lawfullye begotton [sic]. And if my sonne Thomas happen to die w[i]t[h]oute heirs of his boddy laufullye begotton then all the foresaide measuages (etc.) shall come to my sonne John Spurwaye and to the heires of his boddye laufullye begotton. And if it happen my sonne John to die w[i]t[h]oute heirs of his boddy laufullye begotton then all the foresaide measuages (etc.) shall come to Grace Spurwaye and Julian Spurwaye my youngiste doughters and to t[he] heires of their boddyes laufullye begotton. And yf it happen my said twoo doughters Grace and Julian to die w[i]t[h]oute issue of theire boddyes laufullye begotton then all the foresaide measuages (etc.) shall come to my cosyn Robarte Spurwaye[13] of Germondyshey and to his heires males of his boddye laufullye begotton and yf it happen my saide cosyn Robarte Spurwaye to die w[i]t[h]oute heire[s] males of his boddy laufullye begotton then all the foresaide measuages (etc.) shall come to my doughter Julyan Manweringe wiffe of George Manweringe and to her heires and assignes for ever to holde of the cheefe lordes of the fee of fees by the suites and rentes thereunto.

And as to all the residue of my goodes and c[h]attalls movable and unmovable not yet given nor bequethed I give and bequethe to Amy my wyfe and Thomas my sonne whom I ordyne and make myne Executors. I ordyne and make John Haydon gentilman foresaide, William Buckenam marchannte, and David Hensteley clerke, myne overseers for the dye and true execution therof and they to have for there paynes xl s. equally between them to be devided. In wytnes wherof I have to this my testament and laste will putte my hand and sealed it w[i]t[h] my seale in the pr[e]s[ence] of John Haydon gentilman foresaide, David Hensteleygge clerke, Gregorie Basset clerke parson of Saint Martins, John Tuckfeld marchannte taylor, Philipp Collyer, Stephen Smythe.

It will be noted that as he calls Grace and Julian his “youngiste doughters,” he presumably had older ones who had already been given marriage settlements. The son Thomas did in fact survive, and was the father of the man who subscribes to the pedigree in the 1620 Visitation of Devon. The arms of this grandson of the testator are given as argent, on a bend sable, a mullet between two garbs of the field, quartering argent, a lion rampant between three cross crosslets fitchée vert (the latter for Spring, an heiress of which family allegedly married one of the early Spurways).

This visitation mistakenly shows Thomas Spurway’s second wife, “Anne” [really Amy] Gale, as his only wife. In fact he m. (1) ____ Lewis (sometimes called Joan, although on what grounds we have not been able to learn), daughter of Geoffrey Lewis, Mayor of Exeter, of St. Martin’s parish in that city. He m. (2) (as her first husband) Amy Gale, of Crediton, who survived him and subsequently m. secondly, Walter Staplehill, M.P., by whom she had further issue.[14] The 1620 visitation makes (Amy) Gale the mother of his son Thomas, but it is not clear which wife was the mother of his daughter Julian.

4. Julian Spurway. She is named in two places in the 1548 will of her father, in which she is left £20;: once as “Julian Spurwaye my youngeste doughter,” and again as his “daughter Julyan Manweringe wiffe of George Manweringe.” This will also names two sons, and as previously noted it is clear from the Spurway pedigree in the 1620 Visitation of Devon that the son Thomas, at least, survived and left issue. Thus the Mainwaring pedigree of the same visitation, which designates her as “Julyan d[aughter] & h[eiress] of Spurway Maior of Exon” is mistaken in making her her father’s heiress.[15] She m. before 29 March 1548 (the date of her father’s will), George Mainwaring, of Exeter, Devon, son of William Mainwaring and Margaret Tytley, whom see for the continuation of the line.

Parish Return towards the Rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral

for Oakford, Devon (1678)

Guildhall Library MS 25565/7 f073

Transcribed, and made available here, with the permission of the Librarian of St Paul's Cathedral,

obtained via the Keeper of Mansucripts, Guildhall Library

Transcribed by Fenella Rook, checked by Brian Randell.

Forename Surname £ s d Notes

Thomas Brook, Rector 0 10 0

Henry Spurway 0 5 0

Elizabeth Spurway 0 1 0

William Spurway 0 2 6

Richard Radford his servant 0 0 2

John Radford his servant 0 0 2

John Radford...[?] 0 1 0

Richard Radford 0 0 6

...an Radford 0 0 1

William Radford 0 0 ...

Richard Radford 0 0 [?]

Thomas Radford 0 0 6

John Radford 0 0 2

Thomazin Radford 0 0 2

Joane Radford 0 0 1

Joan Radford, wid 0 0 1

Richard Radford 0 0 1

[Signatures:]

Thomas Brook Minister

Lewis Greenslade Church Warden

Name Index

Donations of Peter Blundell (Founder) and Other Benefactors

to The Free Grammar School at Tiverton

Benjamin Incledon

Exeter: E. Grigg, typ. (1792)

Index prepared by Michael Steer

Peter Blundell was a very wealthy merchant of Tiverton and London. He died unmarried in April 1601. His will was lengthy, complicated and predominantly charitable. In it, he set out and funded plans for a free grammar school at Tiverton, providing a further £2000 to be used in the "establishing of six students in Divinity in the university of Oxford or Cambridge or both for ever". This book is a reproduction of an original held at the British Library. An original is also held at the Oxford University Library. It was digitised in 2007 and can be downloaded from: http://books.google.com/ Google, in partnership with a number of public libraries has sought to make more widely accessible, old, hard-to-get books on which copyright has expired.

Besley, John lii

Bowden, John 63

Hill, Richard, als Sporwaie 38, xli-iii

Hill, Samuel St xliv

Spurway, Henry xliii

Spurway, John xliv-v, (l)

Spurway, Richard xlix

Spurway, William xlii, xliv, li

Spurweye, Richard als Hill 5, 10, 47, 49-50, viii

Spurweye, Wilmote alias Hill 5

freeholders

Edward Spurway leaseholder Oakford Witheridge 1738 QS/7/18

Edward Spurway leaseholder Oakford Witheridge 1739 QS/7/19

John Spurway esq Oakford Witheridge 1715 QS/7/4

John Spurway gentleman Oakford Witheridge 1717 QS/7/5

John Spurway gentleman Oakford Witheridge 1718 QS/7/6

Mr John Spurway Oakford Witheridge 1720 QS/7/8

freeholders 1715

John Spurway esq Witheridge Oakford Oakeford

Bankrupts

Saturday, April 23, 1892 7737 Y3200752577 Spurway Henry and William Woolstaplers Barnstaple, Devonshire William Spurway had absconded to South Africa

CREDITON

Turn left up Bowden Hill and bear right into Park Street and the attractive Union Terrace. On the left are the Spurway Almshouses (15) They were built about 1555 at the bequest of Humphrey Spurway, a clothier of Crediton.

1675

Aj)ril 9. Pardon to Capt. Humphrey Spurway, late of Tiverton, of all

Wbitohaii. treasons and felonies and of all indictments, penalties, Ac, by reason

thereof. Minute. \lhid.^

1676

April 7. Colonel T. Blood to Williamson. I send according to your com-

mand the enclosed petition and the name and circumstances of the

person for whom a pardon is asked, viz., Capt. Humphrey Spurway,

late of Tiverton. He was one of the absconded persons I took charge

of to reduce or disperse, who chose to remove to a remote plantation,

being persuaded thereto that he might be incapable of endeavouring

to promote sedition or disturbances to the government. His crimes

were the same with the common drove of those his Majesty

pardoned at my coming out of the Tower, and no other. He is

employed by Nelthrop and other merchants in a remote plantation,

where he resolves to settle and never to return, but become a loyal

subject, if he may be delivered from his fears by a pardon. I

suppose his merchants will engage for htm, if there be any

occasion. [Ibid. Xo. 165.]

Published 1661 from "The queer, the quaint, the quizzical : a cabinet for the curious"

Ordeal of Touch.

At one time a superstition prevailed that if a murderer, at

the inquest, or when on trial, touched the dead body of his

victim, it would commence to bleed. On the trial, in Edin-

burgh, of Philip Standsfield, for the murder of his father, the

following deposition was made by Mr. Humphrey Spurway :

"When the chirurgeons had caused the body of Sir James to

be, by their servants, sewen up again, and his grave-clothes

put on, a speech was made to this purpose : ' It is requisite,

now, that those of Sir James Standsfield' s relations and nearest

friends should take him off from the place where he now lies,

and lift him into his coffin.' So I saw Mr. James Rowe at

the left side of Sir James' head and shoulder, and Mr. Philip

Standsfield at the right side of his head and shoulder; and,

going to lift off the body, I saw Mr. Philip drop the head of

his father upon the form, and much blood in hand, and himself

flying off from the body, crying, 'Lord, have mercy upon me,'

or 'upon us,' wiping off the blood on his clothes, and so laying

himself over a seat in the church; some, supposing that he would

swaiff or swoon away, called for a bottle of water for him."

Sir George McKenzie takes this notice of the above evi-

dence, in his speech to the inquest :

"But they, fully persuaded that Sir James was murdered by

his own son, sent out some chirurgeons and friends, who, having

raised the body, did see it bleed miraculously upon his touch-

ing it. In which God Almighty himself was pleased to bear

a share in the testimonies which we produce: that Divine

Power which makes the blood circulate during life, has oft-

times, in all nations, opened a passage to it after death upon

such occasions, but most in this case."

There is an almshouse for four poor persons on Bowtonhill in Crediton, founded by Humphry Spurway, who died in 1557, and endowed with lands in Witheridge, leased on lives at about 10l. 10s. per annum. The pensioners have 7½d. a week each, a gown once in three years, and some linen yearly.

regading tokens

"Richard Hill, alias Spurway," was the first Mayor of Tiverton. Other names with an alias occur in the old parish register of that borough about the same time. When a second surname was thus affixed, the additional ones were adopted permanently by the two Tiverton families, the descendants of both Chilcot and Spurway retaining those names only. The English free school is still called "Chilcot's School," and of the Spurway family, so well known to the older inhabitants, two became rectors of Clare and Pitt Portions in Tiverton.

69410 Thomas SPURWAY. Born abt 1482 in Tiverton, Devon, England. Died in 1548. Occupation: Mayor of Exeter, Devon, England (1540-41); M.P. for Exeter (1542); Receiver-General to the Marquess of Exeter.

He was born at Tiverton, of a gentle family with a tradition of service to the Courtenay earls of Devon, and this he followed until 1539 when the Marquess of Exeter was arrested for treason. His 'great credit' with the marquess did not harm him, for he was put in charge of the forfeited estates; he was also given the administration of some of the lands of two queens [i.e. Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr]. It was after his marriage to the daughter of a former mayor of Exeter that Spurway was made a freeman. He may have had a hand in the election for Exeter to the next Parliament of his colleague in Catherine Parr's service, John Grenville. In his will, he mentions his "daughter Julyan Manweringe wiffe of George Manweringe.

The name of his first wife is not known (sometimes called Joan although we do not know on what grounds), daughter of Geoffrey Lewis, Mayor of Exeter, of St. Martin's parish in that city. He next married Anne Gale, of Kirton in Crediton. It is not clear which of these wives was the mother of his daughter Julian.

SPURWAY: Flourished 1614 p615

Richard Spurway, cloth manufacturer of Tiverton. Digression that there is no disgrace in honest trading. By his efforts the town obtained its royal charter. Richard Spurway its first Mayor 1614. During his time the Town Bridewell was established and a Common Prison House. His charitable works.

Will of Henry Ayshford of Ayshford, Devon, Esq. [grandfather of Martin Sanford] DD\SF/821 28 Oct 1647

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Bequeathing (inter alia) messuage, tenement & plot of ground in Taunton to his sister Spurway; the Prebend of Uffculme, Devon, to trustees for payment of debts & legacies; Manor of Curland to son John for 21 years, he being appointed executor

[no title] Z1/34/2/14 20 September 1660 12 Charles II

These documents are held at Devon Record Office

Former reference: [DD.45296].

Contents:

TIVERTON

Surrender of lease.

(1) John Bale of Uffculm, weaver.

(2) Richard Bowdon of Tiverton, weaver.

Recites indenture of 2 January 28 Elizabeth whereby William Bodleigh leased to Richard Hill alias Spurway the elder a messuage and close in Bampton Street.

Now: (2) surrenders to (1), all his part in the said messuage.

Consideration: £6.

(Paper)

Wills:

purway Benjamin St Thomas the Apostle [Exeter St Thomas the Apostle] [DEV] vicar of St Thomas the Apostle 1736 A co WCI Basket A/1084

Spurway Caroline [DEV] spinster 1866 W co WCI 1142/FW176-7

Spurway James Colyton [DEV] gent 1816 W co WCI [microfilm partly illegible]

Spurway Joanna Bampton [DEV] 1841 W co WCI [microfilm partly illegible]

Spurway John [DEV] 1594 I co WCI 57 Orphans Court Inventory

Spurway Mary Barnstaple [DEV] spinster 1870 W co WCI 1142B/FW178-81

Spurway William Barnstaple [DEV] 1837 W co WCI 1142B/FW184

Spurwaye John [DEV] merchant 1594 W co WCI Book 142,f.58

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Tiverton

Another portion of the manor was purchased by the Wests of the Trelawney family. Dorothy, one of the co-heiresses (fn. 34) of John West, Esq., who died in 1728, brought six-eighths of the manor and hundred of Tiverton, with the castle, in marriage to Sir Thomas Carew, of Haccombe, Bart., father of Sir Henry Carew, Bart., the present proprietor, who possesses seven-eighths, oneeighth having been purchased by Dorothy Lady Carew, of the Rev. Mr. Spurway, in whose family it had been for a considerable time.

In this church are monuments, or inscribed grave-stones, in memory of the families of Colman (fn. 38) , Newte (fn. 39) , Foot (fn. 40) , and Burridge (fn. 41) ; Roger Giffard, Esq., 1603; John West, 1630; John Upcott, 1670; William Lee, M.D., 1679; Robert Chatty, merchant, 1679; Edward Gibbon, 1707; his wife, a co-heiress of Amory, by a daughter of Molford, 1683; Nathaniel Cleavland, merchant, 1715; Richard Spurway, 1718; Mr. Sebastian Land, 1726; Nathaniel Thorne, merchant, 1734; George Sweet, Esq., 1809; Elizabeth Pomery, wife of Thomas Phillips, Esq., 1809; and Richard Blundell, Esq., 1811. In Grenwaye's chapel is a grave-stone with brass plates, of John Grenwaye, the founder, and Jane, his wife, without inscription.

The rectory of Tiverton is divided, like the parish, into four portions. Prior's portion was separated from the rectory by Baldwin de Ripariis, the first Earl of Devon of that name, and given to the priory of St. James, in the suburbs of Exeter, to which it became appropriated. This priory being a cell to the foreign monastery of Clugny, was seized into the hands of the crown, and was by King Henry VI. given to the provost and scholars of King's College in Cambridge, to which it still belongs. The College appoints a curate to perform a fourth part of the service of the church of Tiverton. The remainder of the parish is said to have been divided into three portions by Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon, about the year 1335, but it must have been at a much earlier period. There is abundant evidence that the Courtenay family presented to the three portions or prebends as early as the middle of the preceding century. (fn. 44) These portions were in the gift of the Courtenay family till the death of the last Earl of Devon. The advowsons of the several portions then became vested jointly in the co-heirs, and have passed in severalties through various hands. The descendants of the Courtenays have now no interest in it, except a small part of two of the portions, which belongs to the Vyvyans. A moiety of each, giving an alternate presentation, was in the Newton family, passed by purchase to the Ryders, and is now vested in Lord Harrowby. Sir Henry Carew has half the remaining moiety of Tidcombe portion; the Rev. John Spurway one-eighth, and Sir Vyel Vyvyan, Bart., one-eighth. Mr. Spurway and Sir Henry Carew have one-fourth each of the advowson of Clare portion: the other moiety of the advowson of Pitt's portion is divided between Mr. Spurway, Sir Vyel Vyvyan, and Sir Henry Carew, who have each a sixth turn in the presentation.

Spurway, of Spurway and Oakford. — This ancient family, originally Grede, had assumed the name of Spurway as early as the reign of Henry III. Co-heiresses of Stringer and Liston, and the heiress of Ley of Dartmouth, have married into this family; the representative of which is the Rev. John Spurway, of Pilton, near Barnstaple, who possesses the manor of Spurway.

Arms: — Argent, on the bend Az., a spur-rowel, Or, between two garbs of the first.

Crest: — A garb, Or.

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Huxham 3 miles from Exeter - There is a memorial also for William Spurway, 1715.

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Year published: 1822

Crediton - There is an almshouse for four poor persons on Bowtonhill in Crediton, founded by Humphry Spurway, who died in 1557, and endowed with lands in Witheridge, leased on lives at about 10l. 10s. per annum. The pensioners have 7½d. a week each, a gown once in three years, and some linen yearly. John Davie, Esq., in or about the year 1620, founded an almshouse near the church-yard for four poor persons, two of Crediton, and two of Sandford, and endowed it with 20l. per annum. The pensioners in this house receive 1s. 6d. a week each.

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Year published: 1822

City of Exeter - In the church of St. George are the monuments of Thomas Baron, Esq. some time mayor (with his bust), 1708; Richard Vivian, merchant, (with his bust) 1708, four of his sons died in the month of September, 1729. There are inscribed grave-stones to the memory of Thomas, son of Sir Thomas Bury, Knight, 1692; and Richard, son of Richard Spurway, of Oakford, 1716. The dean and chapter are patrons of the rectory.

OAKFORD - Townshall - DARTMOUTH

Thomas m. Jane Coram

Thomas

Exeter

m. 18 Apr 1591

Townshall

Luce Anthony nee Liston

Edward

bur. 3 Jun 1674

m. 6 Apr 1624

Modbury

Agnis Tracy

of Ombersley, Wor

all c. Dartmouth St Saviour

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Edward Gilbert Luce Thomas Edward Katherin Johane Katherin Honor Hanna Benjamin Samuel Triphena

16 Jan 3 Dec 23 Sep 19 Apr 13 May 4 May 10 Jan 22 Jan 16 Dec 17 Jun 28 May 4 Jan 8 Jan

1624/5 1626 1628 1630 1632 1634 1635/6 1636/7 1638 1641 1643 1646 1648

d. 1643

bur 12 Oct

m. 27 Aug m.

1666

Dartmouth I

St Petrox I

Sylvanus

Evens I

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I I I I I

Agnis Jane Gilbert Katherine Elizabeth

3 Jan 1 Apr 26 Nov 26 Nov

1674 1677 1679 1679

St Sav St Sav St Sav St Sav

Devon Record Office Z12/25/6 10 June 1655

Former reference: D.D.5346

Contents:

MODBURY

Counterpart Reversionary Lease determinable as below.

(1) Lewes Hele of Kings Tenton, esq.

(2) Edward Spurwaie of Dartmouth, marchant and Benjamin Spurwaie, his son.

Close called Penn Parke cont. 8 acres in the Manor of Great Modburie and late in the possession of Katherine.

In reversion of Katherine Trasie and Johan Trasie for the life of Beniamin Spurwaie.

Consideration: £8.

Rent: £4.

Heriot: 10s.

1660 - Edmund Spurway. Mayor of Dartmouth

Devon Record Office R9/1-0/Z/8 24 April 1676

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Transference of Trust, by way of Feoffment. John Barnes, John Hayne, Christopher Wheeler the younger, and Samuel Budley all of Clifton Dartmouth Hardness, merchants (the surviving feoffees of the Rectory and tithes of Townstal) to Thomas Newman, Arthur Holdsworth, Andrew Langdon, Henry Penney, Joseph Venton, Samuel Spurwaie, Wm. Staplehill, Richard Newman, William Hayne, George Wooley, John Kynnycott, John Palmer and Samuel Spitrewe, the new feoffees, of the Rectory of Townstal, all tithes of grain, etc., and the advowson of the vicarage of Townstal.

[no title] CY/3764 13 April 1686

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Assignment of lease by way of mortgage. £150.

(i) Peter Trevisa, Crockaton, St. Mellion, esq.

(ii) Rich. Richmond, London, gent.

(Rec. of lease of Jn. Frances, Gilbert Staplehill, Vincent Winchester, Wm. Spurway, Jn. Martyn, Rich. Smith, Geo. Plumleigh, Thos. Plumleigh, Thos. Wandroppe, Wm. Holland, Jn. Plumleigh, jun. and Jn. Follett of borough of Clifton Dartmouth Hardnes, Devon, merchants under common seal the the said borough, 1 August 1622, (surr. of former lease to Aldred Staplehill, 67 yrs. to run. Andrew Voysey, Dartmouth, merchant, possessed of lease and had undertaken to erect some commodious buildings on the land). Also £3. Leased to him (A. Voysey) - quay and parcel of land in Dartmouth, Fosse Way on west. Quay extended from there east as far as wall of quay or palace called Howlyes Hall. For 80 yrs. Rent 13s. 4d.

Recital: Wm. Barnes, Lawrence Wheeler, Jn. Budley, Jn. Hollygrove, Walt. Jay, Gilbert Staplehill, Anthony Follett, Jn. Plumleigh, Jn. Matthew, Dartmouth, merchants and feoffees of lands belonging to the corporation of the borough, 6 August 1655 under common seal of the borough. For £25 leased to Andrew Voysey, curtilage, palace, cellar and loft at North Town, Dartmouth, at the Fosse, street called Fosse on the west, east Dartmouth harbour. Cellar and loft built on land of first recital (above). To hold from 24 June 1703 for 32 yrs. Rent 13s.

Recital: Jn. Francis, Wm. Spurway, Gilbert Staplehill and Jn. Plumleigh of Dartmouth, merchants and feoffees by lease under common seal of borough 7 August 1655. For £4. To Andrew Voysey, land at N. town Dartmouth adjg. E. side of cellar occ. by Voysey. From 24 June 1703 for 32 yrs. Rent 4d. Part of first recited lease to Andrew Voysey, merchant, father of Andrew Voysey, late husband of Rebeca Vosey. Rec. of will of Andrew Voysey, the father, 18 May 1653, excr. s. Andrew Voysey, 21 Aug. 1653. A. Voysey, jun. proved the will at Westminster ('in the then Court for probate of Wills..') and procured redr. of term of first lease. Rec. A. Voysey, jun. made his will 25 December 1680 - made wife Rebecca excx. She proved at P.C.C.

After leases a 'fair messuage' and several other edifices built and a crane and a crane house on land leased above - premises improved. Rec. of assignment by Rebecca Voysey, 14 February, 1683. For £152 to Peter Trevisa - quay, cellars, and lofts and buildings and crane and crane house for redr. of term of 80 years.)

- quay, cellars, lofts, and buildings in North Town, Dartmouth for several terms of years. (Mortgage to be repaid 14 October following at house of Samuel Hartcliffe, scrivener, in Lothbury, London).

Witd. Samuel Harcliff, scrivener; Jn. Drayton, servant.

The Register book of Dartmouth from the year of our Lord God 1586, wryten

by Walter Roche, Clerke, who in the yeere aforesaid was Presented, Instituted

& Inducted in to the Vycaredge of Townstall and Dartmouth aforesaid.

Per me Walterum Roche, Clicum. -

18/4/1591: Thomas SPURWAYE & Luce ANTHONY, Widow.

5/5/1651: John SPURWAY & Margerie FOLLETT.

28/6/1664: Arthur HEALE & Margery SPURWAIE

27/8/1666: Sylvanus EVENS & Katherin SPURWAIE.

22/2/1789: Thomas SPURWAY, Mariner & Joan NEWMAN.

Both XX. Wits; John Lake & Sarah Lake.

Devon Record Office R9/1-0/Z/7 20 December 1670

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Purchase deed of the high rent of £6 13s. 4d of the Rectory of Townstal and Chapel of Dartmouth granted by Francis, Lord Hawley and others, trustees for the sale of fee farm rents to Thomas Newman, Arthur Holdsworth, Benjamin Rooke, John Whitrow, George Wooley and Samuel Spurway of Dartmouth, gents., Consideration: £130 3s. 2d. Enrolled in the Exchequer, Hilary term 1670.

Devon Record Office R9/1-0/Z/5 15 May 1627

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Feoffment by William Langdon and John Smith (at the appointment of the Mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of Clifton Dartmouth Hardness) to John Staplehill, Richard Smith, Thomas Walldrob, John Plumleigh the younger, Edward Spurway, Giles Rounsevall, John Follett and Symon Voysie of Dartmouth, merchants. Rectory of Tounstal and Chapel of Dartmouth and all tithes.

Devon Record Office R9/1-0/Z/8 24 April 1676

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William m. Honor Ley

31 Aug 1618

Dartmouth St Petrox

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I I

John Joane

1619 18 Mar 1621

m. 5 May 1651

Dartmouth St Saviour

Marjorie Follett

(remarried after husband's death)

28 Jun 1664

Dartmouth St Saviour

Arthur Heale