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In Devon Pomerai family held Ash (Bradworthy) ,Ashcombe Aunk Berry� Pomeroy,� Bradworthy,� Brendon, Bruckland Caffyns, Cheriton, Clyst St George, Curtisknowle,� Dunkerswell, Dunsdon� Dunstone, (Widecombe in the Moor) Gappah Great Torrington, Heanton, Heavitree,� Highleigh,� Holcomb, Huxham, Keynedon, Lank, Combe Mamhead, Mowlish, Peamore, Strete Raleigh(a house in Whimple in Exeter area ) or Raleigh (which is Pilton nr Barnstaple), Tale ( South Molton area of North Devon), Sheldon ,Smallridge ,Southweek, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Upottery, Washfield, Weycroft ,Yeadbury.
Sandridge at Stoke Gabriel and Ingsdon Manor in Ilsington came into the family later by marriage.
Pomeroy's also held Tregony Castle near Truro in Cornwall . ( notes on possible family connections there.) The family may have acquired other Cornish manors and lands in St Columb Major in 1600's when a Pomeroy married a Bonythan of St Columb Major.
In 1548, to pay accumulated debts Sir Thomas Pomeroy sold his lands and manors of Berry Pomeroy to Edward Seymour, Lord Protector and the first Duke of Somerset , for four thousand pounds .
Thomas was involved in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, although he is considered a lightweight and his part something of a schoolboy prank.
Whilst taking part of this Rebellion he and his brother Hugh Pomeroy of Tregony were buying up small chantries and their lands all over Cornwall, through the Court of Augmentations, investing half the amount gained by the sale of his lands. The rebellion was fiercely repressed and Thomas narrowly escaped a grisly execution at Tyburn. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London where he remained for many years, long into the reign of Elizabeth I . He died in the Tower in 1567.
His descendants lived at Sandridge in Stoke Gabriel. This branch of the family became extinct in 1715 . The Cornish Pomery�s at Tregony ,and the land-owning line at St Columb in Cornwall and the Pomeroys of Ingsdon in Ilsington in Devon also became extinct over time.
In Ireland the cadet or younger sons branch of the Ilsington Pomeroy family, were elevated to the peerage and became the Viscounts Harberton .They are the existing line of the ancient armorial family.
There has been a bit of a mystery regarding Thomas Pomeroy of Bingley 1546 1615. because there is no Bingley in Devon.
Powley suggested Beenleigh and keeping in mind the variations in speech which gave variations in spellings at the time this would have been written , I researched it and found Beenleigh a couple of miles from Harberton near Totnes.
Beenleigh : a manor house with a farm, close by West Leigh. It has been called variously Bilney, Bough Park and latterly Beenleigh. On a modern map it can be found between Murtwell and Thorn Farm close to West Leigh.
Bishops Transcripts from the Martime History Archive
Pages 380 381 &382
Naughty Poms in Exeter
