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    Tregarthen, Thomas

    Male Abt 1440 - 1509  (~ 69 years)


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    • Name Tregarthen, Thomas 
      Born Abt 1440  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 06 Mar 1508/09  Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I04889  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 17 Jun 2015 

      Family Hendower, Margaret,   b. Abt 1442, Of Court Manor, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1506, Of Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
      Children 
      +1. Tregarthen, Joan,   b. Of Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1509
       2. Tregarthen, Phillipa,   b. Of Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1508
      +3. Tregarthen, Margaret,   b. Abt 1465, Of Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1506, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years)
      +4. Tregarthen, John,   b. Abt 1470, Of Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 06.01.1502/03, Branell, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      Family ID F01528  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Will of Thomas Tregarthen of Saint Goran, Cornwall 05 May 1509 PROB 11/16

        MP for Cornwall. Lawyer.

        CORNWALL A10490
        Acquittance by Thomas Tregarthen the elder, steward and general receiver of the rents &c of Humphrey Abbot of Beaulieu and the convent of the same, in the county of Cornwall, to John Nanskylly Mayor of the borough of Helston, and his successors, for 5 marks for Easter term last, parcel of 10 marks granted by Richard, sometime Earl of Cornwall, to the said Abbot and his successors.
        16 May 4 HENRY VII (1489)

        The Inquisition Post Mortem of Thomas Tregarthyn [Chancery Inq. p. m. Ser. II, Vol. 23 (314) has no writ. It was taken at [illegible] co. Cornwall, 1 April [1509] before the King’s Escheator there, to enquire after the death of Thomas Tregarthyn. The jurors [the names mostly illegible] say that on oath the said Thomas was seised of and in the manor of Tregarthyn and of a messuage and lands [acreage given] in Tregarthyn, Pollacke, Tretalsvoys and [illegible].
        By charter dated 5 March 1505/6 he enfeoffed Robert Wyllughby, Lord Broke, Robert Scheffeld, Richard Coryngton of the same to the uses of his last will and by his last will desired the said feoffees to demise the said manor & premises to a certain John Chamond, for life, with contingent remainders to Thomas Chamond, son of said John by Margaret his late wife, daughter of the said Thomas Tregarthyn, in tail male, to the heirs male of a certain Joan Poyle, widow, to the heirs male of Phillipa wife of Richard Hore, to the right heirs of Thomas Tregarthyn aforesaid forever.
        By virtue whereof the said feoffees were seised of the same
        By charter dated 8 March [1508/9] the said feoffees conveyed the said premises to John Chamound, with contingent remainders as before expressed, whereby the said John Chamound was thereof seised.
        The said manor and premises are held of Lord Henry Stafford & Cecily his wife, daughter & heir of Lord Bonvyle as of their manor of Trewardreth in the said County, in right of said Cecily & the same is worth yearly L3.
        The said Thomas was also seised of 30 messuages and lands [acreage given] in Kystalsyns, Tresuswal, Tururburgh, Stretkenwyn, Bellyche, Newham, Oxeforth Park, Bodynyell, Tregony, Tadyporth by Rekebyn, Trelegmere, Kestell, Tregasek, Warth, Travarek & Bodmyn.
        By charter dated 1 April [1505/6] he granted the same to his daughters Joan…..(widow), Margaret wife of John Chamond & Philippa, wife of Richard Hore & their issue.
        The premises in Kystelsyns are held of Sir Nicholas Vaus, knt., & Sir Robert Borbet, knt., as of their manor of Clerky in said county by fealty & rent of 3s.6d.
        The premises of Bellyche are held of Reginald Sayre by one barley corn but by what service the jury are ignorant of. The premises in Tresuswell are held of the Bishop of Exeter as of his manor of Penryn by fealty & the annual rent of 2s.3d., those in Newham are held of William Trevanyon, as of his manor of Newham by what service the jury know not.
        The premises in Trelegmere are held of the Abbot of Beaulieu as of his manor of ______gregenan [partially illegible] by an annual rent of 6s. Those in Kestell are held of Richard Whitlegh, Esq. as of his manor of Helygan Pomeray, in burgage by fealty only; those in Bodynyell & Bodmyn of Thomas, Prior of Bodmyn by what service the jury know not; those in Tregasek & Warthe of Sir Peter Eggecomb, knt., of his manor of Bodrugan by knight’s service & an annual rent of 3s.4d.; those in Trevarek of Thomas Prior of ________ [Bodmin?] as of his manor of Trevenon by what service the jury know not & the said premises are worth by the year, clear, L6.
        The premises in Truruburgh are held of Sir Peter Eggecombe, knt, & others in free burgage & those in Stretkenwyn of William Trevanyon, Esq., as of his manor of Newham by what service the jury know not & are worth by the year, 10s. And Oxeforth Park is held of the King as of his Duchy of Cornwall in socage by fealty only.
        The said Thomas was also seised of lands in Treghmelyon & in Pelscoyth by Lostwythiell & elsewhere [illegible].
        By charter dated 10 April [1504] he enfeoffed John Archer & Roger Trenowyth, chaplains to the use of Richard Whitlegh, Esq. & Mary his wife, for the term of their lives, with contingent remainders to Margaret, late the wife of John Chamound & her issue, to Joan Poyle, widow & her issue, to Philippa wife of Richard Hore & her issue to [the tenures are illegible].
        He was also seised of other lands [names illegible] with reversion to Joan & Margaret Tregarthyn, daughters of John, son of said Thomas.
        The jurors say that a certain Margaret, daughter of Richard Hendour, was seised of the manor of Branoll [sic Branell] with the advowson of the church of St. Stephens belonging to the said manor & lands there & in [illegible] & thus seised took to husband the said Thomas Tregarthyn & had issue by him, John, who died ………. 15 Henry VII, after whose death, Thomas was seised of the same as tenant. John the son had issue Joan & Margaret Tregarthyn. John died & the reversion of the said manor & advowson after the death of Thomas belongs to Joan & Margaret, daughters & heirs of John.
        The said manor & advowson are held of the King, as of his Castle of Launceston, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, & are worth by the year, clear, L10.
        John died 5 January [1502/3].
        Thomas died 6 March [1508/9] & Joan & Margaret daughters of John, son of Thomas, are his next heirs, & in like manner heirs of said Margaret, daughter of Richard Hender; Joan is aged 10 years & Margaret 6 years.

        Inquisition Post Mortem, Thomas Tregarthyn [Chancery Inq. p. m. Ser II. Vol. 79 (211)
        Devon
        Delivered into court 13 May by William G[yfford].
        Inquisition taken at Exeter 10 May [1512], before Philip Courtenay, escheator, by the oath of John Myleton, esq., Nicholas Flemmyng, Thomas Thatcher, John Frawncis, John Lywyngton, Robert Hoker, John Rede, John More, Oliver Wylby, Robert Myllar, John Roke, John Mannyng, John att Fen, John Hyll: Who say that Margaret daughter and heir of Richard Hendour was seised of a moiety of the manor of Westportlomouth, and 10 messuages, 200 acres of arable and pasture, 20 of meadow, 20 of wood, 1 watermill and 3s. rent there; the moiety of the fee-farm of the borough of Maleburgh: - all held of Nicholas Wadham, knt., of his manor of Hurberton, by 1/2 a knight’s fee; worth by the year, clear L6.
        Margaret Hendour married Thomas Tregarthyn and they had issue John.
        Margaret died 14 April [1500]
        John Tregarthyn had 2 daughters, Joan and Margaret. He died and the reversion of the lands belonged to them after the death of Thomas Tregarthyn.
        John died 5 Jan [1502/03].
        Thomas Tregarthyn died 6 March [1508/09].
        Next heirs, the said Joan, aged 13, and Margaret, aged 9.
        [Note: the above abstracts of the Inq. p. m. were taken from transcripts of the abstracts of the records in the collection of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, West Country Studies Library, Exeter, Devon.]

        Joan Poyle, of Tregony, Cornw., widow, executrix of Thomas Poyle and of Thomas Tregarthen, esq., 28 Aug.

        From: 'Henry VIII: Pardon Roll, Part 3', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1: 1509-1514 (1920), pp. 234-256. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102634 Date accessed: 12 March 2012.