tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24064414.post1552525803973365437..comments2023-07-23T09:28:52.785+01:00Comments on Scrapblog: a Writer from the South-West: Lady Anne Harris Southwell's Commonplace Book & CornworthyJulie Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16733322336151939085noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24064414.post-2090676449754936892011-03-14T12:43:20.392+00:002011-03-14T12:43:20.392+00:00Thanks so much for the useful and detailed informa...Thanks so much for the useful and detailed information about Sir Thomas Pomeroy. Much appreciated.Julie Sampsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733322336151939085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24064414.post-72043785956927952652011-03-13T09:05:46.167+00:002011-03-13T09:05:46.167+00:00Sir Thomas Pomeroy was a Catholic, as were many of...Sir Thomas Pomeroy was a Catholic, as were many of the land owning families in the West Country. He was also not a wise or a clever man , signs are that he was in fact a bit dim. During the early part of the Seymour Protectorate, from about 1546 it is thought Duke of Somerset used pressure, maybe even some degree of blackmail , to ‘persuade’ the somewhat feather-headed Sir Thomas Pomeroy to part with his lands to pay off his considerable debts. Sir Thomas sold all the berry manors and lands and the castle for £4000 in 1547.<br /><br />The same Sir Thomas two years later took part in the unsuccessful Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549. Regarded as a light weight, when the rebellion was bloodily squashed he saved himself, by betraying the other leaders and renouncing his Popish Ways. The rebellions ringleaders were hung drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1550.<br /><br />Sir Thomas lived, but was incarcerated in the Tower of London, dying there in 1567, well into the reign of Elizabeth I.<br /><br />22 July 1549<br />Contents: Grant Letters patent of Edw. VI to Thos. and Hugh Pomeroy.<br />Free chapel of Menacuddell now dissolved, late in occ. of Jn. Delamayne.<br /> 15 July 1551<br />Contents: Bargain and sale (by) Thos. Pomeroy, knight, and Hugh Pomeroy, esq., to Matthew Colyns.<br />Free chapel of Menacuddle, lately dissolved.Aannie Pomeroyhttps://sites.google.com/site/pomeroytwig/home/the-devon-familynoreply@blogger.com