Prowse, John ll

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40. JOHN II PROWSE, gent. of Tiverton, who, according to his father's Inq.p.m., was 59(?) at his death, received from feoffees the large Plymouth manor of Western Peverel, worth by the year £18.7.2., with Chevythorn and Tiverton property worth a further £5.10. But at John II's own death, 11 Sept. l598, his Inq.p.'m., taken in 1601 showed that, by then, all the property was tied by entail upon descendants and relatives hith tenure for life. John married 1 June 1567, Elizabeth, h. to Robert Colwick, her father, merchant taylor and clothier, lord of the manor of West Mere, Tiverton, whose wife, and mother of Elizabeth, his heir, was Richarda Gover, a widow, whose 1st husb. and parentage has not been established. He was bur. St. Peters 8 Aug. 1564. His long PCC will revealed property in Devon and London.

John married Collack, Elizabeth on 1 Jun 1567 in Tiverton, Devon, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Colwick, Robert and Gover, Richarda) was born about 1546 in Tiverton, Devon, England; died after 1576 in Tiverton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Prowse, Agnes was born on 14 Apr 1575 in Taunton, Somerset, England; was christened on 15 Apr 1576 in Tiverton, Devon, England; died on 6 Jun 1622 in Taunton, Somerset, England; was buried on 6 Jun 1622 in Taunton, Somerset, England.

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39. JOHN PROWSE, clothier, s. & h. inherited copyhold land in the manor of Chevythorn, Tiverton, from his father, which he granted to Robert, his bro., of age 1524 when taxed on £2 worth of goods; by 1546, paid tax in Tiverton on over £4O. At his death he left 5 manors in Devon & Cornwall with much other property, by fine, entailed for his 5 sons. His wife, Alice White, given as an heiress in Tiverton, perhaps dau. of Christopher Whyte, taxed on £10 goods 1546. His memorial slab in St. Peter's Church, Tiverton, reads: "Here lyeth John Prowse, Merchante, who departed the third daye of September 1585. And Alice his wyfe which he had in marriage 47 years, who departed the 13 daye of August ano dni 1583'. (The Gen., cit., pp. 12-13).

John married Alice in 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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38. ROBERT PROWSE, b. ca. 1475, dead 6 Aug. 1529, founder of the Tiverton,Devon, branch was named as yr. son of John & Joan in Pole's "Description'. His Prowse shield of arms, with 4th son's martlet for difference, hung in St. Peter's Church, Tiverton, where he and his unnamed wife are buried, according to will of his yr. son Robert. Henry VIII's general pardon, at his accession, named Robert Sr. as of Chevythorn Manor. The lord of this until 1545 was Philip Champernown, whose dau. mothered Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. The overlord was the Earl of Westmorland. Robert was feoffee of a Tiverton charitable trust, which revealed his death ante 1529. He paid tax on "goods" totalling ; £70 in Chagford, Tiverton, and Kenton
1524. Robert's granddaughter was Richarda Prowse Gifford, Lady of Tiverton Castle. A deed to a Chevythorn parcel of land, 1589, revealed that her grandfather was "Robert, son of John Prowse of Chagford'. Richarda's bro. George Prowse of Wellington, Somerset, signed the Visitation pedigree with Prowse quarterings down to Orchard, inclusive. (Cal. Pat. R. 8 Hen. 8.; The Gen., cit., p. 12).

Robert married Christian. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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37. JOHN PROWSE, s. & h., h. ca. 1436, d. 1526, lord of Chagford, m. ca. 1467 Joan Orchard, dau. of John Orchard, d. 1480, 'custos rotularum' for Devon under Edward IV. Three published Inq.P.M.'s cover his heritage, and that of his other wife Joan Calwoodley, and son William, who d.s.p. The ultimate heir to N. Devon holdings in Northam, Bydeford, Abbottesham, and Dodescomb in Bampton was John Prowse's s. & h. Lawrence. (The Gen., cit., pp. 11-12).

John married Orchard, Joan in 1479. Joan (daughter of Orchard, John and Calmady, Joan) was born in 1458 in Chagford, Devon, England; died in 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]