Prowse, Agnes

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41. AGNES (or ANNIS) PROWSE, was bapt. Tiverton 15 April 1576, and m. to John Trowbridge, bapt. St. Mary Magdalen Church 25 Mar. 1570, son of Thomas (Sr.). The marriage was preceded by a settlement made by Thos. which granted to Agnes an annuity of £30 for life issuing from all his lands at Rowbarton, occupied by his mother-in-law, Alice Hutchings, for her life. On the same day, John was admitted to a life
interest in his father's properties at Obridge and Staplegrove and Pyrland, partly occupied by Thomas' wife Johane (nee Hutchings). Agnes' marriage took place at St. Peter's, Tiverton, 31 July 1597, 13 1/2 months before her father's death. Agnes herself was bur. Taunton 6 June 1622. The above Thomas Trowbridge Sr. was a leading citizen and charitable founder, a mercer, with a Tudor mansion, extant, in the high street, and had served as, constable and portreve of the castle manor.

Agnes married Trowbridge, John on 31 Jul 1597. John (son of Trowbridge, Thomas and Lawrence, Joan Hutchins) was born on 25 Mar 1570 in Taunton, Somerset, England; was christened on 25 Mar 1570 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 5 Jul 1649 in Taunton, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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St. Peter's, Tiverton, England

1. Trowbridge, Thomas was born on 8 Feb 1598 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 7 Feb 1672 in Taunton, Somerset, England; was buried on 7 Feb 1672.
2. Trowbridge, Elizabeth was born on 8 Feb 1599 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 7 Feb 1673.
3. Trowbridge, John was born on 31 May 1601 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died in Dec 1630.
4. Trowbridge, Prudence was born on 3 Feb 1602 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died in UNKNOWN.
5. Trowbridge, Agnes was born on 10 Feb 1604 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 14 Nov 1637 in Taunton, Somerset, England.
6. Trowbridge, William was born on 22 Mar 1607 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 27 Mar 1616.
7. Trowbridge, James was born on 3 Dec 1609 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 22 Oct 1638.
8. Trowbridge, Joan was born on 21 May 1612 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died on 14 Oct 1616 in Taunton, Somerset, England.
9. Trowbridge, Tacy was born on 7 May 1615 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died in UNKNOWN.

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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]

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Elzabeth was heir to her fathers estate.

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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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A merchant taylor and clothier, lord of the manor of West Mere, Tiverton. His long PCC (Perogative Court of Canterbury) will revealed property in Devon and London.

Robert married Gover, Richarda. [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]