The Prideaux family
1495-96. Churchwardens' receipts. '3s 4d for le pitte of William Prediaux. 3s 4d for le pitte of Alice Prediaux'
According to Alice Hanham a pitte was a grave.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p21
According to Alice Hanham a pitte was a grave.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p21
1486-93 or 1504-15. Prideaux versus Farewell. John Prideaux and his wife Johanne versus John Farewell and his wife Margaret, and John Lacche. The dispute was over the deeds of half a messuage of land in Ashburton.
National archives ref C 1/153/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
National archives ref C 1/153/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
'A branch of Prideaux from Ashburton were settled at Woodbury. Thomas Prideaux, sergeant at law, (ob 1558*) purchased Nutwell in that parish and resided there. He was succeeded by his son Thomas (ob 1605) and grandson Sir Thomas Prideaux, Knt (ob 1640), who married Joan the daughter of John Cole of Buckland Tout Saints.'
The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, W H Hamilton Rogers, Exeter 1877, p297
*Ob - date of death
The above is at variance to the pedigree below:
The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, W H Hamilton Rogers, Exeter 1877, p297
*Ob - date of death
The above is at variance to the pedigree below:
Above: History and Antiquities of the parish of Clyst S George, Rev H T Ellacombe MA FSA, Exeter 1863, appendix pedigree 7
1528-29 Elizabeth Predaux gave £6 13s 4d towards the cost of the best cope.
Ten years later Elizabeth Predyaux, widow, made a gift of a vestment. This may have been the same Elizabeth as previously.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p82
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p105
Ten years later Elizabeth Predyaux, widow, made a gift of a vestment. This may have been the same Elizabeth as previously.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p82
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p105
Robert Predyaux was one of the Eight Men 1562-63
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p150
For more on the Eight Men, see Local Administration, under Gathering Together.
In 1563-64 Edmond Predyaux was paid 16d for riding to Kingsbridge for 'dystressez', which appears to be seized goods.
In the same period Mistress Johan Predyaux, widow, was paid 10s for timber for Holle Bridge. The next year Joan Predyaux, widow, was paid the same amount for 5 oaks for Holle Bridge.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p152,154
October 1574 Mrs Anne Predyaux began paying 20s a year to the poor. Robert Predyaux had (previously?) given the same amount for ten years.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p174
In 1577-78 the churchwardens received 16s 8d for various burials. These included the burial of Joan Predyauxe, widow, and that of Robert Predyauxe, jnr, the son of Robert Predyaux, gent.
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p182
Churchwardens' Accounts of Ashburton 1479-1580. Alice Hanham, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Torquay 1970, p182
'L 88 Aug 27, 1583 - The Examynacions taken of sundrye witnesses upon the death of Lewes Glavell of the citie of Exon, Tayler.
The following is a summary of the depositions: -
Thomas Predeox of Ashperton, gentleman, examined before the Mayor (Michael Germyn) and Nicholas Martyn, justices, deposed that about seven of the clock at night on Aug. 27, 1583, he was at the Southgate of the ciry when Lewes Glavell followed him and charged him to have said certain days past that he (Glavell) did smell of ale. P said he knew him not, and G said that P was a very knave and did strike him with his fist two or three blows and then drew his dagger and again assaulted him. Wherewith P gave ground, backed and was driven back to the place of one Collyns a cutler, without Southgate, and there was like to be slain by the said G. Then P took a rusty rapier upon Collyns' stall to defend himself withal. He then gave back again and received divers blows, and went from P again unto the wall of the late Graye ffreers there by Southgate, and never gave blow to G., but G did run wilfully upon P's rapier, which he had taken from the stall.
Edward Winditt, servant to Richard Collins, cutler, was at work in his master's shop when G quarrelled with P. After receiving two blows, P, who was in the Inne Syde would have avoided, but could not. P then told G that he should be contented, for that was no place to quarrel, but G still pressed him. P then caught up the rapier at the stall and said: "Nowe I myghte runne through thee if I wolde," and prayed him to depart. Collins the Cutler then came to part them, but G still pressed upon P with his dagger, and therewith wrapped his cloak about his arm ran upon P, and in running fell upon the point of the rapier, which P then had in his left hand, and so was hurted,and P took up his cloak and went to his Host's house, which was thereby...'
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter, HMSO, London, 1916, p57
The following is a summary of the depositions: -
Thomas Predeox of Ashperton, gentleman, examined before the Mayor (Michael Germyn) and Nicholas Martyn, justices, deposed that about seven of the clock at night on Aug. 27, 1583, he was at the Southgate of the ciry when Lewes Glavell followed him and charged him to have said certain days past that he (Glavell) did smell of ale. P said he knew him not, and G said that P was a very knave and did strike him with his fist two or three blows and then drew his dagger and again assaulted him. Wherewith P gave ground, backed and was driven back to the place of one Collyns a cutler, without Southgate, and there was like to be slain by the said G. Then P took a rusty rapier upon Collyns' stall to defend himself withal. He then gave back again and received divers blows, and went from P again unto the wall of the late Graye ffreers there by Southgate, and never gave blow to G., but G did run wilfully upon P's rapier, which he had taken from the stall.
Edward Winditt, servant to Richard Collins, cutler, was at work in his master's shop when G quarrelled with P. After receiving two blows, P, who was in the Inne Syde would have avoided, but could not. P then told G that he should be contented, for that was no place to quarrel, but G still pressed him. P then caught up the rapier at the stall and said: "Nowe I myghte runne through thee if I wolde," and prayed him to depart. Collins the Cutler then came to part them, but G still pressed upon P with his dagger, and therewith wrapped his cloak about his arm ran upon P, and in running fell upon the point of the rapier, which P then had in his left hand, and so was hurted,and P took up his cloak and went to his Host's house, which was thereby...'
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter, HMSO, London, 1916, p57
In
an indenture of 14th December 7th James 1 (circa 1610) Thomas
Prideaux, of Totnes, left an annuity of £2 12s to provide thirteen poor
people of the parish of Ashburton with one penny white loaf every Friday
after morning prayer. The annuity came from rents from various lands:
Sparnham, fields near Mead Lane, a close at Fowlaford and Breadon's
lands, and the choice of recipients rested with the constable and eight
men of the parish.
Report to the Charity Commissioners, HMSO, 1908, p 12
Mr Amery
gives a reference of 6th Charles I (1630), and says the action was in
the Exchequer. This might be E
134/6Chas1/Mich2, which concerns the mortgage of 'The toll and other
things within the manor of Ashberton (Devon)' The participants were
Thomas Prideaux senior and junior, Thomas Harris and Richard Harris,
versus Sir John Brune, Knt, Thomas Ford senior and junior and William
Abarrow.
Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Assocation, vol 56, Plymouth 1925, p72
It seems likely to be linked to the document from the
following year in the National Archives, 'Accounts of the profits of the
market, Prideaux and Harris v. Ford and Others.' At least part of the dispute concerned the weighing of wool and yarn, during which Thomas Prideaux 'did walk up and down the said market...with a sword by his side, and did threaten the said William Abarrow'
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk, 7 Charles I ref E 178/5236, quoted in The Agrarian History of England and Wales vol 4:1500-1640, Ed. Joan Thirsk, Cambridge 1967 p483
For more on the dispute see Markets and Fairs, under Gathering Together.
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'To be
sold, either entire or separate, the fee-simple and inheritance of the
several messuages, lands and tenements of Nicholas Prideaux, gentleman,
situate within the borough of Ashburton, in the county of Devon,
consisting of at least seventeen different freeholds, several of which
tenements are in hand, and now worth yearly to be at forty pounds and
upwards, and others at lease, determinable on one, two and three lives,
under the reserved rents of ten pounds, six shillings and four pence.
For which purpose a survey will be held at Mr Aldridge's, at the New Inn
in Ashburton aforesaid, on Monday 16th day of January 1756...'
The General Evening Post 1756, p348
The General Evening Post 1756, p348