2741 M/T/1 Deed poll of Dame Mary Grenville, widow, conveying her property as listed to her son, George Howard, 9 January 1661
D1508m/E/Accounts/v/29 Account Book of Lady Elizabeth Amerideth, guardian of Sir William Courtenay
D1508M/Moger/434 Indenture between Grace Cutteford of St Thomas, Exeter, and Dame Mary Grenville of Fitzford, 6 April 1665
D1508M-11/F/1 Will of Dame Mary Grenville of Fitzford, including bequests to her daughters, on condition they allow Sir William Courtenay peaceable enjoyment of all her lands, 14 October 1671
D1508M-11/F/2 Notice that Sir William Courtenay has taken possession of properties at Tavistock, Whitchurch, and Bere Ferris. 25 October 1671
*The reference numbers above are from the online records of the National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, although I have noticed small discrepancies between these online references and the paper-based catalogues held in Devon Record Office. If accessing these files, it is best to check the reference numbers in the paper-based catalogues before making document requests.
Held at East Sussex Record Office
SAS/G23/2 Counterpart lease for Berwick and other estates, issued by Edward Sackville and witnessed by Thomas Robinson, 26 November 1611
SAS/G23/5 Settlement over the manor of Berwick and other lands, between various parties including Edward Sackville and Thomas Robinson, 23 July 1618
SAS/G23/34 Detailed valuation of the manor of Berwick, including surveys by Thomas Robinson, servant of Edward Sackville, 1625
Held at National Archives, London
PROB 11/65 The will of William Cuttiford of Plymouth, 15 February 1581
STAC 8/230/27 Pearse v Hals and Cutteford, 1614
C10/465/61 Cutteford v Grenville in the Court of Chancery, 1658
PROB 11/285 The will of George Cutteford the younger, originally written 13 April 1646, and affirmed at Canterbury, as required by the Interregnum administration on 8 December 1658
Held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
107/85c Admission of Arthur Perryman and family to an eighth part of Rodgparke, 8 acres, late of Richard Halse, gentleman, and Jerome and John, his sons, 11 September 1615
1/642/67 Letters and papers of Henry Rexford of Plymouth, from 1639 to 1653, including a letter from George Howard, c. 1651
Held at West Sussex Record Office
Add Ms 18008 -771 Indenture conveying the farm of Tuddybrook from John Furlong to George Cutteford the younger, student at Exeter College Oxford, signed by John Furlong, 13 January 1628
Add Ms 18008-786 Indenture conveying Walreddon Manor from Richard Hals to John Macy, signed by ‘Richard Hals’, 20 April 1625
SAS-WH/49 Copy of Charter of Sackville College in East Grinstead, 8 Jul 1632
Add Ms 18008-818 A petition from George Cutteford the elder, a prisoner, to the King, with a response by King Charles I and notes from Sir John Berkeley, and signed by Sir John Berkeley, 25 September 1644
Add Ms 18008-825 Inventory of the goods and debts of George Cutteford the elder, who died on 16 April 1645, taken at the time of death of his son George Cutteford. Inventory taken by John Macy, Thomas Willy and William Spry, on 3 September 1646
Add Ms 18008 John Cutteford’s papers, held in the Sackville Collection, including commissions appointing John Cutteford to the office of ‘wayter and searcher’ for the port of Bristol 1656 – 1662
Add Ms 18008-826 ‘A note of what my mother owes me and what I have paid out for her’ - Letter from John Cutteford, detailing his accounts, c. 1660 but undated
ONLINE RESOURCES
Although I have referred to original documents where possible during the research for this book, I am indebted to the writers and contributors for the following websites and online resources:
www.ancestry.co.uk
www.battlefieldstrust.com
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk
www.british-history.ac.uk, including the following references:
Monger, R.F. & Penfold, P.A., (eds). ‘Acts of the Privy Council of England’, vol. 45 1629-30 (1960)
Penfold, P.A. (ed), ‘Acts of the Privy Council of England’ , vol. 46 1630-31 (1964)
‘Confession of James Coutrenay of his knowledge or participation in various robberies of cloth, church jewles, fishing nets, cattle etc, at various times’ . From ‘Henry VIII: August 1538 1-5’ Letters and papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 13, Part 2 August-December 1538. (1893)
Nicholas Hals to Sir Robert Cecil. 17 May 1595, ‘Answer to the complaint against him of Mr Watts, alderman of London, for obtaining certain conchinella and indico out of Watts’s ship the Jewel’. Endorsed: 17 May, 1595. From: ‘Cecil Papers: May 1595, 16-31’ Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House, vol. 5. 1594-95 pp. 207-25 (1894)
http://centres.exeter.ac.uk
www.dartmooronline.co.uk
www.devonheritage.org
www.devonperspectives.co.uk
http://english-civil-war-society.org.uk
www.english-heritage.org.uk
www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk
www.middletemple.org.uk
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
www.nationaltrust.org.
www.powderham.co.uk
www.shadyoldlady.com
http://smugglers.oldcornwall.org
www.thepeerage.com
www.tudorplace.com.ar
http://uk-genealogy.org.uk
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PLATES
The old gatehouse at Tavistock, all that remains of the Fitzford estate, though the gatehouse was in fact rebuilt in the nineteenthth century and moved slightly from its original location. (Photograph by Dr Tom Greeves, MA, PhD, www.tomgreeves.org)
Front cover of The Bloodie Book of John Fitz, originally published in the seventeenth century, and thought to have been written by the Earl of Northumberland’s chaplain, who witnessed the events. This image is from Sabine Baring-Gould’s Devonshire Characters and Strange Events published in 1908.
Present-day New Street in Plymouth, ‘new’ in the late 1500s, and location of the Elizabethan House. Throughout the seventeenth century, small row houses like these would have housed up to six sailors and their families. (Photograph by Penny Mayes, 2005, www.geograph.org.uk)
A view of Sutton Pool Harbour in Plymouth today. The area is known as the Barbican, referring to the old castle that used to protect the port. The castle had four towers and was known as the Castle Quadrant. When the castle fell into ruins by the mid-seventeenth century, the stones were used to build the Royal Citadel near Plymouth Hoe. (Photograph by James Cridland, www.jamescridland.net)
A seventeenth-century painting of English ships of the Royal Navy. Sadly, the artist remains unidentified. (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Duesseldorfer Auktionshaus, www.duesseldorfer-auktionshaus.planetactive.com)
The Fitz memorial in the parish church at Tavistock, with the images of the parents of John Fitz lying with a lion and a lamb at their feet. (Photograph by Dr Tom Greeves MA PhD, www.tomgreeves.org)
Tavistock today, showing the view down West Street, the parish church of St Eustachius on the right, with the moors ahead. (West Devon District Council, from Tavistock Tourist Information, 2011)
The picturesqe ruins of Okehampton. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-08759)
Powderham Castle on the River Exe, ancestral home to the Courtenay family, and now ancestral home to the Earl of Devon, reproduced with kind permission of Lord Devon. (Photograph by Rinus Kool)
Victorian Tavistock. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division LC-DIG-ppmsc-08890)
St Eustachius’ parish church in the heart of Tavistock. (Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of Tavistock Tourist Information)
Audley End, Saffron Walden, the palatial estate of the Howard family in the seventeenth century. (Photograph by Steve McShane, www.geograph.org.uk)
Clun Castle in Shropshire (Photograph by Philip Halling, 2006, www.g
eograph.org.uk)
The ominous remains of Lydford Castle, located near Lydford, to the west of the road between Tavistockand Okehampton. (Photograph by Dr Tom Greeves, MA, PhD, www.tomgreeves.org)
West Down near Walreddon. The image is taken from Buckland, facing West Down, with the Walkham River in the valley below, flowing to the left (the west) to join the Tavy at Double Water. Walreddon Manor is located over the hill to the left. The cottage in the picture is Buckator, once owned by the tin mines. (Photograph by Dr Tom Greeves, MA, PhD, www.tomgreeves.org)
Lady Mary Howard (1596-1671), an etching by Hollar done in 1657, after the painting by van Dyke finished sometime around 1628. Reproduced from Sabine Baring-Gould’s Devonshire Characters and Strange Events.
Sir Richard Grenville (1600-1659), a painting by Caveliero Moro completed sometime in 1626-1628 and reproduced from Richard Granville’s The History of the Granville Family, published in 1895.
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