Continuing with the Inquisition Postmortem for John de Pencombe

 Thus far the precis of the Inquisition Postmortem for John de Pencombe provided by British History Online is very faithful. But I still want to continue transcribing it just in case. Plus it is good practice for my latin which is coming along. I am also thinking about other documents that might aid in my quest. First of all there is logic. The name Pencombe is uncommon and really found only in Herefordshire in this time period. Along with the name of the place, Pencombe is a surname for a smallish family it would appear. 

 Doing a new search at the Devon Record Office was rather illuminating actually:

https://swheritage.org.uk/devon-archives/               
               
Place    Person    Date    Item    Scope
Exeter    Roger de Pencombe and Alice his wife, grant of all lands, tenemenets etc.     24 Oct 1315    DD/WY/3/2/20, DD/WY/3/2/21, DD/WY/3/2/14    grant of all lands, tenemenets etc.  In Bonelgh and the advowson of the Church there
Exeter    Roger de Pencombe and Alice his wife    5 Jun 1311    DD/WY/3/2/15    Grant of land by death of Ralph de Chammpyaus in the Hylle and La Huierce
Exeter    Roger de Pencombe    1 Dec 1308    DD/WY/3/2/6    Adam de Champeaus granted manor to Roger de Pencombe

I do not believe I have ever seen these particular items for a Roger de Pencombe at Bondleigh. Bondleigh is 22 miles (about 35 kilometres) from North Molton and is south of that area closer to Crediton. That is amazing but it is a while since I search the Devon Record Office. It is dealing with the advowson at the Church in Bondleigh but he is also there in documents in 1308 and 1311 when he was granted a manor there. I shall have to have a look around Bondleigh and see if there was a continuation of this family there.

Looking at the Domesday Book for Herefordshire:

Pencombe was a settlement in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Tornelaus and the county of Herefordshire.

It had a recorded population of 39 households in 1086, putting it in the largest 20% of settlements recorded in Domesday.

Land of Alfred of Marlborough
Households

    Households: 21 villagers. 4 smallholders. 6 slaves. 1 priest. 6 other population. 1 smiths.

Land and resources

    Ploughland: 3 lord's plough teams. 20 men's plough teams.
    Other resources: 1 mill, value 5 shillings. 1 church.

Valuation

    Annual value to lord: 10 pounds in 1086; 14 pounds in 1066.

Owners

    Tenant-in-chief in 1086: Alfred of Marlborough.
    Lord in 1086: (Agnes) daughter of Alfred of Marlborough.
    Lord in 1066: Alfred of Marlborough.

I did find a reference to a Eustace de Pencombe during the reign of Henry I. 

Grant by Eustace, 1 son of Turstin Flandrensis (of Flanders), to the Convent of St. Peter and the monks at Gloucester, at the request of his mother Agnes, of one hide called Sudenhale in Pencombe (Co. Hereford). Witnesses : Turstin Flandrensis his brother, William priest of the township, William of the stable, Wimund, Roger de Kaillewi, 2 Roger Castel and Ralph dapifer (steward). (No date.)

Notes: 

1 Otherwise known as Eustace de Pencombe. Hist, et Cart. St. Petri, Clone, vol. i. pp. 124, 286.

2 Ibid., vol. ii. p. 286 : " Rogerus Cailli." The name is also Cayleway occasionally.

Interesting implication that this surname Pencombe was taken by Eustace Flandrensis living in Pencombe during the time of Henry I (1100-1135). This information found on Page 229 , Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1914. Edited by Rev G H West, DD, ARIRA, Volume XXXVII  in the Chapter "Early deeds relating to St Peter's Abbey, Gloiucester (page 221). (Internet Archive). 

The Terminal SNP for this line appears to be R-FT88-1000. In my Chapter on yDNA I have suggested that this is a likely French line and the inplication of this text for an Eustace de Pencombe is that the line is present at Pencombe in Herefordshire during the time of Henry I (1100-1135) which is much earlier than the 1300s that I have been looking at. 

The trek continues and remains quite fascinating. Linking this line to the line in North Molton may still be a challenge but if it is the only presence of this line in England that does make it rather interesting. 

Today is Sunday and Church on You-Tube. 

One continues to hope for the best for our world - that the wars produced by Russia against Ukraine (two years ago yesterday it began) and the barbaric attack by the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza against the Israeli people on 7th October 2023 resulting in war between Israel and Hamas will soon come to a completion with Russia returning to its borders as determined in 1991 following their disastrous war in Afghanistan and Hamas leaving Gaza so that rebuilding can begin and a new life for the Palestinians where they create a country that will support their population for the necessities of life instead of being a charity supported by the United Nations. That should be the aim of any peoples to be self-supporting and creating their own domestic product not living off the charity of nations generation after generation. 

Thank you God for the bounty of the earth and I pray that all will till the soil, utilize our talents for good and produce a life for our families. We should be moving forward in time to a better world for all not living in a barbaric past where greed predominated.