Combe – Page 9 – The Pinsent Family

Edward Pinsent

Edward Pinsent: 1611 – 1652 DRO0112 (Vicar of Loddiswell)

Amy Bennett: xxxx – xxxx
Married: 1634: Chudleigh, Devon

Children by Amy Bennett:

Florence Pinsent: 1635 – xxxx
Jonas Pinsent: 1637 – xxxx (Married Agnes Wills, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx)
Edward Pinsent: 1640 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1643 – xxxx
John Pinsent: 1646 – 1705 (Vicar of Coleshill, Berkshire.)
Ellis Pinsent: 1648 – 1672
Amy Pinsent: 1652 – xxxx

Family Branch: Combe
PinsentID: DRO0112

Edward was the second son of Jonas Pinsent, a Devonshire attorney, by his wife Elizabeth. He grew up in Bovey Tracey with four brothers (Jonas, Thomas, Ellis and John) all of whom feature in this database. He also had three sisters (Amy, Elizabeth and Johanna) whose lives are less well documented. Edward’s early schooling was in Devon, but he was sent up to Oxford, when he was seventeen years-old and matriculated at Wadham College in 1629 (Alumnae Oxonienses).

Edward Pinsent married Amy Bennett in Chudleigh in 1634. She was (according to “The Visitations of Devon”) the sole executrix of her brother Robert’s will, so had some social standing. Edward was ordained a priest in Exeter Cathedral in May of 1635 and was appointed a curate in Chudleigh in 1640 (CCED Diocese of Exeter Clerical Tenures). Amy came from an affluent family and Edward’s father (Jonas Pinsent, “senior”) wrote Edward into a complicated land settlement: “in consideration of their marriage and for the better maintenance of them and their male issue, and for L 50 0s 0d paid by Elizabeth Bennett, Amy’s mother” in 1635 (Calendar of Deeds Enrolled: #1681). The properties involved were (1) a messuage in Plymouth, late in the occupation of, and subject to a lease to, Richard Streamer; (2) a messuage in St. Sidwell in Exeter, excepting a lease to John Foster and his daughter Elizabeth, and (3) a messuage, tenement, garden and orchard in Bovey Tracey called “Hill Head” in the occupation of Gregory Wills, and also other small parcels of land including a close of 2.5 acres in the possession of Geffrey Christopher of Plumley. Interestingly, the two attorneys who wrote up the deeds were: John Bennett (presumably a relation of Amy’s), and John Pynsent, of Chudleigh. He was a by now relatively distant relation who was on his way to becoming a “Prothonotary,” or senior official in the Court of Common Pleas.

The couple seem to have stayed on in Chudleigh – or at least they had children baptized there – until 1643, the year Edward was appointed Vicar of Loddiswell. Edward’s elder brother Jonas had married Katherine Langworthy of Hatch Arundell, in Loddiswell in 1634 and also done very well for himself as she came from a wealthy family and was said to be the “heiress of Carswell.” Unfortunately, Katherine died – perhaps in childbirth – the following May.

Nevertheless, the marriage settlement had already been finalized so Jonas’s family retained some influence in Katherine’s home parish long after her death. The Rev. Edward was appointed vicar of Loddiswell in 1643.

Edward’s younger brother, John Pinsent “gent’s” Will was probated in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC Fairfax Vol 207 #22) in 1648. He left 40 shillings to the poor of Bovey Tracey, £5 to his brother Jonas, £2 apiece to his brothers Thomas and Edward, £20 to his brother Ellis and 40 shillings to his sister, Johanna Burchill. He left the rest to his sister Elizabeth. It was a tight knit family!

The Reverend Edward was caught up in the legal turmoil that followed the death of Jeffrey (Geoffrey) Christopher in 1645. Jeffrey had left his “half-brother” (?), Edward’s brother, Jonas, to probate his Will. This did not go down well with the Beare family and Jeffrey’s nephew, Nicholas Beare, objected to Jonas, who he said was: “a stranger in the blood,” acting as executor. One of his points of contention was that he claimed that Jonas had understated the value of his uncle’s estate; particularly his plate, money and goods, and a tenement he held at Sandirke (Sandwich?) in North Bovey. The case made its way to the Court of Chancery (C6/102/21), and features in the discussion of Jonas Pinsent’s life [DRO0107 Combe] (see elsewhere).

Depositions taken at the time show that, although Edward had borrowed 50 pounds from Jeffrey Christoper on 23rd December 1643, he had “repayed all except that mentioned in the bill” by the time the issue came to court. The two brothers’, Edward and Jonas’s, interests were closely intertwined and both paid taxes for land held in Loddiswell in 1647 (Devon Taxes: 1581-1660: Ed. T. L Stoate)

Edward and Amy had five sons and two daughters between 1635 and 1652. Their eldest son, (another Jonas) likely married and moved to Exeter. His life is discussed elsewhere. Unfortunately, what happened to the others is less clear. Edward and Amy’s second and third sons, Edward and Thomas, are completely unaccounted for. However, the fourth, John, is known to have followed his father into the church. He attended Oxford University and obtained a M.A. in 1667.

The Reverend John’ life is discussed here. It got off to a bad start. In 1670, he bought a horse from Richard Beast who claimed that it was under six years and physically sound. John agreed on a price of £20 and arranged to pay Mr. Beast £0 3s 0d a week. However, it was not long before he found out that the horse had problems and that it was clearly more than six years old! John seems to have offered to return the horse and get his money back but Mr. Beast said no and the matter found its way into the Chancery Court (C6/603/42) – which traditionally dealt with issues of equity.

While he was Vicar of Coleshill, in Berkshire, Rev. John came to know Sir George (brother of Sir Roger Pratt, the noted architect) and Lady Margaret Pratt, and he was one of her principal advisers when her husband died in 1673. Sir George was a wealth baronet and Dame Margaret relied on the Rev. John’s advice during probate. They worked well together and, in appreciation of his help, she granted him a sixty-year lease on some property in Great Coxwell that was then in the possession of Edward Giles, in 1674.

Unfortunately, the relationship soured. John seems to have been somewhat injudicious when speaking about their relationship and Dame Margaret sued him in the Court of Chancery (C8/82/30) in 1679. She complained that he made out in public that she had granted him far more land than she had, and that he had taken and refused to return critical documents. She asked the Court for a subpoena, to force him state what land he was claiming, return any documents he might have and justify his claims.

The Reverend John responded by saying that she had allowed him to help her with her finances and had entrusted him with the key to the room where she kept her deeds and documents. He denied that he ever claimed anything other than the property in Great Coxwell she had given him and he quoted from the original indenture:“This indenture made the fifteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord 1674, and in the six and twentieth of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God of England, Scotland and France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith; between Dame Margaret Pratt of Collshill in, the County of Berkshire, widow, of the one part and John Pinsent, of Collshill aforesaid, clerk, of the other part: witnesseth that the said Dame Margaret Pratt, for and in consideration of the true and faithful service which he, the said John Pinsent, hath performed and done to and for her, the said Dame Margaret and for the encouragement and maintenance of the great labour and pains which the said John Pinsent doth take for the advancement of the true religion and piety, being Vicar of Collshill, aforesaid, and for diverse other good causes and considerations; she, the said Dame Margaret Pratt in this behalf especially moving (?) hath devised, granted and to farm letten, and by these presents doth fully, freely and absolutely, demise, grant and to farm let unto the said John Pinsent all that close of pasture or meadow ground called or known by the name of the Woodcraft, and also one other close of pasture or meadow ground called or known by the name of Ramme Close, and also one other pasture or meadow ground called or known by the name of Ashbed close, and also one other pasture or meadow ground called or known by the name of Haselewood Close – all which said several grounds or closes are situate, lying and being in the in the Parish of Great Coxwell, in the said County of Berkshire, and were late in the tenure holding or occupation of one John Britten, of Coxwell, aforesaid, yeoman, his assignee or assigns, together with all and singular ways, waters, easements, profits, commodities, advantages, emoluments and hereditaments whatsoever to the said premises above mentioned, every or any part thereof, belonging, or in any wise appertaining, excepting and always reserving out of these presents unto the said Dame Margaret Pratt, her heirs and assigns, all and all manner of timber trees …”. The vicar may well have had a bit too much sherry and talked-up his influence, and the extent of her generosity now and again, but she seems to have overreacted.

The two of them made up as Dame Margaret named Rev. John Pinsent of Coleshill as one of her trustees when she signed and sealed her will, in 1697. It seems that her late husband had left the bulk of his estate to his sister’s family, and Margaret had given most of her own estate to her grandson, Thomas Playdell, at the time of his marriage. By her will, she asked that her trustees pay her bills, legacies and annuities out of the rent or sale of the manors of Great and Little Coxwell, and that anything that remaind was to go to her other grandson, George Pratt Webb. In doing so, however, she stipulated that if he should die without male offspring, then the property would revert to Thomas Playdell’s family. Dame Margaret’s daughter Mary Hardwick and her husband, and some of the other trustees, questioned the validity of the will and the issue was brought before the Court of Exchequer (E134-11 Wm3 Mich17).

Reverend John never married. When he died in September 1705 his own Will was proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Oxford. It makes no mention of any family. He “left his property in Coleshill and Great Coxwell to charity, to produce income for apprenticing to handicraft trades poor boys and girls” from those parishes” (Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring concerning Charities: Volume 32, part 1).

The Reverend John’s younger brother (Edward and Amy’s fifth son), Ellis, went up to Oxford, attended New Inn Hall and graduated with a B.A. in 1670-1. (Alumni Oxonienses). Ellis came to the attention of his uncle, Thomas Pinsent of Woodland and when he acquired a 99-year lease of one third of Lower Howton farm in Highweek from Sir William Wyndham in 1670, it was leased on three lives, (himself, his daughter Elizabeth and Ellis Pinsent (the daughter of his sister-in-law, Amy). This Thomas, whose life is discussed elsewhere, was the man who brought a suit against Samuel Segar over their joint management of the land at Lower Howton. Thomas complained that Samuel was taking more than his fair share of the pasture (swheritage.org.uk/records/DD/WY/5/13/83). Ellis appears to have died, unmarried, in Bovey Tracey. The fate of Edward and Amy’s two daughters (Florence and Amy) remains unknown.

A Parliamentary Survey of Loddiswel (Comm. XIIa/5/134-5) taken in 1650, states that Mr. Edward Pinsent was “an able and honest man incumbent there and receives the profit of the vicarage”. Loddiswell was worth £80 0s 0d and was also the mother church of Buckland Tout Saints which was worth a further £5 13s 4d.

Rev. Edward died in Loddiswell in 1652, leaving his wife, Amy, with several young children. She likely moved her family back to Woodland (where Thomas lived) and she owned a property that had a land tax value of £1 10s 0d in 1653. It is not clear when she died.

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Hugh Pinsent: 1540 – 1626
Grandmother: Johanna Woodley: xxxx – xxxx

Parents

Father: Jonas Pinsent: 1575 – 1637
Mother: Elizabeth Unknown: xxxx – xxxx

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Jonas Pinsent: 1575 – 1637
Peter Pinsent: 1576 – 1597
Rechord Pinsent: 1578 – xxxx
John Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1580 – xxxx
Margaret Pinsent: 1582 – xxxx
Mary Pinsent: xxxx – 1584
Thomas Pinsent: 1586 – xxxx
Agnes Pinsent: 1589 – xxxx
Hugh Pinsent: 1591 – xxxx
George Pinsent: 1593 – xxxx
Jane Pinsent: 1594 – xxxx
Matthew Pinsent: 1596 – 1616

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Jonas Pinsent: 1609 – 1658
Edward Pinsent: 1611 – 1652
Thomas Pinsent: 1615 – 1690
Ellis Pinsent: 1619 – 1681
John Pinsent: 1622 – 1648

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Jonas Pinsent

Jonas Pinsent: 1609 – 1658 DRO0107 (Clerk of the Court of King’s Bench, Bovey Tracey, Devon)

1) Katherine Langworthy: xxxx – 1635
Married: 1634: Loddiswell, Devon

2) Grace Langdon: xxxx – 1670
Married: xxxx: xxxx, xxxx

Children by Grace Langdon:

Jonas Pinsent: 1649 – xxxx
Richard Pinsent: 1642 – xxxx

Family Branch: Combe
PinsentID: DRO0107

Jonas Pinsent was the son of an attorney who served on the Court of Kings Bench, at Westminster and on the Western Circuit. He came from a farm in Ilsington but settled in the town of Bovey Tracey, where his son Jonas grew up with four brothers (Edward, Thomas, Ellis, and John) whose lives are discussed elsewhere as well as three sisters (Amy, Elizabeth and Johanna). Perhaps surprisingly, all but Amy grew to maturity.

Jonas Pinsent “junior” received an education and most likely followed his father into the legal profession, although the details of his life are hard to unravel – particularly insofar as they overlap with those of his similarly named father. However, he was said to be a “Clerk of His Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench” (C2/CHASI/D41/61) in 1638 and to have acted “being the attorney in the said action of Maurice Shepherd and Richard Marlborough” (C10/28/129) in 1652.

Jonas married twice: his first wife, Katherine Langworthy of Hatch Arundell, in Loddiswell, was said to be the “heiress of Carswell” and clearly came from a wealthy family. The couple married in 1634 but Katherine died the following May – perhaps in childbirth. They seems to have had a complex marriage settlement that somehow allowed Jonas’s family to retained some influence in Loddiswell after her death as Jonas’s uncle, Edward Pinsent (son of Jonas’s grandfather Jonas Pinsent by his wife, Elizabeth) was appointed vicar of Loddiswell in 1643.

Jonas was later to marry Grace Langdon of Bigbury; however, as discussed below, I do not know when or where. Jonas’s father, Jonas Pinsent “senior” died in 1637 he appointed Thomas Orchard as his executor, and made his son, Jonas “junior” (as he had been), his principal heir. He became a rich man, although much of his estate seems to have been tied up in the marriage settlement he made with the Langworthy family. For instance, Jonas and the (late) Katherine were said to be: “seized in a messuage in Henstreete including three orchards, three gardens and twenty acres in Bovey Tracey, as well as Hynes land, Prowse’s land, Park and right of pasture and turbary on Bovey Heath. Some of which property was conveyed to Thomas Pinder (now deceased) for 99 years on 20^th June 1651, for £250 pounds.” Given the encumbered nature of his estate, Jonas had had to post a bond to cover his mother’s jointure, or widow’s rights and his father’s bequest of £150 each to his two sisters.

Jonas’s father was a friend of Simon Spatchurst, a “clerk of the assize on the Western Circuit” and Jonas had acted as a surety when Simon borrowed some money from a man named Johan Wells that was, unfortunately, still not fully repaid when Simon died, intestate. Jonas’s father, Jonas “senior,” had died shortly afterwards (in 1637) and it had fallen to Jonas Pinsent to apply for letters of administration to handle Simon’s estate and to deal with his father’s probate!

Jonas took responsibility for Simon’s son, Simon Spatchurst “junior,” until his seventeenth birthday, when he came “off age”. Johan Wells also seems to have died as it was his executor, James Davenport, who sued Jonas in the Court of Kings Bench over the outstanding portion of Simon Spatchurst “senior’s” debt. The issue made its way to the Court of Chancery the following year. Jonas “junior” paid Mr. Davenport £50 out of the Spatchurst estate and explained that, although Simon “senior’s” estate was valued at over £5,200 he had debts amounting to £4,100 and his financial entanglements would take time to sort out. Mr. Davenport would have to wait for the rest! Besides, Simon “junior” was now of full age and should take responsibility for his father’s debts C2-CHASI-D41-61 & D58-9).

If that were not enough, a bond that Jonas’s father had signed with the Pearse family for the “true and just dealings” of John Pearse “junior,” of Warkley, as treasurer of Lyons Inn (one of the lesser Inns of Court) came into dispute. Evidently, John Pearse was less than honest in his dealings! The litigation did not go well for anyone. William Cross, Nicholas Senior, John Tailor, William Warman and John Ollivant sued Jonas Pinsent “senior” and “junior” on several occasions on behalf of the “Ancients, Fellows and Students of the Society of Lyon’s Inn” in an attempt to recover their losses.

Mr. Cross and the others sued Jonas “junior” over the tenements at North and South Preston in Warkley he had inherited from his father, who had received them after calling in his bond with the Pearse family. They had used them as securities. Unfortunately for Jonas “junior” there were other people who either had, or felt they had, a right to the same tenements! Jonas “senior” had several debts of his own that needed paying and Jonas “junior’s” right to North and South Preston was also challenged by a Mr. Germyn and others. Some of the depositions and interrogatories have survived and they provide illustrate the complexity of the issue C2/CHASI/L65/160, C2/CHASI/L67/150, C3/CHASI/C123/125, C22/618/53 & (C2/CHASI/G52/49). Jonas somehow managed to hold on to the Warkley tenements and, following the death of John Pearce, in 1650, he paid a “heriot” of £5 to the Earl of Bath for them in June 1650 (Devon Household Accounts: 1625-1659: Pt. II: Henry, 5^th Earl of Bath and Rachel Countess of Bath: 1637-1655).

Thomas Rollestone, who was a clerk and a member of Lyon’s Inn had had an on-going dispute with Jonas Pinsent “senior” before he died. He said he had acted in court for Jonas for many years and was owed £113 when Jonas died. Thomas looked to Jonas “junior” and his mother for satisfaction, and sued them in the Court of Chancery in 1641. His depositions show that he admitted that Jonas had indeed paid him £40 in 1628 and had given him bills payable for the rest. However, he said that he had done more work for him since then and he was owed another £17.

The case must have become quite acrimonious as Thomas had, at one point, arranged for the Under Sheriff for Devon to arrest Jonas while he was in Chudleigh. Elizabeth deposed that her husband had told her that he owed Thomas Rollestone money, but he had also said that Thomas owed him money – the amount was not stated. Elizabeth said that her husband’s personal (as opposed to real) estate amounted to only £180 and he was, or had been, indebted to other people. She said her children had received no cash legacies and she had only received her jointure interest in the family house, on Henstreete, in Bovey Tracey (C6/124/109 & C6/124/112).

Her son, Jonas, added that one of the problems he encountered it trying to settle his father’s affairs was that much of his father’s property had been encumbered when brought into his own marriage settlement with the Langworthy family in 1634. He said that the £150 bequests that his sisters, Elizabeth and Johanna were to receive, had already been dealt with through the financial restructuring that came with the settlement. However, some years later, in 1658, Jonas’s father’s executor, Mr. Orchard, accused Jonas of confederating with his mother, Elizabeth, and with his sisters and brothers-in-law regarding the extent of Elizabeth’s jointure (C6/159/103). Thomas Orchard, claimed that the size of the jointure had been misrepresented and Jonas had signed a bond concerning the two bequests of £150 given to Elizabeth – the wife of William Cullinge, and Johanne – wife of Nicholas Burchill.

Jonas also said that his father had sold the tenement in Bovey Tracey he bought from the Wills brothers. Nevertheless, he must have retained some of it as Ambrose Wills sued Jonas’s grandson! – yet another Jonas – over it in 1660 (C5/538/98). The “senior” Jonas had also acquired the reversion of a tenement in Holne, Devon, from the Earl of Bath, “having been a long time then before steward of several manors of the said Earl”. Presumably his son, Jonas, still held on to the reversion (C6/124/109 & C6/124/112).

Jonas and his sister Elizabeth Cullinge (Collings) were sued on another matter in 1653. Ellinor Churchwell sued them over Jeffrey Christopher’s estate. He had who died in 1646 leaving Jonas as his executor (C2/CHASI/P24/50 & C10/28/65). Jonas testified that Jeffery was his “natural” (therefor half-brother). He claimed that Jeffrey owed him money and told him there was £260 at his house – however, all he could find was £12 or £13 and he strongly suspected that Jeffrey’s sisters had taken the rest. They, of course, denied it.

Jeffrey held two leases on lives: one that he gave to Jonas and Elizabeth (Cullinge), and one in North Bovey that he gave to his nephew, Nicholas Beare. He also made several cash legacies, some of which Jonas refused to fully pay after discovering that a judgment of £223 had been made against the estate. He gave Ellinor £10, not the £20 she expected and he begrudged her that as he felt that she was implicated in the removal of items from Jeffrey’s house.

To make matters worse, John Wilmeade argued that Jeffrey Christopher’s late wife, Mary, had had several children by an earlier marriage to Richard Wilmeade and Jeffrey had, he said, signed a bond in 1610 that protected their interests. They were each to get £20 when they reached the age of 22 years. John was not sure that one of Mary’s sons, William, had ever received his bequest as he had been away at sea (C10/16/135).

Jeffrey’s death also caused other complications. Nicholas Beare, who under the terms of the will received Jeffrey’s estate at “Sandwich,” in North Bovey, accused Jonas of undervaluing it. He assessed the property at £2,500 pounds in 1647, and said the associated plate, money and goods alone were worth between £700 and £800 pounds. Nicholas also accused Jonas’s wife Elizabeth and his daughter, also named Elizabeth, of taking his ready money. They denied the claim and said they held no more money in trust for Jeffrey than the “two purses with ten pounds which they returned to him shortly after” (C6/102/21).

Nicholas Beare may have lived to regret making his extravagant claim of the value of the property. The “Committee for Compounding” – that fined Royalists for their support of King Charles I – caught up with him and fined him for his involvement in the Royalist cause in 1653. He paid half of the fine but asked to be let off the other half, as he said he was only “renting” his erstwhile uncle’s tenement in North Bovey. He claimed it actually belonged to Jonas! Whether he got away with that, I do not know.

Jonas was a major landholder in his own right. In addition to his “Capital Mansion” or house on Henstreet, in Bovey Tracey, he held on to the two leasehold tenements in Warkley (North and South Preston) that he had inherited and paid L 90 13s 7d to the Earl of Bath’s agent for them, at least for the years 1647, 1648 and 1649. (Devon Household Accounts: 1627-1659; Pt. II). Jonas also, acquired “one messuage, 60 acres of land 10 acres meadow, 3 acres wood, and 40 acres marsh with their appurtenances” at Modbury Park from John Hele in 1647. This was by means of a “false lawsuit” – a way of breaking the entail of a property.

Jonas married Grace Langdon, daughter of Richard Langdon, of Bigbury, sometime after Katherine died. I do not know when. Interestingly, documents submitted to the “Committee for Advance of Money” in 1651/2 show that Jonas and his Langdon father-in-law both held for the King during the civil war: Richard Langdon and Jonas Pinsent were tried for “delinquency“. Evidently, “Langdon was in arms, and very active against the Plymouth garrison….” and Pinsent “was clerk to the Kings Commissioners at Exeter and fined those who acted against him”. Fortunately for Jonas he was discharged under the Act of Pardon of March 1653. Jonas, had, in his legal capacity written to the same committee in late 1651 concerning an assessment of £400 that it made against John Fortescue of Fallowpit. He told them that he was his executor, and that John had died before the assessment had been made.

Jonas Pinsent and Grace (nee Langdon) held a lease on a small parcel of land called “Bridge Marsh” on the west side of the bridge over the Bovey River, in the town of Bovey Tracey, from 1651 to 1657, when they sold it to Hugh Baker of Ilsington for £23. There are several documents concerning the property in the Devon Records Office (Ref. 312M/TH/212-217). This piece of land may have been included among the six properties belonging to “Edward Pinsent’s Heirs” for which Jonas paid the Borough £10 10s in taxes in 1655 (The Borough of Bovey Tracey Court Books: D1-508M/Manor/Bovey Tracey/1). He paid a separate charge of 11s 5d for his own residence in Hind Street (Henstreete). His brother Edward, whose life is described elsewhere had, however, died three years earlier.

Grace may have been considerably younger than Jonas when they married. They had at least two children (boys) together that I know about, however, I do not know when or where and their dates of birth have had to be extrapolated from other evidence. They may have had other children, for all I know!

Jonas died in 1658 and “the death of Jonas Pinsent, gent:” was entered into Bovey Tracey [Borough] Court Books the following April (DRO D1 508M/Manor/Bovey Tracey]. This required a bit of book-keeping: “… We present Charles Heath to be a free tenant upon the alienation of part of Jonas Pinsent’s land” and “… We present Hugh Baker to be a free tenant in part of the lands late of Jonas Pinsent, gent.”

It was most likely Grace who had her hand slapped at the May 1659 meeting of the Bovey Tracey Borough Court (D1 508M/Manor/Bovey Tracey: “We continue the presentments of the Widow Pinsent’s wall against Thomas Comiam’s court, to be in decay and ought to be repaired by the said widow Pinsent”. She probably lived until around 1666. Grace and her sons Jonas and Richard both feature in legal issues after Jonas’s death. Their lives are discussed elsewhere.

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Grandparents

Grandfather: Hugh Pinsent: 1540 – 1626
Grandmother: Johanna Woodley: xxxx – xxxx

Parents

Father: Jonas Pinsent: 1575 – 1637
Mother: Elizabeth Unknown: xxxx – xxxx

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Jonas Pinsent: 1609 – 1658
Edward Pinsent: 1611 – 1652
Thomas Pinsent: 1615 – 1690
Ellis Pinsent: 1619 – 1681
John Pinsent: 1622 – 1648

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Elizabeth Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: N/A (née Unknown)
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: Jonas Pinsent
Death: N/A

Family Branch: Combe
PinsentID: DRO0029

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Matthew Pinsent

Vital Statistics

Birth: 1596
Marriage: N/A
Spouse: N/A
Death: 1616

Family Branch: Combe
PinsentID: DRO0039

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Grandparents

Grandfather: John Pinsent: xxxx – 1575
Grandmother: Johanna Unknown: xxxx – 1570

Parents

Father: Hugh Pinsent: 1540 – 1626
Mother: Johanna Woodley: xxxx – xxxx

Father’s Siblings (Aunts, Uncles)

John Pynsent: 1532 – 1615
George Pinsent: xxxx – 1598
Thomas Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
Elizabeth Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
Hugh Pinsent: 1540 – 1626
Margaret Pinsent: 1542 – xxxx
Walter Pinsent: 1544 – xxxx
Mary Pinsent: 1546 – xxxx
Johanna Pinsent: 1549 – xxxx

Male Siblings (Brothers)

Jonas Pinsent: 1575 – 1637
Peter Pinsent: 1576 – 1597
John Pinsent: xxxx – xxxx
William Pinsent: 1580 – xxxx
Thomas Pinsent: 1586 – xxxx
Hugh Pinsent: 1591 – xxxx
George Pinsent: 1593 – xxxx
Matthew Pinsent: 1596 – 1616

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