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Penrith Observer: Tuesday 4th November 1924

Statesman’s Unexpected Legacy: The Pynsent bequest, which made Pitt master of £3,000 a year, was totally unexpected. He had never seen Sir William Pynsent, and had no reason to look for anything from him. More than one of our statesmen, notably Burke, has received a legacy through the cancelling of “paper” in the hands of a richer friend at death or the forestalling of a legacy by a present during life. In our own times legacies to John Redmond and to Keir Hardie were entirely creditable to the recipients.

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South Devon Weekly Express: Friday 6th May 1938

Chudleigh Parish Records: [Transcribed by the late Mr. R. M. Ellis and Reprinted:] In 1659 they requested Mr. Giles Inglett to attempt to buy the rectorial tithes of the parish from ” the farmers who have lately purchased them from the State,” but this appears to have been unsuccessful, for they reverted to the Crown at the Restoration, and were in 1673 granted to the Lord Treasurer Clifford and his heirs male, with the obligation of paying £42 per annum to the precentor of Exeter Cathedral. There was now keen competition for the fairs and markets. Humphrey Pinsent paid £73 for them in 1650, but, taught by experience, had a new clause inserted in the lease to the effect that he was to be indemnified for any loss by “sickness, fire, or soldiers.” Philip Veale obtained them in the following year for £71, and Humphrey Pinsent had to pay £81 the next year to recover them. Veale outbid him again in 1656, giving £90, and obtained a five years’ lease which was extended, until in 1677 Pinsent secured them for £120 One interesting entry in these leases is that in 1688 the grazing of the Sporting Place was rented to Veale except one acre, which had been granted to the School House, thus chronicling the commencement of the Grammar School, which was founded by John Pinsent about this date. Education seems to have been coming to the fore during the Commonwealth, for in 1658 the seven men recorded that there was great need of an able and painful schoolmaster in the place, and they agreed with Mr. Pollexfen to come and reopen the old school in the Church House for £13 6s 8d. yearly, on their part undertaking to put the premises into repair for him.

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Devizes and Wilts Advertiser: Thursday 25th April 1907

The Annals of Devizes: … … 1689: (William III) – Walter Grubbe, Tory, and Sir Wm. Pynsent, Whig, elec. Members. [Members of Parliament]

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Western Times: Tuesday 30th July 1878

Chudleigh Grammar School: Devon: Founded by John Pynsent, A.D. 1668: Headmaster: T. B. Beuttler, B.A., formerly Exhibitioner of Rugby School, and Scholar of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and late Assistant Master at Bedford Grammar School. The next term will begin on September 17th.

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Jackson’s Oxford Journal: Saturday May 26th, 1877: Issue 6478

Pynsent’s Grammar School: Chudleigh, Devon: Founded 1668.

The Governors will shortly proceed to the election of a Headmaster. He must be a member of the Church of England and be a graduate of some University in the United Kingdom or produce such other evidence of his attainments as the Governors think sufficient. The grammar school is situated in a bracing and healthy locality, 10 miles from Exeter, 12 miles from Torquay, and 7 and 8 miles from Dawlish and Teignmouth; a branch of the Great Western Railway has a station with three miles of the school, and a branch to the town is in the course of construction. The Endowment is £30 a year. House and garden provided rent free. The authorized payments for day scholars range from £4 to £10. The rates for boarders are left to the headmaster, subject to the approval of the Governors. The school has ranked under former masters among the best County Schools in Devonshire. A copy of the schemes for the Government of the School, approved by her Majesty in Council, 20th March, 1877, price sixpence, may be had from Mr. R. Crook, book seller, Chudleigh. Candidates are requested to send, on or before the 1st day of August next, their applications, stating age, degree, or any other particulars, with original testimonials (which will be returned) addressed “the Chairman, of the Governing Body, Grammar School, Chudleigh”. 

[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 25th May 1877]

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Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 8th May 1874

Woodland: The little village of Woodland, in the Hundred of Haytor, Deanery of Ipplepen and Archdeaconry of Totnes, is about three miles distant from the town of Ashburton. … (description of ownership of the manor )… Lake, Levaton and Gurrington are estates in this parish; Lake appears to have been bought by Thomas Pynsent, Gurrington by Thomas Culling and Levaton by William Dyer, at the time of the dismemberment of the manor (1658) … (Woodland parish cut out of Ipplepen in 1536, the Parish Church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist) … In the chancel are many gravestones and several mural tablets belonging to the Dyers, and on the south, there is an ornamented slab bearing the following inscription: “In memoriam Thomae Pynsent de Lake Generosi, qui obit decimo tertio die Maii A.D. 1690. Aet suae 75.” Above are the arms of Pynsent, gu; a chevron engrailed between 3 estoiles of six points az.  In the tower, the arch of which has been lately opened, we noticed a very ancient parish chest, coeval with the date of the church. … (ongoing description of Church and parish) … The parish extends over 1,606 acres and the census of 1871 shoed a populated of 160 people: Chas. Worthy, late 82nd Regt. Ashburton, 24th April 1874.

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