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Western Weekly Express: Friday 3rd May 1912

Old Chudleigh: By Robert M. Ellis: … (discussion continues) … 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 lose 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 1668 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…. Continues up to 1677 … …

(See Also) … A meeting of the governors of Pynsent’s Grammar School was held on Monday last. The annual accounts were passed, the balance in hand being £34 12s 6d. Letters from the Board of Education were read as to the prospects of the school, and it was decided to approach Mr. Pinsent, a descendant of the founder, with a view to formulating a scheme for the possible preservation of the Foundation.

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DRO0062 Combe: Humphrey Pynsent: 1599 – 1680

Western Weekly Express: Friday 19th April 1912

Old Chudleigh: By Robert M. Ellis: … (discussion continues) … Extensive repairs to the market houses in 1647. 1t still further drained the parish resources and owing to the disturbed state of the country the markets declined in Value, until, in 1649, the year of the King’s execution, Humphrey Pinsent gave them up, and they were taken by John Rennet, of Harcombe, for £55. In 1646 the Parliament set up the Presbyterian form of religion throughout. the country and ejected the clergy from their livings, replacing them by ministers elected by each parish. From this Chudleigh seems to have been preserved by the determination of its inhabitants, for Mr. Woolcomb still continued to hold office until his death in January, 1654. … (continues) …

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DRO0062 Combe: Humphrey Pynsent: 1599 – 1680

Western Devon Weekly Express: Friday 12th April 1912

Old Chudleigh: By Robert M. Ellis: … (discussion includes) … The Civil War commenced on August 25th, 1642, but the only record of its effect upon Chudleigh in the parish accounts is contained in a list of disbursements by Humphry Pinsent, then farmer of the markets, commencing in 1644. At the outbreak of hostilities, the county had been held by the Parliament, but the advance of Sir Bevil Granville and Sir Ralph Hopton from Cornwall in 1643 had driven their forces northwards, and in the year in question Devonshire was held by the Royalists. … (continues at length) …

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DRO0062 Combe: Humphrey Pynsent: 1599 – 1680

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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DRO0062 Combe: Humphrey Pynsent: 1599 – 1680
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