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b. a; d; bap. Holsworthy, Devon, 20 Dec. 1416, s. and h. of Richard Denys (d.1420) of Orleigh, by his w. Joan. C139/104/36; 106/14. m. by c.1471, Eleanor, da. and coh. of Stephen Giffard of Thuborough (in Sutcombe), Devon, 4s. CIPM Hen. VII, i. 685; J.S. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 281; Genealogist, n.s. xxiv. 106.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Devon 1467, 1472.

Hereditary bailiff in fee of the hundred of Lesnewth, Cornw. Mich. 1422–d. SC6/814/22; 816/4, 6, 8; 820/11–14; 821/3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11; 822/1–3; SC6/HenVII/1079, 1080; Cornw. RO, Arundell mss, AR2/719, rot. 7d.

Commr. of inquiry, Devon Dec. 1456 (concealments), E159/233, commissiones Mich. rot. 1. Oxon., Berks., Som., Dorset, Hants, Wilts., Mdx., Devon June 1459, Devon, Som. Aug. 1463, Som. Mar., Dec. 1464 (Hungerford estates), Berks., Som., Cornw., Devon Aug. 1467 (Ormond estates), Cornw. Nov. 1467 (lands of John Arundell of Trerice), Cornw., Devon Mar. 1468 (Wynard estates), Apr. 1468 (piracy), Devon Oct. 1468 (highway at Wolcombe), Oct. 1470 (felonies), Cornw., Devon July 1473 (concealments), Devon Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Cornw., Devon Mar., Apr. 1478 (estates of the duke of Clarence), Cornw., Devon, Som., Dorset Sept. 1479 (estates of Lord Fitzwaryn), Devon, Som. June 1483 (piracy), Devon, Mar. 1485 (concealments), [Cornw., Devon May 1485 (concealments)]; Vacated. gaol delivery, Exeter castle May 1457; C66/483, m. 19d. oyer and terminer, Cornw., Devon, Som. June 1460, Devon July 1484 (treason of James Newenham), C81/1392/13. Cornw., Devon Oct. 1484 (treason of Richard Edgcombe), C81/1392/16. Feb. 1487; to take assizes of novel disseisin, Cornw. July 1463 (q.); C66/505, m. 5d. of arrest, Cornw., Devon Nov. 1464, Nov. 1473 (abbot and monks of Buckland); array, Devon Apr., [Oct.] 1470 Vacated., Mar. 1472, May 1484; to remove the occupants of Buckland abbey, Devon July 1473; assess a tax Apr., Aug. 1483, May 1484, Jan. 1488.

?Jt. auditor of the estates of Henry Courtenay of Tiverton by 1464–5. M. Cherry, ‘Crown and Political Community, Devon’ (Univ. of Wales, Swansea Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 378.

J.p. Devon 16 Oct. 1464-Sept. 1474 (q.), 10 Nov. 1475-June 1482, 18 June 1482-Dec. 1483 (q.), 8 Jan. 1484–d. (q.). KB9/388/72.

?Steward of Womberlegh, Devon, for Thomas Beaumont by Jan. 1480. KB9/351/63–64. The record gives the steward’s first name as Thomas, but in the light of John Denys’s close connexions with the Beaumonts it seems probable that this was a clerical error.

?Recorder, Plymouth 1482. HP Biogs. ed. Wedgwood and Holt, 269.

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DENYS, John (1416-91), of Barnstaple and Orleigh in Buckland Brewer, Devon.
Main residences: Barnstaple; Orleigh in Buckland Brewer, Devon.
Deneys, Dennis
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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