DOWRICH, Thomas II (d.1483), of Pidsley and Dowrich, Devon.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Thomas Dowrich I*. Add. Chs. 27621-2. m. (1) by May 1445, Reg. Lacy, ii (Canterbury and York Soc. lxi), 333. Margaret (d. 3 Feb. 1477), da. of William Reke of Denbury, C140/55/27; CP40/648, rot. 227d. wid. of John Boyville (b.c.1377) of West Ogwell, s.p.; C1/50/313, 51/83; CIPM, xx. 710. (2) by 7 May 1477, Alice, ?da. of Sir Thomas Fulford, wid. of John Cheyne (d.1476/7) of Pinhoe, Devon, 1da. J.S. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 289; C141/4/46; CFR, xxi. 404; C1/66/293.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. election, Devon 1472.

J.p.q. Devon 4 July 1461 – Nov. 1470, 20 June 1471 – Sept. 1474, Nov. 1475 – d.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Exeter castle May 1457; C66/483, m. 19d. inquiry, Oxon., Berks., Som., Dorset, Hants, Wilts., Mdx., Devon June 1459 (Hungerford estates), Devon, Cornw., Som., Dorset Apr. 1465 (estates of the earls of Devon and Wiltshire), Devon, Cornw. Apr. 1468 (wreck); to requisition ships, N. Devon July 1461; of arrest, Devon July 1465; to distribute tax allowances June 1468; of oyer and terminer, Devon, Glos. Aug. 1468, Devon July 1472.

Recorder, Exeter ?1464–d. KB9/342/43–45; Devon RO, Exeter city recs., receivers’ accts. 8 Edw. IV-1 Ric. III. The exact date of Dowrich’s appointment to the recordership is uncertain, and has been variously given as 1462 (Trans. Devon Assoc. lxix. 168), 1464 (ibid. lxx. 421), and 1468 (ibid. lxii. 218). Although he is only named explicitly as recorder in the city receivers’ accts. from 1468, he may have been appointed not long after the death of his predecessor, John More, in 1464: J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), i. 601.

[Tax assessor, Devon Apr. 1483.] Appointed, although already deceased: CPR, 1476–85, p. 353.

Parlimentarian

DOWRICH, Thomas II (d.1483), of Pidsley and Dowrich, Devon.

Main residences: Pidsley; Dowrich, Devon.

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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