FOWELL, William (d.1507), of Fowelscombe and Langford Barton in Ugborough, Devon.

Family and Education

s. ?and h. of Richard Fowell of Fowelscombe by Mary, da. of William Walrond of Wood. J.S. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 369. educ. ?M. Temple. J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), ii. 1600. m. (1) Mabel; Reg. Lacy, iii (Canterbury and York Soc. lxii), 390. (2) Eleanor, da. of Walter Reynell*. 2s. 1da. C142/43/57; C1/623/44-47, 820/34, 1218/38; Vivian, 369, 643.

Offices Held

Commr. of inquiry, Devon Dec. 1456, E159/233, commissiones Mich. rot. 1. Devon, Cornw. July 1473, Devon, Som. July 1474 (concealments), Mar., Apr. 1478 (lands of George, duke of Clarence); array, Devon Mar. 1472.

Steward of Buckland abbey, Devon by June 1493. KB9/398/45–46.

Bailiff of the manor of Brent for the abbot of Buckfast by Apr. 1497; KB9/412/44. Roborough hundred for the abbot of Buckland by Oct. 1501. KB9/423/41.

Parlimentarian

FOWELL, William (d.1507), of Fowelscombe and Langford Barton in Ugborough, Devon.

Main residences: Fowelscombe; Langford Barton in Ugborough, Devon.

Fouhell, Fowle, Vowell

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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