In 1495, Henry thought he had found just the man – William Courtenay, heir to the Earl of Devon. She was packed off to Tiverton where she became a mother in 1496. In 1497 her husband rose further in royal favour when he helped to defeat Perkin Warbeck, a royal pretender. Two more c...
Henry trusted precious few people – which isn’t surprising given the number of rebellions he had to deal with once he became king. In 1495, Henry thought he had found just the man – William Courtenay, heir to the Earl of Devon. She was packed off to Tiverton where she became a ...
This family gave its name to the parish of Cruwys Morchard near Tiverton in north Devon, where they have been lords of the manor for almost nine hundred years – from the 12th century until the present day.In early records the name was usually spelt Cruwes, Cruys, or Crues. The present...
Cruwys Morchard is not really a village, but a scattered parish, set at the point where the plateau of North Devon meets the deep river valleys of Mid-Devon. The parish is one of the largest in the country, taking in the villages of Nomansland, Way, and Pennymoor. If Cruwys Morchard ...
and the journal of Isaac Dubois, with Alexander Falconbridge, 'An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa'. Liverpool: Liverpool U.P. (2000). Gray, T., ed., Travels in Georgian Devon: the illustrated journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4. Tiverton: Devon Books...
Devon, administrative, geographic, and historic county of England. It forms part of the South West (or Cornish) Peninsula of Great Britain and is bounded to the west by Cornwall and to the east by Dorset and Somerset. The Bristol Channel lies to the nort
Exeter, city (district), administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England. It is located on the River Exe, just above the head of the river’s estuary and about 10 miles (16 km) from the estuary’s entry into the English Channel. Exeter
Derek Howell. The lord of Tiverton 1927-1999. He was voted in as Chairman, a position that he would have taken up at the conference 1999 but unfortunately passed away before he could take up that position. ‘Tivers’ left us whilst in hospital trying to recover from an illness that he ...
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In 1495, Henry thought he had found just the man – William Courtenay, heir to the Earl of Devon. She was packed off to Tiverton where she became a mother in 1496. In 1497 her husband rose further in royal favour when he helped to defeat Perkin Warbeck, a royal pretender. Two more ...