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Many thanks for all this Bookbox.

I'm interested in his brother John here.
He is mentioned, very. briefly in the visitation of Cornwall, but apart from the fact he existed in 1496, nothing else.
Sir Richard was born about 1430/40, so I expect John around the same period.

Do you have any idea why they would entitle him "Master" in this will? a priest?
Richard had two other brothers, according to the visitations.
St Clere was the heir, but had died sp in 1471, and Thomas, who also died before Richard, in 1493. There are IPMs quoted for them. I've not been able to look at them.
The title continued on with one of this Sir Richard's sons,  Edward.

I'd be grateful for a transcription and translation of this short will please.

Many thanks

Thanks Vance.
I thought that may be the case.

Richard Pomery/Pomeroy was married the 13th October 1552 at St Neot Cornwall to Jone Taprell.
This is the earliest piece of evidence for him. They went on to have several  children baptised at St Neot. St Neot registers  start 1545.
The genealogy of much of the early Pomery family is well documented. They were barons at Berry Pomeroy in Devon. Ralph de la Pomeroy was one of William the Conqueror’s Norman knights.
However, I can’t find where this Richard fits into the family.
Even by the 1500s, there were hundreds if not thousands of Pomerys in Devon and Cornwall.
Unfortunately, the family had to sell the lands at Berry Pomeroy in 1547 - bought by Edward Seymour, Lord Protector, and the reins behind the throne of the young king Edward, so it’s understandable that the members of the family would have spread out from Berry Pomery, perhaps ending up in St Neot.

There are many trees on genealogy sites that include this Richard. I’ve seen him given as the son of at least 3 different fathers, the majority of which give him as the son of Sir Thomas Pomery of Berry Pomeroy, born 1504, and his wife Jane Edgcumbe of Cotehele House, but I can find no evidence for this. He is not on any visitation trees as a child of this Thomas.
Frustratingly, many trees on MyHeritsge even have a photo of a painting of Richard and his wife Jone Taprell, (supposedly), but I can find no source information for this. (I suspect one person found this, and many others copied it onto their tree).

‘Thomas Pomery, knight’, Richard’s possible father, died in 1566.
There is an Inquisition Post Mortem for him.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7762712

Is there anyway to see this without sending to The National Archives?
I found a film on familysearch, but I think it’s only an index.

There is a document in Chancery C3/474/46 1559 - 1579, which looks interesting.
A John Pomery v Pastow Tapell. a ‘Pascow Taprell” was buried in St Neot in 1575, and Richard Pomery married Jone Taprell in 1552.


Does any one know their way around AALT?
Is this document, or the IPM for Thomas, on the site?
I have to say I find  the site quite challenging!

Any ideas gratefully received!

I've put this on the Common Room board, as it's really about accessing old documents, and not just about research in Cornwall.

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