Piers Edgecombe, MP, Sheriff of Devondhire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Edgcumbe

b. c.1536, 1st s. of Sir Richard Edgecombe†, by his 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of John Tregian of Golden; bro. of Richard I. m. c.1555, Margaret, da. of Sir Andrew Luttrell of Dunster Castle, Som., 5s. inc. Richard II 4da. suc. fa. 1562.

Offices Held

Sheriff, Devon 1565-6, Cornw. 1569-70; v.-adm. by 1568; commr. musters, Devon 1569; receiver of loan for Cornw. 1570; j.p. Devon from c.1561, q. from 1569, Cornw. q. from c.1569; custos rot. Cornw. 1573, dep. lt. 1587; steward, Liskeard by 1574-87.1

Biography Edgecombe held a county seat for most of this period, except in 1584, when the competition in both Devon and Cornwall was too much for him, driving him to Liskeard, where he was steward. One of the 2nd Earl of Bedford’s closest supporters in the west country, he was one of the 43 young puritan MPs lampooned by a satirist in 1566. He left no mark on the records of the 1563 Parliament, but was thenceforth active. He was appointed to the subsidy committee on 7 Apr. 1571 and to the committee concerning tillage and the maintenance of the navy on 25 May. He spoke against excluding minstrels from the penalties of the vagabonds bill on 30 May 1572, and against the fraudulent conveyances bill 3 June. In 1576 he served on committees concerned with dags (17 Feb.), fraudulent conveyances (25 Feb.), innkeepers (5 Mar.), trial by jury (5 Mar.), and the inning of salt marshes (6 Mar.). In 1581 he was appointed to the subsidy committee (25 Jan.), and a committee concerned with wax (24 Feb.); on 21 Dec. 1584 he was appointed to the committee on Plymouth harbour and on 9 Mar. and 15 Mar. 1585 he was put on committees concerning the repair of highways and Devonshire kerseys. No activity is recorded in his name in either 1586 or 1589. However in all likelihood he was the Mr. Edgecombe who served on committees concerning the relief of. the poor (12 Mar.), and the town of Stonehouse where his father had built Mount Edgecumbe (26 Mar.). Edgecombe moved the bill on Stonehouse, 24 Mar. As knight for Cornwall in 1593 he was eligible also to serve on committees concerning the subsidy (26 Feb.), a legal matter (9 Mar.) and kerseys (23 Mar.). His failure to sit in the last two Elizabethan Parliaments may have been due to his debts or to infirmity: in 1598 Christopher Harris noted that he ‘goes seldom from his house’. The family was in low water financially as early as 1559 when his building programme forced Edgecombe’s father, to sell Totnes, retaining however some parliamentary patronage there, and Edgecombe’s own financial position deteriorated further as a result of mining operations following the discovery of ore on his estates in the mid-1560s. By 1597 he estimated that he had spent £4,000 on his Cornish and Merioneth mines, and he was unable to pay his rent for the royal mines. He then suggested to Cecil a scheme to bring the Queen £20,000 by enforcing the provisions of the statute of usury. Edgecombe also had seafaring interests, one of his wilder schemes being to enter into an agreement (1582) with the Portuguese Pretender to send a squadron to Brazil under letters of marque, against the King of Spain. Edgecombe died 4 Jan. 1608.2

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603 Author: P. W. Hasler Notes 1. C142/134/66; Roberts thesis; W. H. Edgcumbe, Edgcumbe Fam. Recs.; Vis. Cornw. (Harl. Soc. ix), 63-4; Vis. Som. ed. Weaver, 43; CSP Dom. 1547-80, p. 389; Sloane 3194; HMC Foljambe, 25; SP12/93; J. Allen, Hist. Liskeard, 58, 231-3, 280. 2. Neale, Commons, 53; Stowe 354; Gabriel thesis, 65; CPR, 1563-6, p. 91; Add. 48018, ff. 282-3, 294; House of Lords, Braye mss, Fulk Onslow’s jnl. f. 2; D’Ewes, 159, 189, 253, 288, 300, 345, 364, 368, 474, 476, 496, 499, 507, 509, 510; CJ, i. 83, 93, 106, 108, 111, 120, 129; Trinity, Dublin, Thos. Cromwell’s jnl. f. 49; HMC Lords, n.s. xi. 8; HMC Hatfield, viii. 427; Maxwell-Lyte, Hist. Dunster, i. 141; Cal. Proc. Chanc. Eliz. i. 282; Cal. Plymouth Recs. 77; APC, x. 177; M. B. Donald, Eliz. Copper, 302; A. L. Rowse, Tudor Cornw. 391; Bodl. Rawl. B 285, f. 90; HMC 2nd Rep. 21; HMC Hatfield, v. 14-15; viii. 233, 353; Collins, Peerage, iv. 328-

1. Birth: 1536 in Cotehele Estate and Manor House, St. Dominick, near Saltash, Cornwall, England
2. Death: in Mount Edgcumbe, Cremyll, Torpoint, Cornwall, England

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• 'Peter Edgcombe, Sheriff of Devonshire1
• 'M, d. 1607
• Father Sir Richard Edgcombe, Sheriff of Devonshire d. a 1553
• Mother Winifred Essex1
• ' Peter Edgcombe, Sheriff of Devonshire married Margaret Luttrell, daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell, Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset and Margaret Wyndham, circa 1550.1 Peter Edgcombe, Sheriff of Devonshire died in 1607 at of Cornwall, England.1
• 'Family Margaret Luttrell b. c 1529
• Citations
• 1.[S147] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1938 ed., by Sir Bernard Burke, p., 1800.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2048.htm#...
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• 'Margaret LUTTRELL
• Born: 1538, Dunster, Somerset, England
• 'Notes: She and her husband were executors to the will of her mother.
• Father: Andrew LUTTRELL (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Margaret WYNDHAM
• 'Married: Piers EDGECUMBE of Mount Edgecombe (b. ABT 1536 - d. 4 Jan 1606/7) (son of Sir Richard Edgecumbe and Winifred Essex)
• Children:
  • 1. Margaret EDGECUMBE (b. 1560 - d. 24 Apr 1648) (m. Sir Edward Denny)
  • 2. Elizabeth EDGECUMBE (m. John Specott)
  • 3. Catherine EDGECUMBE (b. ABT 1562)
  • 4. Richard EDGECUMBE (b. 1570 - d. 23 Mar 1639) (m.1 Mary Cottle - m.2 Anne Carey)
  • 5. Piers EDGECUMBE (d. 1628)
  • 6. Edward EDGECUMBE (d. 1630)
  • 7. John EDGECUMBE
  • 8. Andrew EDGECUMBE (d. 1640)
  • 9. Anne EDGECUMBE
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/LUTTRELL.htm#Margaret LUTTRELL3
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Peter Edgcumbe or Edgcombe (1536 - 4 January 1608) was an English politician.

He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe of Devon.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Totnes in 1555, appointed Sheriff of Devon for 1565, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1569 and Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall before 1573–1597. He was also the Member of Parliament for Cornwall 11 January 1563 - 2 January 1567 and 8 May 1572-1581, Devon 1571, Liskeard 1584-1585 and was then re-elected for Cornwall in 1586, 1589 and 1593. [1]

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall 8 August 1586 – 7 December 1587.

He died in 1608. He had married Margaret, the daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell of Dunster Castle, Somerset, with whom he had five sons, including Richard, and four daughters.

References

• 1.^ "EDGECOMBE, Peter (c.1536-1608), of Mount Edgcumbe and Cotehele, Cornw.". History of Parliament. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
• Dictionary of National Biography, Edgcumbe or Edgecombe, Sir Richard (1499–1562), country gentleman, by Alsager Vian.
• From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Edgcumbe
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'EDGECOMBE, Peter (c.1536-1608), of Mount Edgcumbe and Cotehele, Cornw.

• Family and Education

b. c.1536, 1st s. of Sir Richard Edgecombe†, by his 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of John Tregian of Golden; bro. of Richard I. m. c.1555, Margaret, da. of Sir Andrew Luttrell of Dunster Castle, Som., 5s. inc. Richard II 4da. suc. fa. 1562.

• Offices Held

Sheriff, Devon 1565-6, Cornw. 1569-70; v.-adm. by 1568; commr. musters, Devon 1569; receiver of loan for Cornw. 1570; j.p. Devon from c.1561, q. from 1569, Cornw. q. from c.1569; custos rot. Cornw. 1573, dep. lt. 1587; steward, Liskeard by 1574-87.1

• Biography

Edgecombe held a county seat for most of this period, except in 1584, when the competition in both Devon and Cornwall was too much for him, driving him to Liskeard, where he was steward. One of the 2nd Earl of Bedford’s closest supporters in the west country, he was one of the 43 young puritan MPs lampooned by a satirist in 1566. He left no mark on the records of the 1563 Parliament, but was thenceforth active. He was appointed to the subsidy committee on 7 Apr. 1571 and to the committee concerning tillage and the maintenance of the navy on 25 May. He spoke against excluding minstrels from the penalties of the vagabonds bill on 30 May 1572, and against the fraudulent conveyances bill 3 June. In 1576 he served on committees concerned with dags (17 Feb.), fraudulent conveyances (25 Feb.), innkeepers (5 Mar.), trial by jury (5 Mar.), and the inning of salt marshes (6 Mar.). In 1581 he was appointed to the subsidy committee (25 Jan.), and a committee concerned with wax (24 Feb.); on 21 Dec. 1584 he was appointed to the committee on Plymouth harbour and on 9 Mar. and 15 Mar. 1585 he was put on committees concerning the repair of highways and Devonshire kerseys. No activity is recorded in his name in either 1586 or 1589. However in all likelihood he was the Mr. Edgecombe who served on committees concerning the relief of. the poor (12 Mar.), and the town of Stonehouse where his father had built Mount Edgecumbe (26 Mar.). Edgecombe moved the bill on Stonehouse, 24 Mar. As knight for Cornwall in 1593 he was eligible also to serve on committees concerning the subsidy (26 Feb.), a legal matter (9 Mar.) and kerseys (23 Mar.). His failure to sit in the last two Elizabethan Parliaments may have been due to his debts or to infirmity: in 1598 Christopher Harris noted that he ‘goes seldom from his house’. The family was in low water financially as early as 1559 when his building programme forced Edgecombe’s father, to sell Totnes, retaining however some parliamentary patronage there, and Edgecombe’s own financial position deteriorated further as a result of mining operations following the discovery of ore on his estates in the mid-1560s. By 1597 he estimated that he had spent £4,000 on his Cornish and Merioneth mines, and he was unable to pay his rent for the royal mines. He then suggested to Cecil a scheme to bring the Queen £20,000 by enforcing the provisions of the statute of usury. Edgecombe also had seafaring interests, one of his wilder schemes being to enter into an agreement (1582) with the Portuguese Pretender to send a squadron to Brazil under letters of marque, against the King of Spain. Edgecombe died 4 Jan. 1608.2

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603

Author: P. W. Hasler

Notes

• 1. C142/134/66; Roberts thesis; W. H. Edgcumbe, Edgcumbe Fam. Recs.; Vis. Cornw. (Harl. Soc. ix), 63-4; Vis. Som. ed. Weaver, 43; CSP Dom. 1547-80, p. 389; Sloane 3194; HMC Foljambe, 25; SP12/93; J. Allen, Hist. Liskeard, 58, 231-3, 280.
• 2. Neale, Commons, 53; Stowe 354; Gabriel thesis, 65; CPR, 1563-6, p. 91; Add. 48018, ff. 282-3, 294; House of Lords, Braye mss, Fulk Onslow’s jnl. f. 2; D’Ewes, 159, 189, 253, 288, 300, 345, 364, 368, 474, 476, 496, 499, 507, 509, 510; CJ, i. 83, 93, 106, 108, 111, 120, 129; Trinity, Dublin, Thos. Cromwell’s jnl. f. 49; HMC Lords, n.s. xi. 8; HMC Hatfield, viii. 427; Maxwell-Lyte, Hist. Dunster, i. 141; Cal. Proc. Chanc. Eliz. i. 282; Cal. Plymouth Recs. 77; APC, x. 177; M. B. Donald, Eliz. Copper, 302; A. L. Rowse, Tudor Cornw. 391; Bodl. Rawl. B 285, f. 90; HMC 2nd Rep. 21; HMC Hatfield, v. 14-15; viii. 233, 353; Collins, Peerage, iv. 328-9.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ed...
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• 'Dictionary of national biography (1885)
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• EDGCUMBE or EDGECOMBE, SIR RICHARD (1499-1562), country gentleman, was the eldest son of Sir Piers Edgcumbe [see under EDGCUMBE, SIR RICHARD, d. 1489]. His grandson, Richard Carew [q.v.], says that he studied at Oxford, but of this there is no other record. He was among the knights created by Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, 18 Oct. 1537, and two years later he succeeded to his father's estates. On a portion of the Stonehouse property, which had come into the family through his mother, and which Sir Piers had already emparked, he built the house named by him Mount Edgcumbe, which was completed in 1553. He was sheriff of Devon in 1543 and 1544, and in 1557 he was named commissioner of muster in Cornwall to call out and arm three hundred men. A very pleasant picture of the knight is presented in 'A Friendly Remembrance of Sir Richard Edgcombe,' written by Carew, and found among his manuscripts, which has since been printed in various publications. From this paper it appears that Edgcumbe in his youth dabbled in astrology, and caused doubts to be cast upon his orthodoxy, which were dissipated only by his keeping afterwards a private chaplain. He was possessed of some literary skill, and was complimented by Cromwell on the lucidity of the reports which he sent up from quarter sessions. He prided himself on his housekeeping, taking care to always have in hand two years' provision of all things necessary for himself and his family, and he kept in a chest for current needs a sum of money which he never allowed to fall below 100l. His hospitality earned him the name of 'the good old knight of the castle.' He died on 1 Feb. 1561-2, as is shown by the inquisition on his will, and was buried in Maker Church under a tombstone, the inscription on which states that he died 1 Dec. 1561. He was married first to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Arundell, who left no issue ; and secondly to Winifred, daughter of William Essex, 'by whom he had four sons and four daughters. Piers (or Peter) Edgcumbe, the eldest son (1536-1607), was sheriff of Devon in 1566, and represented Cornwall county in the parliaments
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• 'of 1562-3, 1572, 1588, and 1592, and Liskeard borough in those of 1584 and 1586.' Richard, the second son, sat for Totnes in the parliament of 1562-3.
• [Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, v. 321-8 ; Prince's Worthies of Devon (ed. 1810), p. 345; Fuller's Worthies of England, Devon, p. 270 ; Metcalfe's Book of Knights, p. 71 ; Boase and Courtenay's Biblioth. Cornub.p. 130 ; Polwhele's Hist, of Devon, i. 257 ; Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1547-80, p. 94 ; Returns of Members of Parliament.] A. V.
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