Templeton is a hamlet,
parish
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and former
manor in Devon, England, situated 4 miles west of
Tiverton. The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret.
History
According to the Devon historian
Sir William Pole (d.1635), who was an owner of the manor, Templeton was a possession of the
Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a Military order (religious society), military order of the Catholic Church, Catholic faith, and one of the most important military ord ...
, and after the suppression of that order in 1312 passed to the
Knights Hospitaller of St John. Following the
Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII (1509-1547) Templeton was taken into the ownership of the Crown, and was re-granted by that king to George Loosemore, whose son Robert Loosemore sold it to Sir
William Peryam (1534-1604) of
Little Fulford, near
Crediton
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in Devon,
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
The Chief Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" (meaning judge) of the English Exchequer of Pleas. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was he who pres ...
. On the marriage of his eldest daughter Mary Peryam, to
Sir William Pole (d.1635), MP, of
Shute, Devon, as part of her marriage settlement he conveyed the manor of Templeton to her husband. It was still in the possession of Sir William Pole at the time of writing his great work ''Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon''. It remained in the Pole family for several generations until it was sold by Sir William's descendant
Sir John William de la Pole, 6th Baronet (1757–1799) of
New Shute House, Devon.
[Risdon, p.371, name of purchaser left blank]
Sources
*
Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 441–2, Templeton
References
Hamlets in Devon
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