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Valentine was of Bynley in the parish of Harburton, co. Devon. When t
he very wealthy Reynell family married into the Pomeroys, and the Ogw
ell estates then passed into the hands of the Reynells, they owned mo
st of the land between the Ogwells and Newton Abbott. Between the rei
gns of King John and Henry V, the Reynells 'were ever men of great cre
dit, fidelity, and service, to their Kings, country and state as wel
l in peace matters as wars' They had great 'revenues, offices, lordshi
ps and lands, in sundry shires' including Somerset, Cambridgeshire an
d Yorkshire, but their greatest possessions were in Devon and Cornwall
. By the end of this period these included Malston (Old and New), Net
herton, Frogmere, East Ogwell, Butterley, Sandhulk, Ellacombe, Crews-M
orchard, Upton, Hidswell, Nootcombe, East and West Thwangley, Nassey
, East-Raddon, Colebrook, Trebarch, Trebligha, Hyerland, Watringdon, O
vercombe, Upbutterley, Nethercombe, Carpenters Fosse, Cottesbury, Ley
, South-Downs, Shernewicke, Pittes, Eastabrook, Snedon, Penmalth, Over
hosdon, Polhele, Tremollow, Wiero, St. Germans, Bodmin and lands in ot
her villages and in Plymouth. (Source: http://sites.google.com/site/p
omeroytwig/spouses-other-people/reynell)
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