Manor of Haccombe

[16] Risdon however states the reason for Joan Courtenay having passed over her eldest son in distributing the Haccombe estates was "for some defect of a due respect to his mother (as she conceived)".

[25] John Carew (d.1528)[26] of Haccombe, son and heir, who was a commander in the army (called Exercitus Anglicorum et Gallorum Regnum pro Pontifice Romano Liberando Congregatus[27] "The army of the Kingdoms of the English and of the French gathered together for the liberating of the Roman Pope") sent into Italy in 1527 jointly by Kings Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England and under the command of Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec,[28] in order to rescue Pope Clement VII, then besieged in his Castel Sant'Angelo,[26] following the Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 by troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

He was a minor aged 11 at the death of his father and his wardship was acquired by William Hody (died 1535) of Pilsdon in Dorset, whose will directed "that his executors, Anne (Strode) his wife, and John his son, shall have ward of Thomas Carewe, son and heir of John Carewe, late of Haccombe, Devon, for the use of Mary, his daughter.

[33] Mary's grandfather was Sir William Hody (born before 1441, died 1524) of Pilsdon,[34] Attorney General of England and Chief Baron of the Exchequer under King Henry VII.

Thomas Carew died aged 68 on 28 March 1586 of "Gaol Fever",[35] following his attendance as a magistrate at the notorious Black Assize of Exeter.