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{{Short description|Suburb of Exeter, Devon, England}}
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[[File:ExeterFromCowickBySwete.jpg|thumb|200px| Watercolour of [[Exeter Cathedral]] viewed from Cowick, by Rev. John Swete dated 1801. Devon Record Office 564M/F1/223. Swete's Travel Journal records: ''"One of (the beech trees) in particular of high growth appears in the following view where through a break amid the successive ranges of elms Exeter is beheld with its turreted cathedral rising with lordly grandeur over the subjacent city; this is a scene of great picturesque beauty and I know no spot, in consequence of the profusion and disposition of its trees, from whence Exeter is seen to greater advantage"''<ref>Gray, Todd (Ed.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of the Reverend John Swete, 1789–1800, 4 Vols., Vol.1, 1998, Tiverton, p.54-5</ref>]]
[[File:Exeter, Exwick Mill - geograph.org.uk - 45656.jpg|thumb|200px|Exwick Mill, St Thomas, Exeter. A plaque on the mill wall reads: ''Exwick Mill was built by W. R. Mallett. A.D. 1886 on the site of Mills worked by Benedictine Monks of the Priory at Cowick A.D. 1325. Alfred Bodley Engineer, Brook & Ash Builders'']]
'''Cowick''' is a suburb of the City of [[Exeter]] in Devon. Historically it was a [[Manorialism|manor]] situated in the parish of St Thomas, Exeter, within the [[Hundred (county division)|hundred]] of Wonford.<ref name="Thorn">Thorn, Caroline & Frank, Domesday Book, Vol. 9, Devon, Morris, John, (general editor), Chichester, 1985, Part 1 (text), Part 2, (notes) :16,106 (Cowick)</ref> It was formerly the site of a [[Benedictine]] monastery.
==History==
The [[Manorialism|manor]] of ''Coic'' is listed in [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as the 106th of the 176 Devon landholdings of [[Baldwin FitzGilbert|Baldwin the Sheriff]], otherwise known as [[Baldwin FitzGilbert]] and Baldwin de Meulles. He held it in [[demesne]].<ref
==Granted to Bec-Hellouin Abbey==
On Baldwin's death his son and heir [[William FitzBaldwin]] made a gift of the manors of Cowick and [[Exwick]], both in the parish of [[St_Thomas,_Exeter|St Thomas]], to the Benedictine [[Abbey of Bec-Hellouin]] in Normandy. A cell of the abbey was set up in Cowick with a Priory Church dedicated to Saint Andrew. Cowick Priory was endowed by its founder with tithes, rents and [[advowson]]s of Exwick and other nearby manors, including [[Spreyton]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spreyton.org.uk/history_domesday_to_1912.htm |title=
<blockquote>''Henricus de Mayne presbytre vicarius huius ecclesiae me fecit fieri anno domini 1451, Robertus de Rouen de Becdenne et Ricardus Talbot, armiger, dominus de Spreyton, ded(erun)t de bonis suis ad me faciendum. Orate pro animabus earum"''. ("Henry le Mayne, presbyter, vicar of this church made me (i.e. the roof) to come into existence in the Year of Our Lord 1451. Robert de Rouen de Becdenne and Richard Talbot, Esquire, gave from their goods towards making me. Pray for their souls").</blockquote>
==Notable burials==
Within the Priory Church was buried on 5 February 1341[[Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon]] (1276-23 December 1340), feudal baron of Okehampton.<ref name="Risdon">Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1810 edition, p.117
==First suppression==
During the reign of King [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] (1413–1422) when England was at war with France, Cowick Priory, together with all other [[Alien priory|alien priories]] controlled from France, was suppressed in 1414 and the monks were expelled back to Normandy. In 1440 it was refounded by his successor King [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] (1422–1461) and was granted in 1451/2 to his new foundation of [[Eton College]]. Following the seizure of the throne from Henry VI by Edward IV in 1461, the new king removed Cowick Priory from the possession of Eton and re-granted it in 1463/4 to [[Tavistock Abbey]].<ref>
==Dissolution==
On the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] by King Henry VIII in 1537/8, Tavistock Abbey was surrendered to the King and the monastery estates, including the manors of Cowick and Exwick, were granted in 1539 to [[John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford|John Russell, 1st Baron Russell]] (1485-1554/5) (later created 1st [[Earl of Bedford]]).<ref
==Russell, Earls of Bedford==
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==Pate==
In 1641 The Earl of Bedford sold the property to the Pate family.<ref>The Earl is said to have withdrawn from Exeter to concentrate on draining the Fens</ref> Robert Pate (d.1677) bequeathed it
==Prideaux, Speke, White==
By marriage the property passed to Amy Fraunceis (d.1703/4), daughter of John Fraunceis of [[Combe Flory]], Somerset, and wife of Edmund Prideaux (1634–1702), MP, of [[Forde Abbey]] and from her to her daughter Katherine Prideaux, who had married in 1679 at Exeter Sir John Speke of [[Whitelackington]], Somerset.<ref>{{cite book | last = Vivian| author-link = John Lambrick Vivian| first =
==Subsequent ownership==
In 1920 75 acres of the estate was sold.
==Modern Day Cowick==
Nowadays Cowick is a large suburb of Western Exeter and
==Sources==
* {{cite book| last=Cokayne| first=G. E.| editor1-last=Gibbs| editor1-first=Vicary| editor2-last=Doubleday| editor2-first=H. Arthur| year=1916| title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Dacre to Dysart)| volume=4| edition=2nd |name-list-style=amp| place=London| publisher=The St Catherine Press| url=https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo04coka}}
* {{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Douglas |year=2011 |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families |editor-first=Kimball G. |editor-last=Everingham |location=Salt Lake City |edition=2nd |volume=I |ref={{sfnref |Richardson I |2011}}|isbn = 9781461045205}}
==References==
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