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Robert Gye Gent. was of Dodderidge or Prowse in Sandford, Devon, England. He was of Prowse, or Higher Dodderidge in Sandford, Devon, England. There is only one Robert Gye, not two, between John and Mary Gye, wife of John Maverick. He held lands in Poughill, at Upcott in Cherlton FitzPaine, and in Kingsbridge in Devon, England. He was born circa 1531 in Sandford?, Devon, England. He was the son of John Gye and Mary Prowse. He was age 5 or more at the Inq. p. m. of his father, John Guy, between 1538 and 1540 in 29-30 Henry VIII. He married N. N. Mortymer, daughter of James Mortymer, in Devon, England. He sued release, per chancery proceedings, of the rectory of West Allington (lying just north of Kingsbridge in south Devon) to him and to John, his father, since deceased in 1554. He was styled as "Gent." in the will of James Mortymer of Sandford who had appointed him trustee in 1558. He married Grace Dowrish, daughter of Thomas Dowrish Esq. and Anne Farringdon, in England; His 2nd. He was involved in chancery suits and in fines of the common pleas with James Courtenay of Upcott, Esq., circa 1600 in later part of Elizabeth I's reign. He brought suit against Radford Maverick in the Court of Requests, alleging that Grace Dowrish's father "gave great sums to Radford Maverick to bring up his daughter Mary, and that Maverick bestowed her in marriage to John Maverick, his cousin german," in 1604 in England. He died between 1604 and 1608. He died before 29 September 1608 in England. He died before Michaelmas.
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