"40. John II Prowse, gent, of Tiverton, who, according to his father's Inq.p.m., was 39 at his death, received from feoffees the large Plymouth manor of Western Peverel, worth by the year £18.7.2., with Chevythorn and Tiverton property worth a further £5.10. But at John II's own death, 11 Sept. 1598, his Inq.p.m., taken in 1601 showed that, by then, all the property was tied by entail upon descendants and relatives with tenure for life. John m. 1 June 1567, Elizabeth Colwick, h. to Robert Colwick, her father, merchant taylor and clothier, lord of the manor of West Mere, Tiverton, whose wife, and mother of Elizabeth, his heir, was Richarda Gover, a widow, whose 1st husb. and parentage has not been established. He was bur. St. Peters 8 Aug. 1564. His long PCC will revealed property in Devon & London. (The Gen., cit., pp. 13, 25)."
