Baron Thomas de Wahull

Woodhull Genealogy

PART FIRST

The Wodhull Family in England

A RECORD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF WALTER FLANDERENSIS

(DOMESDAY BOOK XXXIX.)

WHO CAME TO ENGLAND WITH WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

1066-1620

Thomas De Wahull.

This feudal lord was summoned to Parliament as a Baron, 26, Jan. 1297, in the 25th, year of Edward I. He died in 1304 seized of the Barony of Wahull, as also of the Manor of Wahull in County Bedford, and Pateshull in Northamptonshire, leaving by his wife Hawise, daughter of Henry Praers, an infant son and heir John De Wahull, who although possessing the honors of Wahull had no similar summons to Parliament, nor had any of his descendants.

Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public record

EDWARD I. VOL. V. A.D. 1302-1307.

To Walter de Glouoestrfia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Hawisia, late the wife of Thomas de Wadhnll, tenant in chief, the following of his lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor of Pateshull, co. Northampton, which is extended at HI. 10*. Oil. yearly; five acres and a half of arable land in Little Wadhull, co. Bedford, which are extended at 40s. 9<7. yearly, to wit each acre at 6d.; four acres of meadow in the same town, which are extended at 16*. yearly, to wit each acre at 4s.; and 6s. 8$d. of yearly rent and a rent of five capons, price lOil., to be received from Simon de Hynewyk, a free tenant there; and 2s. Gd. yearly of rent from Felicia Peres, a cotter there.

To the same. Order to deliver to the said Hawisia the following lands, and the issues thereof since they were taken into the king's hands by reason of Thomas's death, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomae and she were jointly enfeoffed of 111 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, 6 acres of several pasture, 25s. of yearly rent from Walter Lageman and Walter le Plomer, free tenants, and of five virgates of land held in villeinage in Little Wadhull, co. Bedford, and of 20s. of yearly rent from Bichard le Lou, a free tenant, in Great Wadhull, in the same county, by John de Wadhull, father of Thomas, to have to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that Thomas and Hawisia held the lands jointly on the day of his death, and that the lands in Little Wadhull are held of the heir of John Wak, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, and the said 20s. of rent in Great Wadhull are held of the king in chief as part of the manor of Great Wadhull, which Thomas held of the king in chief at hie death by barony, doing the service of one knight's fee and rendering yearly to the ward of the castle of Bokingham 69*. at Michaelmas and 20*. 9«'. by the sheriff of Bedford for view, hidage and suit, and the king has taken the fealty of Hawisia.