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William Hankeford

· active 1379-07-20 – 1440-02-18 · Families Hankeford · Hangford

In the printed indexes 7

Hankeford, William pp. 331 · Hankeford, William of Devon pp. 214, 241, 303 · Hankeford, William of Devon pp. 214, 241, 303 · Hankeford, William pp. 279, 338 · Hankeford, William justice pp. 15 · Hankeford, William pp. 18, 41, 129, 135, 186, 279, 357, 370, 428, 502, 503, 516, 517, 518 · Hankeford, William of Devon pp. 72, 276, 469, 473, 474, 553
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  1. 1379-07-20 date: inferred auto-linked

    To the sheriff of Salop. Writ of swpersedeas, by mainprise of John Wadham and William Hankeford of Devon, in favour of Nicholas Burton chaplain at suit of John Chirche parson of Biriton for trespass.…

  2. 1379-10-03 date: inferred auto-linked

    the sheriff of Devon. Writ of swpersedeas, by mainprise of Waldham, William Hankeford, John Lanche of Devon and John of Sussex, in favour of Alice Lovelone and John Pope at suit king and Randolph Berkehemede, John Pope f…

  3. 1382-08-20 date: inferred auto-linked

    To the sheriff of Devon. Writ of swpersedeas, by mainprise of William Hankeford of Devon, Richard Fode of Wiltesir and Richard Carver of Cornwall, in favour of William White, John John, Thomas Broke and Richard Gerveys a…

  4. 1382-08-20 date: inferred auto-linked

    To the sheriff of Devon. Writ of swpersedeas, by mainprise of William Hankeford of Devon, Richard Fode of Wiltesir and Richard Carver of Cornwall, in favour of William White, John John, Thomas Broke and Richard Gerveys a…

  5. 1383-01-22 date: inferred auto-linked

    John Cordray clerk to Nicholas Bray and William Hankeford. for 1OO/., to be levied etc. in Wiltesir.…

  6. 1383-01-22 date: inferred auto-linked

    Cordray clerk to Nicholas Bray and William Hankeford. for 100/., to be levied ete. in Wiltesir. of defeasance, upon condition that the said John shall said Nicholas and William harmless in respect of a bond by them made …

  7. 1383-04-17 date: inferred auto-linked

    To the abbot and convent of Battle. Nomination of Robert Clyfton receive the pension wherein by reason of the abbot's new creation are bound to one of the king's clerks until ete. By p.s. [2656.] John Blake to John Wadha…

  8. 1383-05-01 date: inferred auto-linked

    the abbot and convent of Battle. Nomination of Robert Clyfton the pension wherein by reason of the abbot's new creation are bound to one of the king's clerks until ete. By p.s. [2656.] Blake to John Wadham and the heirs …

  9. 1384-02-12 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment to John Rouland, clerk, Thomas Charleton, John atte Grove, William Cosseby, clerk, and William Corveyser, by mainprise of John Hervy, the younger, of the county of Bedford, William Hankeford of the county of D…

  10. 1384-07-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment to John Hull and John Wadham, by mainprise of John Barre of the county of Somerset and William de Hankeford of the county of Devon, of the keeping of the manor of Westkyngton, which John Fitz Roger held of the…

  11. 1386-01-29 date: inferred auto-linked

    Memorandum of acknowledgment, 11 February. Thomas Malgrave of Horndoun co. Essex to Sir John Sydenale late rector of Langedoun, his heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of his manor with lands, rents, services and …

  12. 1386-02-16 date: inferred auto-linked

    Memorandum of acknowledgment, 11 February. Thomas Malgrave of Horndoun co. Essex to Sir John Sydenale late rector of Langedoun, his heirs and assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of his manor with lands, rents, services and …

  13. 1387-02-06 date: inferred auto-linked

    Grant, by mainprise of Stephen Derby, knight, of Dorset, Hildebrand Barre of Wilts, John Testewode of Dorset and William Hankeford of Devon, to John Lovel of thd marriages of Phillipa and Elizabeth, daughters of Guy Brya…

  14. 1387-06-17 date: inferred auto-linked

    William Thirnyng and Richard Sydenham, in Northampton, Leicester, Warwick, Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln and Rutland. Thomas Pynchebek and William Gascoigne, in Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge and Huntingdo…

  15. 1388-02-04 date: inferred auto-linked

    The like of the following in the counties named : 7 John Wadham and William Gascoigne, in Northampton, Leicester, Warwick, Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln and Rutland. By K. & C. Robert Cherlton and William Hankeford, in Worc…

  16. 1390-06-28 date: inferred auto-linked

    Revocation of protection with clause volumus for one year granted February last to John Cosyn, farmer of the manor of Stoure Prewes, Dorset, late of the abbess of Prewes in Normandy and in the king's on account of the wa…

  17. 1390-06-28 date: inferred auto-linked

    The like to the following in the counties named : Robert de Cherlton, John Wadham, Adam Fraunceys, William Hankford, Thomas Charleton, Geoffrey Martyn, John Shordych the elder, and William Cressewyk, in the county of Mid…

  18. 1390-12-07 date: inferred auto-linked

    Vacated by surrender and cancelled, because the king granted to William Hankeford the custody of the lands and tenements together with the marriage of the heir, 80 June, in his sixteenth year.…

  19. 1390-12-24 date: inferred auto-linked

    John Devereux, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque ports and the rest as above, substituting William Burcestre for William Rikhill and adding William Hankeford, in the county of Kent. Richard, earl of Arun…

  20. 1391-02-16 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to John Wadham and William Hankeford to enquire and certify touching the petition of Elizabeth, late the wife of William Echyngham, knight, alleging that although the said William was, in his life time after h…

  21. 1391-12-04 date: inferred auto-linked

    John Holand, earl of Huntingdon Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon Peter Courtenay William Rykhill John Wadham in the county of Devon. William Brenchesle William Hankeford John Prestecote Thomas Reymond…

  22. 1392-02-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Sturmy, knight, William Hankeford, James Chuddelegh and the sheriff of Devon to enquire what evildoers have entered and hunted without licence in the king's free warren in the isle of Londay, in the…

  23. 1392-05-15 date: inferred auto-linked

    To John Wadham and William Hankeford justices of assize in Kent. Order, upon petition of John Colepepir, William Makenade, John Scot chaplain and Richard Sandres, to proceed to rendering of judgment in an assize of novel…

  24. 1392-06-30 date: inferred auto-linked

    Grant to William Hankeford, by mainprise of William de Horbury, clerk, and Emery Fitz Waryn, of the keeping of all the lands which for any cause might pertain to the king by reason of the minority of the heir of John Den…

  25. 1392-07-14 date: inferred auto-linked

    Order to John Copleston, escheator in the county of Devon, notwithstanding the king's late order dated 23 December, 15 Richard II, to James Chuddelegh, late escheator in the said county, to assign to Elizabeth late the w…

  26. 1393-02-11 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment (with like clause) to Richard earl of Arundel and Surrey, Giles Louvel, monk of the abbey of St. Martin, Sées,. and John Warnecamp, by mainprise of Thomas Jardyn and John Bradbrigg of the county of Sussex, of …

  27. 1394-06-15 date: inferred auto-linked

    Licence, for 20s. paid by John Wadham to the king, for the alienation by Cecily Turbervyll of a moiety of the manor of Hurberton, held in chief, to the said John, John Hille and William Hankeford, and the heirs of the sa…

  28. 1394-07-10 date: inferred auto-linked

    The like, for 600 marks paid by John Wadham and William Hankeford, to them, their heirs and assigns, of the manor of Hardyngton with the messuages, lands, etc. therein, and the messuages, lands, tenements, rents, service…

  29. 1395-02-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Hankeford, William Horbury, clerk, Richard Overton, John Repynghale, Richard Juyn, John Fortescu and John Frank, clerk, to enquire touching waste in the manors, lands and tenements late of Edmund de…

  30. 1400-01-12 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Thirnyng, John Hull, William Hankeford and Robert Tirwhit to go to the church of St. Martin le Grand, London, and there in the presence of the mayor and sheriffs of London to examine the record and …

  31. 1400-02-03 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Thirnyng, John Hull, William Hankeford and William Gascoigne to enquire into the petition of Richard Wyot for recompense because in the late repairs of the king's gate and wall at Westminster his ho…

  32. 1400-06-22 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Hull, William Rykhill, William Hankeford, William Brenchesle, Robert Hull and Jobn Prestecote, on complaint by Walter Levenant, clerk, that John Dyneham, chivaler, John Rede, parso…

  33. 1400-09-19 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Hulle, William Hankeford, John Wadham, Robert Hulle the elder, Robert Hulle the younger, William Burleston, John Prestecote and Thomas Reymond on information that John Falewille an…

  34. 1400-12-04 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Hull, chivaler, William Hankeford, chivaler, John Wadham, chivaler, and John Prestecote, on complaint by Martin Ferrers that whereas the king lately by letters patent appointed him…

  35. 1401-02-28 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Hankeford, Robert Hill the elder and the sheriff and the escheator in the county of Sussex to enquire into the petition of Julian late the wife of Robert Bealknap, chivaler, concerning the manor of …

  36. 1401-05-27 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Markham, William Hankeford, Robert Tirwhit, Robert Hull, Robert de Teye and Thomas Horneby, on complaint by the king's kinswoman, Matilda de Veer, countess of Oxford, that brother …

  37. 1401-07-05 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to Peter de Courteney, chivaler, Hugh de Courteney the elder, chivaler, William Bonevyll, chivaler, John Herle, chivaler, William Hankeford, chivaler, Martin de Ferrers, Robert Hulle, John Prestecote and Willi…

  38. 1401-08-16 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to Edward Courtenay, chivaler, the John Cornewaille, chivaler, Robert Chalons, chivaler, John chivaler, John Treverthyan, chivaler, William Hankeford, chivaler, and Thomas Reymond touching…

  39. 1401-11-08 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Rikhill, Hugh Huls, William Hankeford and John Markeham, on complaint by John Okeden, prior of the house of the Salutation of the Mother of God of the Carthusian order near London, that a manifest e…

  40. 1403-06-04 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to William Hankeford and Robert touching certain forgers and counterfeiters of the king's money in county of Hertford. By K Commission to the king's brother John, earl of Somerset, captain…

  41. 1403-11-11 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to William Gascoigne, John Markham, William Hankeford and William Brenchesley to examine in the presence of the mayor and aldermen of London at the church of St. Martin le Grand, London, the record and process…

  42. 1404-05-16 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment to William Hankeford, justice, by mainprise of Robert Kirkham of the county of Devon and William Hody of the same county, of the keeping of a third part of the manor of Hunschaue, co. Devon, which is in the ki…

  43. 1404-05-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Revocation of the appointment of John Hull, William Rykhull, William Hankeford, William Brynchesley, John Wadham, Robert Hull and John Prestecote as justices to take a special assize of novel disseisin which John son and…

  44. 1404-10-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Comunission of oyer and terminer to Bartholomew Burghchier, William Gascoigne, William Hankeford, Robert and William Skren touching all treasons, insurrections and felonies committed within the county of Bassex. By K. . …

  45. 1404-10-24 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Hull, William Hankeford, John Wadham, Robert Hull, John Prestecote and William Burleston, on complaint by Laurence Hankyn, parson of the church of Northmolton, that John Bray, Thom…

  46. 1404-10-24 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to John Hull and William Hankeford to enquire into the following matter. By an inquisition taken before Richard Otery, escheator in the county of Somerset, it was found that Joan late the wife a a a a . Parr I…

  47. 1405-02-17 date: inferred auto-linked

    Order to John Caux, escheator in the county of Somerset, pursuant (1) to an inquisition taken before John [recte Richard] Otery, escheator in the said county, showing that Joan late the wife of John Mohun, chivaler, on t…

  48. 1405-02-17 date: inferred auto-linked

    . Parr I. 511 of oyer and terminer to William Hankeford, William John Colepeper, John Prestcote, William Fry and John on complaint by Robert Hull the elder that whereas he is lord the manor of Ermyngton, co. Devon, and h…

  49. 1405-04-05 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commission to Bartholomew Bourcher, John Howard, William Skrene, Robert Neweport, John Bray of Felstede, Clement Spyce and Robert Rikdon to enquire about all treasons and felonies committed by Geoffrey, abbot of St. John…

  50. 1405-11-09 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment (with like clause) to William Hankeford, justice ; to the surrender by him in the Chancery for cancellaof the letters of 16 May, 5 Henry IV, committing to him the of a third part of the manor of Hunschaue, co.…

  51. 1406-09-06 date: inferred auto-linked

    of oyer and terminer to John Hill, William Hankeford, Hill the elder, John Copleston, Thomas Raymond and William on complaint by William, abbot of Torre, that whereas he and wishing to go from the towns of Peynton and To…

  52. 1407-01-14 date: inferred auto-linked

    Grant to John Jaye, hermit, of pontage for two years for the repair of bridges and causeway between the towns of Cambridge and Barton. Whereas Richard II by letters patent dated 10 July in his thirteenth granted to John …

  53. 1413-09-26 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment to sir William Hankeford, knight, chief justice of the Bench, and John Stourton, the elder, by mainprise of Walter Bekles of the county of Wilts and Robert Childewall of the county of Surrey, of the keeping of…

  54. 1414-11-08 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment to William Hankeford, knight, chief justice of the Bench, and John Stourton, the elder ; pursuant (1) to the commitment to them on 26 September, 1 Henry V, by mainprise of Walter Bekles of the county of Wilts …

  55. 1420-07-12 date: inferred auto-linked

    Commitment to William Hankeford, knight, Richard Hankeford, John Dabernoun, by mainprise of John Gambon and John both of the county of Devon, of the keeping of all the late of Isabel late the wife of John Kyrkham, who he…

  56. 1436-06-24 date: inferred auto-linked

    Whereas Henry Pountfreit, late citizen and alderman of London, John de Fynderne and John de Faireclogh of Derby acquired . -Parr 2. 597 me ee fee from Edmund Tunley of Derby, kinsman and heir of John esquire, five messua…

  57. 1438-02-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Order to the escheator in the county of Northampton ; pursuant to an inquisition taken before him showing that John Dalton, chivaler, was seised in his demesne as of fee of 391. 19s. of rent in Apthorp, and held that ren…

  58. 1440-02-18 date: inferred auto-linked

    Whereas Thomas, earl of Dorset, since deceased, Hugh Mortemer, since deceased, William Hankeford, knight, since deceased, Thomas de Stonore, since deceased, Henry Somer, Richard Wyot, since deceased, Henry Aston, since d…

  59. Undated date: uncertain auto-linked

    The like to the following, with the sheriffs and escheators, in the counties named : H. bishop of Bath, Peter Courtenay, Robert Haryngton, chivaler, Humphrey Stafford, chivaler, Thomas Brooke, chivaler, William Stourton …

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