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A History of the County of Oxford
… sold the manor in 1505 to the Witney wool merchant Richard Wenman (d. 1534), 22 who in 1520 settled it on his son Thomas … wife Ursula (d. 1558). It passed to their son Sir Richard Wenman (d. 1572) and to his son Thomas (d. 1577), who seems … to have defeated longstanding claims by his uncle Thomas Wenman under an alleged settlement of 1550. 23 Thomas's son …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI
… John Grafton, Walter Milton, William Berkynge, John Wenman and Richard Malt, each of London 'stokfysshemonger,' …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VII
… 236 John Isbury of Ledecombe Regis co. Berks, to Richard Wenman, Richard Fermour, John Whityng clerk, William Pole …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VII
… William Bulcombe and Edward Cope gentlemen and Richard Wenman, to the use of William and Isabel Aston or the longer … William Fermour, William Bulcombe of Oxenford and Richard Wenman of Witney for the residue of 86 l. 13 s. 4 d., payable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is unknown, but in the late 18th century yardlands on the Wenman estate were estimated at c. 21 field acres or c. 17 … 20 a. of arable. 13 The prosperous Witney merchant Richard Wenman, who leased the priory manor from 1493, may have done … for inclosure, and in 1777 Simon negotiated to buy the Wenman estate, then comprising three farms totalling c. 200 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when it passed to his daughter Ursula, wife of Sir Thomas Wenman; 65 thereafter it descended with the Wenmans of Thame … In 1753 it was among several estates mortgaged by Philip Wenman, Viscount Wenman, on whose death in 1760 it was devised to trustees for …
Survey of London
… William Carmichael, later Archbishop of Dublin, 17451753; Wenman Coke (? father of first Earl of Leicester), 175461; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… king's books at 7. 9. 9., and in the patronage of Baroness Wenman: the tithes have been commuted for 240, and the glebe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the most notable example was at Caswell. There Richard Wenman allegedly turned 20 a. to pasture about 1500, 70 but … wealthiest men, however, were taxed separately, Richard Wenman of Caswell paying 43 6 s. 8 d. (a twentieth of … s. 101 In 1544 Curbridge's principal taxpayers were Thomas Wenman of Caswell and Witney Park, paying on land worth 360, …