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    Webb, William Richmond alias

    Male Abt 1498 - 1578  (~ 80 years)


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    • Name Webb, William Richmond alias 
      Born Abt 1498  Of Overton, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
      Gender Male 
      Died 3 Mar 1578  Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I00199  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 20 Jun 2015 

      Father Webb, William Richmond alias,   b. 1436, Of Draycott Foliat, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1502, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
      Mother Ewen, Joan,   b. Abt 1455, Of Draycott Foliat, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1502, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
      Married Abt 1470  Draycot Foliat, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F00111  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 1 Lyminge, Dorothy,   b. 1500, Of Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1530, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years) 
      Married 24 Jun 1515  Draycot Foliat, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Webb, Jane Richmond,   b. Abt 1526, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      +2. Webb, Thomas Richmond,   b. Abt 1528, Of Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1563, Of Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years)
      +3. Webb, Edmond Richmond,   b. Abt 1530, Of Bushton, Cliff Pipard, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1612, Kintbury, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
      Family ID F00107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 2 Choke, Margaret,   b. Abt 1507, Of Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1578, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years) 
      Married Abt 1532  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Webb, Alice Richmond  [Natural]
       2. Webb, Catherine Richmond  [Natural]
       3. Webb, William Richmond,   b. Abt 1535, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       4. Webb, John Richmond,   b. Abt 1540, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1577, Of Stewkley Grange, Wiltshre, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 38 years)
       5. Webb, Bridget Richmond,   b. Abt 1548, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1568  (Age ~ 21 years)
      Family ID F00108  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 3 Richmond, Margery,   b. Abt 1555, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1586, Of Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 32 years) 
      Married Abt 1578  Draycot Foliat, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F00109  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Of Shalbourne, Wiltshire. Also of Stewkley Grange, Overton, Bushton.
        William was a large landowner. Also guardian of his brother Christophers children on the second marriage of their mother to John Beck. Many law suits filed between the various parties.

        Bibliographical Details
        Born about 1497
        1523-7 Pays Subs at OverWroughton with his bro. Chris who probably then moved to Lydiard Milliscent(Wilts Lay Subs. 259/17 15 Item 8)
        1540/41 Wilts. Wm. Ryeham, 32 Hen.8, Overwroughton Manor, Site Messuage, etc. parcil of Twekesbury, Glouc.(Pat. Roll 32 Henry V111, part7)
        1544 Fine levied in the octave of Michamelas 36 Henry V111(No.48) between Wm. Richeman alias Webb querant and Edward Baynton, Knt., deforuant of a messuage, a garden, an orchard, 200 acres of land, 30acres of meadow, and 200 acres furze and heath in Overwroughton and Chesylden, warrenty against all men, for this Wm. gave him 162li.(Wilts Feet of Fines)
        1544 Recoveries Trin 36 Henry V111, Roll 500 William R. als. Webb pet. VS Edward Baynton, Knt., a messuage and lands in Overwroughton and Chesildon
        June 15 15436 There was an award of arbitration made by John Harris and Bennet Joye, gent, between Wm Webb and John Beke and his wife Jane(Chanc. Proc. Ser2, 188/24)
        Feb20 1549/50 Wm entailed Overwroughton Manor to his eldest son Thomas and his heirs forever.
        1552 Rents one messuage and two yard lands in Bushton Manor to John Cooles and his son Richard and the longest liver of them.(Proc. Court of Requests 29/19)
        Feb 24 1552/53 Grant to Wm. Webb Esq. of the manor of Bushton which he entailed to his son Edmund with G. Curtis and T. Freeman trustees.(Orig. 7 Edward 6, part3. mem8)
        Feb 12 1565/66 Writ of exchequer to Wm Webb "to remove Queen's hand from the manor of Stukeley Grange, Bucks. and to make livery of the manor to Wm. Webb to have to him and his heirs forever>"
        June 6 1566 The Sheriff took into Queens Hands said manor of Stewkely Grange(Memo Roll Mich. 8 Eliz. m110)
        July3 1566 Writ that Wm. Webbe Esq.hould do homage to the Queen on the 8th of St. Michael this term for Bushton.(Memo Roll Mich. 8 Eliz. m110)
        Nov 8 1566 Queen granted license to Wm. Webb to alienate Steweley Grange etc. to John Lovett and Thos. Stevens etc. to the use of Wm. Webb and Margery his wife after their deaths to John Webb one of the sons of Wm. and Margery and heirs male etc.(Mem. Roll Mich. 21 Eliz. m 62)
        1558-79 Sometime in this ers Wm. sued by the children of his bro. Christopher re Studly Grange, Wiltshire. who say their mother Jane transferred said manor and other property to Wm. as overseer or guardian as by the terms of their father's will and afterwards Wm. transferred said manor to Edward Baynton by which the children lost said manor. William denies he has done anything contrary to his trust.
        May9 1576 Wm. and his second son Edmund sued by Richard, son of John Coles re the renewal to the son of a lease made to the father in 1553 of a mess. and 2 yard lands in Bushton Manor. Wm. said he had nothing to do with it as he had conveyed said manor to his son.
        Oct 18 1576 In the same suit Wm. speaks of himself as follows: "This deft. being a man weak and of very great age".(Proc. of the Court of Requests 29/19)
        March 3 1577/78 Died
        Feb 1577/78 Wm. summoned to do fealty to the Queen for the Manor of Stewkely Grange, Bucks but was found to be dead(before the writ was served) and a new writ issued to his son John(Mem. Roll Mich. 21 Eliz. m 62)

        "1552 Grant to Wm. Webb Esqre. for 6 li that he may have licence of all that of the manor of Bussheton alias Bushton and 30 messuages, 10 cottages, 20 tofts, 20 gardens, 2 dove cotes, 20 orchards, 1000 acres land, 200 acres ferze and health, 10s next in Busheton, Vastorre and Wotton Bassett, Wilts. which are held of us in chief, to grant and sell etc. to Griffin Curtis and Thomas Freeman to have and to hold to Griffin and Thomas and the heirs of Griffin forever of the King and his heirs by the services due and customary to the use of the sd. Wm. Webbe for his life and after his death the manor etc. will remain to Edmund Webbe. Gent 2nd son of sd. Wm. and the heirs male of sd. Edmund to hold as aforesaid with remainder sould Edmund die without heir male of his body to the aforesaid Wm. Webb and his heirs forever to hold as aforesaid. And licence to the said Griffin and Thomas to receive the Manor etc. from Wm. and to hold the same for the uses aforesaid forever. Dated 20 March 1552/53.(Originalia 7 Edw. V1, Part 3 Mem. 8 1552)

        "To remove the Queen's hand from the manor of Stewkely Grange and to make livery of the manor to William Webb to have to him and his heirs forever.
        Memorandum whereas it was lately fou8nd in a roll of estreats of fines and issues of the bench for MIch. 7 and 8 Eliz. that Wm. Webbe. Esq. made a fine with the Queen for license to agree with John Duncombe, Esq. and Mary his wife in a pleas of covenant concerning the site of the manor of Stewkeley Grange which site is held of the Queen in chief and that he alianated the sd. site without license of the Queen therefore it was agree between the barons (of Exchequer) that Wm. Webbe be ordered to appear before the barons to explain matters and show why the site whd. not be taken into the Queen's hands. Whereupon the sheriff was commanded by writ of the exchequer 12 Feb last 1565/66 that by lawful men of his baleywich he shd. cause Wm. Webbe to know that he must be before the barons on morrow of the close of Easter to explain etc., in form aforesaid,etc.
        On 6th June 8 Elizabeth(1566) the Sheriff, Sir Henry Cheyne, Knight, took into the Queen's hand the said site of the manor, etc., said manor being worth 10li yearly.
        Memorandum also that the sheriff was commanded by writ dated 3 July last to distrayne sd. Wm. Webbe Esq. by his lands so that he shd. do homage to the Queen on the 8th of St. Michael this term for the Manor of Bussehton which of the Queen are held in Chief and which Griffin Curtys and Thomas Freeman lately had to them and the heirs of Griffin forever to the use of Wm. Webbe Esq. for his life with remainder to Edmund Webbe and his heirs of his body and for default of such to right heirs of sd. Wm. Webbe. License for such enfoetment having been had by said Wm. as is contained in 3rd part of Originalia of 7th of Edward 6th Roll 8. (Memorand Ro.. Mich. 8 Eliz. Membrane 110)

        Jones Index
        "Demanibus Reginae amnovendis de Manerio de Stewkeley Grange, et aliia, in Comitatbus Bucks et Wilts ac William Webb. Arm Liberandis, Michaelis Recorda, 8 Eliz. Rotulo 110.(1566)

        knight's fee in OVERWROUGHTON was granted early in the 12th century to Tewkesbury Abbey by Adelize, wife of Robert de Dunstanville, and probably heir of Humphrey Lisle. (fn. 210) It was confirmed to the abbey by Walter de Dunstanville, probably him who died in 1195. (fn. 211) Tewkesbury retained a manor in Overwroughton until the Dissolution. (fn. 212)
        In 1540 the site of the abbey's manor and lands called Turneys and Uffcott were granted to William Richmond alias Webb (d. 1579). (fn. 213) In 1546 William conveyed the same estate to Sir George Baynham. (fn. 214)....That conveyance, however, does not seem to have included all the estate that had been granted to William Richmond alias Webb at the Dissolution. In 1631 Oliver Richmond Webb (d. 1635), William's great-grandson, sold 172 a., said to be parcel of the farm, to Sir William Calley.

        From: 'Parishes: Wroughton', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11: Downton hundred; Elstub and Everleigh hundred (1980), pp. 235-252. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=115499 Date accessed: 05 July 2011.
        : 05 July 2011.

    • Sources 
      1. Footnote: Wiltshire Arch. Mag. Vol. 33 p233.