WOOD, William I

A little more may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 895-6.

Among Wood’s more prominent clients was the widowed Eleanor, Lady St. Amand, against whom he (along with William Brocas* and John Harris†) mounted in 1418 an apparently collusive challenge to her right to the advowson of the church of Kimpton, Hampshire, which she had retained for herself when granting the manor itself to her sister Elizabeth Lisle. CP40/629, rot. 309. By contrast, the circumstances of an alleged trespass at about the same date by Wood, John Arnold† and the parson of Broughton, against one Thomas Myddelyngton have not been discovered. CP40/629, rot. 387d.