Lord of Hooton
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: after 1366.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William de Hoton.
This relationship is recorded in deeds given by Taylor (see the Evidence section on William’s page).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Isabel Gerard.
This relationship is recorded in deeds given by Taylor (see the Evidence section on William’s page).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William de Hoton married Katherine Torond.
David de Hoton.
Joan de Hoton.
Isabel de Hoton.
Evidence
from the Ryland Charters:
RYCH 1288
Meolse, Great and Little
n.d. [c. 1284-1288]
Grant by Henry de Hoton, son of William de Hoton, to Adam de Hoton, his uncle. Witness list: 'Hiis testibus Roberto Le Grosvenur', tunc vicecomite Cestresir', Alexandro de Baumvile, Roberto de Pull', Willelmo de Stanleg', Hugone de Berlistona et aliis.'
RYCH/1739
Poulton Lancelyn
2 Jun 1342
Quitclaim by Henry, son of Robert Payn, of Pulton Launcelyn [Poulton Lancelyn] to Henry de Hoton.
RYCH/1740
Poulton Lancelyn
2 Jun 1342
Quittance by Henry, son of Robert Payn, of Pulton Launcelyn [Poulton Lancelyn] to Henry de Hoton for goods.
RYCH/1388
Childer Thornton
3 Nov 1349
Final concord, made 'in pleno Com' Cestr'', between Henry de Hoton [Hooton], of the one part, and Hugh Drake of Childerthornton [Childer Thornton] and Emma, his wife.
RYCH/1782
Rouacre
27 Jan 1350
Grant of powers of attorney from Ralph, vicar of Boudon [Bowdon], to Matthew de Waleye to deliver seisin to William, son of Henry de Hoton, and Katherine his wife, daughter of Henry Torant, of lands in Rouaker [Rivacre] and Chorlton.
RYCH/1672
Hooton
[?27] Jan 1351
Agreement between Ralph Toront, vicar of the church of Boudon [Bowdon], of the one part, and Thomas de Lauton, vicar of the church of Estham [Eastham], Robert de Thorneton, chaplains, and Henry de Hoton, of the other part.
RYCH/1335
The Wirral
14 Oct 1351
Indenture of agreement between William de Stanlegh [Stanley], forester of the forest of Wyrhale [Wirral], and Henry de Hoton, lord of the township of Hoton [Hooton].
RYCH/1336
The Wirral
10 Mar 1352
Writ of Edward, Prince of Wales, etc., to William de Stanlegh [Stanley] to refrain from certain actions against Henry de Hoton, usque ad adventum consilii nostri ibidem', etc.
RYCH/1629
Childer Thornton
9 July 1357
Grant by Henry de Hoton, lord of Hoton [Hooton], to Hugh Drake and Emma, his wife.
RYCH/1389
Childer Thornton
9 July 1357
Indenture of grant by Henry de Hoton [Hooton], lord of Hoton, to Hugh Drake and Emma, his wife.
from the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKRP vo. 36):
1328, Oct. 13
Henry de Hoton, Henry Clerk, of Torperlegh, and Robert de Calvilegh to Alan de Retford, parson of the church of St. Mary, near the castle of Chester, recognizance for 4 marks.
1341, Sept. 17.
Henry de Hoton, Richard de Hoton, and Richard son of Ralph de Hoton, to the abbot of Chester, recognizance for 16 marks.
1344, Sept. 9.
Henry de Hoton, William de Salopia to William, abbot of the church of St. Werbnrgh, Chester, recognizance for 20/.
1345, July 10.
Henry de Hoton, recognizance. Record defective.
1345, July 13.
Henry de Hoton, and William de Salopia to William, abbot of the church of St Werburge, recognizance for 20/.
Henry de Hoton, the like for 38/.
1345, Sept. 7.
Henry de Hoton, William Wasteneys, Thomas de Ideshale, Richard de Ditton, and Stephen del Greves, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for 26/. 13s. 4d.
1366, Sept. 9.
Henry de Hoton, and Henry de Litherlond, to John de Whytemore, senior, recognizance for 20 marks.
Deeds given by Taylor (1900, pp. 187-9)
VI
THIS Indenture tripartite witnesseth that whereas William de Hotone has granted to Henry his son a yearly rent of one hundred marks to receive from his Manor of Hotone and from all his lands and tenements in Mortone Massy Pultone Launselin and Ouptone as in the writing of the said William made thereof to the aforesaid Henry more fully is contained It is agreed by common assent between the parties aforesaid that the aforesaid writing of one hundred marks shall be delivered to the Abbot of Basingwercke to hold keep safe and deliver in the form hereafter following, that is to know, the aforesaid William grants for him and for his heirs that if so it be that the aforesaid William do disinherit by any deed or feoffment or other estate which he makes whereby the aforesaid Manor lands or tenements aforesaid after the decease of the said William do not wholly remain to the said Henry his son and the heirs whom he shall beget of the body of Isabel his wife the daughter of William Gerard that then the aforesaid writing of one hundred marks shall be delivered to the aforesaid Henry or to his heirs begotten of the body of the beforesaid Isabel as is aforesaid to use in its force And if the aforesaid William do not make a deed or feoffment whereby the aforesaid Henry his son or the heirs whom he shall beget of the body of the aforesaid Isabel shall be disinherited contrary to the form aforesaid that then the aforesaid writing of one hundred marks shall be of no force or value. IN WITNESS of which things to the one part of these Indentures remaining with the aforesaid William the aforesaid Henry has set his seal And to the other part of these Indentures remaining with the aforesaid Henry the aforesaid William has set his seal And to the third part of these Indentures, that is to know, to the foot remaining with the aforesaid Abbot of Basingwercke which by assent of the parties is warrant to the said Abbot to hold and deliver in the form above said the aforesaid William and Henry have set their seals. These witnesses : Robert de Bebyntone, John de Capenhurst, Gilbert de Podyntone and Alysander de Waley and John de Bebyntone and others.
VII
KNOW [all] present and to come that I William de Hoton have given granted and by this my present charter confirmed to Henry my son and Isabel his wife my Manor of Rowchotewike with its appurtenances in Wyrale TO HAVE and to hold the aforesaid Manor to the said Henry and Isabel and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten with all its appurtenances as in homages services wards reliefs and escheats and other profits whatsoever everywhere to the aforesaid Manor appertaining well freely quietly and in peace of me and my heirs by the service of a rose by the year for all services and doing for me & my heirs to the chief lord of the fee the services therefor due and accustomed So that it is to say that if it happen that the said Henry and Isabel decease without an heir of their bodies lawfully begotten (which God forbid) that then the aforesaid Manor with all its appurtenances shall revert to me and to my heirs And I truly the said William and my heirs will warrant acquit and defend against all people the aforesaid Manor with all its appurtenances as is aforesaid to the said Henry and Isabel and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten in all things as is aforesaid. IN WITNESS whereof to this my present charter I have set my seal. These witnesses : Thomas de Potinton, John de Capunhurst, Robert de Bebinton, William de Prenton, Alexander de Walev and others enough. GIVEN at Batford on Monday next before the Nativity of Saint John Baptist in the second year of the reign of King Edward the third after the Conquest.
[1328]
References
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).
The Rylands Charters indexed at https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/29f0299f-5da1-342a-97a8-be3f70529866
Taylor, Henry. “On some early Deeds relating to the families of Hoton of Hooton, and Stanley of Storeton and Hooton” in the Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales, new series vol. vi. (1899).