FAMILY
William was the son of Thomas and Katherine Clench and married Agnes between 1475 and 85.
LANDS IN HOLLINGBOURNE AND HUCKING
In 1492 William Clench purchased a house and lands in Hollingbourne & Hucking:
CP 25/1/117A/345, number 116. Link: Image of document at AALT
County: Kent.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from St Hilary, 7 Henry VII [27 January 1492].
Parties: Peter Buntan', querent, and William Clenche and Agnes, his wife, deforciants.
Property:1 messuage, 1 garden, 16 acres of land and 10 acres of pasture in Holyngbourne and Hokynge.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: William and Agnes have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Peter, as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Agnes to him and his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: Peter has given them 20 marks of silver.
Standardised forms of names. (These are tentative suggestions, intended only as a finding aid.)
Persons: Peter Bunton, William Clench, Agnes Clench
Places: Hollingbourne, Hucking
DEATH
William died sometime prior to 1495, after which Agnes married a Mr "Canbruge."
CHILDREN:
John Clench (abt 1487), i.e. aged 2-20 at the time of his grandfather Thomas' death. Most of the lands he inherited were in Milton Hundred, but some (at least Putwode) appears to have been in the adjoining Faversham Hundred.
Tenement in Chalkwell with garden and 5 acres of land (Milton Hundred),
1 vergate in Bunggiffield (location unknown),
1 acre in Schmeliffield ,
½ acre in Puc wood (When my cousin Kerry Petersen had the Latin translated, using 6 FHL experts, they wrote "Putwode" - which seems to be close to Ospringe, Faversham Hundred. William de Putwode witnessed a real estate deed there on 20 Mar 1253; Philip, son of William de Putwode, granted 4s. of rent in Ospringe in reign of Edward II),
1 acre Deannewy of parish of Newington (Milton Hundred), 1 acre in parish of Sittingbourne (Milton Hundred).
Thomas Clench (about 1490) inherited cash from his grandfather. An alternate possibility for the father of John Clench of generation #4.