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A Downland Parish - Ash by Wrotham in Former Times by W. Frank Proudfoot

                             Chapter 3 - The Manor of Scotgrove continued  page 27a

   One further institution to the chantry appears in Bishop Namo’s register, under the heading Cantaria manerii de Scottegrove. This was in 1342, when Adam atte Welle of Bixle (Bexley), priest, suceeeded on the resignation of Robert de Oddesworth. On this occasion, the patron was named as William Wavre and it was he who, four or five years later, as William de Wauer, paid the sum of ten shillings in respect of the manor of Scotgrove in the aid for the knighting of the Black Prince.10  Medieval ladies usually made their first marriage at a tender age and not infrequently outlived several partners. William may have been Joan de Gatewyk’s third husband.
   There were two of the name of William de Wauer, or Wauere, presumably father and son. It seems very possible that one, at least, of them was a practitioner of the law; if so, the practice was evidently wide-ranging, 

drawing its clients from both ends of the county. In 1330, a William de Wauere acted in stead of William of Reculver and his wife in a Fine relating to land in Hernehill and, in the same year, in place of Joan, wife of William Moraunt, in a Fine relating to property in Sevenoaks. Two years later, William de Wauere senior stood in place of Margery, wife of John de Mereworthe, in a Fine concerned with a moiety of the manor of West Peckham. It was probably he who attended the York Parliament of 26 May 1335 as one of the two members for Canterbury.11  It seems more likely that it was the younger of the two who became lord of Scotgrove.
   The ten shillings that de Wauere paid for Scotgrove was a usual amount for a quarter fee; on the same ratio, forty shillings were levied for the manor of Ridley, which owed one knight, and sixty

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