Person:Simon Ward (5)

Watchers
Simon Ward, Esq.
 
 
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Simon Ward, Esq.
Gender Male
Marriage to Unknown
Residence[1] Cambridge
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 College of Arms (United Kingdom), and William Henry Turner (ed.). The visitations of the county of Oxford: taken in the years 1566 by William Harvey, Clarencieux; 1574 by Richard Lee, Portcullis, …; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryley, Bluemantle, …; together with the gatherings of Oxfordshire, collected by Richard Lee in 1574. (London: Harleian Society, 1871)
    page 145.
  2. Collectanea topographica et genealogica. (London: J.B. Nichols, 1834-1843)
    Volume 8, page 317.

    footnote s: "Anno 9 and 12 Edw.II 1316 and 1319, a Simon Warde was keeper of the King's castle at York, and in 1316 of the county also. In 43 Edw.III. Simon Warde had the custody of the manor of Staunford and Grantham, co. Northampton. In 44 Edw.III 1371, he was 'Escaetor Regis' for Northampton and Rutland, and 46 Edw.III the castle and manor of Okeham, late in the custody of Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, deceased, were assigned to him. Abbr. Rot. Orig. vol.i, pp. 222, 243, and vol. ii. pp. 302, 310, 321.

  3.   Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward III. (Nendlen/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1971)
    Volume 16, page 110.

    1375 June 6

    Commission to Simon Warde and John Wight to take in the counties of Northampton and Leicester carpenters for making a paling to enclose the king's park of Briggestok, put them to the works, there to stay at the king's wages as long as shall be necessary, and arrest all who are contrariant or rebellious and commit them to prison until further order.

  4.   Several online trees link Simon Warde to the Wardes of Givendale and Guiseley mentioned in source 2 above, but it is not clear what primary or secondary sources this is based on.