THE NAME MILDENHALL IN EARLY ENGLISH ARCHIVES
The following notes have been extracted by the Revd. John Ward, Rector of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire:
Third year of Edward I (1275 AD) "Ralph de Mildhale, mentioned in the Rotuli Hundredorum, under the Inquisition taken at Marlborough"
1301 AD "Sir John Mildehale, knight, presented a clerk to the Rectory of Mildenhale, near Marlborough."
Sixth of Edward II, 1313 AD, Geffry de Mildenhale, John de Mildenhale, Ferour, with many others, accompanied the king to foreign parts beyond the sea."
Nineteenth of Edward II 1326 AD. He died 1327. "Letters of protection and attorney issued to many who were absent to accompany the king into France; among the rest to 'Magister Johannes de Mildehale'".
Third of Edward III 1330 AD, John de Mildenhale held fifty acres of land in Wyndesore Forest."
Twelfth of Edward III 1339 AD, the year Edward III invaded France."Letters of protection given by the king to many gentlemen, among the rest to Thomas de Mildenhale, and to John de Mildenhale, who were about to go in company with Phillippa, Queen of England, into foreign parts beyond the sea."
Fourteenth of Edward III, 1341 AD. "The king confirmed to John de Mildenhale in fee, fifty-eight and a half acres of woodland, in the forest of Wyndsore, in consideration of 19s 6d per annum.
Twentieth of Edward III (1347 AD) "The king issues a warrant for the delivery of two hundred bows and four hundred quivers of arrows, to Robert de Mildenhale, 'Nostro dilecto clerico', for the service of the French war."
Twenty first of Edward III (1348 AD) "The same Robert, 'our beloved clerk', appears as Keeper of the Jewels in the Tower, and is directed by the king to deliver two chests of ornaments to be taken to Calais for the service of the chapel, on the ensuing feast of Easter."
Twenty-fourth of Edward III (1351 AD) "Another warrant to deliver nineteen hundred and forty quivers of arrows to Robert de Mildenhale at the Tower."
Twenty-eighth of Edward III (1355 AD) "A warrant, directed to Richard de Mildenhale and others, to make inquiry respecting the standard measures."
Twenty-ninth of Edward III (1356 AD) "Edmund de Mildenhale gave to a certain chaplain certain lands, with appurtenances, in Mildenhale, Co. Suffolk."
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Among the retinue of Henry the Fifth at the Battle of Agincourt was a John Mildenhale. He, together with a certain John Burnell, were described as Chaplains of the King's Chapel. [See "History of the Battle of Agincourt", Sir Harry Nicolas, (London, 1833) p.389]
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The following item in a note added by William Mendenhall:
"In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1802 is given a list of Priors of several religious houses in the diocese of London. It is stated that the Prior of St Mary Bethlehem in the year 1388 and some years subsequent was John Mildenhall"