Sir John Wadham was a Justice of the Common Pleas from 1389 to 1398, during the reign of King Richard II, selected by the King as an assertion of his right to rule by the advice of men appointed of hi
Sir William Wadham of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon came from a West Country gentry family with a leaning towards the law, who originally took
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…Robert Wadham, who died without progeny Sir William Wadham, Sheriff of Devon in 1442, eldest surviving son and heir of Merryfield and Edge, who lies buried with his mother in a beautiful altar tomb in the…
William Wadham (died 1452), detail from his monumental brass in St Mary's Church, Ilminster, Somerset
Chest tomb of William Wadham (died 1452), Wadham Chapel (north transept), St Mary's Church, Ilminster, looking eastward