William Rogers and William Gilbert, beer tasters of Watford
William Rogers of Elizabethan Watford lost his elder brother when Thomas sailed away to Holland and eventually the new world of America...
A manor in mortgage mayhem
Sir Robert Clerke teetered on the brink of losing his Watford estate for decades. He had inherited the Watford manor and lands after the...
John de Swynford, knight or knave?
Or perhaps both? Who was John de Swynford? John was the son of William de Swynford of Newbold in Northamptonshire and should not be...
The Black Prince wrote history!
The gift of a new book came to me recently. A great demonstration that so many events in The Watford Knight’s Fee directly reflect...
Was William de Parles a murderer?
William was the descendant of the de Parles family of Hounesworth (Handsworth) in Staffordshire, one of the counties of the West Midlands....
Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower
In 1620, the vessel Mayflower took the first immigrants across the Atlantic to the New World of America. One of its passengers was...
