General Notes

Waters Gleanings, 1:53, gives the following descent from Harl. MS. 1541, f. 55, 1. John Woodhall of Ullock, Cumb. 2. John Woodhall m. Jennett Craleplace (this John had a brother Thomas who married Joane Longdale). 3. John Woodhall of Walden, Essex, married Elizabeth Grindall, daughter of William and sister of Archbishop Emond. 4. William Woodhall of Walden, Essex, m. Mary Woodhall, daughter of James Woodhall, son of James Woodhall of Cockesmore, Cumb., widow of William Byrd of London. 5. Edmond Woodhall, of Walden Essex, married Margaret Law (this Edmond had sisters Debora [m. Anthony Calton], Elizabeth [m William Burrows of Wickhambroek, Suffolk], Mary [m. Thomas Harrison], Dorothy, Jane, Katherine [m. Barley], Joane, d.s.p.; and brothers William, James and Grindall, all who d.s.p.). 6. Edmond, with siblings John, Mary (m. Thomas Goade, DCL), and Penelope (m. John Gbson of Crake Welborne, Yorks.). Waters also relates that in Walden church are epitaphs for James Woodhall, Assistant and Treasurer, d. 1529; William Woodhall, Esq., Register [sic] of the {rerogatice Court of Canterbury, d. 1603; Mary Woodhall, daughter of James, and wife to WilliamBryd and William Woodhall, d. 1613; and WIlliam Byrde, gent., d. 1568. Waters also presents extensive abstracts from (1) the will of Archbishop Edmund Grindall; (2) James Woodhall, of Walden, Essex, 1601, father-in-law of William Woodhall, (3) William Woodhall, of Walden, which mentions his father-in-law James, and also mentions John, Archbishop of Canterbury, his faithful brother Mr. William Wilson, son Grindall Woodhall, etc., (4) Edmund Woodhall, 1638, (5) William Wilson, Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, 1615, etc.