Sir William Venables, Knight, eldest son, appears in a grant to his brother Hugh about 1188. To this deed he affixes a seal, representing a Lion Rampant sinister. He had license for a domestic chapel at Merston for himself and wife from Andrew, Prior of Newton. He lived in the 12th year of Henry III, 1228. He had issue Hugh, Robert, parson of Rosthorne, Hamon and William.