The family of Vavasour derived the name from their office, being formerly the King's vavasour, a degree a little inferior to the baronial. "There are," says Bideton, "for the civil government of mankind emperors, kings and princes, magnates or vavasours, and knights."
He gave to the monks of Salley the mill of Hinslet.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 485)