1320s

William Wykeham, born Long (or Longe) was the son of John Longe, a landowner at Wickham, Hampshire

William Wykeham was born around 1324 in Wickham, Hampshire, and the son of John Long, a villager of some substance. If not quite a story of 'rags to riches', his spectacular career can have owed little to his family background. Presumably John Long was able to sacrifice his son's labour on the farm and provide some support for his education.  

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Agnes Beke marries Guido Ayno

This generation is only listed on Nelson Ward’s genealogy (right). Without further evidence, I am discounting it as it is not included in Winchester College’s archive entry for Bartholomew Bolney (below), The Baronetage of England (1804) genealogy (below) nor Marie Clough’s introduction to the Book Of Bartholomew Bolney, published by Sussex History Society in 1964 (below)

Boloneys of Sussex

Manor

BOLNEY is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but in 1284 it was held by Earl Warenne and the Bishop of Chichester. About this time the manor was held of the Bishop of Chichester, as of his manor of Preston, for a quarter fee, by Bartholomew de Bolne, and was defined as 800 acres in Bolney and Cuckfield. He may have succeeded a Robert de Bolneya, mentioned in 1248. John de Bolneye was the principal landowner of the family in 1296 and held the manor about 1310. In the middle of the 14th century there is mention of a John, who had a brother Robert and a son William; while another John appears to have been holding the property in 1423–6. Bartholomew de Bolney, who was living in 1446, had three sons, John, Richard, and Edward, of whom John died without issue before 1461, about which time Bolney manor was held by Richard and Edward.  Edward also seems to have been childless, and when Richard died in 1500 the manor descended to his son John.  A John Bolney, probably his son, died in 1558, his heir being his nephew John Bolney, but his widow Anne, who married secondly Thomas Culpeper of Wakehurst, and thirdly Henry Barkeley, D.C.L., retained a claim on the manor during her life.

Source: www.british-history.ac.uk

Jul 1419

Bartholomew Bolney takes his oath at Winchester College – obligatory for boys turned fifteen (left)

Margaret Rivet marries Robert Drury of Besthorpe Hall, Norfolk (pictured below)

1690

13-year-old Philip enrols at Winchester College

Winchester College Archives state: 

We have two boys called Philip Smyth who are recorded as scholars/Founder’s Kin.

The first was in 1690 and this Philip is noted as coming from Norwich and was 13 years old at admission. We have a note that he went on to New College and was then rector of Weston, Norfolk and vicar of Marshfield in Gloucestershire, and that he died in 1733.

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17 Sep 1697

19-year-old Philip Smyth enrols at New College, Oxford (see Oxford alumni record, below)

Above: detail of 1848 map of Norfolk with Gimingham and Holt circled. Source: https://ukga.org/images/maps/Norfolk-Lew1848.jpg

20 May 1757

Eleanor daughter of Philip Smyth Jr. and Eleanor baptised at Weston Longville (left, map = right)

8 Aug 1782

Eleanor Smyth marries Marmaduke Ward Jr. at Gimingham, near Trunch (right)