The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Vendore : "Bochardus de Vendroure" is mentioned by Duchesne among the Milites Wlcassin. (Feoda Normanniae). In England I first met with the name in the Monasticon Anglicanum. Richard de Vendure witnesses Hugh de Coluncis' grant to Motesfont Priory, Hampshire; Oliver de Vendoure and "Willielmus frater ejus" that of Simon de Crevecoeur to Bullington Priory, Lincolnshire. Gunilda de Wendoure paid a fine in Buckinghamshire in 1202.—Hunter. Richard de Wendour was Archdeacon of Axfordby in 1230 (Nichol's Leicestershire): and two of the name, Hugo de Wendor, of Lincolnshire, and Alan de Vendur of Yorkshire, occur about 1272 in the Rotuli Hundredorum. Sir John de Wendour was Chamberlain of Chester 9 and 15 Ed. III.—Ormerod's Cheshire. In the Issue Roll, under date 50 Ed. III., we find the following entry: "20th November.—To John Vendour of Newark, coming by command of the Council from Lincoln, to bring Sir William de Cantelupe, knight, to the Tower of London, upon suspicion had against him for the death of Nicholas de Cantelupe, his brother, slain: and there safely and securely to keep him in the King's prison until otherwise respecting the same William it should be ordered by the King and his Council. In money paid, &c, in discharge of one hundred shillings, which the Lord the King commanded to be paid him for the wages and expenses of himself and his men going with him and his retinue, for the safe custody of the aforesaid William."

In some cases Vendoure appears to have been synonymous with the English local name of Wendover. Oliver de Vendoure of Lincolnshire, for instance, is, as often as not, styled in the Monasticon, Oliver de Wendover.