illiam Lenche died in 1526, and probate of his will was granted on 26th June in the joint names of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of Yorkand Chancellor of England, and William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Then the most powerful man in England after the king, Wolsey was soon to lose favour for his failure to have Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled by the Pope. It seems that 13 years later, Agnes Lenche died and the Deed of Enfeoffment should have come into effect. Instead, an effort was made to thwart it…