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"de Webster" doesn't really make sense in this context, though "le Webster" does. "de" should refer to a place, like de Vere or de Neville. In medieval records someone might be identified as William Jones le weaver. The records in the 15th and early 16th centuries were usually in Latin. Classical Latin didn't have the definite article le but in late Medieval Latin in England it was used, borrowed from French.

I wonder of cloth of Rogge might be a place, though I'm not sure where. Brugge? Rouen?


You have probably seen these, but here are two earlier Stonehewers in Biddulph:
1544 (CP) Stonehewer, William, of Byddyll, husbandman
trespass: breach of close and trampling hay (herbam)
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no1120Pl.htm
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/aalt1/H8/CP40no1120/bCP40no1120dorses/IMG_6985.htm

1452 (KB) Stonehewer, Thomas, of Bedyll in Morelond, yeoman
trespass breach of close at Norton in the Morys, cutting down trees, and fishing
https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/KB27/763
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H6/KB27no763/bKB27no763dorses/IMG_0334.htm

William Stonehewer in 1544 is unlikely to be the same man, 50 years earlier, but possibly his father.

In this record, James Atkins and Ann Coats, singleman and miller, and singlewoman of Earl Stonham, were to be married at Earl Stonham.

https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/collections/getrecord/GB173_FAA_23_15_156

I suppose you've seen this one? In 1416, Walter Barre, of Grove, husbandman, a defendant in Common Pleas for debt of four pounds.
First entey
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no621/bCP40no621dorses/IMG_1349.htm

The lower one is the same. The upper one is essentially the same but there is another defendant, Thomas Mariote, of Grove, ploughwright.