The following 1480 document is later Carpenter history.I happened upon it and thought someone might like to note it. The John and William are seemingly from the John b. 1410 in the Herefordshire Carpenter descent. The Pembryg co.is Pembridge co. in our parlance. I think we are dealing with Dilwyn and Homme Carpenters here. The document give us a few goodies that I for one was unaware of. William was knighted. Was William a priest? 1480 is well before the Reformation.What does 'vicar' imply? This need to be worked on and interpreted. Notice the "feoffment" applies to both Willy and Johnny. This means we are dealing with Carpenter family assets and not church assets. One interesting revelation in the document is that the property in question was cloth manufacture related. The term 'wever' or weaver referred perhaps not to a single artisan, but to the owner of a bigger facility. The term 'burgage' seems a fairly serious legal term for a large holding.I always suspected the Herefordshire Carpenters of being in the wool and cloth business, as I have blabbed about before. I like to picture them raising thier sheep and processing the wool in facilities they owned or partly owned. This document gets us real close to real life. At any rate this is the first actual document I have seen dealing with William of Homme.He has his title, his career and his real estate holdings.Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the long mysterious Sir William of Homme. From Descriptive Catalogue of Deeds, pp. 31-2, document A. 10675. "Feoffment by John Dey of Nuneton and Agnes his wife, to Sir William Carpenter, perpetual vicar of the parish church of Staunton beside Pembryg, co. Hereford, John Carpenter, brother of the said William, Thomas Shepey of Nuneton, and Nicholas Dalton, otherwise called Tayler, of Kynges, co. Warwick, of a burgage and a half-burgage in Nuneton which they had by the gift of Richard George, Maud his wife, and John Freman of Coventre, who had the sameby the feoffment of John Thorp late of Coventre, 'weaver' to them and the heirs and assigns of the said William and John Carpenter. Witnesses:- Sir Richard Cokkes, vicaof the parish church of Nuneton, William Asshe, then bailiff of the said town and others (named). The Conception, 19 Edward IV. Sincerely, Bruce E. Carpenter