The Weeden or Weedon family in Buckinghamshire undoubtedly derived its name from the hamlet of Weeden in the parish of Hardwick, about fifteen miles northwest of Chesham. The family is found at Chesham as early as 1333, when King Edward III accepted fealty of Thomas de Wedon, son and heir of Thomas de Wedon, for lands and tenements in Chesham. In 19 Edward III [1345-6] Ralph de Wedon recovered seisin of the manor of Chesham from John Cifrewast and others. (Cf. Lipscomb's History of Buckingham) From that time until 1538, when the parish registers of Chesham begin, there were many Weedons in this parish, but the lack of wills makes it impossible to determine their relationship to one another.
Source: The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 76 by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society.
From Chancery Proceedings*
To the most reverend Father in God, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate and Chancellor of England.
Robert Weden of Chesham. eo. Bucks, complainant, v. Agnes, late the wife and executrix of William Atkyn. +
The complainant shews that John Spencer and Acnes, his wife, were seised in fee, as in the right of the same Agnes, of and in all those lands and tenements in Botteley in co. Bucks which sometime belonged to Herry Dene, father of the said Agnes, whose heir she is. And being so seised, the said John Spencer and Agnes bargained and sold the reversion of the said lands and all the evidences concerning the same to the complainant for a certain sum of money, to be paid on certain days agreed between them, the same reversion to be had by the complainant and his heirs immediately after the decease of the said John and Agnes. And thereupon the same John and Agnes have levied a fine of the premises to the use of the complainant and his heirs. But so it is that many and divers evidences concerning the said lands and tenements rest in the keeping of one Agnes, lute the wife and executrix of one William Atkyn, to whom the complainant has often made request to deliver the said evidences, which she utterly refuses to do, against all good reason and conscience. The complainant does not know witli certainty the number and contents of these evidences, in which case he has no remedy by the course of the common law. He prays that a writ of subpoena may be directed to the said Agnes Atkyn, commanding her to appear before the King in his Chancery at a certain date, and under a certain penalty.
Pledges for prosecuting: William Edy of Penley, co. Herts, gentleman, John Wedon of Chesham, co Bucks, yeoman.
Source: The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 76 by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society.