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Son of William del Waynhouse, mayor in 1318 (No. 26), born about 1305, and admitted a member of the gild merchant 1329~30. Like his father he was a rich burgess having probably accumulated wealth as a wool merchant.
His name occurs in the tallage roll of 1336. He witnessed several deeds in his official capacity as mayor; married Alice (--) by whom he appears to have left issue at his death about 1350.
The late Miss Mary Bateson in the second volume of the Borough Records (p. 447 and elsewhere) calls this mayor “John Wainhouse alias Cook alias Hayward alias Receiver," the latter being Hayward's official title, and she ventures to suggest that this burgess with his successor, John Hayward, and John Cook, who followed the latter as receiver (Nos. 39 and 44), were identical. Her deductions and confusion of the three names, however, caused it would seem through a wrongly dated and misleading conveyance, 1346 instead of 1360, must be discarded in the light of new facts revealed as the result of a closer study of the records. These three individuals are never named anywhere in the actual records with the prefix “alias" before their respective surnames. Their separate identity can now be well established. Thompson, the historian, who studied the records sixty years before Miss Bateson, was careful to place all three burgesses mentioned in their correct order as distinct individuals.
In 1346 "King Edward the Third, with his son, Edward the Black Prince, entered Normandy with a large army, and both there and in Picardy took a great many places from the French, and advanced in victory almost to Paris walls, and in a battle near Crecy, in Picardy, the English killed two kings, two dukes, seven earls, 1,500 barons and knights, and about 30,000 private soldiers. But of the English not a man of note (was killed). The French were 60,000 strong-the English 30,000" (Private list of Mayors).
