John of Hoo was an early fourteenth-century Abbot of Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire.
Further, Hoo claimed, Holland also prevented him from exercising the Abbot's feudal jurisdiction over prisoners captured on the Abbey's own demesne lands.
[1] On the other hand, the Abbey's own chronicler described Hoo as a "good, gentle and simple" man.
[3] The financial problems of the Abbey—which had plagued its existence since its foundation[note 1]—increased under Hoo's guardianship, and a few years into his office, in 1311, £200 was still owed to one of the custodians of the works from 1284.
[1] John of Hoo is one of the earliest Abbots of Vale Royal known to have explicitly resigned his office.