William Blaket. Blaket William King and council William Blaket complains that Phillip...

Petitioners

William Blaket.

Name(s)

Blaket, William

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

William Blaket complains that Phillip de Aylisbury, sheriff of Buckinghamshire, attached him with all his goods and chattels, imprisoned him from the feast of the Annunciation last until now, and had him brought under guard to this present parliament by his bailiff, Henry de Westdene, because Geoffrey de Bolestrode maliciously gave him to understand that William was an adherent of the king's enemies - without giving any other reason, and without this being enquired into or found by jury, although William had sworn an oath to the king before Robert de Welle at Isleworth, when the king was last there, among other good people of the county of Hertfordshire, and was never against the king, but always ready to serve him. He requests a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

The sheriff is to be ordered that if he is captured for that reason only, then he is to be released together with his goods etc.Afterwards the sheriff presented an insufficient reason before the council, so it is ordered that he is to be released, together with his goods etc.

Places mentioned

Hertfordshire

Isleworth, [Middlesex].

People mentioned

Phillip de Aylisbury (Aylesbury), sheriff of Buckinghamshire

Henry de Westdene, bailiff of the sheriff of Buckinghamshire

Geoffrey de Bolestrode

Robert de Welle.

For a related petitions, see SC 8/133/6610

For the related petition of Andrew de Jarpenvill see SC 8/4/198

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.450-1 (order to sheriff of Buckinghamshire to release petitioner)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.390a, no.16 (full edition of original petition); p.389b, no.14 (reason given by sheriff for attaching petitioner)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 16 (summary of references)