People of Finstock and Topples Wood. King and council. The people show that they...

Petitioners

People of Finstock and Topples Wood.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The people show that they hold only 7 virgates of land and are hamlets of Charlbury, whilst at Charlbury there are 20 virgates. However they are assessed for considerably more wool than Charlbury and request that the king grant that they be assessed in common with Charlbury, so that each be charged proportionately, understanding that if the people are not aided then they will be destroyed and ruined and will become beggars, and the king will not be served of this outrageous sum.

Nature of endorsement

Coram ipso rege.

Places mentioned

Finstock, [Oxfordshire]

Tapwell (Topples Wood), [Oxfordshire]

Charlbury, [Oxfordshire].

For a related petition see SC 8/244/12167

For a petition on the same matter by the collectors of wool and fifteenths for Oxfordshire see SC 8/12/597

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1349-1354, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.2-3 (writ to the assessors and collectors of the wool and fifteenth in Oxfordshire)
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.521 (no.2075) (commission to assess Finstock and Topples Wood and others)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.81 (commission to assess Finstock and Topples Wood and others)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.175b-176a (no.3) (full edition of a later copy of original petition)
• 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), parliament of January-February 1348, Appendix no. 8 (summary of petition and references)