Collectors of wool and fifteenths of the county of Oxford. King and council. The...

Petitioners

Collectors of wool and fifteenths of the county of Oxford.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The collectors show that the hamlet of Finstock, one of the hamlets attached to the town of Charlbury is assessed for considerably more wool than the town. Because of this outrageous sum running upon the hamlet the tenants have all left their land and it lies fallow, so that the collectors are unable to find distresses to levy the sum. They request that the king grant a commission that the town and hamlets be put in common, so that the king can be served, and the collectors be allowed this for the reason.

Nature of endorsement

Coram ipso rege.

Places mentioned

Charlbury, [Oxfordshire]

Finstock, [Oxfordshire].

For a related petition by the people of Finstock and Topples Wood see SC 8/12/593

For a related document see SC 8/244/12167

• 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), p.176a (no.4) (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 references)