Thomas Maudyt (Mauduit), son of William Mauduit of Warminster. Maudyt (Mauduit) Thomas...

Petitioners

Thomas Maudyt (Mauduit), son of William Mauduit of Warminster.

Name(s)

Maudyt (Mauduit), Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Thomas, son of William Maudyt states that he was seised of six cartloads of firewood annually in the wood of Selwood, belonging to the manor of Warminster, which once belonged to Thomas Maudyt, and which the king gave to Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester; but Hugh le Despenser has prevented him from taking them for the last five years. He requests that he might have it back, and a remedy for the damages he has suffered because of this.

Nature of endorsement

When he has the manor, he is to have the profit which belongs to it.

Places mentioned

Selewode (Selwood) forest, Wiltshire

Warminster, Wiltshire.

People mentioned

William Maudyt (Mauduit)

Thomas Maudyt (Mauduit)

Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester.

Another petition possibly by the same petitioner is SC 8/60/2998

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.636-7 (order to the keeper of certain lands in the king's hand in Wiltshire not to intermeddle with Thomas Maudyt's lands in Warminster)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.16 (arrangement for dower for Thomas Maudyt's widow)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IV, Edw III, 1327-1337, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.28 (grant to John de Kyngeston of the keeping of the manors of Warminster and Westbury, in the king's hand because of the minority of Thomas Maudyt's heir)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), pp.189-90 (grant to Hugh the Despenser, Earl of Winchester, of crops, animals and goods in a number of manors including Warminster)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p6 (sale to John de Kyngeston of the marriage of Thomas Maudyt's heir)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.401b (no. 127) (full edition of original petition)