William de Aune (Daune) de Aune (Daune) William King and council. London Estratford...

Petitioners

William de Aune (Daune)

Name(s)

de Aune (Daune), William

Addressees

King and council.

Places mentioned

London

Estratford (Stratford at Bow), [Middlesex].

Nature of request

Seint Botulf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]; Tickhill, [West Riding of Yorkshire] Nature of request: William de Aune states that he was given the office of the tronage in the port of Boston by Edward II, and also 40 marks of annual rent for term of his life, to be received from the castle and honour of Tickhill. He has been expelled from these, and he asks for justice to be done to him, in view of the late king's charters and confirmation.

Nature of endorsement

With regard to the first point, coram rege.With regard to the first point, there is no tronage at Boston at the moment.With regard to the second point, coram rege.He is to show his charter in Chancery.

A copy of letters patent of Edward III, re-granting the office of tronage in Boston to William de Aune for life is SC 8/30/1497B

A copy of the letters patent from Edward II granting these things is SC 8/30/1498

Another petition from the same petitioner, also requesting the 40 marks from Tickhill, is SC 8/162/8053

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.258 (order to pay William de Aune 40 marks annually for his lifetime, as the king has granted Tickhill to Queen Isabella)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.430 (grant by Edward II of the tronage of wools in Boston to William de Aune for life); p.480 (grant by Edward II of 40 marks annually from Tickhill to William de Aune)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.238 (grant to William de Aune the office of tronage of wool in Boston for life, which he held by patent of the late king)
• 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 28 (summary of references to related petition)