? No Petitioner named [This writ is badly damaged and the last part missing.] Writ...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

[This writ is badly damaged and the last part missing.] Writ of Edward III to the Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, [ordering him to take the lands and tenements in Chalfont St Peter recently delivered to Geoffrey de Bolestrode back into the King's hand, and to deliver them to the Abbess of Burnham], as it has now been discovered that they were part of the manor of Bulstrode, formerly belonging to the Knights Templar, and that Geoffrey had no legitimate estate in them.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Chalfont St Peter, [Buckinghamshire]

Bulstrode, [Buckinghamshire]

Westminster.

People mentioned

[Edward III], King of England

Sheriff of Buckinghamshire

Geoffrey de Bolestrode (Bulstrode)

Prior and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers) in England

[Edward II], King of England

John de Horneby (Hornby)

Hugh le Despenser, junior

Knights Templars

[Nicholas] de Turvill.

For a related petition from Geoffrey de Bulstrode, see SC 8/95/4739K

For a writ from the King to instruct the Abbess of Burnham produce evidence for her right to these tenements on a certain day, see SC 8/95/4739G

For a writ ordering the delivery of these tenements to Geoffrey de Bulstrode, see SC 8/95/4739A

For a writ from the justices to the Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, asking him to hold the inquisition mentioned here, see SC 8/95/4739C

For a related petition from the Abbess of Burnham, see SC 8/97/4827

For a related petition from the Abbess and convent of Burnham, see SC 8/97/4828

For a similar, but earlier writ, see SC 8/95/4739H

For a list of jurors in this inquisition, see SC 8/95/4739D

For letters patent appointing the justices to hold this inquisition, see SC 8/95/4739E

For a writ from the King to the Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, asking him to hold the inquisition mentioned here, see SC 8/95/4739B

For a writ to attach Geoffrey de Bulstrode, who has prevented delivery of the tenements to the Abbess, see SC 8/95/4739J

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.253 (enrolment of SC 8/95/4739A)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.11-12 (order, dated 2 March 1330, to resume the lands and tenements into the King's hand and to deliver them to the Abbess and convent of Burnham) & p.356 (order, dated 24 October 1331, to pardon the Abbess and convent their farm, because of their expenses in their suit with Geoffrey de Bulstrode)