Geoffrey de Bolestrode (Bulstrode). de Bolestrode (Bulstrode) Geoffrey King and council....

Petitioners

Geoffrey de Bolestrode (Bulstrode).

Name(s)

de Bolestrode (Bulstrode), Geoffrey

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

[This petition is badly damaged.]Geoffrey de Bolestrode complains that his lands and tenements in Chalfont St Peter have unjustly been given to the Abbess of Burnham, and that an order has been given to attach him because he resisted this. He encloses transcripts of various writs pertaining to the matter, and requests his lands back.

Nature of endorsement

They are to have a day on Friday before the council, and they are to have there all the record and process that has taken place concerning the whole business. And a writ is to be sent to the Sheriff of Middlesex to have the body of the same Geoffrey there before the council.

Places mentioned

Chalfont St Peter, [Buckinghamshire]

Burnham, [Buckinghamshire]

Bulstrode, [Buckinghamshire]

London

Middlesex

Westminster.

People mentioned

[William Shareshull]

Robert de Asshele (Ashley)

John Loveday

Abbess of Burnham

John de Stonore (Stonor)

Henry de Clif (Cliff)

William [illegible]

Robert de Aylestone

Walter de la Grave.

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 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 writ from the King ordering the Sheriff to take these tenements back into the King's hand, see SC 8/95/4739F

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

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

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

• 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)