Community of the Isle of Wight. King and council. The community of the Isle of Wight...

Petitioners

Community of the Isle of Wight.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The community of the Isle of Wight ask that there might be a good inquiry into whether it is more to the advantage of the King and community for the staple for Hampshire to be at Winchester or at Southampton, and that the staple might be sited according to the findings of this inquiry.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege et magno consilio.Because the staple was ordained at Winchester by common counsel, the staple is to remain there.

Places mentioned

Isle of Wight, [Hampshire]

Winchester, Hampshire

Southampton, Hampshire.

For a petition defending the location of the staples see SC 8/64/3196

For another petition complaining of the location of the staple see SC 8/78/3900

• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), pp.362-3 (Another mandate to publish ordinances concerning the staple)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.269 (Mandate to various persons to cause the ordinances concerning the staple to be published)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), pp.98-99 (Another mandate to publish the same ordinances)