Geoffrey de Welleford, Warden of the House of St Cross near Winchester. de Welleford...

Petitioners

Geoffrey de Welleford, Warden of the House of St Cross near Winchester.

Name(s)

de Welleford, Geoffrey

Addressees

Council.

Occupation

Warden of the House of St Cross near Winchester

Nature of request

Geoffrey de Welleford, Warden of the House of St Cross near Winchester, states that a letter of the privy seal was sent to the Sheriff of Hampshire, to cease execution of the exigent in an oyer et terminer which he had sued against Robert de Maydenstan and other malefactors, because the King was told that all the malefactors were in his service; when in fact only two of them were in the King's service, and that after the exigent was awarded. He asks that this letter might be repealed, so that the malefactors might be punished according to the law of the land.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.The justices are to be ordered that the suit is to be re-summoned, notwithstanding the writ of privy seal, and that they are to proceed in the suit etc. if it is at Geoffrey's suit; and if it is at the King's suit there is to be no writ.

Places mentioned

Winchester, Hampshire.

People mentioned

Robert de Maydenstan

[William de] Herlaston.

For a related document, see SC 8/327/E790

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/267/13322

For transcript, see no.110B of PRO 31/7/102

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/148/7395

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.384 (order to admit the petitioner as warden, despite disputes) & p.385 (a similar order) & pp.491-492 (order to remove lay force from the hospital) & p.496 (incomplete entry relating to this matter)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.57 (commission of oyer et terminer on complaint by the petitioner of theft of goods)