Reginald de Wilington, parson of Atherington. de Wilington Reginald King and council....

Petitioners

Reginald de Wilington, parson of Atherington.

Name(s)

de Wilington, Reginald

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

parson of Atherington

Nature of request

Reginald de Wilington, parson of the church of Atherington, states that although he was never indicted or guilty in any way, the Sheriff of Devon has imprisoned him and seized his goods and chattels into the King's hand, claiming that he was an adherent of John and Henry de Wilington, his brothers, in their rebellion against the King. He is ready to acquit himself of this in any way the King requires, and requests a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

The Sheriff is to be ordered that if Reginald finds sufficient mainpernors to stand bail for him, each of them body for body, to answer to the King at his pleasure, for whatever he wishes to accuse him of, then he is to have him delivered etc., together with all his goods and chattels etc.

Places mentioned

Atherington, Devon.

People mentioned

John de Wilington, brother of petitioner

Henry de Wilington, brother of petitioner.

For transcript, see no.111 of PRO 31/7/102

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.455-456 (order to release the petitioner on mainprise)
• 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 I, pp. 387-415, no. 30 (summary of references)