Maud de Wycombe. de Wycombe Maud King and council. Maud de Wycombe requests a charter...

Petitioners

Maud de Wycombe.

Name(s)

de Wycombe, Maud

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Maud de Wycombe requests a charter of the King's peace for Walter le Vaus of Oxford, clerk, her son, and that he might fulfil the grace he gave him at her suit in the last war in Scotland. He has been imprisoned for six years in Northampton because he was appealed of robberies committed in Herefordshire by William Montryg, formerly Prior of Northampton, who repudiated the appeal and died; and he has never been able to have any deliverance.

Nature of endorsement

William Inge and his companions, before whom the appeals [and records] against the same Walter in the aforesaid county and in various other counties remain, are to be ordered by writ of [Chancery] to have those appeals brought before John Butetourte etc. And John Butetourte and his companions are to be ordered that, when they have received those appeals and records, they are to proceed to his deliberation according to the law and custom of the realm.To the last [petition: this petition seems to be one of a number on the same sheet of parchment, or possibly 'finally']: nothing because living.Expedited.

Places mentioned

Oxford, [Oxfordshire]

Donble [unidentified]

Morpeth, [Northumberland]

Northampton, [Northamptonshire]

Rockville, Herefordshire

Markele (Marcle), Herefordshire.

People mentioned

Walter le Vaus of Oxford, clerk, son of Maud de Wycombe

Robert de Cotyngham

John de Haukele

William Montryg, formerly Prior of Northampton

John Butetourte (Botetourte)

William Inge.

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/148/7371