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John Welles (Wells), formerly Sheriff of London; John Boteler (Butler), formerly...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/149/7446

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Reference
SC 8/149/7446
Date
[c. 1421]
Description
Petitioners
John Welles (Wells), formerly Sheriff of London; John Boteler (Butler), formerly Sheriff of London.
Name(s)
Welles (Wells); Boteler (Butler), John; John
Addressees
Commons of parliament.
Occupation
Sheriff of London
Nature of request
The petitioners state that one Robert Flewelyn of Monmouth, yeoman, was arrested in London of suspicion of felony, and committed to Newgate gaol, but that because Thomas Chaucier, esquire, alleged before the justices of gaol delivery that he was a clerk, convicted of felony in Oxford, and rescued by students of the university when he was being transferred to the prison of the Ordinary of the diocese of Lincoln. He was therefore sent back to Newgate prison, until a writ of Chancery was sent to bring him before Chancery, where Thomas Chaucier again made his allegation; and he was transferred to the keeping of the Ordinary, and the petitioners discharged of him. However, the justices of gaol delivery of Newgate are accusing them of letting him escape, if they do not have a writ directing them to discharge them of him: which they cannot have, as the previous writ of corpus cum causa is lost and was not put on record in Chancery. They ask the commons to ask the King and lords to grant power to the Chancellor to issue a writ discharging them.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[On dorse] The supplicants named in this petition are to be quit and utterly discharged of the keeping of Robert Flewelyn, for the reasons specified in the petition; as is desired by the same petition.
Places mentioned
London
Monmouth, [Monmouthshire], Wales
London
Newgate, [London]
Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
Lincoln diocese.
People mentioned
Robert Flewelyn (Llywelyn) of Monmouth, yeoman
Thomas Chaucier (Chaucer), esquire.
Note
The petitioners were Sheriffs of London from Michaelmas 1420 to Michaelmas 1421. This petition must date from sometime after that.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209631/

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