Robert de Welle. de Welle Robert King and council. Robert de Welle states that he...

Petitioners

Robert de Welle.

Name(s)

de Welle, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Robert de Welle states that he made a fine in Chancery for the trespass he committed in marrying Maud, widow of Robert de Clyfford, without permission, and was pardoned; and the King then ordered Robert de Clydrowe, then Escheator North of the Trent, to deliver his lands to him, together with all the issues received from them after they were seized into the King's hand, but Robert has withheld 100 marks. He requests a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

The Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered by writ of the great seal to have the Escheator come before them to answer to the aforesaid Robert de Welle; and they are to do full justice to the parties there etc. And this petition is to be sent to the aforesaid Treasurer and Barons.

People mentioned

Robert de Clyfford (Clifford)

Maud [de Clyfford (Clifford)], widow of Robert de Clyfford

Robert de Clydrowe (Clitheroe), Escheator North of the Trent.

For an earlier petition on the same matter by the petitioner and his wife, see SC 8/317/E267

For a related petition see SC 8/77/3845

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.367 (order to deliver Maud's dower lands to the petitioner)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.84 (another order to deliver some lands which Robert de Clydrowe did not deliver before he was removed from office)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.266 (order to the escheator to take the lands into the king's hand for the marriage without licence)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.551 (pardon for the petitioner for marrying without permission)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.97-98 (no. 64) (full edition of petition)