Brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford. John de Sendale, Chancellor...

Petitioners

Brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford.

Addressees

John de Sendale, Chancellor of England.

Nature of request

[Damaged and partially illegible.]The brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford complain about the great wrongs done to them by their Warden, Peter de Luffenham: that does not share the house's alms among them equally as his predecessor, William de Westbury, used to do, but takes the portions of two brothers for himself, and others for his chaplain, his clerk, his servant, and his palfrey; that he has tried to appropriate their corn to his own use, and complained to the escheator when they would not allow this, and prevents the brothers from sowing corn, pasturing their livestock or roofing their buildings, and that he has sent away the brothers' carters and other servants; that he will not visit the sick brothers as he ought to; that he takes more than his share of the young pigeons in the hospital's dovecote; that he received some arrears of the King's alms and spent them himself, without sharing them with the brothers; and that, when William de Westbury during his life owed Geoffrey de Castre £7, and assigned certain goods to make payment, Peter appropriated to himself the said goods, so that Geoffrey could not be served. They request a remedy, as they have nothing from which to pay Geoffrey.

Nature of endorsement

[Continuation of petition]

Places mentioned

Oxford, [Oxfordshire].

People mentioned

John de Sendale (Sandale), Chancellor of England

Peter de Luffenham, Warden of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford

William de Westbury, Warden of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford

Adam de Weston

Geoffrey de Castre.

For a related letter from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Master of the Hospital of St John, Oxford, see SC 8/297/14814

For an inquisition held as a result of this petition, see SC 8/297/14815

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), pp.323-324 (ordinances for the reform of the Hospital of St Bartholomew)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.352 (grant to Peter de Luffenham of the custody of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford)
• Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.114 (calendar of petition)