? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Chancellor of the University of...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Letter to Edward II from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Master of the Hospital of St John, Oxford, acknowledging receipt of the King's writ (which they quote), enclosing a petition from the brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford concerning wrongs done to them by Peter de Luffenham, their Warden, and ordering them to make a visitation of the hospital, to inquire into the contents of the petition and to inform the King of what they find. They enclose the inquisition taken by them as a result of this writ.

Nature of endorsement

To our Lord the King of England, from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Master of the Hospital of St John there.

Places mentioned

Oxford, [Oxfordshire]

Doncaster, [West Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Edward [II], King of England

[Henry de Harcla], Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Master of the Hospital of St John, Oxford

brothers of the Hospital of St Bartholomew outside Oxford

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

For the inquisition enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/297/14815

For the petition mentioned here, see SC 8/297/14813

• 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.115 (calendar of document)