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? No Petitioner named Record of an inquisition held at Royston before Matthew de...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/299/14907

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Reference
SC 8/299/14907
Date
1328
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Record of an inquisition held at Royston before Matthew de Bassingburn, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, on the Tuesday after the feast of St Augustine, 2 Edward III, finding that Richard de Welleford and Geoffrey de Weston, merchants of London, were robbed on the King's highway at Potterescrouch between Arrington and Caxton, and that although their servants raised the hue and cry after that robbery, the people of those parts did not attempt to attach the malefactors, but allowed them to escape.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Cambridgeshire
Royston, [Hertfordshire]
Potterescrouch [unidentified], [Cambridgeshire]
Arrington, [Cambridgeshire]
Caxton, [Cambridgeshire]
Longstow hundred, [Cambridgeshire]
Longstowe, [Cambridgeshire].
People mentioned
Matthew de Bassingburn (Bassingbourn), Sheriff of Cambridgeshire
Geoffrey de Colne
William de Bradefeld (Bradfield)
Thomas de Audele (Audley)
Richard Fynor
John de Clopton
William Sterne
Oliver de Bereford
John By
Luke de Grendon
John Prat
Alan Byboys
Thomas atte Van
Richard de Welleford (Welford), merchant of London
Geoffrey de Weston, merchant of London
Nicholas Martyn, servant of Richard de Welleford and Geoffrey de Weston
Walter le Woduwe (Wodowe), servant of Richard de Welleford and Geoffrey de Weston.
Note
Inquisition held on the Tuesday after the feast of St Augustine, 2 Edward III (31 May 1328).Matthew de Bassingburn was Sheriff of Cambridgeshire between 24 April 1327 and 11 August 1328 (List of Sheriffs). 'Potterescrouch' is probably either a local name for part of Ermine Street, or a junction on that street, possibly with a Potter's or Porter's Way, common road names in this area.
Related material

For the writ leading to this inquisition, see SC 8/299/14906

For a related letter see SC 8/299/14904

For a related petition, see SC 8/299/14908

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14902

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518110/

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