Catalogue description Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named Nature of Request: Letter from William...

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Details of SC 8/299/14904
Reference: SC 8/299/14904
Description:
Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named
Nature of request: Letter from William Haward, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, to the Mayor of Cambridge, reciting a letter he has received from the keepers of the peace in Cambridgeshire asking him to arrest several people, indicted for a robbery committed against Richard de Welleford, merchant of London, and to hold them in the King's prison until they are delivered according to the law and custom of the realm, and asking the Mayor to put this into execution.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Cambridgeshire; Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]; Barnwell, [Cambridgeshire]; Clopton, [Cambridgeshire]; Everton, [Bedfordshire]; Hardwick, [Cambridgeshire]; London.
People mentioned: William Haward (Houward), Sheriff of Cambridgeshire; [Eudo de Helpringham], Mayor of Cambridge; John de Chishille (Chishull), keeper of the peace in Cambridgeshire; John de Saleston (Sawston), keeper of the peace in Cambridgeshire; Ralph le Thresschere (Thresher), living in Barnwell; Hugh Box, clerk; William Kokerel (Cockerel) of Clopton; Hugh Grigg, carter of Richard de Welleford; Richard de Welleford (Welford), merchant of London; Richard Bryan of Everton; Simon de Mepeshale; William [in le Horne de Herdwyk (in the Horn of Hardwick)] son of Robert in le Horne de Herdwyk; Robert in le Horne de Herdwyk (in the Horn of Hardwick).
Note: William Houward was Sheriff between 11 August and 22 September 1328 (List of Sheriffs), which would fit with the dating of the related documents. The quoted letter is dated on the Tuesday before the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2 Edward III (6 September 1328), which is entirely compatible with these dates.
Date: [1328]
Related material:

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

For a related inquisition, see SC 8/299/14907

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14906

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14905

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14902

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14901
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Latin
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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