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Details of SC 8/299/14906
Reference: SC 8/299/14906
Description:
Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named
Nature of request: Writ of Edward III to the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, asking him to hold an inquisition into the claim of Richard de Welleford and Geoffrey de Weston, merchants of London, that they were robbed on the King's highway between Arrington and Caxton, and that although they 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: Matthew de Bassingburn, sheriff:The execution of this writ can be seen from the inquisition sewn to it.
Places mentioned: Cambridgeshire; Winchester, [Hampshire]; London; Arrington, [Cambridgeshire]; Caxton, [Cambridgeshire]; Longstow hundred, [Cambridgeshire]; Northampton, [Northamptonshire].
People mentioned: Edward [III], King of England; Matthew de Bassingburn (Bassingbourn), Sheriff of Cambridgeshire; Edward [I], King of England; Richard de Welleford (Welford), merchant of London; Geoffrey de Weston, merchant of London; Kelm'.
Note: Writ dated 14 May 2 Edward III (1328).Matthew de Bassingburn was Sheriff of Cambridgeshire between 24 April 1327 and 11 August 1328 (List of Sheriffs).
Date: 1328
Related material:

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

For the inquisition held as a result of this writ, see SC 8/299/14907

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14905

For a related letter see SC 8/299/14904

For a related writ see SC 8/299/14903

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

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