Catalogue description Petitioners: ? No Petitioner named Nature of Request: Record of an inquisition...

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Details of SC 8/299/14907
Reference: SC 8/299/14907
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.
Date: 1328
Related material:

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

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

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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