WELLES, Thomas (d.c.1489), of Twyford, Hants.

Attestor, parlty. election, Hants 1472.

Commr. of inquiry, Hants, Wilts. Feb. 1448 (concealments), Hants July 1448 (piracy; misdeeds of John Fleming*), Feb. 1451 (attacks on Genoese merchants), Apr. 1451 (piracy), Southampton Oct. 1451 (treasons), Dec. 1451 (smuggling), Hants Sept. 1453 (piracy), Feb. 1455 (ownership and maintenance of Winchester gaol), Oct. 1455 (smuggling, concealments), Apr. 1456 (wool seized on the I.o.W.), E159/232, commissiones Mich., Easter. May 1456 (customs evasion), Sept. 1458 (wastes, royal lordships on I.o.W. and removal of stores from Carisbrooke castle), Nov. 1460 (felonies), Jan. 1464 (theft of shipwrecked goods), Berks., Hants, Wilts. Jan. 1465 (post mortem on Edward Cowdray), Hants July, Nov. 1466 (shipwreck), Oct. 1470 (felonies), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Nov. 1475 (lands late of John Horewode), Dec. 1481 (escapes of felons), May 1485 (petition of Elizabeth, wid. of (Sir) Thomas Uvedale*); to assess tax on incomes Aug. 1450, July 1463, subsidies from aliens Apr., Aug. 1483; of array May 1454, Aug. 1456, Sept. 1457 (hundreds of Fawley, Bosmere, Portsdown), Dec. 1459, Apr. 1466, Oct. 1469, May, Dec. 1484; to assign archers Dec. 1457; take musters Sept. 1458 (men under command of Henry, duke of Somerset, as warden I.o.W.), July 1472; of arrest, Berks., Hants, Oxon., Wilts. June 1460 (adherents of Richard, duke of York); oyer and terminer June 1460, Berks., Devon, Dorset, Glos., Hants, Oxon., Som., Wilts. July 1466, Devon, Hants, Wilts. Dec. 1468; gaol delivery, Wallingford castle Sept. 1460, Winchester Feb. 1472, Dec. 1481 (q), Sept. 1487, Winchester castle Oct. 1481, Oct. 1486, Southampton May 1481 (q.), Apr. 1482 (q.), Jan. 1487; C66/528, m. 20d; 547, m. 18d; 548, mm. 2d, 15d; 549, m. 24d. to requisition ships and supplies for defence, Hants July 1461.

Dep. steward estates bpric. of Winchester by Mich. 1449–? Apr. 1478, Hants RO, bp. of Winchester’s pipe rolls, 11M59/B1/187, 190, 193, 197, 200, 203, 206, 211, 212 (formerly 155828, 155832, 155835, 155838, 155841, 155846–7, 159441, 159444). steward 4 Apr. 1478–d. Reg. Common Seal (Hants Rec. Ser. ii), 385, 442.

Steward estates of Winchester College c. Feb. 1452–d. List Winchester Coll. Muns. comp. Himsworth, p. liii; N. and Q. ser. 12, i. 361–3.

J.p.q. Hants 8 Feb. 1452 – d.

Governor, I. Temple by 1484. Readings and Moots, ii (Selden Soc. cv), p. cxxxi, from CP40/888, rot. 222d; Baker, i. 92.