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WELSBOURNE, John I, of Wycombe, Bucks.

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m. Katherine, da. of William atte Halle† of Wycombe, by his w. Isabel, DL29/653/10565, m. 17; 654/10577, m. 7. 1s. John II*.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Chipping Wycombe 1422, 1423, 1425, 1426, 1427, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1437, 1442, Bucks. 1432.

Tax collector, Bucks. Dec. 1421, Oct. 1422.

Mayor, Chipping Wycombe Mich. 1423–4.

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WELSBOURNE, John I, of Wycombe, Bucks.
Main residence: Wycombe, Bucks.
Wellebourne, Wellesborne, Wellesbourne, Wellesburne, Wellisborn, Wellisburn, Wellysborne, Wellysboune, Wylbourne
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C.E.M.
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WELLES, Thomas (d.c.1489), of Twyford, Hants.

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educ. I. Temple. J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), ii. 1643-4. m. by July 1446, Agnes, kinswoman and h. of John Bradway (d.1396) of West Tytherley, Hants, C67/39, m. 10; CIPM, xvii. 752. prob. 1s. d.v.p.
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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.

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WELLES, Thomas (d.c.1489), of Twyford, Hants.
Main residence: Twyford, Hants.
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L.S.C.
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Commons 1422-1461
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WELLES, John II (d.1442), of London.

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s. and h. of John Welles† (d.c.1384), of Norwich, Norf. by his w. Isabel. m. by Dec. 1415, Margery, wid. of John Osbarn (d. by Sept. 1403), of London, fishmonger, and Henry Halton† (d.1415), of London, grocer, s.p.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, London 1419, 1420, 1421 (Dec.), 1429, 1431, 1432, 1437, 1442.

Common councilman, London by 24 May 1417; alderman of Langbourn Ward Dec. 1420 – Aug. 1436, Cheap Ward c. 1436 – d.; auditor 21 Sept. 1421–4, 1425 – 27; sheriff, London and Mdx. Mich. 1420–1; mayor 13 Oct. 1431–2.

Master, Grocers’ Co. July 1426–7, 1429 – 31, 1434 – 36, May 1441–2.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Newgate Dec. 1431 (q.); C66/431, m. 10d. inquiry, London Oct. 1432; oyer and terminer Oct. 1433, Oct., Nov. 1434, Jan. 1442; to distribute a subsidy allowance Dec. 1433, Feb. 1434.

Ambassador to treat for a truce with the envoys of John V, duke of Brittany, 24 Mar. 1433.

Keeper and escheator of Norwich 15 July – 29 Nov. 1437.

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WELLES, John II (d.1442), of London.
Main residence: London.
Wellys
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H.W.K.
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WELLES, Henry, of Northiam, Suss.

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?m. ?; aft. Nov. 1440, Agnes Belhurst. CP25(1)/241/88/24.
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?Filacer, KB by Hil. 1415-Mich. 1440. KB27/615–718. The filacer’s first name is not recorded on the plea rolls, and it may be the case that he was Simon Wellys, who figures as an attorney in the KB in that period, taking on suits from litigants from Bucks. Cf. J.H. Baker, Men of Ct. (Selden Soc. supp. ser. xviii), ii. 1643.

Clerk of the peace, Suss. 1424-c.1449. E. Stephens, Clerks of the Counties, 169; B.H. Putnam, Procs. J.P.s, 27; E101/589/37, 38, 40; KB9/238/30d; 258/21d.

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WELLES, Henry, of Northiam, Suss.
Main residence: Northiam, Suss.
Wellys
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L.S.C.
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WELFORD, John (d.1490), of Hereford.

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s. and h. of John Welford of Worcester by his w. Joan. m. (1) between Jan. and Sept. 1441, Isabel Haukenes (fl.1464), wid. of Thomas Hore of Hereford, ?s.p.; (2) by Mich. 1477, CP40/864, rot. 345. Margaret, 1s. ?1s. illegit.
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Attestor, parlty. elections, Hereford 1449 (Nov.) (as mayor), 1450, 1467, 1472, Herefs. 1449 (Nov.), 1478.

Mayor, Hereford Oct. 1449 – 50, 1472 – 73.

Commr. of gaol delivery, Hereford Oct. 1449, June 1450, Aug. 1455 (q.), Jan. 1464 (q.), June 1466 (q.), May 1468, Feb., Sept. 1469, Oct. 1474 (q.), June 1476 (q.), Sept., Oct. 1489, Hereford castle Sept. 1458 (q.), Oct. 1464 (q.), Oct. 1467 (q.), Oct. 1468, Oct. 1473 (q.), Oct. 1477; C66/471, mm. 14d, 20d; 480, m. 6d; 486, m. 21d; 506, m. 16d; 509, m. 27d; 515, m. 6d; 519, m. 10d; 521, mm. 4d, 24d; 525, m. 18d; 531, m. 5d; 534, m. 22d; 538, m. 18d; 541, m. 29d. arrest, Herefs. Aug. 1460 (Sir John Barre*, Thomas Fitzharry*, John Chippenham and Thomas Breinton*); oyer and terminer, S. Wales Aug. 1461, Aug. 1471; inquiry Aug. 1461 (treasons etc.), Herefs. Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms), Nov. 1476 (lands of Edward Neville, Lord Abergavenny), Dec. 1476 (lands late of Katherine, dowager-countess of Shrewsbury); to urge King’s subjects to array Aug. 1461.

J.p.q. Herefs. 24 June 1458 – Dec. 1470, 24 Feb. 1473 – Aug. 1475, 10 Nov. 1475 – 7 June 1476, Glos. 24 Feb. 1473 – May 1474.

Sheriff, Herefs. 15 July – Nov. 1461.

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WELFORD, John (d.1490), of Hereford.
Main residence: Hereford.
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S.J.P.
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Commons 1422-1461
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WELE, John, of Metley in Ogwell, Devon.

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m. Thomasina, da. and coh. of John Boyville the younger of Battleford in Ipplepen, Devon, 1s. C1/51/83.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Devon 1423.

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WELE, John, of Metley in Ogwell, Devon.
Main residence: Metley in Ogwell, Devon.
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WELBY, Richard (d.1465), of Moulton, Lincs.

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s. and h. of Richard Welby† of Moulton by his w. Grace. educ. G. Inn. m. Joan (fl.1486), In Apr. 1486 Bp. Waynflete of Winchester bequeathed her a silver gilt cup and cover: R. Chandler, Life of Wm. Waynflete, 381. ?da. of Sir John Rochfort of Stoke Rochford, Lincs., Her identity is an unresolved problem. Her fam. name is variously given as Stynt or Rochford: Lincs. Peds. ed. Maddison, 1056, 1313. What is certain is that in Sept. 1468 she settled the manors in East Barsham and Walpole, Norf., once of the Rochford family, on her eldest son, Richard, and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, da. of (Sir) William Calthorpe*: F. Blomefield, Norf. vii. 59; ix. 112. 7s. inc. Richard†. Dist. 1465. E405/43, rot. 1.
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J.p.q. Holland 20 Mar. 1444 – d., Kesteven 12 Aug. 1464 – d.

Commr. of inquiry, Lincs. July 1445 (customs offences), July 1456 (value of goods and lands of Sir Nicholas Bowet), E159/232, commissiones Trin. Feb. 1458 (lands of Thomas, Lord Dacre); sewers, Holland, Kesteven July 1448, Holland Feb. 1453, Feb. 1462; to assess subsidy Aug. 1450, July 1463; raise money for defence of Calais May 1455; PPC, vi. 243. of array Sept. 1457, Feb., Dec. 1459, May 1461; to assign archers, Lincs. Dec. 1457; of gaol delivery, Peterborough Feb. 1462. C66/495, m. 12d.

Steward, Peterborough abbey in Gosberton, Holland ?-d.; Croyland abbey in Baston and Langtoft, Kesteven 1463–d. C1/28/449; Lincs. AO, Earl of Ancaster mss, 6ANC1/83–4a.

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WELBY, Richard (d.1465), of Moulton, Lincs.
Main residence: Moulton, Lincs.
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WEDGWOOD, William, of Cambridge.

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Attestor, parlty. elections, Cambridge 1419, 1420, 1421 (May), 1427.

Bailiff, Cambridge Sept. 1423–4; mayor 1427 – 30, 1436 – 38.

J.p. Cambridge 13 Nov. 1427–30, 18 Feb. 1432-c.1442.

Commr. Cambs. Nov. 1429.

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WEDGWOOD, William, of Cambridge.
Main residence: Cambridge.
Weggewode
Author
C.E.M.
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Commons 1422-1461
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