"Licence for John de Handle to crenellate his dwelling-house (mansum) of Borstall by Brehulle, co. Buckingham."
Granted at Westminster, by King, on the information of H. le Despenser.
on the information of Hugh le Despenser.
Original source is
(In fact, the original source given is usually a transcription/translation of what are precious medieval documents not readily availably. It should be noted that these transcription/translations often date to the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and that unwitting bias of transcribers may affect the translation. Care should also be taken to avoid giving modern meaning to the medieval use of certain stock words and terms.)
Significant later source are;
In the service of Despenser A Robert Handlo was also in the services of the Despensers and he may have been the author of the Regule, a treatise on music notation.
John de Handlo was the second husband of Maud (nee Burnell, 1st m. John Lovel of Titchmarsh). She was the heir of Edward Burnell, her brother. Their son John de Handlo was a great warrior and was summoned to parliament as baron Handlo in the time of Edward III.
Early in the reign of Edward II the then keeper of the castle [St Briavels], John de Handlo, spent £322 19s. 91/4d. by the king's direction on repairing the walls, towers, bridges and buildings of the castle, and 'on constructing a peel for its greater security'. (Arthur Clark, 1949, The castle of St.Briavel’s sourced from http://www.castlewales.com/stbrivls.html)
Petitioners: John de Hondlo (Handlo), through [Hugh le Despenser], Earl of Winchester.
Addressees: Chancellor.
Places mentioned: Oxfordshire; Buckinghamshire.
Other people mentioned: John de Stonore (Stonor), justice; Richard de la Bere, justice.
Nature of request: The petition states that an oyer et terminer was granted to John de Hondlo in Oxfordshire and another in Buckinghamshire, against those who had carried off his goods by force, and that John de Stonore, Richard de la Bere and other justices were assigned to this. They sat for three days and then could not attend to the matter through pressure of other business. John and Hugh ask that the commissions might be altered and new names entered in the commissions that John de Hondlo will send the Chancellor, according to his instructions. And they request a writ to John de Stonore to return the present commissions to Chancery to be amended, as he will not do so without one, or that they might be made anew from examination of the rolls of Chancery. (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-4814511&FullDetails=True&Gsm=2008-02-12&j=1)
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