Family:Whitney, John (fl. 1387)

John Whitney, parents unknown, fl. 1387.

He was a clerk to King Richard II.

Notes

Was he perhaps the John Whitney, son of Eustace de Whitney and Elizabeth de Freville?

References

• E 326/2053 - [4 November, 10 Richard II. (1387)] - Grant by Henry Zeule, John Wilteschire, John Tadelowe, citizens of london and John Wytteneye, clerk, to Stephen Haym of Winchester, of freedom from impeachment for any waste committed by him in a tenement and garden situate in the parishes of St. Margaret, Lothbury, and St. Olave, Old Jewry, in the ward of Colmanstrete.
• E 326/2055 - [4 November, 10 Richard II (1387)] - Demise by Roger Farindon rector of St. Margaret's, Lothbury, and William Stowe of London, to Henry Yeule, John Wilteschire, John Tadelowe and John Witteneye, clerk, of their moiety of certain tenements and shops formerly in the tenure of Bartholomew Burgherssh, knight, in the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury. Witnesses:- Nicholas Exton, mayor, William More and William Stondon, sheriffs, of London, John Schadeworth, alderman of Colmanstrete, and others (named): Middx.
• E 329/404 - [15 Ric. II (1392)] - Robert, Bishop of London, Ralph Kesteven, Rector of St. Botolph's without Aldgate, and John Witteney, clerk to The King: Quitclaim of an acre in Osgodby (in Bardney parish) , and the advowson of the church of Edlesborough, which they and the King had from Bardney Abbey: Lincs & Bucks.
• C 143/418/34 - [16 RICHARD II. (1393)] - William Beauchamp, knight, to grant land in the parish of St. Sepulchre without West Smithfield to the prior and convent of the Charterhouse, London. Middlesex. London. The abbot and convent of Westminster to grant land in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, to the same. Middlesex. London. William, archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Warmyngton, Roger Farendon, and John Wytteneye, clerks, and William Tamworth to grant to the same the reversions of messuages, shops, and gardens in the said parish of St. Sepulchre held for life respectively byLucy late the wife of Walter Mayn, Richard Friene, and Alice late the wife of William Stowe. Middlesex. London. Henry Yeveley, John Wyltshire, and John Tadelawe, citizens of London, to grant messuages, a garden, and shops in the parishes of St. Margaret, Lothbury, and St. Olave, London, to the same. Middlesex. London. Martin Elys and Ralph Kesteven, clerks, and John Chircheman, citizen of London, to grant a messuage and shops in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, to the same. Middlesex. London. Geoffrey de Somerton to grant land in Cromer (Shipdene) to the same, retaining land in Somerton. Norfolk.
• John Wytteneye to John Bygonet. Deeds of S. Paul’s A, Box 24, No 619, 19 Oct 1393 John Wytteneye clerk has released and quit claimed for himself and his heirs to John Bygonet of Holeburne all his right in 2 messuages and 13 shops and all their appurtenaces in Holeborne without the Bar of the Old Temple whereof one messuage with 2 shops lies on the north side of the street of Holeborne between a tenement formerly of Roger Leget on the east and a tenement of Richard Mordon on the west. The other messuage with 11 shops called Paternoster Rents lies on the south side of the street of Holeborne between a tenement of William Fote on the east and a tenement formerly of Thomas at Mulle on the west. Witnesses, John Goldbeter, Richard Mordon, Robert Langley, Reginald Wenn, William Chaundler, and others. Dated Holeborne, Sunday next after the feast of S Luke the Evangelist, 17 Ric II. - Early Holborn and the Legal Quarter of London by E Williams Vol 1 and 2 London 1927, p. 661

---

Copyright © 2007, Tim Doyle and the Whitney Research Group.