1255 October 30-November 2 "Yorkshire. Ralph son of Robert de Wellewik gives the king 20s. for an assize of novel disseisin to be taken before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc." [1]
1258 Ralph de Wellewyk was a witness to a confirmation in frankalmoign, "William the Constable son of Robert the Constable jnr. to Meaux Abbey property: all lands and tenements given to the Abbey by Robert the Constable senr. in Tarlesthrp, as in his charter ('which is quoted i.e. relating to.) Gift in frankalmoign: Robert the Constable to Meaux Abbey property: his manor of Tarlestorp with a capital messuage, 74ac. in Sumerethi; the whole of Uth Sumerethi, Neuland, Sud Croft, Nord Croft, West Aldecroft, and Nord Aldecroft with the land adjacent called meadow; all his Grodhes on the Humber; 1½ac. in Sumerethi (near the said 74ac. and on the S. of them) held by Osbert son of Walter; common pasture rights for the Abbey's animals in all pastures of Aust Sumerethi Free of all services except for forinsec service belonging to 5 bovates of that fee (where 8 carucates make a knights fee). 16 bovates forming R.C.'s fee in Tarlestorp, he shall do forinsec service for 11 and the monks for 5. Saving to W.C. the said 11 bovates and all his liberties in Tarlestorp. Witn. Lord William de Fort [...] (FORTIBUS), Earl of Albemarle, Sir Simon de Ver, Sir Sayer de Sutton, Sir Fulk the Constable, Sir Godfrey de Melsa, Sir Ralph de Wellewyk, Sir John de Frysmarays, Walter de Faucunberg, Robert de Scurs, William son of Peter de la Twyer, Simon de Preston, Walter de Pykering, William son of William the Constable and Simon his brother." [2]
1263 August "Pro Johanne de Wellewik'—Preceptum est custodi pacis in comitatu Ebor' quod de omnibus terris et tenementis Johannis de Wellewyk in balliva sua, una cum bonis suis ei ablatis post pacem regis proclamatam in partibus illis, eidem Johanni restitui faciat non inferens ei aut inferri etc. Teste rege ix. die Augusti. Per justiciarium." [3]
1265 May 23 "De coronatore eligendo.—Rex vicecomiti Linc' salutem. Quia Radulphus de Wellewyk', coronator noster in comitatu predicto, languidus est et impotens sui, ita quod officio illi diutius vacare non potest, ut accepimus; tibi precipimus quod, si ita est, tunc in pleno comitatu tuo et per assensum ejusdem comitatus eligi facias unum alium coronatorem, qui, prestito sacramento prout moris est, extunc faciat et conservet ea que ad officium coronatoris pertinent in comitatu predicto. Et talem eum eligi facias qui melius sciat et possit officio illi intendere, et nomen ejus nobis scire facias. Teste rege apud Hereford' xxiij. die Maii." [4]
1294 December 29 Ralph Wellewik was a witness to a document in the Register of Archbishop Melton, "Hiis testibus domino Symone de Grousell domino Radulpho de Wellewik militibus Alexandro de Holm Henrico Scull Willelmo Attynges de Otringham Stephano de Shirburn Stephano de Bilton Willelmo filio Agnetis de Otringham Jahanne de Dacellis et aliiw. Dat apud Selforde die sancti Thome Martiris [29 December] anno regni regis Edwardi vicesimo tercio. Et anno domini mo ducentesimo nonagesimoquarto." [5]
1297 A list of men-at-arms retained in the king's service in Lincolnshire in 1297 shows that a third of the men distrained in that county five years previously had become knights." (footnote names Ralph de Wellewyk) [6]
1314/5 February 6 Westminster "Robert de Wellewyk, knight, acknowledges that he owes to William de Thorntoft, clerk, 40l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in the counties of York and Lincoln. Cancelled on payment." [7]
1316 October 10 "Commission of Oyer and terminer to Roger de Cubbeldyk, Henry de Baiocis and Simon le Caumberleyn, on complaint by John de Swanlund, clerk, Simon de Swanlund and Nicholas de Swanlund that Ralph de Wellewyk the elder, Robert de Wellewyk and John Broun of Bernetby with others carried away their goods at Bernetby, co. Lincoln. By K." [8]
c1325 Charters 3 and 4, concerning Holme and Welwick, the seats of families of those names "are grants of land at Dore, which is about three miles from Holmesfield, by Ralph, son and heir of Ralph de Welwick, knight. The date of one of them is cut off, but the other bears date 1324." [9]
1330/1 January 6 Ralph's land was mentioned in the IPM of Edmund, earl of Kent, "Lincoln ... Kylingholm. Half a knight's fee, held by Ralph de Welewyk." [10]
1330/1 February 20 "To William Trussel, escheator this side of Trent. Order to deliver to Margaret, late wife of Edmund, earl of Kent, tenant in chief, the following of the earl's knight's fees, which the king has assigned to her in dower ... a moiety of a fee in Killingholm, in the same county [Lincoln], which moiety Ralph de Wellewyk holds, of the yearly value of 100s. ..." [11]
1335 "609. John son of Robert de Preston. Writ, 6 October, 8 Edward III. York. Inq. 8 December, 8 Edward III. Waxham. The manor (extent given), held, to him and the heirs of his body and the body of Emma late his wife, deceased, of the gift of Maud late the wife of Ralph de Wellewyk, knight, of the king in chief, as of the honour of Albemarle, by knight's service, where 48 carucates oi land make a knight's fee." [12]
1342 May 28 Windsor "Exemption for life of Ralph de Wellewyk from being put on assizes, juries or recognitions, from appointment as mayor, sheriff, coroner, escheator, or other bailiff or minister of the king, and from knighthood, against his will; and pardon to him for not having taken the said order pursuant to the king's proclamation. By K." [13]
Research Notes:
Alternate spellings: Wellewik, Wellewyk, Welwick
[1] Henry III Fine Rolls Project, Fine Rolls of Henry III, [Fine_Rolls_Project].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, DDCC/93/1, East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records Service, [UKNationalArchives].
[3] A. E. Stamp, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry III, Vol. 12, 1261-1264 (London: HMSO), 246, [BritishHistoryOnline], [FHLBook].
[4] A. E. Stamp, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry III, Vol. 13, 1264-1268 (London: HMSO), 61, [FHLBook], [BritishHistoryOnline].
[5] David Robinson, The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340, Vol. 6 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2011), 126-128, Item 418, "Translation of the perpetual chantry of seven monks of Meaux at Ottringham to a place within the archbishop's jurisdiction near Meaux abbey at which a chapel is to be constructed", [GoogleBooks].
[6] David Simpkinm The English Aristocracy at War, 12, [GoogleBooks].
[7] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward II, Vol. II, 1313-1318 (London: HMSO, 1893), 209, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[8] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward II. A.D. 1313-1317 (London: HMSO, 1898), 593, [InternetArchive].
[9] S. O. Addy, "Some Ancient Documents Relating to Totley, Dore, and Holmshead, near Dronfield," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 3 (1881), 95-107, at 97, [GoogleBooks].
[10] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 7, Edward III (London: HMSO, 1909), 232, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[11] Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. II, 1330-1333 (London: HMSO, 1898), 201, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[12] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 7, Edward III (London: HMSO, 1909), 413, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, Vol. 5, 1340-1343 (London: HMSO, 1900), 468, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].