Holinshed's Chronicles

Roger Winchester

Family: London · Role: bailiff of London · First appears: King John 13

Life events

  • c. 1207 · King John released Roger Winchester and Edmund Hardell from prison and pardoned their offenses.(King John 13)
    • With: Edmund Hardell King John
    • “By which means, and through fréendship which they had in the court, the king was so satisfied, that he released them from prison, and pardoned their offenses.”

King John 13

  • enemies with King John “The two former bailiffes were discharged and commited to prison by the kings commandement, vpon displeasure taken against them bicause they had resisted his purueier of wheat”
  • sworn: King John “By which means, and through fréendship which they had in the court, the king was so satisfied, that he released them from prison, and pardoned their offenses.”

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