Amended March 2009
In his book “Studies on the population of Medieval London”, E ECKWALL
identifies a number of individuals with notes as to the origin of each. one of
his entries reads as follows
“PEDWARDINE, from Wigmore, Herefordshire NE of Presteigne (Pedewardin 13th)
John PETEWARDYN 1320. John de PETEWARDYN 1327 LBE 120, 222.
John PEDEWARDYN 1326 Cor. 160f (of All Hallows Lombard Street, and juror for
Bishopsgate ward), 1332s (Bish; 16d).
John in 1327 was made an overseer of the sale of hay. He was doubtless a hay
or corn monger.
The abbreviation Cor stands for the Coroners Rolls of the City of London
AD1300-1378 Ed R R SHARPE. London 1913 (SL70/115) Page 160-1 gives the following
account On the death of Alexander de Staunford Bishopsgate.
On Wednesday the morrow of St John the Baptist (24 Jun) the same year(19
Edward II =AD1326) information given to the aforesaid Coroner and Sheriffs that
A.S. lay dead of a death other than his rightful death in the High Street
opposite the rent of John DEVENEYS in the parish of All Hallows de Graschurche
in the ward of Bysshopesgate. thereupon they proceeded thither and having
summoned good men of that ward and of the three nearest wards viz Longebourne,
Cornhulle, Lymestrete they diligently enquired how it happened. The jurors
(numbering 30 were 12 from Bishopsgate, 6 from Longbourn, 6 from Cornhill and 6
from Limestreet included John PEDEWARDYN, 4 tailors a taverner, and a shoemaker)
say that on Wednesday, the morrow of St John the Baptist, Walter le Clerk de
Edelmeton and A.S. were fighting at the hour of vespers in the High St of
Greschurchestreet, when the said Walter struck the said A.S. on the back of the
head with a staff called shide (i.e. a baton) so that he fell to the ground and
immediately died.
The said Walter was at once captured and taken to Newgate. Four neighbours
attached included John PEDEWARDYN.