Mayor Of Winchester

Winchester. 8 recorded holders. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. Walter de Valle 1282
   • 1282-07-24 — The like to R. Fulconis and William de Brayboef, on complaint by the of Hyde that whereas by reason of the liberty of the hundred of co. Southampton, held by hi…
2. Richard Gabriel 1302
   • 1302-01-28 — To Petronilla, late the wife of Adam de Northampton. Order to deliver to Richard Gabriel, mayor of Winchester, the greater part of the king's seal appointed for…
3. Ralph de Malling 1330
4. Nicholas le Devenyssh 1339–1340 ×4
   • 1340-04-10 — The like to the following, to wit : Nicholas Devenyssh, mayor of Winchester, for 80 sacks. John Gabriel for 15 sacks. Robert Inkepenne for 15 sacks. By K. on th…
   • 1340-04-10 — The like to the following, to wit : Nicholas Devenyssh, mayor of Winchester, for 80 sacks. John Gabriel for 15 sacks. Robert Inkepenne for 15 sacks. By K. on th…
5. John Bussell 1348 ×3
   • 1348-04-03 — To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the hall in Winchester castle to be newly roofed, and the defects of the other houses, walls and turrets of the ca…
   • 1348-04-08 — To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the hall in Winchester castle to be newly roofed, and the defects of the other houses, walls and turrets of the ca…
6. Walter Chamberlayn 1352
   • 1352-05-16 — Commission to William de Fifhide, John de Ingepenne and Walter Chamberlayn, mayor of Winchester, to compel those citizens who have left the city with their good…
7. Thomas Smale 1423
   • 1423-05-04 — and John Langford, the last farmers, rendered ; in the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon. By bill of the treasurer. Robert Esmel of Devises, co. Wilts, by ma…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “mayor of Winchester”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/mayor-of-winchester, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.