WELLES, John III

Welles appears not to have held any borough office at Huntingdon and it is not possible to prove he was the man appointed to a commission of sewers for the Wash in August 1480. CPR, 1476-85, p. 215. The commr. was possibly the John atte Welle who in Feb. 1482 conveyed a rent which he had earlier received from Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, to Reynold Bray† and others: CCR, 1476-85, no. 829. He may have died in early 1482, since in May that year the Crown ordered the escheator in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire to inquire about estates that the late John Wellys had held, but no inquisition post mortem has survived. CFR, xxi. no. 664.