Roger de Mortimer de Chirk. de Mortimer Roger King and council. Mortimer requests...

Petitioners

Roger de Mortimer de Chirk.

Name(s)

de Mortimer, Roger

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Mortimer requests that he may be allowed to enjoy the wardship of Griffith son of Madoc ab Griffith which is being claimed by Thomas de Hastings. Mortimer holds the lands of Glyndyfrdwy and Cynllaith in North Wales until the heir is of age. The king originally gave the lands to John Lestrange who was supposed to pay the value of the extent per annum, though he paid little or nothing. Following his death his executors did not wish to pay for the wardship and the lands were taken by the king and seised in the hand of the Justice of Wales who gave them to Edmund Hakelute free of any payment who in turn sold them to Mortimer. Now Thomas Hastings claims the wardship following his marriage to Maud, widow of John Lestrange as Lestrange's executor, though no-one had bothered with it earlier. Mortimer also claims that Thomas and Maud have sold the marriage of the heir though it pertained to the king, to the king's great damage.1)

Nature of endorsement

Afterwards this endorsement was changed as appears by the schedule sewn to the petition.2) A response struck-through.3) And because it was shown and read in the presence of the council by letters of the king when he was prince of Wales to John Lestraunge that the king reserved to himself the marriage of the heir, and the executors married the heir without the king's licence, and being interrogated on this matter could not deny it or show a licence. They are to seek the king's grace, and a day is given them on Saturday in the eve of Pentecost.

Places mentioned

Glyndewedeve (Glyndyfrdwy), [Merioneth, Wales]

Kenthlet (Cynllaith), [Denbighshire, Wales]

North Gales (North Wales).

People mentioned

Griffith son of Madoc ap Griffith

John Lestraunge (Lestrange) de Knockyn

Edmund Hakebutel (Hakelute)

Maud [Lestrange], widow of John Lestrange

Thomas Hastang (Hastings)

For a petition by Thomas Hastings, see SC 8/2/75

For a schedule recorded in the guard notes as attached to this petition, see item 12 in C 81/4

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp. 23-4 (full translation of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp. 306b-307a (no. 75) (transcription of petition on parliament roll)