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Eignon ap Yevan, burgess of the town of Beaumaris. ap Yevan Eignon King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/4/160

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Reference
SC 8/4/160
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Eignon ap Yevan, burgess of the town of Beaumaris.
Name(s)
ap Yevan, Eignon
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
burgess of the town of Beaumaris
Nature of request
Yevan requests a grant to him for the term of his life of the lands and tenements which Gougan held for his life in Anglesey, but which are now in the king's hand by escheat.1)
Nature of endorsement
The value and the kind of the land are to be enquired of, and the king is to be informed of the same, and he will have been advised of this, he will be able to do what is right.2) Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales]
Northgales (North Wales)
Anglesey, [Wales]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Llewelyn ap Griffith ap Gougan
William de Poynz
William de Denecestre (Doncaster), merchant and citizen of Chester.
Note
The petition is dated to 1320 by the heading in Rot. Parl., vol I, p.365 for the parliament held on Monday in the octave of St Michael, 14 Edward II.
Related material

For a near duplicate of SC 8/91/4506, see SC 8/118/5869

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/91/4506

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 220
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.26-7 (full calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.379b (no.77) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060280/

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