Prior and convent of Bregheynok (Brecon). King and council. The prior and convent...

Petitioners

Prior and convent of Bregheynok (Brecon).

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The prior and convent request that the king order the wardens of the castles of Brecon, Hay, Blaenllyfni and Talgarth that the prior and convent be able to have the tithes from those lands and castles, which tithes they were seised of from the time of their foundation until now, and that they need for their sustenance, but which the wardens detain.

Nature of endorsement

The wardens of those places are to be ordered that they suffer the prior and convent to have and receive the tithes etc. as they have always received, which they are able by inquest or by other reasonable manner to establish that they had and received.

Places mentioned

Bregheynok (Brecon), [Brecknockshire, Wales]

Haye (Hay on Wye), [Brecknockshire, Wales]

Bleyleveny (Blaenllyfni), [Brecknockshire, Wales]

Talgarth, [Brecknockshire, Wales]

For another petition from the same house, see SC 8/36/1773

For other petitions by the same house see SC 8/6/298

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.29 (full calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.389a (no.10) (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 10 (summary of references)