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John de Grey. de Grey John King and council. John de Grey complains that a group...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/242
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/5/242
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Grey.
- Name(s)
- de Grey, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- John de Grey complains that a group of malefactors, tenants of the king from Merioneth, Penllyn, Ardudwy, Edeyrnion, Glyndyfrdwy and Dinmael, sent by (par lenvoy) Griffith ap Rees, came to his town of Ruthyn on the Wednesday before the feast of St Gregory, in the fifteenth year of the king's reign, and there attacked his castle, and started to burn down the town, burning down the houses of Blethyn ap Heylyn and Jankyn le Messer - they would have burnt down the whole town if they had not been prevented - robbed his people of the town and surrounding area, killed his men John his parker and Richard de Faryntone, gravely wounded forty others, destroyed his parks, drove off many horses from his stud - of which they are still seised - killed and carried off his game, and stole the goods of the tenants of the country, both livestock and other goods; and they still rob and destroy in the area. He requests grace and a remedy of the king, as the malefactors are his tenants and he can have a remedy in no other way: if they were anyone else's tenants he could have recovery for this trespass by Day of the March or in some other manner according to the customs of the country.
- Nature of endorsement
- This petition is to be delivered into chancery and sent by writ of the great seal to the justiciar of North Wales, with this petition included with it, for him to do justice to the petitioner according to the law and custom of those parts.
- Places mentioned
- Merioneth, [Wales]
- Penthlyn (Penllyn), [Merioneth, Wales]
- Ardudo (Ardudwy), [Merioneth, Wales]
- Edyrnon (Edeirnion), [Merioneth, Wales]
- Glyndouerdo (Glyndyfrdwy), [Merioneth, Wales]
- Dynmayl (Dinmael), [Denbighshire, Wales]
- Ruthyn en Deffrencloyt (Rhuthun in Dyffryn Clwyd), [Denbighshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- Urien ap Tegwarret (ap Tegwared)
- Griffith, son of Urien ap Tegwarret (ap Tegwared)
- David Thloyt ap Gurgennon ap Maddok de Penllyn
- David Thloyt ap Meurik, Griffith ap Davyd ap Elisse
- Eignoun Vaghan ap Eignon Leglu
- Edenevet Vaghan ap Oggepurs
- Howel son of Adam de Bala
- Morgan le Ryngild
- Howel ap Maddok ap Ievan de Gouthelewer
- Ever Vaghan ap Ever ap Meurik de Merioneth
- Howel Gogh ap Griff ap Gronou (Gronon?) de Penllyn
- Rirct (Ryce) ap Ada Vaghan de Gouthelewer
- Ievan Duy ap Gronou
- Melogyn de Dynmayl
- Griffith ap Rees
- Blethyn ap Heylyn
- Jankyn le Messer
- John, parker of John de Grey
- Richard de Faryntone
- the justiciar of North Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Assuming that this petition is contemporary with the others surrounding it, and the St Gregory referred to is Gregory the Great (whose feast is 12 March (3 September for the feast of his ordination)), then the Wednesday before St Gregory's day, in the fifteenth year of the king's reign, when the attack took place, would probably be 10 March 1322, or possibly 2 September 1321.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 3856
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.29-30 (see also pp.23-4)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.397b, no.59 (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. 59 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060362/
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