Prior and convent of Brecon. King and council. The prior and convent of Brecon state...

Petitioners

Prior and convent of Brecon.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The prior and convent of Brecon state that they are a daughter house of Battle abbey, which is enfranchised, for itself and all its daughter houses by charters of the Conqueror and of the king's ancestors, and that Bernard de Newmarch, Roger, formerly earl of Hereford, and others, founders of their priory, gave and granted them various lands, tenements and franchises in Wales, as can more fully be seen from the charters they have for these. As they are greatly impoverished by the trouble there has been in the region, they request that the king order that their charters be examined in Chancery - or anywhere else it pleases him - and that he might be pleased to confirm them.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege [possibly deleted].They are to go to Chancery and their charters are to be examined and confirmed as reasonably etc. by fine etc.

Places mentioned

Breghenok (Brecon), [Brecknockshire, Wales]

Battle, [Sussex].

People mentioned

Bernard de Noefmarche (Newmarch), steward of William I, king of England

Roger (de Breteuil), Earl of Hereford.

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

For another petition by the same house see SC 8/4/196

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.30-31 (full calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.444 (inspeximus and confirmation, in favour of the abbot and convent of Battle, of various charters relating to Brecon)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.408b, no.128 (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.128 (summary of references)