William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury William King....

Petitioners

William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury.

Name(s)

de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, William

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury states that although the king granted to his father, William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, and to the heirs of his body, the castle, town and honour of Denbigh, the cantrefs of Rhos, Rhufoniog and Ceinmeirch, and the commote of Dinmael, with appurtenances in Wales, Roger de Mortimer recovered these from him, as kinsman and heir of Roger, late Earl of March, under the name of the land of Denbigh: and there was an error in the process and judgment. The judgment was executed in the twenty-eighth year of the king's reign, but he has never received any compensation for these lands, although the king had promised him by his charter that he would. He has sued from parliament to parliament since his loss, and in the parliament held at Westminster on 8 November in the forty-sixth year of the king's reign, his petition was endorsed that justice would be done for both parties when the heir was of age. The petition he submitted to the last parliament, held at Westminster on 23 November in the forty-seventh year of the king's reign, has not been answered, but the heir, Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March, is now of age. He requests that the king order the record to be brought before him and his council in the present parliament, call Edmund and other necessary people, examine the record and charters, and ordain a remedy. If an error is found, he asks for the judgement to be annulled, and that he might be restored to his possessions with the issues, or, if the judgment is confirmed, he asks for compensation, in money or some other manner, to the same value, and that of the annual value of the lands since he lost them.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Dynbeighe (Denbigh), [Denbighshire, Wales]

Roos (Rhos) cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Roweynok (Rhufoniog) cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Kaiemer (Ceinmeirch) cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Dymnael (Dinmael) commote, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Wales.

People mentioned

William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, father of petitioner

Roger de Mortymer (Mortimer)

Roger [de Mortymer (Mortimer)], Earl of March

Edmund de Mortymer (Mortimer), Earl of March.

A fragmentary duplicate of this petition is SC 8/339/15973

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/267/13330

A related petition is SC 8/128/6381

An earlier related petition is SC 8/15/735

A later related petition is SC 8/18/882

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.34-5 (calendar of petition) & p.35 (brief calendar of related petition) & p.449 (calendar of related petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XI, 1360-1364, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.32-33 (order to several people not to intermeddle with Denbigh in the king's name because of the wardship of Edmund de Mortymer, but to deliver it to the prince of Wales)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.499 (homage of petitioner for Denbigh)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1343-1345, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.200 (order to take Denbigh into the king's hand on the death of the petitioner's father)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.56a-57a, no.14 (grant to William de Montagu of the lands mentioned in the petition) & p.392, no.85 (edition of earlier petition on the same subject)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.7 (transcription of SC 8/18/882 on parliament roll, with judicial process following from petition) & pp.38a-39a (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & p.58b-60b (judicial process following from petition at later parliament)semicolonhere & pp.75b-78a (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & pp.352b-353a (edition of later petition on same matter by nephew and heir of petitioner)