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's grandfather 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 late 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 late king's reign, his petition was endorsed that justice would be done for both parties when the heir was of age. 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, call Edmund and other necessary people, examine the record and charters, and ordain a remedy; and, if an error is found, he asks for the judgment to be annulled to be restored to his possessions with the issues.

Nature of endorsement

This bill, with the process arising from it in this parliament, is enrolled on the roll of this parliament.

Places mentioned

Dynbeigh (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

[Edward III], King of England

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.

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

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.35 (brief calendar of petition) & pp.34-35 (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.7b-8a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with judicial process following from petition) & pp.38a-39a (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & pp.58b-60b (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & 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)