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Reginald de Grey of Ruthin. de Grey Reginald King and his council in parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/19/919
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This record is about the Reginald de Grey of Ruthin. de Grey Reginald King and his council in parliament.... dating from [? 1379] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/19/919
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Reginald de Grey of Ruthin.
- Name(s)
- de Grey, Reginald
- Addressees
- King and his council in parliament.
- Nature of request
- Reginald de Grey of Ruthin states that King Edward, the great-great-grandfather of the present king, granted to Reginald de Grey, the petitioner's great-grandfather, and his heirs, the castle of Ruthin, the cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd and the lands which belonged to Wenthlian de Lacy in the same cantref and in the cantref of Englefield, to hold of the king by a whole service; and that he and his ancestors have held them until recently, in an inquisition before John de la Pole, Justiciar of Chester, in the county of Flint, it was presented maliciously by certain Welshmen that Reginald de Grey, to whom these lands were given, intruded into certain lands and tenements in the cantrefs of Dyffryn Clwyd and Englefield, wrongly and by colour of his office while he was Justiciar of Chester. A process was begun on this and is still pending. He asks that it be seen and examined, and the business decided by the king's ordinance.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Ruthin, [Denbighshire, Wales]
- Deffrencloit (Dyffryn Clwyd) cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]
- Englefield (Tegeingl) cantref, [Flintshire, Wales]
- Flintshire, [Wales]
- Wales.
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
- Reginald de Grey, Justiciar of Chester
- Wenthlian de Lacy
- John de la Pole, Justiciar of Chester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.70a (no. 4) assigns this petition to the parliament held at Westminster at the quinzaine of Easter 2 Richard II (1379).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an earlier petition concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5602
For a related petition see SC 8/113/5628
For a duplicate petition see SC 8/19/920
For an earlier document concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5603
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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 3743
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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), p.182 (calendar of related petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.70a (no.4) (full edition of duplicate petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061074/
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