Reginald de Grey of Ruthin. de Grey Reginald King and his council in parliament....

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 Laci 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

The said process, and the plea begun on it, are to be continued in the state in which they are now, until a month after Michaelmas next; and on this matter a letter of the privy seal is to be sent to John de la Pole, by which he also is to be ordered to be before the council at the said time, fully informed concerning this matter.

Places mentioned

Ruthin, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Deffrencloit (Dyffryn Clwyd) cantre, [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 Laci (Lacy)

John de la Pole, Justiciar of Chester.

For an earlier petition concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5602

For a related petition see SC 8/19/918

For an earlier document concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5603

For a duplicate petition see SC 8/19/919

• 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 original petition)