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Griffith (Gruffydd) Donne. Donne Griffith (Gruffydd) King. Griffith Donne requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1157

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This record is about the Griffith (Gruffydd) Donne. Donne Griffith (Gruffydd) King. Griffith Donne requests... dating from 1421 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/24/1157
Date
1421
Description
Petitioners
Griffith (Gruffydd) Donne.
Name(s)
Donne, Griffith (Gruffydd)
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Griffith Donne requests that he might be made able, by authority of this present parliament, to purchase lands and tenements in England, and in the English boroughs and towns in Wales, and to enjoy all liberties and franchises as freely as any Englishman, although, as he is Welsh, an ordinance of the king's progenitors prevents him from purchasing lands and tenements in England, or in English boroughs and towns in Wales.
Nature of endorsement
Soit baille as seignurs (It is to be delivered to the lords) (on front).The response to this petition, and the petition itself, are enrolled on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster on 2 May in the ninth year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest.
Places mentioned
Wales.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2656
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.131a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with response: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061325/

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