Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex...

Petitioners

Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex

Name(s)

de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, Humphrey

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

1) Bohun shows that his father the late earl was seised in demesne as of fee of the castle and land of Builth, of which he died seised in the time of Edward II. Bohun has petitioned the prince of Wales in whose hands the castle and lands are, requesting that he give them to him as his heritage, to which the prince answered that he held them by gift of the king, and that he was not able to answer the petition without the king. Bohun sued to the king until the king ordered Saddington to assemble his justices and sergeants and others of his council, and the council of the prince to examine the business. The earl presented his evidence and nothing was found to bar his right upon which the justices and the others did not wish to do anything. The earl requests that the king order those of his council to do law and reason to the earl.2) Copy of a writ of Edward III to Saddington to assemble the justice and sergeants and others of his council, and the council of the prince of Wales, and having debated and heard their advice concerning the business to show the archbishop of Canterbury so that he is able to show the king so that he is able to order according to his will.

Nature of endorsement

Because this petition concerns the king and his crown and the prince of Wales, let it be ordered before the king and his great council and there let justice be done.

Places mentioned

Buelt (Builth), [Breconshire, Wales]

Gales (Wales)

People mentioned

Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, father of the petitioner

Edward of Woodstock

Prince of Wales

Robert Sadyngton (Saddington), Chancellor

[John Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury

For another petition on the same subject see SC 8/244/12200

For another copy of this petition with minor differences, and without the copy of the writ see SC 8/34/1693

For another badly faded copy of this petition with the writ, differently endorsed see SC 8/34/1695

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/34/1696

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.43 (calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.185b (no.44) (transcription of a later copy of this petition without the writ)