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Rurit ap Carwet; 60 other free tenants of the king's commotes of Eifionydd and Ardudwy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1960

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Reference
SC 8/40/1960
Date
[c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
Rurit ap Carwet; 60 other free tenants of the king's commotes of Eifionydd and Ardudwy in Snowdonia.
Name(s)
ap Carwet, Rurit
Addressees
King
Nature of request
The petitioners state that they hold a fishery between the commotes of Eifionydd and Ardudwy at Aberglaslyn from a time out of memory. Nevertheless Mortimer, then the justice of Wales, took the fishery into the king's hand without any . . . by a false allegation. The petitioners request remedy of their grievance.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the justice or his lieutenant that he be informed by all means upon the things contained, and at what time they were disseised and by whom, and in whose hand the fishery is, and how much the fishery is valued per annum etc. and certify etc.
Places mentioned
Evyonyth (Eifionydd) commote, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
Ardudwy commote, [Merionethshire, Wales]
Snowdonia, [Wales]
Aberglaslyn, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Roger de Mortuo Mar' (Mortimer), Justice of Wales.
Note
The petition is probably close in date to a similar petition by the same petitioner that dates to June 1324 (CCW 1244-1326, p.556). Additionally the petition is attempting to gain redress for actions made by Roger de Mortimer when he was justice of Wales which must date this petition to the period 1322-1326 as such a complaint would be unthinkable before or after this date when the Mortimers were in power.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter see SC 8/89/4437

For a copy of the petition, writ and inquisition see item 6910 in C 81/127

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 9089
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.54 (full calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.556 (another petition by the same petitioner on the same subject)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062164/

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