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Griffith ap Howel ap Gwilym ap Howel ap Gwilym Griffith King and council Griffith...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2402

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Reference
SC 8/49/2402
Date
[1331-1340]
Description
Petitioners
Griffith ap Howel ap Gwilym
Name(s)
ap Howel ap Gwilym, Griffith
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Griffith requests that the king order to the justice of Carmarthen or his lieutenant to try and enquire by good and lawful men of the country concerning land that he and his father before him held called Ynysfynadlog, of which he was deprived by Hackelute wrongfully and without judgement.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the justice that he inform himself by all the ways that he is able of the things contained in this petition, and certify the king of his findings in Chancery that the king be able to do what ought to be done.
Places mentioned
Yskenyn (Iscenne), [Carmarthanshire, Wales]
Henesvenadlauc (Ynysfynadlog), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
Cantref Mawr, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
Dynevour (Dinefwr), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
Kermerdyn (Carmarthen), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
People mentioned
Edmund Haklut (Hackelute), Keeper of the castle of Dynevor
Note
Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, p.63, dates this to? 1320 and 1331-40; it is suggested here within the latter date range on the basis that the endorsement is in French and therefore likely to occur after 1322.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3645
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.63 (full summary of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.379b-380a (Latin summary of another petition by the same petitioner on a related matter)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.390a (no.67) (edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062615/

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