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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Gwenthyan (Gwenllian) daughter of Meredith. Meredith Gwenthyan (Gwenllian) King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2410
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This record is about the Gwenthyan (Gwenllian) daughter of Meredith. Meredith Gwenthyan (Gwenllian) King and... dating from [c. 1330] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/49/2410
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Gwenthyan (Gwenllian) daughter of Meredith.
- Name(s)
- Meredith, Gwenthyan (Gwenllian)
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Gwenthyan requests that because she is so old and feeble and cannot work a piece of land that she holds in Cardiganshire that she be able to grant it to her two daughters, and if it is to the king's profit that it is not divided but granted to one of the daughters that she be able to enfeoff whichever daughter that she wishes. She requests a writ to the justice of Wales to enquire into this.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should declare which daughter she wishes to give it to, and once the declaration is made, let her have a writ ad quod damnum to the escheator in those part.
- Places mentioned
- Cardiganshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition possibly dates to the late 1320s, as it would seem that by 1331 the petitioner's daughter had been ejected from the land, and by 1332 the petitioner was dead (Petitions Relating to Wales, p.65).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition probably concerning one of the daughters of this petitioner see SC 8/98/4852
For letters patent probably relating to other claims on this land see SC 8/98/4851
For a petition of one of the probable daughters of this petitioner see SC 8/98/4853
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 9081
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.65 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062623/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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