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Heirs of Griffith Goch ap Llewelyn Wyneu. King and council The heirs request remedy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2431

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Reference
SC 8/49/2431
Date
[c. 1300-c. 1325]
Description
Petitioners
Heirs of Griffith Goch ap Llewelyn Wyneu.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The heirs request remedy concerning their possession of the land of Lodreu Maeant and elsewhere, which they temporarily surrendered into the king's hand because of their poverty, but have since recovered. Nevertheless the bailiffs of the king charge them for additional rents and services.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the justice of West Wales that he inform himself upon the content in this petition and certify the king.
Places mentioned
Lodreu Maeant [unidentified], [Wales]
Geroryd [unidentified], [Wales]
Ryvlas (Rhiwlas), [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Griffith Goch ap Llewelyn Wyneu
Note
No positive context has been established. Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, dates this temp. Edward III, but the hand looks earlier, and it is tentatively assigned here to the first quarter of the fourteenth century.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3904
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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.65 (brief calendar of the petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062644/

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