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Walter le Graz. Graz Walter King and council Graz requests that the king will order...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2436

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Reference
SC 8/49/2436
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Walter le Graz.
Name(s)
Graz, Walter
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Graz requests that the king will order the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that they make due allowance to him for the time when he was keeper of the castle of Cefnllys and for those men who were in the garrison in the time of Mortimer or that he can be served of such a fee as was paid in Mortimer's time as they will not allow him their wages in his account without the king's order.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons that they make due allowance according to reason on his account.Coram domino rege.
Places mentioned
Kevefles (Cefnllys), [Radnorshire, Wales]
Melenez (Maelienydd), [Radnorshire, Wales]
Werthrenyoun (Gwrtheyrnion), [Radnorshire, Wales]
La Marche de Gales (The March of Wales).
People mentioned
Roger le Mortimer.
Note
The petition must date to some time not too long after 1322 when Graz was entrusted with the castle (CFR 1319-27, p.92).
Related material

For another petition by the same petition on a related matter see SC 8/49/2434

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3638
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. III, Edw II, 1319-1327, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.92 (commitment of the castles of Denbigh and Cefnllys to Graz)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062649/

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