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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Margaret de Haiworth, widow of William de Haiworth, clerk de Haiworth Margaret King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2496
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This record is about the Margaret de Haiworth, widow of William de Haiworth, clerk de Haiworth Margaret King... dating from [c. 1305] 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 8/50/2496
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Margaret de Haiworth, widow of William de Haiworth, clerk
- Name(s)
- de Haiworth, Margaret
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Haiworth requests that justice be done to her for Fitz Renaud murdered her husband wrongfully and without reason. Fitz Renaud with the sheriff without any proven cause procured to have her husband imprisoned against the law of the land. Fitz Renaud claimed that her husband had committed a robbery in his land of Blaenllyfni requiring him to answer in his court there, but her husband was unable to answer without his ordinary as law demanded. The sheriff having no regard for the Church, and for gifts made to him by Fitz Renaud delivered him to him although he was his mortal enemeny. Fitz Renaud proceeded to hang him and left him for a night. Finding him still alive the next morning he mutilated him, and finding him still alive the following day further mutilated him until he died.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should sue an appeal for the death of her husband.
- Places mentioned
- Glamorgan, [Wales]
- Blaynleveny (Blaenllyfni), [Breconshire, Wales]
- People mentioned
- John Fitz Renaud
- William de Haiworth, clerk, late husband of the petitioner
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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 4164
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.70-1 (full summary of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.383 (pardon to Fitz Renaud for the death of Haiworth)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062710/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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