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Laurence de Hastynges (Hastings) de Hastynges (Hastings) Laurence King and council...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/51/2510

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Reference
SC 8/51/2510
Date
[c. 1331]
Description
Petitioners
Laurence de Hastynges (Hastings)
Name(s)
de Hastynges (Hastings), Laurence
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Laurence de Hastynges, who is under age and in the king's wardship, states that one David de Barry has brought various writs of the king's Chancery of oyer and terminer, concerning various trespasses committed in Pembrokeshire, which is a county palatine and part of Lawrence's inheritance, where no writ of the king should run, but rather writs of the Chancery of the county. He asks for the writs to be repealed, so that he is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement
A writ is to be issued to repeal the commission made under the great seal.
Places mentioned
Pembrokeshire, [Wales]
People mentioned
David de Barry
Note
CCR 1330-3 pp.405-6 is dated at Clarendon, 3 December 1331, and appears to be part of this same dispute about jurisdiction.CPR 1330-4 p.199 is apparently the commission which started the dispute, and is dated at Lincoln, 20 July 1331.Further references are given by Petitions Relating to Wales, p.72.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3954
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.72 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.405-6 (order to release on mainprise certain men indicted of felonies in Pembrokeshire, in a case which has produced an argument about whose jurisdiction is valid)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.199 (commission of oyer and terminer granted on complaint by David de Barry that certain people besieged and broke into his house, carried away his goods, and killed one servant and assaulted others)
  • Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.17 (brief calendar)
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