Men of Hopedale and Kinnerton King and council The men of Hopedale and Kinnerton...

Petitioners

Men of Hopedale and Kinnerton

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

The men of Hopedale and Kinnerton state that they came before the king at Northampton the previous Christmas and showed him that, although when he had granted Hope and Kinnerton to Earl Warenne he had charged him to maintain the people there in the same condition as they used to be in the king's time, Earl Warenne had in various ways failed to do this. They petitioned the king for remedy, to which the Earl replied that he knew nothing of such grievances, and that they would not be continued. However, they have since found them worse than ever, and again ask the king to maintain them in their previous estate.

Nature of endorsement

Expedited before the king (coram rege).The Prince of Wales is to inquire through his council, at his next coming there, what estate they had in the time of the Queen, the consort of the present King, and in the time of the King: and he is to maintain them in the same estate.

Places mentioned

Hope, Flintshire, [Wales]

Kinnerton, Flintshire, [Wales]

Northampton, [Northamptonshire]

People mentioned

[John de Warenne], Earl Warenne

[Edward of Caernarfon], Prince of Wales

[Eleanor of Castile], Queen of England

For a later petition concerning the same lands is SC 8/83/4146

An inquisition relating to that petition is SC 8/204/10189

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.74-5 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.6 (gift to Edward, the King's son, of all the King's lands of North Wales, Anglesey and Hope, with a letter to the Earl of Surrey, to pay the Prince £40 annually for the farm of the castle and land of Hope, which he holds for life) & 7 (mandate to the Earl of Surrey, amongst others, to be intendant to Prince Edward, with a promise to exonerate him from payment of the £40)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.427 (grant for life to John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, of the keeping of the castle of Hope)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.118 (grant for life to Queen Margaret of various possessions in lieu of others which she has lost, including Hope, granted to Edward, prince of Wales)