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Burgesses of Llanfaes. King. The petitioners ask the king not to permit their premises...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/57/2803B

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This record is about the Burgesses of Llanfaes. King. The petitioners ask the king not to permit their premises... dating from [c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/57/2803B
Date
[c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses of Llanfaes.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petitioners ask the king not to permit their premises to be infringed and to allow them to live quietly after the cessation of certain grievances, according to what seems expedient to the royal discretion. They state that the are oppressed with many burdens since the deprivation of the liberties granted to them by the princes and later by the king's grace, so that they can neither sell nor buy in their usual manner, nor are ships allowed to anchor in their harbour, nor have they received any payment for their houses (which have been transported to Beaumaris), despite the king's order for doing this. Likewise they are wholly excluded from pastures and other things necessary to them and their animals.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be written to the justice that he is to certify to the king why they have not been satisfied for their houses.
Places mentioned
Llanmaes (Llanfaes), [Anglesey, Wales]
Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England.
Note
From Petitions Relating to Wales, pp.82-3.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/57/2803A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4901
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), pp.82-3 (summary of petition)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.327 (resulting inquiry)
  • The Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia, E.A. Lewis, (, 1912), p.295 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063022/

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