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Gruffydd (Griffith) Thloyt (Lloyd). Thloyt (Lloyd) Gruffydd (Griffith) King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/75/3732

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Reference
SC 8/75/3732
Date
[c. 1296]
Description
Petitioners
Gruffydd (Griffith) Thloyt (Lloyd).
Name(s)
Thloyt (Lloyd), Gruffydd (Griffith)
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Griffith LLoyd complains that John de Haveringe imprisoned him in Conway castle for more than half a year, without him knowing why. He asks, for the soul of the queen, in whose service he was, that he might be allowed to answer any accusations made against him.
Nature of endorsement
At parliament and let the justiciar hear it; or he is to be ordered to inform the King of the reason for his arrest and detention in prison.
Places mentioned
Snowdon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
Conway, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned
John de Haveringe
[Eleanor of Castile], Queen of England.
Note
Edwards, 'Llwyd', pp.589-601, dates this petition to 1296. Petitions Relating to Wales p.110 confirms this dating, but is more cautious, dating to c. 1296.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner apparently on the same matter, see SC 8/319/E388

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/158/7854

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 9165
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.110 (calendar of petition)
  • Sir Gruffydd Llywyd, J.G. Edwards, (English Historical Review, XXX, pp. 589-, 1915), p.600 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107506/

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