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Iorwerth Voil of Caernarfonshire. Voil Iorwerth King. Iorwerth Voil states that he...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/77/3830

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Reference
SC 8/77/3830
Date
[1316-1321]
Description
Petitioners
Iorwerth Voil of Caernarfonshire.
Name(s)
Voil, Iorwerth
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Iorwerth Voil states that he has served the King and his father well, and has been rewarded with the grant of the ringildry of Eifionydd hundred without farm, for which he has both kings' letters patent. However, John de la Maner, Under-sheriff of Caernarfonshire, is distraining him for £12 for this bailiwick, contrary to the tenor of these letters. He asks that he might hold the bailiwick without farm.
Nature of endorsement
He is to come to Chancery and show there the letters he has from the late king and from the present king. And he is to have a writ to the Justiciar or to his lieutenant to allow him to hold according to the form of the letters, and as he has held hitherto etc.
Places mentioned
Caernarfonshire, [Wales]
Eifionydd hundred, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
People mentioned
[Edward I], King of England
John de la Maner, Under-sheriff of Caernarfonshire
John de Sapy, Sheriff of Caernarfonshire.
Note
CPR 1313-17 p.459 is dated 17 May 1316.John de Sapy was Sheriff of Caernarfonshire between 8 August 1316 and Michaelmas 1321.
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/77/3831

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4561
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.113 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.459 (grant of ringildry of Eifionydd to the petitioner)
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