William de St Albin, Prior of Goldcliff. de St Albin William King and council. Prior...

Petitioners

William de St Albin, Prior of Goldcliff.

Name(s)

de St Albin, William

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Prior of Goldcliff

Nature of request

St Albin requests amendment and remedy so that the house is not permanently damaged and disinherited as St Albin's predecessor as prior, Ronceiville, who was removed by the abbot of Bec Hellouin, came to the house with Walsh taking the goods of the priory, and taking the seal of the house and making several charters, releases, quitclaims and bonds of various lands and tenements, pensions etc. of the house, and they are without redress.

Nature of endorsement

Justices are assigned in Chancery as shall seem fit to the chancellor to enquire upon the contents in the petition, and to hear and determine the trespass both for the king and for the party.

Places mentioned

March of Wales

Bec Hellouin, [Normandy, France]

Westminster

Llanwern, [Monmouthshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Abbot of Bec Hellouin

Ralph de Ronceiville, monk and predecessor as prior of the petitioner

William le Galeys (Walsh).

For a later petition by the same petition complaining of further troubles see SC 8/68/3360

For a petition concerning the disputed right of advowson for the priory see SC 8/98/4899

For another later dispute by a subsequent prior concerning further outrages committed to the house see SC 8/50/2456

For a duplicate of SC 8/50/2456 see SC 8/50/2457

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.118-19 (full summary of petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.544 (commission of oyer and terminer to make enquiry into the matter)