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English burgesses of Cardigan. King and council. The burgesses request that the counties...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/84/4187

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Reference
SC 8/84/4187
Date
[1386]
Description
Petitioners
English burgesses of Cardigan.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The burgesses request that the counties and sessions are held in the town of Cardigan as the burgesses of Carmarthen approached de la Pole when he was chancellor and received a grant that the counties and sessions of Cardiganshire should be held at Carmarthen as well as those for Carmarthenshire, and this is to the great damage of Cardigan and the surrounding country.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Rhuddlan, [Denbighshire, Wales]
Cardigan, [Cardiganshire, Wales]
Cardiganshire, [Wales]
Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
Carmarthenshire, [Wales]
South Wales.
People mentioned
Michael de la Pole, Chancellor
Richard [Fitzalan], Earl of Arundel
John Kenterwode
John Massey
Richard Nasche
David Howeth
Richard Stury
John Worthe.
Note
The petition dates to 1386 as the petition was answered by a grant that the county court and the sessions of the justices should be held at Cardigan on 17 February 1386 (CPR 1385-9, p.114).
Related material

For another petition on the same matter see SC 8/98/4886

For a much earlier petition on the same matter see SC 8/38/1870

For a petition by the burgesses of New Carmarthen on a related matter see SC 8/255/12729

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2286
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), pp.123-4 (full calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.114 (grant that the county court and the sessions of the king's justices will be held at Cardigan)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148729/

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