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

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.

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

• 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)