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Eynon (Einion) ap Gwilym. ap Gwilym Eynon (Einion) King and council. Eynoun ap Gwilym...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/89/4450
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/89/4450
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Eynon (Einion) ap Gwilym.
- Name(s)
- ap Gwilym, Eynon (Einion)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Eynoun ap Gwilym states that his great-grandfather, whose heir he is, leased half the commote of Is Coed (otherwise Is Coed Is-Hirwern or Coedmor) to Roger de Mortimer of the New House for term of life, and that after Roger's death, his son and heir entered, and to bar William's heirs from their inheritance, leased the tenements in mortgage to Hugh de Cressingham; after Hugh's death, they came into the King's hand, because he was Treasurer of Carmarthen. He sued on this matter in the time of the King's father, and had a writ of inquiry, but Roger de Mortimer, who then became Justiciar of Wales, refused to do justice, and delivered the tenements to a Roger de Mortimer, his kinsman, without process of law. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Justiciar of South Wales is to be ordered to inquire into the contents of this petition, and to inform the King in his Chancery; and justice is to be done to him there.
- Places mentioned
- Is Coed Is-Hirwern, [Cardiganshire, Wales]
- Is Coed commote, [Cardiganshire, Wales]
- Coyt Maur (Coedmor, Is Coed Mortimer), [Cardiganshire, Wales]
- Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- William ap [Gourwaret], great-grandfather of petitioner
- Roger de Mortimer of the New House
- Llywelyn (Lewis) [de Mortimer], son and heir of Roger de Mortimer
- Hugh de Cressingham
- Roger de Mortimer, Justiciar of Wales
- Roger de Mortimer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Petitions Relating to Wales p.134 dates this petition to '? c. 1317-21', interpreting it as an appeal against Roger de Mortimer of Chirk's grant of the commote to his nephew, Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore, during his second period of office as Justiciar of Wales in 1317-1322. However, it mis-identifies the Roger de Mortimer who was the beneficiary of the original grant: the grant of Iscoed was in fact made to Roger Mortimer of West Wales, son of Henry Mortimer. His grandson, Roger Mortimer of West Wales, son of Llywelyn Mortimer, recovered the lands in 1329 (CPR 1327-30 p.436). Petitions Relating to Wales further identifies the Eynon who appealed against this grant as an Eynon ab Ieuan, and reads 'ab Ieuan' to accommodate this: but the petition clearly says 'Eynon ap Gwilym'. Either the name has been miscopied or, as seems likely, the petitioner is the Eynon ap Gwilym ab Eynon who in 1335 received a plot of land in this commote at rent for his service in Scotland (CFR 1327-37 p.433). All this suggests a date for this petition of c. 1330, after the fall of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, who was Justiciar of Wales from 1327 (CFR 1327-37 p.19).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.158 of PRO 31/7/129
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 256
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.134 (calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148994/
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