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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Prior and convent of Brecon. King and council. The prior and convent request remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/91/4534
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Brecon. King and council. The prior and convent request remedy... dating from [c. 1322] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/91/4534
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Brecon.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The prior and convent request remedy as Mortimer has disturbed them in holding their court at Brecon for their tenants of Walterstone Goch, and now the king's bailiff similarly disturbs them.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face]They should have a writ to the keeper of the lands of those parts that he should enquire of the truth of this and do justice.[On dorse, none]
- Places mentioned
- Brecon, [Breconshire, Wales]
- Battle Abbey, [Sussex]
- Walterstone Goch (Walterstone), [Herefordshire]
- Blaenllyfni, [Breconshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- Roger de Mortymer (Mortimer) of Chirk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition, as Rees notes, must date to the period in or after 1322 following the confiscation of the Mortimer of Chirk estates after their revolt against Edward II (Petitions Relating to Wales, pp.137-8).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from the same house, see SC 8/36/1773
For another petition by the same house see SC 8/4/196
For transcript, see no.7 of PRO 31/7/101
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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 510
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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), pp.137-8 {full calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149080/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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