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William Bulkely (Bulkeley), esquire. Bulkely (Bulkeley) William Commons of the present...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4661

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Reference
SC 8/94/4661
Date
[1444]
Description
Petitioners
William Bulkely (Bulkeley), esquire.
Name(s)
Bulkely (Bulkeley), William
Addressees
Commons of the present parliament.
Nature of request
Bulkely requests the commons to pray to the king by the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal in the present parliament that he be allowed to accept all manner of offices within Wales and their marches and be able to accept all manner of liberties, freedoms and franchises and customs therein, he having married Ellen who is half Welsh, and it being ordained in the reign of Henry IV that no Englishman marrying a Welsh woman be put in office in Wales.
Nature of endorsement
[On face]Let this bill be sent to the Lords.[On dorse, none]
Places mentioned
Wales
Welsh Marches.
People mentioned
Ellen [Bulkely (Bulkeley)], wife of the petitioner, and daughter of Gwillym ap Gruffuth
Gwillym ap Gruffith
William Stanley, knight.
Note
The petition dates 1444 as a petition from English towns asking for the upholding of statutes against the Welsh specifically refers to this petition, and requests that Bulkely be excluded from the prohibitions (Rot. Parl., vol. V, p.104a-b (no.II)).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 784
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.146-7 (full summary of petition but misnumbered as SC 8/94/4660)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.104 (no.II) (petition from English towns asking for the upholding of statutes against the Welsh, with Bulkely being specifically excluded from this, and with reference to this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149212/

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