Reginald de Grey of Ruthin. de Grey Reginald King and the lords of parliament. Grey...

Petitioners

Reginald de Grey of Ruthin.

Name(s)

de Grey, Reginald

Addressees

King and the lords of parliament.

Nature of request

Grey states that his grandfather was granted the castle of Ruthin, the cantref of Dyffryn Clwyd and the lands that were Lacy's in Tegeingl cantref. He is now maliciously challenged in an inquisition before de la Pole by Welsh people that his grandfather acquired the lands wrongfully by colour of his office as justice of Chester. He requests that an end is put to this business by right and reason for the king and for his inheritance.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Ruthin, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Dyffryn Clwyd cantref, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Tegeingl (Englefield) cantref, [Flintshire, Wales]

Flintshire, [Wales].

People mentioned

Edward I King of England

Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester, grandfather of the petitioner

Wenthlian de Lacy

John de la Pole.

For an earlier petition concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5602

For transcript, see no.31 of PRO 31/7/107

For a duplicate of SC 8/19/919 see SC 8/19/920

For a related petition see SC 8/19/919

For an apparent duplicate petition see SC 8/19/918

For an earlier document concerning the same lands see SC 8/113/5603

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.182-3 (calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.70a (no. 4) (full edition of a variant of this petition)