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People of Herefordshire. King and Council. The people request that the keepers of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/115/5741

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Reference
SC 8/115/5741
Date
[1327-1338]
Description
Petitioners
People of Herefordshire.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The people request that the keepers of the peace for Herefordshire should be Talbot, Grandison and Chaundos, and that they should have no duties other than keeping the peace of the county, due to the danger from the Welsh.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Herefordshire.
People mentioned
Gilbert Talebot (Talbot)
Peter de Graunsson (Grandison)
Roger de Chaundos (Chandos).
Note
Presumably dates from the period when these men served as keepers of the peace, in the early years of Edward III. Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, p. 191, dated the petition to 1327 or 1332, but B.H. Putnam, 'The transformation of the keepers of the peace into the justicesof the peace', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1929), p. 36, suggested 1338, associating the petition with the election of shire officials in that year. A date range of 1327-1338 is therefore suggested here.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4085
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), p.191 (summary of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.295 (appointment of Talbot, Grandison and Chaundos, together with Adam Lucas, as keepers of the peace for Herefordshire)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.90 (appointment of Grandison, Chaundos and Talebot as keepers of the peace for Herefordshire)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150415/

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