Burgesses of Carmarthen. King and Council. The burgesses of Carmarthen request action...

Petitioners

Burgesses of Carmarthen.

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

The burgesses of Carmarthen request action in their dispute over the sale of goods in Old Carmarthen. They state that Edward I granted that only certain goods could be bought and sold in gross within five leagues of their borough. However, as appears by the attached transcript, the Prior of Carmarthen has been holding markets in Old Carmarthen, and although the Justice of South Wales had been ordered by various writs to enforce this grant, he has failed to do so, to the great damage of the king and the town.

Nature of endorsement

Because it was ordered that the sale of merchandise in gross, except those exempted, was not permitted within five leagues of the king's boroughs in Wales except within those boroughs, the justice is commanded, despite the protest of the Prior of Carmarthen, that he should not permit the sale of goods in Old Carmarthen unless the Prior produce a charter of the king or his predecessors, or other such evidence, allowing him to hold such a market.

Places mentioned

Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire], Wales

[Old] Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Edward [I], King of England

[Robert Daviston], Prior of Carmarthen

[William Martyn], Justice of South Wales.

For an inquisition held into the rights of the Prior in Old Carmarthen see no.22 of C 145/76

For the writ to which this petition relates see SC 8/119/5908A

For an earlier related writ once attached to this petition see SC 8/119/5909

For the transcript mentioned in this petition see SC 8/119/5910

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.196-7 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.216 (confirmation of ordinance in favour of the burgesses of Carmarthen) & p.397 (inspeximus of charters in favour of the Prior)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.370 (order to the Justice of South Wales to allow the Prior to hold his market in Old Carmarthen)
• Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.15 (response to a later petition from the Prior of Carmarthen on this issue)