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Owen son of Meredith (ap Meredith). Meredith (ap Meredith) Owen Commons in Parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/124/6186

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SC 8/124/6186
Date
[1432]
Description
Petitioners
Owen son of Meredith (ap Meredith).
Name(s)
Meredith (ap Meredith), Owen
Addressees
Commons in Parliament.
Nature of request
Owen ap Meredith requests exemption from the statute of 2 Henry IV barring Welsh people from holding royal offices in England, purchasing land or tenements in English towns and various other restrictions.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] This bill to the Lords.[on dorse] It is agreed that Owen may have letters that he be considered a true English liege of the king for life, with all the associated privileges, not withstanding the statute mentioned in the petition, except that he may not become a citizen or burgess, or an officer or minister of the king, in any city, borough or market town.
Places mentioned
Wales.
People mentioned
[Henry IV], King of England.
Note
Assigned to the Parliament of 10 Henry VI (May 1432) in Rot. Parl. Vol. IV, p.415. The resultant grant was made on 12 May 1432, the opening day of that Parliament.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5398
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.207 (brief calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.212 (resultant letters of denization)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.415 (full edition of petition and response)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208357/

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