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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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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This record is about the Owen son of Meredith (ap Meredith). Meredith (ap Meredith) Owen Commons in Parliament.... dating from [1432] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/124/6186
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1432]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5398
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208357/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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