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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury William King...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/125/6208
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This record is about the William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury William King... dating from [c. 1377-c. 1397] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/125/6208
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1377-c. 1397]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury.
- Name(s)
- de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, William
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- William, Earl of Salisbury seeks remedy regarding attacks on his forest of Garthbriddok in his lordship of Mold, which he states he holds of the Crown, not of the principality of Wales or the lordship of Chester. He complains that the people of Flintshire continually enter his forest, grazing their cattle, cutting down his trees and threatening his foresters.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Mohunteseale (Mold) lordship, [Flintshire, Wales]
- Wales
- Chester, [Cheshire]
- Garthbriddok (Garthbridoke) Forest, [Flintshire, Wales]
- Flintshire, [Wales].
- People mentioned
- Justice of Chester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Assigned by Rees to the period 1338-44, but the handwriting is clearly much later in date. As such, the petition presumably dates from the time of the second Earl William, who came of age in 1349 and died in 1397. On the basis of the handwriting a date in the reign of Richard II appears most likely.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from this petitioner see SC 8/125/6217
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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 5434
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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)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.208 (summary of petition, wrongly dated)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208381/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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