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Officers of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Carmarthenshire and elsewhere in Wales...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/150/7491

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This record is about the Officers of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Carmarthenshire and elsewhere in Wales... dating from [? 1416] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/150/7491
Date
[? 1416]
Description
Petitioners
Officers of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Carmarthenshire and elsewhere in Wales
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petitioners states that on 12 November in the King's third year [1415], the King granted that in future the lands of the King's tenants in Carmarthenshire in South Wales who died without heirs of their bodies would no longer be seized into his hand as escheats, contrary to the laws of Wales. They ask if this is to extend to the lands of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in Carmarthenshire or elsewhere in Wales, and that this be made clear and enacted in the present parliament; provided that it is not to extend to the Duke's tenants.
Nature of endorsement
[On dorse] It is to be as is desired by this petition.[There were apparently four notes on the top of the face. The only one now legible reads 'The answer to this is on petition 30'.]
Places mentioned
Carmarthenshire, Wales
South Wales.
People mentioned
Humphrey [of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester.
Note
This petition is edited in Rot. Parl. vol. IV p.90b (no. 11) among petitions dated to 1415, but as it mentions the grant made on November 12 1415, the last or penultimate day of this parliament, it seems likely that it in fact dates from the parliament of March 1416.
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/150/7489

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
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), pp.250-1 (calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.90b (no.11) (full edition of original petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209676/

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