Villeins of the manor of Penrhos, Anglesey. King and council. The villeins request...

Petitioners

Villeins of the manor of Penrhos, Anglesey.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The villeins request that Grey be ordered to examine the extent of their manor or to extend it anew if he sees it is for the greater profit of the king to take what was paid before, or to take as much as they have in chattels, and that they go and purchase their sustenance elsewhere. They petitioned the king at Kennington when he was prince to redress the wrong done in the extent of their manor which was done, but now Sapy demands great sums from them and seized their meagre goods and chattels.1)

Nature of endorsement

They should have a day at Caernarfon on Thursday . . .2) Let the petition be sent to the justice of North Wales, and order him to inform himself of the ordinances made at Kennington concerning the people of Penrhos in the time of the king when he was prince of Wales which ordinances remain with the Chamberlain of Caernarfon under the prince's seal; and according to these ordinances he is to inform himself of what is contained in the petition and then certify the king, and in the meantime release the distresses made for the rent and arrears.

Places mentioned

Penrhos, Anglesey, [Wales]

Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]

North Wales

Kennington, [Surrey].

People mentioned

William [de Sutton], then justice of North Wales

John de Sapy, Sheriff of Anglesey

John de Grey, justice of North Wales.

For the inquisition formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/156/7786

For the writ in accordance with the response to the petition see SC 8/156/7784

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.261-2 (full summary of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.308b-9a (no.83) (full transcription of petition on parliament roll)