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Community of the Welshry of Morgannwg King and council. The community request restitution...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/157/7840

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SC 8/157/7840
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Community of the Welshry of Morgannwg
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community request restitution of their lands and tenements with their goods and chattels and the issues and arrears which have been taken into the king's hand following the quarrel of the earl of Lancaster. Let this petition be sent to Chancery and there let a writ be sent to the keeper of Morgannwg that he view the reasons for the taking of the land into the king's hand, and make restitution of the same to those whose lands and tenements are in the king's hand by reason of the quarrel of the earl of Lancaster, and also the issues and arrears of the farm of which the king is not at all served.
Nature of endorsement
Let this petition be sent to Chancery and there let a writ be sent to the keeper of Morgannwg that he view the reasons for the taking of the land into the king's hand, and make restitution of the same to those whose lands and tenements are in the king's hand by reason of the quarrel of the earl of Lancaster, and also the issues and arrears of the farm of which the king is not at all served.
Places mentioned
Morgannwg, [Wales].
People mentioned
[Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
Note
The petition dates c. 1322 as it is clearly in the aftermath of the rebellion in the Marches that culminated in the defeat of the earl of Lancaster at Boroughbridge.
Related material

For an almost identical petition from the English of Glamorgan see SC 8/159/7936

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.263-4 (full summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210032/

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