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John de Mowbray. de Mowbray John King and council. Mowbray requests that certain...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7870

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Reference
SC 8/158/7870
Date
[1334]
Description
Petitioners
John de Mowbray.
Name(s)
de Mowbray, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Mowbray requests that certain men be assigned to enquire and ride the boundaries of Gower and Carmarthenshire, and if they find that the killing by the people of Gower of some of the people of Is Cennen who were robbing in the country of Gower was done in Gower, then the outlawries made by the appeal of the wives of those killed in Carmarthenshire be repealed.
Nature of endorsement
[The dorse is obscured by a repair so that it is impossible to tell whether the response found in the Rot. Parl. edition was entered on this petition as well].
Places mentioned
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Is Cennen commote, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
Gower, [Glamorgan, Wales]
Carmarthenshire, [Wales].
People mentioned
Henry de Penbrigg (Pembridge), justice
William de Louderthorp, justice
Richard du Penris, justice.
Note
The dating of 1334 is taken from the date ascribed to these petitions by Hale in his manuscript and published in Rot. Parl. (Vol. II, p.73).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.74b (no.7) (later copy of original petition with response)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 7 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210062/

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