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Commonalty of the Englishry of Glamorgan. King and council. The commonalty request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/159/7936
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This record is about the Commonalty of the Englishry of Glamorgan. King and council. The commonalty request... dating from [c. 1322] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/159/7936
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Commonalty of the Englishry of Glamorgan.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commonalty 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.
- 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 chevauchee of the barons and 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
- Glamorgan, [Wales].
- People mentioned
- [Thomas of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related document see SC 8/165/8242
For a near identical petition by the welshry of the same place see SC 8/157/7840
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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.267 (for a note recording that this petition is nearly identical to SC 8/157/7840)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210128/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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