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John le Clerk of Carmarthen. Clerk John King and council. Le Clerk requests remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/162/8054
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/162/8054
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John le Clerk of Carmarthen.
- Name(s)
- Clerk, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Le Clerk requests remedy as by force of their office Deyn and Hobel abducted his wife and took his goods [listed] on Wednesday in the vigil of the feast of St Denis in the twentieth year of Edw. II between curfew and midnight from the house of William Bleithe in Dryslwyn and took her to Carmarthen Castle and detained her for nine weeks, and then took her to the land of Kidwelly and detained her to his great loss.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let faithful men be assigned in Chancery to hear and determine what is contained in the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Cantref Mawr, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Dryslwyn, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Kidwelly, [Carmarthenshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Deyn, constable of Carmarthen, chamberlain of South Wales and receiver of Hugh le Despenser in Cantref Mawr
- Robert Hobel, yeoman of Thomas Deyn
- Amabilia [le Clerk], wife of the petitioner
- William Bleithe.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1327 as a commission of oyer and terminer was issued on 15 February 1327 (CPR 1327-30, p.73).
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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)
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- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.271-2 (full summary of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.73 (commission of oyer and terminer into the matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293898/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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