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Poor people of Swansea: John le Marechal (Marshall); Robert de Weston; Thomas Wrench;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/163/8107

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Reference
SC 8/163/8107
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Poor people of Swansea: John le Marechal (Marshall); Robert de Weston; Thomas Wrench; Thomas Elyot; Walter le Wyse; Robert Wrench; Thomas le Marechal (Marshall); John de ...; Peter le Cnoyl; Richard le Cnoyl; William le Cnoyl; Henry le Cnoyl; Robert le Cnoyl; Robert Dunnyng (Dunning); John Dunning, son of Robert Dunning; Walter Madok (Madock).
Name(s)
le Marechal (Marshall); de Weston; Wrench; Elyot; le Wyse; Wrench; le Marechal (Marshall); le Cnoyl; le Cnoyl; le Cnoyl; le Cnoyl; le Cnoyl; Dunnyng (Dunning); Dunning; Madok (Madock), John; Robert; Thomas; Thomas; Walter; Robert; Thomas; John; Peter; Richard; William; Henry; Robert; Robert; John; Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The poor people of Swansea request remedy for their imprisonment, ransom and the seizure of their lands and chattels into the hand of Hugh le Despenser, after he falsely accused them of being in assent and counsel with Mowbray, Iwan and his man to have the King's goods robbed from the castle of Neath sent outside their franchise.
Nature of endorsement
Let certain faithful ones in Chancery hear and determine the trespasses.
Places mentioned
Swansea, [Glamorgan, Wales]
Neath, [Glamorgan, Wales]
Glamorgan, [Wales]
Gower, [Glamorgan, Wales].
People mentioned
Hugh le Despenser
Reginald de Somerton
John de Moubray (Mowbray)
John Iwan
Philip [le Keu]
sheriff of Glamorgan.
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1327, with reference to CPR 1327-30, p. 90, CPR 1317-21, p. 464, and CPR 1321-4, p. 167. The first reference is to a 1327 oyer and terminer re a complaint by John le Mareschal that Peter le Cnoyl, Richard le Cnoyl, William le Cnoyl, Robert le Cnoyl, Robert Dunnyng, Walter Madok and others of Swansea imprisoned and maltreated him. The second is a 1319 oyer and terminer re a claim of John Iweyn that Robert de Weston, Thomas Eliot, John le Mareschal, Thomas le Mareschal and others took his goods at Gower. The third is a 1322 oyer and terminer re the robbery and murder of John Iweyn and Philip le Keu, his servant, at castle of Neath.
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), p.273 (summary of petition, with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293951/

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