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David ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. ap Bleddyn David King and council. bishop of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/165/8202
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/165/8202
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1316-? 1344]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- David ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph.
- Name(s)
- ap Bleddyn, David
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- bishop of St Asaph
- Nature of request
- David, bishop of St Asaph requests remedy against temporal lords in Wales who seize and claim for themselves the goods of any of their tenants dying intestate as if the goods were their own. And when it is evident, by the certification of the bishop or other ordinary, that the deceased people had written their wills correctly and lawfully, the bailiffs pretend that the same had died intestate and so seize and usurp their goods to the lords' use.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the Earl of Chester be ordered by the King's writ that he not permit his bailiffs to intermeddle with the goods of people dying in the said diocese, if they can ascertain that these people made their wills in due form.
- People mentioned
- Earl of Chester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on guard to? 1316-? 1344 presumably because David ap Bleddyn was bishop of St Asaph from 1315 until his death in 1346. Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, p. 278, gives a date of 1334, although he does not explain why. The right of the bishops of St Asaph to claim free administration of the goods of intestates was confirmed in 1330 (CPR 1327-30, p. 474), so the petition probably dates from after this.
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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)
- Latin
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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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- Topics
- Religions
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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.278 (calendar of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294047/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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