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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Rees ap Gruffudd ap Lloyd ap Iouan, tenant of the county of Cardigan. ap Gruffudd...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8448
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This record is about the Rees ap Gruffudd ap Lloyd ap Iouan, tenant of the county of Cardigan. ap Gruffudd... dating from [? c. 1377] 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 8/169/8448
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Rees ap Gruffudd ap Lloyd ap Iouan, tenant of the county of Cardigan.
- Name(s)
- ap Gruffudd ap Lloyd ap Iouan, Rees
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Rees ap Gruffudd requests mitigation and pardon of £80 the remaining sum of a debt he owes for which he has otherwise made satisfaction and has sold all his goods and chattels and mortgaged his land so that he has nothing to live on. He owed £36 from the time he was escheator of Cardiganshire, which sum he could not collect, and was subsequently maliciously indicted and imprisoned, and was forced to make a fine with the earl of Arundel to obtain release though he was not guilty.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let one safe-conduct be made for William de la Fous Secretary of the king, and Hanart de Campbernart his usher of arms . . . to come and reside in England . . . to pass to Ireland to the presence of the king to show certain matters concerning his cousin of France to last until the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist.
- Places mentioned
- Cardiganshire, [Wales]
- South Wales.
- People mentioned
- [Richard Fitzalan], earl of Arundel
- William de la Fous, secretary of the king
- Hanart de Campbernart, usher of arms.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rees, Petitions Relating to Wales, dates the petition to c. 1377 apparently on firm grounds. However, the endorsement, though unconnected to the petition, may suggest a later date, perhaps 1394/5 or 1399 when Richard II was in Ireland.
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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), pp.288-9 (summary of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294296/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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