Burgesses of Conway. King and Council. The burgesses of Conway request that the king...

Petitioners

Burgesses of Conway.

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

The burgesses of Conway request that the king grant them £20 a year from the issues of the town to repair their walls. They state that the sea has damaged the walls, as can be testified by Mortimer, Hothom and others, and although they have been granted murage for a term of years, the town is so poor that few merchants come there, except those from Dublin, Drogheda, Chester, Shrewsbury, Rhuddlan, Denbigh, Caernarfon and Beaumaris, who are from franchises and thus contribute nothing. The town has no lands to pay for the repairs, and cannot tax the Welsh as this is against custom and they would stay away.

Nature of endorsement

Order the Justices and chamberlain to supervise the repairs from the issues of the bailiwick, spending as much as is necessary according to the discretion of the constables.

Places mentioned

Conway, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]

Dublin, [Ireland]

Drogheda, [Ireland]

Chester, [Cheshire]

Shrewsbury, [Shropshire]

Rothethan (Rhuddlan), [Flintshire, Wales]

Denbigh, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]

Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales].

People mentioned

Roger de Mortimer, justice

John de Hothom.

For another petition from the same petitioners requesting money for the completion of the quay, see SC 8/274/13687

For another petition by the same petitioners on a different matter, see SC 8/40/1981

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.311-12 (summary of petition, with references)
• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.61 (brief calendar of petition)