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? No Petitioner named Letter to Henry III from certain tenants of Ceri, stating that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/195/9705

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Reference
SC 8/195/9705
Date
[c. 1249]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to Henry III from certain tenants of Ceri, stating that they have faithfully served the King at their own expenses, but that Hywel ap Cadwallan and Maredudd ap Maelgwn, who seek to rule half of Ceri have reduced them to poverty, so that they have fled to the King, as to their lord, for refuge, begging him not to cast them off, but to keep them in his lordship: for if he does not, they will be driven to leave their lands and seek another lord.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Ceri commote, [Montgomeryshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Henry [III], King of England
Einion del Grec, tenant of Ceri
Einion ap Griffin (Gruffydd), tenant of Ceri
Einion ap Wronu, tenant of Ceri
Youaf (Ieuaf) ap Hoel (Hywel), tenant of Ceri
Mereduc (Meredydd, Maredudd) ap Hoel (Hywel), tenant of Ceri
Einion ap Hoel (Hywel), tenant of Ceri
Cadwgan ap Mereduc (Meredydd, Maredudd), tenant of Ceri
Cadwgan Goch, tenant of Ceri
Iorwerth Vachan, tenant of Ceri
Donoc ap Mereduc (Meredydd, Maredudd), tenant of Ceri
Urgenu (Gwrgenau) ap Mawnus, tenant of Ceri
Howel (Hywel) ap Urgenu (Gwrgenau), tenant of Ceri
tenants of Ceri
Hywel ap Cadwatlan (Cadwallon)
Meredydd ap Mailgun (Maelgwn).
Note
The writ for CIM 1219-1307 no.76 is dated 7 May 33 Henry III (1249) and the writ for no.84 is dated 11 June 34 Henry III (1250). This petition would seem to date from around this time.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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), pp.322-3 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. I, Hen III - Edw I, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.76 (inquisition into the value of half the land of Ceri, and the reason why Howel ap Cadwatlan and Meredydd ap Mailgun were deprived of it, as they have asked that it be restored to them) & no.84 (similar inquisition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295592/

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