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John Bedewardyn, clerk. Bedewardyn John King. clerk Bedwardyn requests letters to...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/227/11330

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Reference
SC 8/227/11330
Date
[? 1381-? 1382]
Description
Petitioners
John Bedewardyn, clerk.
Name(s)
Bedewardyn, John
Addressees
King.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
Bedwardyn requests letters to the countess of March not to allow her ministers to make process, arrest, attachment, distress or other grievances against him in pursuit of the abbot of Wigmore and Harald for a contract of land within the county as this pertains to the king and no other. The abbot and Harald have caused him to be arrested concerning a contract of land of Brockhampton in Herefordshire according to the laws of Wales to Bedwardyn's great loss and in disinheritance of the king. He requests that she cause the matter to be redressed on pain of forfeiting the lordship.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Radnor, [Radnorshire, Wales]
Presteign, [Radnorshire, Wales]
Brockhampton, [Herefordshire].
People mentioned
Countess of March
Richard [of Brompton], Abbot of Wigmore
Margery Harald.
Note
The petition is dated to? 1381-? 1382 on the basis of the dating on the guard note and that given in Rees (Petitions Relating to Wales, p.379). This is based on the reference to the countess of March in the petition. Rees suggests that this is to Philippa, widow of Earl Roger who died in 1360, her son and his wife both died in 1381. The dating is presumably a recognition of the death of all the senior members of the comital family in 1381, leaving the dowager countess and Roger, the heir, being only 7 at the time. The terminal date is given by the death of Countess Philippa on 5th January 1382. It is possible that the petition is earlier if the parts of the Mortimer estate referred to were part of the dower lands of Countess Philippa after 1360, so that a range of 1360-1382 is possible, the hand of the petition perhaps not precluding this.
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.379 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334890/

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