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Agnes Hastinges (Hastings), widow of Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. Hastinges...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/246/12257

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Reference
SC 8/246/12257
Date
[1349]
Description
Petitioners
Agnes Hastinges (Hastings), widow of Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke.
Name(s)
Hastinges (Hastings), Agnes
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Hastinges request that the chancellor, if he can find by the record that the abbot receives £10 from the pleas and profits of the castle of Abergavenny which have been granted to her in dower, then he make allowance to her of other lands and tenements in the lordship, as the annuity was not included in the extent made after the earl's death.
Nature of endorsement
[Names of places and valuation presumably made in allowance:]Tregayr - £3 9s 8dWerneurthrik - 39s 1dBryngwyn - £3 14s 10dTregwithel - 2s
Places mentioned
Abergavenny, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Tregayr (Tregare), [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Werneurthrik (Wernethrek), [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Bryngwyn, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
Tregwithel (Tregwyddel), [Monmouthshire, Wales].
People mentioned
Laurence de Hastinges (Hastings), Earl of Pembroke
Prior of Abergavenny.
Note
The petition dates to 1349 as the privy seal warrant was issued and a further assignment was made to the petitioner in compensation on 21 August 1349 (C 81/341/20589; CPR 1348-50, p.410).
Related material

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no. 20589 in C 81/341

For a later related petition see SC 8/159/7948

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), pp.409-410 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.410 (grant of a further assignment)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439863/

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