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Petitioners

Griffith (Gruffudd) Yonge, clerk.

Name(s)

Yonge, Griffith (Gruffudd)

Addressees

King.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Griffith Yonge states that he was in full and peaceful possession of the prebend of Garthbrengy in the collegiate church of Abergwili long before the statute of provisions made at Westminster in the King's thirteenth year, by the provision of Pope Urban, ratified by the King; and that afterwards the current Bishop of St David's made collation of the prebend to one Edmund Warham. Edmund, seeing that he had no right to the prebend, in collusion with one Andrew Hore, purchased the King's letters of presentation for Andrew by a false suggestion, and also a writ of quare impedit in the King's name against the Bishop and Edmund. The King had judgment to recover the presentation against the Bishop and Edmund, so that Andrew has been instituted and inducted and Griffith expelled, without being party to the process or answering for his possession. A writ of praemunire facias has also been sued at Andrew's request against Griffith, Richard ap Llywelyn, William ap Llywelyn and Thomas Llowyd in respect of this prebend, wrongly and to their perpetual destruction. He asks the King to order the Chancellor to have Andrew come before him in Chancery, to show the King's title of presentation and the recovery; and, if the King has no right of presentation or recovery, to repeal them. He also requests a supersedeas to the justices of Common Pleas in the writ of praemunire facias, until the King's right of presentation and recovery has been determined.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] This bill has been granted by the King.[None on dorse]

Places mentioned

Garthbrengy prebend, [Brecknockshire, Wales]

Abergwili, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]

South Wales

St David's diocese

Westminster

Aberedw, [Radnorshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Urban [VI], Pope

[John Gilbert], Bishop of St David's

Edmund Warham, clerk

Andrew Hore, clerk

Richard ap Llywelyn, parson of Aberedw

William ap Llywelyn

Thomas Llowyd (Lloyd).

For a related petition see SC 8/296/14761

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.426-427 (Calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1392-1396, (Public Record Office, 1925), p.223 (writ of supersedeas omnino in this case)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. V, 1391-1396, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.16 (ratification of the petitioner's estate as prebendary of Garthbrengy)