Burgesses of New Carmarthen. King. The Burgesses of New Carmarthen state that they...

Petitioners

Burgesses of New Carmarthen.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The Burgesses of New Carmarthen state that they are oppressed by the malice and haughtiness of the Welsh, and ask the King, in salvation of their town, to confirm, with clause of licet, the charters of franchises granted to them by his progenitors. They also ask that they might have free election of a mayor and two bailiffs on the Monday after Michaelmas each year; that they and their successors might not be convicted of attainted in county courts at Carmarthen or Cardigan, or in the sessions, or in any other court by Welshmen, but only by English burgesses and true Englishmen; that they might elect a coroner each year on the Monday after Michaelmas, so that no escheator, sheriff or other minister might enter or interfere in their town to make execution, but that they might have return of writs; and that the county courts of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, and the great and petty sessions, might be held in their town as they used to be. They ask that all this might be done without paying a fee.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] Bill granted by King and council.It has been granted by the King and council.[None on dorse]

Places mentioned

New Carmarthen, [Carmarthenshire, Wales]

South Wales

Carmarthenshire, [Wales]

Cardiganshire, [Wales].

For an earlier petition on a related matter see SC 8/38/1870

For another contemporary petition on a related matter see SC 8/84/4187

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.429-430 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. V, 15 Edw III - 5 Hen V, 1341-1417, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.303 (inspeximus and confirmation of charters for the petitioners, with the addition of the points mentioned in the petition)