Griffin (Gruffudd) de la Pole. Pole Griffin (Gruffudd) King and council. Griffin...

Petitioners

Griffin (Gruffudd) de la Pole.

Name(s)

Pole, Griffin (Gruffudd)

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Griffin de la Pole states that in the time of Edward II John de Cheorleton ejected him by force from his lands of Deuddwr and Mechain Is Coed in Powys, held of the King in chief, and of which he had been seised for thirty years and more. He complained to Edward II and his council, and was given deliverance of his lands; but John has forcibly disseised him of them again, on the morrow of Martinmas last. He requests a remedy, that he might have delivery of his lands with the issues in the meantime and his damages.

Nature of endorsement

Philip de Say, Robert de Shirebourne and Robert de Horle, or two of them, are to be appointed by commission to inquire in the March, in the presence of John if he wishes to be present, into the last expulsion, and the cause, and how, and into other necessary articles; and when the inquisition has been held, they are to inform the King of everything they have done, so that he can do justice and reason.

Places mentioned

Deuddwr, [Montgomeryshire, Wales]

Mechain Is Coed, [Montgomeryshire, Wales]

Powys, [Wales]

Welsh March.

People mentioned

John de Cheorleton (Charlton)

Edward [II], King of England

Philip de Say

Robert de Shirebourne

Robert de Horle.

For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/332/15790

For a related petition see SC 8/280/13997

For a related petition, see SC 8/3/119

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.439 (calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.20b-21a (no.22) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.13-30, no.22 (summary of references)