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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer). de Mortemer (Mortimer) Roger King and council. Mortemer...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/264/13174
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This record is about the Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer). de Mortemer (Mortimer) Roger King and council. Mortemer... dating from [1299-1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/264/13174
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1299-1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger de Mortemer (Mortimer).
- Name(s)
- de Mortemer (Mortimer), Roger
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mortemer recounts that he holds the third part of Haverfordwest and St Clears in West Wales there by the King's bailiffs who hold the two parts of the town, and he has been deprived of £6 10s of rent and of profits of pleas and perquisites of the town, of which he was seised for a long time until ousted by the King's bailiffs. He requests execution of the inquisition in this matter which was returned in Chancery by Havering and Mortimer.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let him sue in Chancery to cause the inquisitions to come before the council.
- Places mentioned
- Haverford (Haverfordwest), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]
- Senecler (St Clears), [Carmarthenshire, Wales]
- Wales.
- People mentioned
- John de Havering, justice
- William de Mortemer (Mortimer), justice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Rees to 1299-1302 and on the guard to c. 1302, with reference to CPR 1292-1301, p. 465, a 1299 commission to Havering and William de Mortimer concerning land of the petitioner, and to CPR 1301-7, p. 95, a 1302 commission to Havering and William de Mortimer.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.447 (translation of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517120/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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