William de Montague, Earl of Salisbury. de Montague, Earl of Salisbury William [?...

Petitioners

William de Montague, Earl of Salisbury.

Name(s)

de Montague, Earl of Salisbury, William

Addressees

[? King]

Nature of request

[The petition is very badly damaged, and only the right-hand half of the petition is legible, so that the full sense of the petition is not recoverable]. Montague requests that the record of a judgment be made to come and that those who ought to be called be called, and that if an error be found that the judgment be reversed and the petitioner be restored to [? the castle and honour of Denbigh], and if an error is not found that then the king make remedy as he is bound to do by the warranty made in their charter. The king granted to the petitioner's father the castle and honour of Denbigh [...].

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Denbigh, [Denbighshire, Wales]

Dinmael commote, [Denbighshire] Wales.

People mentioned

William [de Mountague, Earl of Salisbury], father of the petitioner

Roger de Mortymer (Mortimer).

For a related petition, see SC 8/15/735

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.34-35 (calendar of related petitions) & p.449 (calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XI, 1360-1364, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.32-3 (order to several people not to intermeddle with Denbigh in the king's name because of the wardship of Edmund de Mortimer, but to deliver it to the prince of Wales)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.499 (homage of petitioner for Denbigh)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1343-1345, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.200 (order to take Denbigh into the king's hand on the death of the petitioner's father)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.56a-57a, no.14 (grant to William de Montague of the lands mentioned in the petition) & p.392, no.85 (edition of earlier petition on the same subject)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.7 (transcription of SC 8/18/882 on parliament roll, with judicial process following from petition) & pp.38a-39a (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & p.58b-60b (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & p.75b-78a (judicial process following from petition at later parliament) & p.352b-353a (edition of later petition on same matter by nephew and heir of petitioner)