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Rees Mailgun (Maelgwn). Mailgun (Maelgwn) Rees King. Mailgun requests grace as the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E173

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Reference
SC 8/315/E173
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Rees Mailgun (Maelgwn).
Name(s)
Mailgun (Maelgwn), Rees
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Mailgun requests grace as the king has twice made a grant to him and twice commanded the bishop of Chester to grant him sustenance of land so that he is able to live in the king's service and the bishop has done nothing.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege [entered twice].
People mentioned
[Walter de Langton], Bishop of Chester (Coventry and Lichfield).
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/315/E172

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.509-10 (calendar of 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529225/

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