John de Hastinges (Hastings). de Hastinges (Hastings) John King and council. [The...

Petitioners

John de Hastinges (Hastings).

Name(s)

de Hastinges (Hastings), John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

[The petition is badly damaged. Parts of the first request are illegible, and the full sense of the remaining requests is not recoverable. Petition in four parts:]1) Hastinges requests the restoration of a charter that Henry III granted to Henry and Ada de Hastings, his ancestors, concerning their claim to the purparty of the earldom of Chester, he having sued for the same to the king's father, and Bishop Langton then took it.2) Hastinges makes a request concerning his hereditary claim concerning the napery served at the coronation of the king and queen, the service of which pertains to his fee since he holds the manor of Ashley [...].3) Hastinges makes a request for delivery of certain [manors] as one of the heirs of King Alexander III as the bishop of Durham was summoned concerning the manors of Wark, Great Salkeld, Langwathby, Carleton and Scotby [...].4) Hastinges requests the restoration of Newcastle Emlyn which was taken from Maredudd [...].

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Ashley [unidentified]

Wark in [Tynedale], [Northumberland]

Salkilde Regis (Great Salkeld), [Cumberland]

Langwathby, [Cumberland]

Carleton, [Cumberland]

Scotby, [Cumberland]

Newcastle Emlyn, [Cardiganshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Eleanor [of Provence], Queen [of England]

Alexander III, King of Scots

Antony [Bek], Bishop [of Durham]

Rhys ap Mereduk (Maredudd)

Henry de Hastinges (Hastings)

Ada [de Hastinged (Hastings), wife of Henry de Hastings

Henry III, King of England

Walter de Langeton (Langton), Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield), Treasurer.

For another petition by the same petitioner concerning the second request, see SC 8/83/4110

For a related document, see SC 8/326/E779

For another petition by the petitioner's son concerning the fourth part of this petition, see SC 8/51/2509A

For another petition by the same petitioner relating to part three of this petition, see SC 8/322/E547

For a related copy of letters patent, see SC 8/313/E55

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/313/E80

For another petition by the same petitioner relating to the first part of this petition, see SC 8/313/E54

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.512 (calendar of the fourth part of this petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), pp.182, 185 (orders to the treasurer, chamberlains and barons of the Exchequer to restore the charter)