Roger de Mohaut, son and heir of Robert de Mohaut. de Mohaut Roger [Not specified]....

Petitioners

Roger de Mohaut, son and heir of Robert de Mohaut.

Name(s)

de Mohaut, Roger

Addressees

[Not specified].

Nature of request

Roger de Mohaut, son and heir of Robert de Mohaut, requests remedy on two issues.1) He states that he holds Hawarden and its appurtenances by inheritance from his father, but Grey has occupied a great part of the manor, along with the assarts held by the people of Aston and elsewhere since the time of his grandfather, Roger.2) He also states that, although the King had commanded that wood be cut from the passes of Swordwood, the people of the Wirral have come and cut wood from everywhere, not just in the passes.

Nature of endorsement

[Illegible].

Places mentioned

Hawarden, [Flintshire, Wales]

Ewloe, [Flintshire, Wales]

Killings, [Flintshire, Wales]

Swordwood wood [unidentified], [Flintshire, Wales]

Aston, [Flintshire, Wales]

Shotton, [Flintshire, Wales]

Wirral, [Cheshire].

People mentioned

Robert de Mohaut, father of the petitioner

Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester

Roger de Mohaut, grandfather of the petitioner

men of the Wirral of Chester.

For another version of this petition see SC 8/128/6376

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.39a (judicial process following from 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), roll 01, appendix, no. 51 (full edition and translation of petition with references)