Tenants, gentleman and commons of the earldom of Pembroke and lordships of Pembroke,...

Petitioners

Tenants, gentleman and commons of the earldom of Pembroke and lordships of Pembroke, Haverfordwest and Cilgerran.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Firstly, the petitioners request that the earldom and lordship might remain in the king's hand and those of his officials, having regard for the oppressions suffered because of farmers. They request that any sessions held in the shire and lordship not be adjourned for longer than fifteen days, and if it should be adjourned for longer, that no man be hurt by this. They request that the sessions not be held in harvest time. They request that no session be held without a judge of King's Bench, Common Pleas or a sergeant of law sit there in the quorum. They request that the freeholders of the view of Rhos and Dungleddy be excused appearance at the court of the castle gate at Pembroke called the 'quintun court' because of the great distance for them to travel. They request that no special commission be made to any judge to sit, try and determine any manner of thing there, but those with complaints take them before the steward who has power to determine all manner of pleas. That no session be held in the shire or lordship within the time of any payment of any money that shall now be granted by the king's grace shown to his beseechers. They request a sheriff in the shire and lordship who is of sufficient to answer for any wrongs that he does. They request that no-one be carried out of the shire or lordship after the Welsh Law and Law of the Mountains, the which taking has cause the courts to be discontinued in the past. They request the bushel of Westminster standard.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Pembroke, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Haverfordwest, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Cilgerran, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Rhos, [Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Dungleddy [Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Westminster.

For a much earlier petition on related matters, see SC 8/297/14840

For a related petition, see SC 8/22/1092

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.528 (brief but seemingly erroneous calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.179 (exemplification on the same matter but clearly to an earlier petition in French)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.445 (possibly related commission)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.518a (no. 16) (full edition of related but much earlier petition)