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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the cantred of Rhos King. The petitioners make a number of complaints,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16050
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This record is about the People of the cantred of Rhos King. The petitioners make a number of complaints,... dating from [1281-1300] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/340/16050
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1281-1300]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the cantred of Rhos
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners make a number of complaints, apparently against Reginald de Grey, Justice of Chester:1) . . . [Reginald] de Grey, Justice of Chester and first . . . time of King Henry of good memory.2) Largely illegible, seems to concern an oath and a payment.3) . . . some justice for two noble men of Rhos who were killed.4) They are forbidden to use their woods for their own needs.5) He has placed twenty-four sergeants of the peace (satellites) over them, although there were only twelve in the time of King Henry; they ask the king to give them what they had from the Princes of Wales.6) If their country is to be given at farm, they think that it should rather be given to them at the same farm than to others, for their fidelity.7) Their inheritance, which was adjudged to them by twenty-four men in the time of G. de Badlesmere, is forbidden to them, and they request a due response in writing, by Bleddyn their messenger.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Rhos cantref, [Denbighshire], Wales.
- People mentioned
- [Reginald] de Grey, Justice of Chester
- Henry [III], King of England
- Guncelin de Badlesmere, [Justice of Chester]
- Bleddyn, messenger of the petitioners.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Reginald de Grey was appointed Justice of Chester, for eight years from the previous Michaelmas, on 14 November 1281, and Guncelin de Badlesmere was ordered to deliver the things pertaining to his office to him (CFR 1272-1307 pp.155-156). He has ceased to be justice on 20 March 1300 (CFR 1272-1307 p. 426) and Richard de Mascy (Massey) is appointed on 7 June 1300 (CFR 1272-1307 p.428).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736531/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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